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Elastic Tables in Dataverse: When Cosmos-Backed Storage Beats Standard Tables
What Dataverse elastic tables are, how TTL, partitioning, and JSON columns work, and how to decide between elastic and standard tables.
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Power Platform
Tutorials and tips for Power Automate, PowerApps, and the broader Power Platform ecosystem.
48 articles
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Retry Policies in Power Automate: What Actually Happens When an Action Fails
How Power Automate retry policies work, which errors they cover, how to configure them, and how to keep retries from duplicating side effects.
6 min read
Power Apps Collections vs. Dataverse: Where Your App's Data Should Actually Live
Collections feel fast and convenient, so makers overuse them — and ship apps that lose data and break on refresh. Here is when to hold data in memory and when it belongs in Dataverse.
7 min read
Resilient Power Automate: Retry Policies and Dead-Letter Patterns
Transient failures are normal in any flow that calls an API. The difference between a flow that self-heals and one that pages you at 2 a.m. is how you handle retries and the failures that stick.
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Dataverse Many-to-Many Relationships: Native, Manual, and When to Use Each
Native N:N relationships are quick to set up and impossible to extend. A manual junction table is more work and far more flexible. Choosing wrong means a painful migration later.
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Securing Power Pages with Dataverse Table Permissions and Web Roles
Secure Power Pages data with Dataverse table permissions, access scopes, web roles, column profiles, and testing practices that prevent data leaks.
7 min read
Canvas vs Model-Driven vs Power Pages: Choosing the Right Power Apps Type
Choose between canvas apps, model-driven apps, and Power Pages using a practical matrix for UX, data, licensing, governance, and audience fit.
6 min read
Solving Power Apps Delegation Warnings for Large Dataverse Tables
Learn how Power Apps delegation works, why blue warnings matter, and the Dataverse patterns that keep large-table queries accurate and fast.
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Building Your First PCF Control for Power Apps
Build a first Power Apps PCF control with the CLI, manifest, TypeScript lifecycle, local testing, solution packaging, and safe deployment steps.
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Building Offline-Capable Power Apps for the Field
Design offline-capable Power Apps for field teams using canvas app caching, queue-and-sync patterns, conflict handling, and mobile offline profiles.
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Named Formulas and the With() Function: Power Fx Patterns for Faster Apps
Use Power Fx named formulas and With to replace noisy OnStart logic, reduce repeated lookups, and make canvas apps faster and easier to maintain.
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Power Platform Environment Strategy: Dev, Test, Prod, and Everything Between
Design a Power Platform environment strategy with dev, test, prod, managed solutions, pipelines, DLP, routing, and governance that scales for teams.
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Data Loss Prevention Policies in Power Platform: A Practical Setup Guide
Practical guide to Power Platform DLP policies, connector groups, environment scope, custom connectors, endpoint rules, and flow breakage diagnosis.
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Managed Environments in Power Platform: What They Are and When to Turn Them On
Understand Managed Environments in Power Platform, including governance features, licensing, security controls, insights, trade-offs, and rollout timing.
6 min read
Building Your First Agent in Copilot Studio
Build a first Copilot Studio agent with topics, generative answers, actions, authentication, testing, publishing, and Teams or website channels.
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Embedding Power BI in Power Apps and Driving Cross-Filtering
Embed Power BI content in canvas apps, pass app selections into report filters, read Power BI selections back, and handle licensing and performance.
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Responsive Canvas Apps with Containers: Stop Using Absolute Positioning
Learn responsive canvas app layout with horizontal and vertical containers, flexible sizing, breakpoints, scaling settings, accessibility, and tab order.
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15 Power Automate Expressions Every Maker Should Memorize
Memorize these Power Automate expressions to build faster flows, handle nulls, shape arrays, format dates, reduce action count, and debug WDL.
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Calling the Dataverse Web API from Power Automate with the HTTP Action
Learn when to call the Dataverse Web API from Power Automate for actions, functions, batch requests, impersonation, row association, and binds.
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Child Flows in Power Automate: Reuse, Pass Data, and Avoid Duplication
Use child flows in Power Automate to centralize reusable logic, pass typed inputs and outputs, handle errors, reduce duplication, and improve ALM.
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Speeding Up Apply to Each: Concurrency, Filters, and Select in Power Automate
Speed up Power Automate Apply to each loops with concurrency, Filter array, Select, OData filters, pagination strategy, lower action counts, and safer runs.
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Mastering Parse JSON in Power Automate: Schemas, Null Handling, and Arrays
Master Power Automate Parse JSON with generated schemas, nullable fields, required properties, arrays, nested access, and practical error fixes.
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Getting Started with Power Automate Desktop: Your First RPA Bot
Build your first Power Automate Desktop RPA bot with selectors, variables, loops, Excel data, cloud triggers, licensing, and reliable handoffs.
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Trigger Conditions in Power Automate: Stop Flows From Running When They Should Not
Use Power Automate trigger conditions to prevent noisy runs, save quota, filter SharePoint changes, skip system updates, and debug triggers.
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Try-Catch-Finally in Power Automate with Scopes and Run After
Implement try-catch-finally error handling in Power Automate using Scopes, run-after settings, result outputs, retries, alerts, and Terminate.
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Batch Create and Update SharePoint Items in Power Automate with the $batch API
Speed up bulk SharePoint creates and updates in Power Automate by calling the $batch API with changesets, chunking, and per-item error handling.
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Posting Interactive Adaptive Cards to Teams from Power Automate
Create Teams adaptive cards from Power Automate, collect inputs, capture responders, update cards, validate replies, and choose cards wisely.
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Connection References and Environment Variables: Power Automate ALM Essentials
Use connection references and environment variables to make Power Automate solution deployments predictable across dev, test, and production.
6 min read
Handling Pagination and Large Datasets in Power Automate
Learn how Power Automate pagination, thresholds, filters, and batching keep large Dataverse and SharePoint datasets reliable.
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Securing Secrets in Power Automate: Secure Inputs, Outputs, and Key Vault
Secure Power Automate secrets with Azure Key Vault, secure inputs and outputs, least privilege, rotation, and safer ALM patterns.
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Power Automate and Azure Service Bus: Reliable Enterprise Messaging
Build resilient Power Automate integrations with Azure Service Bus queues, topics, sessions, duplicate detection, and dead-letter handling.
6 min read
Power Platform Pipelines: Automated ALM Without Azure DevOps
Power Platform Pipelines let teams promote solutions from dev to test to prod with built-in approvals and validations — no Azure DevOps required.
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What's New in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform — 2026 Release Wave 1
The standout features from Microsoft's 2026 Release Wave 1 for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, and what they mean for your projects.
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Automated Testing for Power Apps with Test Engine — A Practical Walkthrough
Set up automated tests for your canvas apps using Power Apps Test Engine — from first test case to CI/CD pipeline integration.
8 min read
Canvas App Performance: 10 Patterns That Actually Make a Difference
Concrete, measurable patterns to speed up slow Power Apps canvas apps — with before/after examples for each optimization.
7 min read
Power Fx Formulas Every Maker Should Know in 2026
Advanced Power Fx patterns that separate beginners from power users — With, Sequence, ParseJSON, error handling, regex, and more.
9 min read
Power Automate + D365 F&O End-to-End: Consuming Business Events and Calling Data Entities
Build a full round-trip integration between Power Automate and D365 Finance & Operations — trigger on business events, transform data, and write back via OData.
9 min read
Dataverse Security Roles: A Practical Guide to Getting Them Right
How Dataverse security roles actually work, common mistakes that leave data exposed, and the layered model you should be using in 2026.
7 min read
Building a Multi-Step Approval Workflow with Adaptive Cards in Power Automate
Go beyond basic approvals — build a multi-level approval chain with rich Adaptive Cards, timeout handling, escalation logic, and full audit trails in Power Automate.
8 min read
Custom Connectors in Power Automate: Integrating Any API Without Writing Code
Build a custom connector from an OpenAPI spec, configure authentication, handle pagination, and share it across your organization — step by step.
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Advanced Error Handling in Power Automate Cloud Flows
Build resilient flows with scope-based try-catch-finally patterns, configure run after, and structured error logging in 2026.
3 min read
Concurrency Control in Power Automate: Preventing Duplicate Runs
How to configure concurrency limits on scheduled and trigger-based flows to prevent data corruption and race conditions.
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Handling Null and Blank Date Fields in Power Automate
Reliable techniques for detecting empty date fields in Dataverse and SharePoint connectors within Power Automate flows.
3 min read
Managing Environment Variables Across Dev, Test, and Prod in Power Platform
How to use environment variables, connection references, and solution-aware configuration for clean ALM in Power Platform.
3 min read
Detecting Create vs Update Triggers in Dataverse Power Automate Flows
How to distinguish between create and update operations in Dataverse-triggered flows and implement conditional logic accordingly.
3 min read
Remove Duplicates From Arrays in Power Automate — 3 Approaches
Three practical techniques for deduplicating array data in Power Automate, from simple expressions to XPath tricks.
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Dataverse Solution Components: A 2026 Quick Reference
A practical reference for solution component types, their IDs, and how to work with solution XML in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
3 min read
Eliminating Null Reference Errors in Power Automate Flows
Practical expressions and defensive patterns to prevent null field errors from crashing your Power Automate flows at runtime.