Using Power Automate to send cards built with Cards for Power Apps in Teams
If you want to send fancier notifications to Teams and struggle with Adaptive Cards, you can now use (in preview) Cards for Power Apps to generate your cards and send them in Teams chats. Cards for Power Apps provides a straightforward experience to create Adaptive Cards that can easily be used on Teams chats. In this post, we’ll see an example of how you can send use Power Automate to send a Power Apps card in Teams based on...
Recap of the Microsoft Inspire 2023 Conference
Microsoft Inspire 2023 is over and we got many interesting news and announcements. AI was the number one topic (as expected), but it doesn’t mean that others were less important or boring. Let’s go for a quick walk through the most important announcements. Copilot pricing News number 1 – how much money do you need […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog Recap of the Microsoft Inspire 2023 Conference...
So, what is the difference between SIEM and SOAR?⚡ – YouTube
So, what is the difference between SIEM and SOAR?⚡ We sat down with Matilda, our UK Sales Manager, to breakdown where these technologies differ and how they enable our SOC team to focus on the alerts that matter… 👨💻 Something else you want to know more about? Just drop your requests in the comments below and we’ll get Matilda to give you a de-brief 👇 #SIEM #SOAR #SOC #cybersecurity We sat down with Matilda, our UK Sales...
Welsh Azure User Group July 2023 Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG July 2023 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us with Darren McDonagh on from Nutanix to talk all about Nutanix on Azure with NC”, then the incredible Dean Ellerby joined us to discuss how to not let our Smart … Continue reading Welsh Azure User Group July 2023 Meet Up! Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog Welsh Azure User...
My top Power Platform 2023 release wave 2 plan features
The Power Platform 2023 release wave 2 plan was recently released, and as always we get to know what are the upcoming features and updates to the platform. Check out some of the announcements that were my favourites in this post. Use Copilot to build and edit apps in the Power Apps studio New Enhanced copilot capabilities to help build apps with natural language input and run tasks like adding screens, controls, and modifying...
Matilda’s advice for getting a promotion ⚡ – YouTube
Matilda’s advice for getting a promotion ⚡ Matilda, our UK Sales Manager, shares her story on how she earned her previous promotion to Business Development Team Leader, and the key advice she would give to anyone looking to level up in their career ⚡ 🚀 If you don’t ask, you don’t get 🚀 Build a strong case for yourself 🚀 Know your worth Matilda, our UK Sales Manager, shares her story on how she earned her previous promotion to...
LookUp column with a custom icon using SharePoint list formatting
I recently got question from a follower on LinkedIn, which I thoght that the answer can be useful for more people: I am struggling with formatting a SharePoint list lookup column. I want to make it show an icon but when I click it, it should open the lookup column value on that other list (normal lookup hyperlink behavior). I have achieved this before with text fields but never with Lookups. Any help would be appreciated! How to use...
Implement booking availability in Power Apps in less than 5 minutes
Today I was asked how to implement a booking availability solution in Power Apps. The booking availability app So I’m looking to create an app that will ask the user for some booking details, a start date and an end date for the booking period. Once you user has supplied those details we need to know if the slot is available or not. You could sue this for calendar management in for example a room booking solution. I’ve...
Delegation with SharePoint lists Power Apps vs Power Automate
We all know about delegation warnings in Power Apps, but how about delegation with SharePoint lists in Power Automate? Ever seen those blue lines in Power Automate? Delegation with SharePoint lists warnings in Power Apps In Power Apps there are quite a few delegation warnings that you can get. And when we hover over that blue line we will see that the Not function isn’t delegable within Power Apps. Looking at the SharePoint...
Timing issues in relation to App OnStart, Screen OnVisible, Timers and user interruptions in Power Apps
When you create apps, it is important to understand the timing issues that may happen. When various elements manipulate data, things could go wrong quite easily. fixing these issues however is not an easy task. Running code When you create an app there are various places where you can insert code to read data or write data. We can add code in the following places: App OnStart Screen OnVisible Timer ( On Start and On End) User...
We asked Matilda what the biggest challenge of being a leader is – YouTube
We asked Matilda what the biggest challenge of being a leader is Being a leader is one of the most rewarding responsibilities you can have, but it comes with some hefty challenges. In this episode of Sofa Sessions, Matilda discusses the nuances associated with leading a team and following best practice. Being a leader is one of the most rewarding responsibilities you can have, but it comes with some hefty challenges. In this episode...
Implement a PDF preview in a Model Driven Apps
Recently I needed to implement a PDF preview in a Model Driven App. This should be quite an easy thing to implement. The PDF Preview in a Model Driven Apps options Well, I considered the following options: Out of the box previewer Existing custom controls for my Model Driven App Develop a new custom PCF control Embedded Canvas app I looked at the existing controls but there doesn’t seem to be a file preview option available....
Collaborative Notes in Teams – Overview
A new note-taking tool has just arrived in Teams meeting! Collaborative Notes are a brand-new tool that you can use for agenda, notes, tasks, and much more. It uses Microsoft Loop components and integrated both with Teams and other Microsoft 365 services. No more Wiki-based notes! Let’s check what’s inside. Notes in Teams Note-taking is […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog Collaborative Notes in...
1st WorkplaceDudes Meetup was a success!
Last Tuesday, June 27, 2023, we held our first WorkplaceDudes Meetup at Campus Delta in Capelle a/d IJssel, near Rotterdam. After several weeks of preparation, arranging location, arranging sponsor and of course arranging the speakers, yesterday was the big day. Around 16:00 we were present. We started by converting the hall so that people could sit on chairs, but also in the stands. From… Continue Reading Jeroen...
Welsh Azure User Group June 2023 Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG June 2023 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us with Kay Sauter joining us first to talk about Deploying SQL Server VM’s to Azure using PowerShell, then we had Harun Raseed Basheer on to help us Build our first … Continue reading Welsh Azure User Group June 2023 Meet Up! Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog Welsh Azure User...
Performance of the Graph API, REST API and Web Services with SharePoint and Power Automate
When you build your flows do you consider performance? SharePoint has multiple APIs available. The Performance of the Graph API, REST API and Web Services is very different. Graph API, SharePoint REST API and Web Services Before I’m looking at the performance of the Graph API and the other APIs, I first want to have a look at each API. The naming here is already a bit confusing as the Graph API is also an API following the REST...
The BitLocker HAADJ Nightmare
Today a quick blog post about the problem with HAADJ devices and how to turn on BitLocker. Last month I was giving Intune training to 2 different end customers. During the first training, I was asked if I knew a solution to enable BitLocker on HAADJ devices by means of Intune. Because they ran into problems with the message that the recovery key cannot be backed up to (Azure) Active Directory…. Continue Reading Jeroen...
Develop your own chatbot in Power Apps
Recently a new feature to added to Power Apps to add your Power Virtual Agent chatbot in Power Apps. In this post the step by step guide. Enable the Chatbot component feature In the settings of your app all you have to do is enable the Chatbot component feature and you are up and running. Then of course don’t forget to save your app and restart the Power Apps studio and reopen you app. Adding the Chatbot to your app Now you can...
SharePoint Enterprise Content Types and the Graph API
Following my posts about the Content Type Gallery and my series about the Graph API, today a post about Enterprise Content Types in SharePoint and how to access them through the Graph API. Creating an Enterprise Content Type From the SharePoint admin center I have created an Enterprise Content Type as shown below: Then within my Content Type I’ve created an Enterprise Content Type Site Column as shown below. Both my content type...
Culture is king ? Do you agree? – YouTube
Culture is king ? Do you agree? Today Thomas Robbins explores why culture needs to be addressed by leaders in the modern workplace ? Matilda Harding’s opinion up next… #leadership #workplaceculture #sofasessions Today Thomas Robbins explores why culture needs to be addressed by leaders in the modern workplace ? Matilda Harding’s opinion up next… #leadership #workplaceculture #sofasessions...
Ever wondered what happens to your ticket once it’s raised with the helpdesk?? – YouTube
Ever wondered what happens to your ticket once it’s raised with the helpdesk?? We are proud of our ticket management system, led by a team of #ITIL practitioners with a wide range of expertise ⚡ Today, Nathan our Cloud Engineer takes us along the lifecycle of a ticket to give you a bit of an insight of BTS ? #helpdesksupport #ithelpdesk #itilcertified We are proud of our ticket management system, led by a team of #ITIL practitioners...
Intelligent meeting recap in Teams Premium – Quick overview
It’s there – AI notes for your Teams meeting! Microsoft released it a few weeks ago as a Preview feature and it’s available (but not globally). Intelligent meeting recap automatically generates a summary of your meeting with suggested notes. Is it good or is it bad? What’s still missing? Let’s go and test this brand-new […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog Intelligent meeting recap in Teams Premium...
Stop missing reminders in Outlook
Do you ever miss the start of a meeting because those reminders don’t pop up when you want them to pop up? Do you want to stop missing reminders? Reminders in Outlook 15 minutes before a meeting starts reminders will appear (unless you have disabled this) while you work on other things. This can really help you avoid missing meetings. Recently however I noticed that when I ignore reminders and don’t dismiss them that the...
Looking back at Experts Live NL
On Thursday 25 May 2023, it was time for the 11th edition of Experts Live NL. Again, in Congrescentrum 1931 in 's-Hertogenbosch. For me, this adventure started much earlier. Like the previous editions, I was again in the Program Panel this year. Under the leadership of Kenneth van Surksum and Erik Loef, they provide input and shape to the program of Experts Live NL. Then, on April 3, 2023, I… Continue Reading Jeroen...
Top 3 requests a helpdesk team should NEVER ask you – YouTube
Top 3 requests a helpdesk team should NEVER ask you Our 2nd-Line Cloud Engineer Nathan, sits down with Jennifer to go through some of the BASIC requests a helpdesk team should never ask! ? His top 3… ? We will never ask you to click a link via email ? We would never ask for your password ? MFA codes – we will never send a request for this information Want to know more about how your business can adopt a Zero-Trust approach? Find...
Don’t Update or Insert records in Dataverse but Upsert when using Power Automate
A typical pattern for data import processes is that you first check if an item exists before either inserting or updating the found item. Upsert (Update or Insert) the item in one operation is however better. Update or Insert So the base process could look something like this. We first get the flow to check if the item already exists and then when it doesn’t exist we can add the item. However there is a bit of time between those...
How to Migrate Teams Wikis to OneNote
The latest Teams update enabled Wiki migration to Microsoft OneNote. This feature is the next step in Wiki retiring process which should be finalized in the upcoming months. Right now, you can move all your existing Wiki content to OneNote using a built-in migration wizard. Wiki in Teams The Wiki tab was the main note […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog How to Migrate Teams Wikis to OneNote The...
Welsh Azure User Group May 2023 Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG May 2023 meet up and we had yet another two brilliant speakers join us with Ben Pearce from Elevated You helped us with our technical story telling in a superb presentation to help us all with hints and tips for helping us with our … Continue reading Welsh Azure User Group May 2023 Meet Up! Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog Welsh Azure User Group May...
Size your Power Apps with Height and Width in SharePoint webparts
Sizing you apps in Power Apps isn’t any more complicated than setting the height and the width of the app. But tday I came across a situation where I needed a banner shaped app. Banner image So I created a Power App and added an image control that shows my banner. If I was to add this to a sharePoint page then I would end up with a lot of unused space on my page. So how do we resize the app so that we don’t have the white...
Filter null values in Dataverse using Power Automate
Filtering records on empty values can be a real pain as there are many mistakes to make. Null First of all I would like to have a look at the null function. Many times, I’ve seen people ask the question why their null values haven’t been working. Below 3 examples. Only one will really work. In Power Automate you can have an expression null. You can type the text null (this is just 4 characters, n,u,l,l) And then you can...
Top 8 features from Microsoft 365 Conference
During the Microsoft 365 Conference 2023 in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced many new features for SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, and other M365 products. SharePoint stole the show with the huge list of upcoming features and changes. Here are my 8 favorite features announces during the conference. 1. Copilot in SharePoint AI is coming to SharePoint (it […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their...
Sofa Sessions at Stripe OLT – YouTube
Sofa Sessions at Stripe OLT “As a young leader, what is the best part of that responsibility?”? Matilda Harding one of our Team Leaders at Stripe OLT, shares her thoughts on such an important role ? More incoming on Sofa Sessions… #leadership #motivation #sofasessions “As a young leader, what is the best part of that responsibility?”? Matilda Harding one of our Team Leaders at Stripe OLT, shares her thoughts on...
Sofa Sessions At Stripe OLT – YouTube
Sofa Sessions At Stripe OLT Tom Robbins, Director at Stripe OLT shares some thoughts on workplace culture ⚡ Want to hear more from the team? Stay tuned for more Sofa Sessions – next up, Matilda Harding… #leadership #workplaceculture #sofasessions Tom Robbins, Director at Stripe OLT shares some thoughts on workplace culture ⚡ Want to hear more from the team? Stay tuned for more Sofa Sessions – next up, Matilda Harding…...
SharePoint Lists integration with Microsoft Teams Approvals
The latest update for SharePoint Lists enabled integration between Lists and Approvals in Teams. It’s available in a dedicated list template and you can use it to trigger Teams approvals directly from a list item. You can enable it for a selected list and let your users work directly from the Teams Approval application. Let’s […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog SharePoint Lists integration with...
Lock and wipe devices using Microsoft Graph in Power Automate
On a recent project I needed to be able to lock and wipe devices. I used Microsoft Graph, Power Automate and HTTP requests to get this done. In this post the details. Big Warning This post should have a big “Don’t try this at home (or work)” warning as you wouldn’t want to wipe a device that someone is actually using for the wrong reasons. In my case we are managing 1000s of laptops for an organization who...
2 Liquid tips – Generate GUIDs and base urls in Power Pages
In this post I’m looking at Power Pages and how to get the base url of my site and generate Guids in Liquid. Power Pages development Ok, first of all, Power Pages development can be challenging for many. It really helps if you are good at the following technologies: HTML CSS JavaScript Dataverse Liquid Now assuming that you have a basic understand of the above, I’ve got 2 quick tips to hopefully make your Power Pages...
Welsh Azure User Group April 2023 Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG April 2023 meet up and we had yet another two brilliant speakers join us with Nicholas Chang discussing an Introduction to Azure Container Apps and Daniel McLoughlin taking us through Private Networking on Azure. Again another two brilliant sessions that you will want to … Continue reading Welsh Azure User Group April 2023 Meet Up! Continue Reading jonnychipz’s...
Avatars in Teams – How To
Avatars are finally in Teams! Will avatars significantly reduce the number of people without cameras or is it just a gadget? Time will tell. Microsoft has released a preview version and now we can test it out in practice and see if it makes sense. In this post, I will show you how to enable […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog Avatars in Teams – How To Avatars are finally in Teams! Will...
I don’t believe this is true (or false) in Power Automate child flows
Sometimes Power Automate can be difficult to understand. Today I’m looking at the how child flows handle the boolean values true and false. True or false Just to start this post I would like to make clear that true is not a text “True” and false is not “False” Child flow output in Power Automate I’ve created a simple flow that I will call from another flow. My child flow has two output parameters...
How to enable and work with Microsoft Loop
Last week Microsoft released a preview version of Loop. It’s a dedicated tool for collaboration. You can use it for notes, task management, or meeting summaries. You can add colleagues and work together using workspaces or even embed them into Teams. Today I will show you how you can enable Loop Preview and how to […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog How to enable and work with Microsoft Loop Last...
Create a stack trace in Power Automate flows
Many pro developers will be familiar with the concept of stack traces. Can we take this idea into the low code world? Stack Trace Within Power Automate I like to use child flows and after the introduction of the Try Catch Finally pattern over 5 years ago and the idea of passing Parent flow URLs to child flows, I’ve been thinking about creating a stack trace. In the pro code world a stack trace can show you which...
Enhanced webinars with Teams Premium – Overview
Let’s talk about the next set of features in Teams Premium – webinars. The latest features reshaped it significantly and right now it’s really a competitive webinar solution. Among the new features are enhanced presenter functions, a new attendees management process, and the addition of a “green room.” These new features aim to provide a […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog...
Enable Windows Update for Business Reports
👋 Hi all, Just a quick post this time. On the 31th of March 2023, Microsoft will stop with the Update Compliance reports and are not longer available as from this date. Joe Lurie (Sr. Product Manager @ Microsoft in Endpoint CxE CAT team) tweeted earlier this week about this. See his tweet below. 📢Update Compliance reports will no longer be available after March 31, 2023📆.Please enroll… Continue Reading...
Get your Microsoft Teams One on One chats with Power Automate using the Graph API
You can get some details of One on One chats in Microsoft Teams using the Microsoft Teams connector in Power Automate, but getting the actual details is slightly harder. Chats and the Teams Connector Using the List chats action you can choose to get chats of the different types available. This way you can get the chats that are within Groups, Meetings or the One on One chats. When we run this flow however, we will only see very little...
Welsh Azure User Group March 2023 Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG March 2023 meet up and we had yet another two brilliant speakers join us with Wolfgang Ofner showing us how to Level Up our Kubernetes Scaling with KEDA, then Seif Bassam joined us to talk about building Azure outside of Azure with Azure Arc. … Continue reading Welsh Azure User Group March 2023 Meet Up! Continue Reading jonnychipz’s Article on their blog Welsh Azure...
How to use apps in Teams channel meetings
You can use apps in meetings for some time now. It’s a great way to quickly share content more interactively or to add additional features to a meeting. Add a poll or share a task from a task management tool. The feature was limited only to scheduled meetings but now you can use it in […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog How to use apps in Teams channel meetings You can use apps in meetings for...
Fetch Xml vs Filter Queries in Power Automate
When you query rows in Dataverse using Power Automate you have a few options. Fetch Xml and Filter queries are the two obvious options to go for. But when should you use which? List Rows action When we compare the Get Items ( from SharePoint) with List rows for Dataverse, there are a few differences The Dataverse List rows and the SharePoint Get Items both have filter options, but only the Dataverse action has a Fetch Xml Query...
Query Excel tables using Power Automate
This week I was asked three times about how to query Excel files using Power Automate. Time for a SharePains post on this subject. Is Excel a Database? I can’t stop myself from starting with a warning. Excel is not a database and it shouldn’t be used as such. Many people however seem to use Excel as a source of data, therefor I’m going to give in and write a post on how to query your data in Excel. If your Excel...
Managing high volumes of flow runs within Power Automate using Power Apps
When you have high volumes like 100s of flows in your environment how do you manage these flows. All these flows are kicking off whenever they need to run. It can be a challenge to find out which flows are actively running. Finding your Running flows When you use the standard Power Automate UI, you can see all your flows, but if you want to see if a flow is running or if a flow has failed then you will probably have to visit each...
Search powered by GPT – quick overview of the new Bing
The new Bing is available as a limited Preview and I got a chance to play with it. It has been released in a few weeks and got a lot of attention. A totally new search experience with AI chat is something that could change the future of how we search. I found it very […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog Search powered by GPT – quick overview of the new Bing The new Bing is available as a...