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Announcing the HackTogether: Power Platform Global AI Hack Winners
We’re excited to announce the winners of HackTogether: The Power Platform Global AI Hack What is #HackTogether? In this HackTogether we got the opportunity to see the power of AI Copilots in the Power Platform. We learned from advocates and other experts about Copilots, AI Builder, using Azure OpenAI service, and we even got a tutorial on using GitHub so you can share your AI powered Power Platform solutions with the community. We also heard from VP of Power Apps, Ryan Cunningham, and VP of Power Automate, Stephan Siciliano, about their experiences and thoughts about where they see this AI integration taking us...
Power Platform Global AI Hack Wrap Up
The Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether concludes, but your AI adventure is just beginning! We did it! We rocked the Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether and had a blast! We witnessed some awesome walkthroughs and demos from our brilliant experts, who taught us how to unleash the power of AI in our Power Platform solutions. You learned, you hacked, you innovated. You are all now official Power Platform AI hackers! What happened in the last week of the Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether? The final week of the hackathon started with the caring is sharing session hosted by David Warner, a must see if you...
Announcing the Power Platform solutions with AI and Copilot Learning Path
The Power Platform Advocacy Team is pleased to announce the release of the Create Power Platform solutions with AI and Copilot learning path published on Microsoft Learn. This learning path introduces you to creating Power Platform solutions with Copilot to speed up development time and add AI functionality to make your solutions more intelligent. Taking on the challenge of creating a learning path which heavily deals with AI generated content is not an easy task. As we were building, we kept getting various responses to the same prompts as is normally the case working with Generative AI. So, as you're going thr...
Power Platform Command Line Interface: August Update
We are delighted to announce our august update for the Power Platform command line. There are quite a few things we are showing in this release based on popular feedback from you, the community. The development team, the PM team and I are thankful for your continued support. Updates to update tenant settings and list tenant settings In this release we have introduced two new commands, one to list tenant settings and the other to update tenant settings. Imagine as a developer, you wanted to list the current controls put in place by admin in the tenant. Now you can do that using the following command: It the c...
Power Platform Global AI Hack Week 1 Recap
#HackTogether: The Power Platform Global AI Hack! Week 1 Recap and What’s Coming The first full week of the Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether was a lot of fun! We saw some amazing walkthroughs and demos from our talented experts, who showed us how to integrate AI in our Power Platform applications. Now it’s your turn to take that inspiration and put it into your prize-winning solution! Speaking of solutions… Submit! Submit! Submit! This is the last week of the hackathon and you have less than a week to submit your solution. For your submission, you will need to provide a short video (<5 min) demo of ...
Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether Keynote Recap and What’s Coming
Last week we launched The Power Platform Global AI #HackTogether – a virtual hackathon all about using AI in the Power Platform. Here’s what happened last week and what’s still to come. Week 0 Recap Last week, we kicked off the virtual hackathon with a keynote by Ryan Cunningham (Vice President, Power Apps). Ryan gave an insightful presentation on how AI can empower developers to create smarter and more intuitive applications. This can result in more personalized and efficient software that can cater to the needs of individual users and tackle big challenges. Watch the hackathon keynote on demand Later in ...
The Public Preview for the Unified Experience is live!
Overview The unified developer experience for finance and operations apps is both the next step in the app development experience, and a powerful enabler for leveraging the value provided by Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. The functionality provided by both finance and operation apps and Microsoft Dataverse are now provided through a single sign-on experience where both finance and operations and Dataverse can be managed with no additional setup required. Even if you are doing development of finance and operations apps without leveraging Power Platform, you will find value here. Previously, the d...
Hack Together: The Power Platform AI Global Hack
Are you ready to unleash your creativity and build amazing solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and AI? If so, join us for Hack Together: Power Platform AI Global Hack, a virtual event where you can learn, experiment, and hack together with the new Copilot and AI features in the Power Platform. What is Hack Together? Hack Together is a global online hackathon that runs from September 14th to 28th, 2023. It's open to anyone who wants to explore the possibilities of using AI in the Power Platform, whether you are a beginner, advanced maker, admin or a professional developer - all are welcome! You can join ...
Power Platform Command Line Interface: July Update
Alright all you Advanced Makers and Developers, we have news for you, the new July update is out, and we have made some great new improvements and features based on the feedback provided by you in the GitHub discussions. Let us dive right into what capabilities are in store! New and Updated capabilities PCF updates We have added a new parameter in the `pac pcf push` command and it is `--incremental` which only pushes the files that have changed. We keep track of which files need to update based on the entries in the entity. Figure 1: Incremental flag on PCF push command In addition to this ...