Presentation from the European Power Platform Conference 2022. This presentation shows some of the latest features and functionality for the Power Platform.

2. Let’s Get Hands on with the
Latest Power Platform
Features
April Dunnam
Power Platform Advocacy Team Lead, Microsoft, USA

3. About Me
• Power Platform Advocacy Team
Lead, Microsoft
• MVP Alumni | MCT | #PowerAddict
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4. Power Automate

5. Power Automate in Windows 11
Windows 11 users can begin using Power Automate
for desktop right from the Start menu

6. Data Loss Prevention policies
Administrators can specify which
applications and services can be automated

7. Go further, go faster with process mining
Process advisor offers two powerful capabilities with Power Automate
Task mining
Discover possibilities for
automation for individual
workflows
Process mining
Identify company-wide
bottlenecks and
inefficiencies in workflows

8. Visualize your processes and take action
Process mining in process advisor

9. When you
accidentally
delete a nested
condition in your
Flow

10. Power Automate Undo Feature
April 2022

11. OData Editor Improvements
April 2022

12. Resubmit Multiple Flow Runs At Once
April 2022

13. Power Apps

14. Open-source Power Fx: Low code everywhere
Power Fx is for everyone
• Citizens: Leverage maker's existing Excel knowledge
• Professionals: Concise, type checked, use existing
professional tools and workflows such as VS Code and
Git
• Together: Fusion teams create and maintain solutions
faster
Consistent low code experience across the Power
Platform
• Power Apps canvas apps
• Power Apps model-driven commanding
• Dataverse formula columns
• More to come…
Ready for you to integrate low code into your projects
• Available as open-source on GitHub at
https://github.com/microsoft/power-fx

15. AI-assisted app authoring turns low code to no
code
• Enable developers to use natural language to generate code using AI and the
GPT-3 model to reduce learning and accelerate development
• Allow developers to write code by example using PROSE
AI
everywhere

16. Microsoft Confidential

17. Intelligent Formula Repair in Power Fx
Public Preview May 2022
Uses AI to save time and suggest fixes to comment mistakes and
errors in formulas, allowing makers to be more productive.
June 2022

18. Collaborate while building apps
Makers can use comments in Power Platform
• Makers can collaborate using comments and mentions to work together on an app in the Modern App
Designer
• Add notes, feedback, and conversations with others directly in your bot, just like you would in Office
• Commenting will be supported in Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents

19. Power Apps Mobile Apps – native apps
Package and distribute branded mobile apps
• Seamless end to end branding of mobile apps
• Distribute apps via Mobile Device Management
(MDM) tools such as Microsoft Endpoint Manager
• Publish apps to private stores; Microsoft App Center,
Apple VPP and Managed Google Play
• Publish apps to public app stores; Apple App Store
and Google Play Store (subject to channel policies)

20. Windows App for Power Apps
• Available in the
Windows Store today
(preview)
• Run your Power Apps
offline on the desktop!
• Supports native device
capabilities

21. Microsoft Confidential

22. Custom Pages
• New page type within a model-
driven app
• Brings the power of canvas apps
into model-driven apps
• Can be used to add full pages,
dialogs, or panes with the
flexibility of the canvas designer.
• Includes a low-code page
authoring experience with
expressions and custom Power
Apps component framework
controls.

23. Modern Commanding
• New infrastructure, combines benefits of canvas and model-driven apps.
• Low-code designer.
• Power Fx support for visibility and actions.
• JavaScript remains supported.
• Better ALM support.
• Better app level control – commands are applied to individual apps.
• Simple, flat data model.
• Many workarounds used today are no longer needed.
• Classic commands remain supported. Apps can run both classic and
modern commands side-by-side.
• Arrange modern commands amongst existing classic commands.

24. Demo

25. Microsoft Confidential

26. Microsoft Confidential

27. Microsoft Confidential

28. Microsoft Confidential

29. Microsoft Confidential

30. Fusion Dev

31. Accelerating Fusion Teams
• Native GitHub source code integration to enable citizen and pro dev-friendly ALM
• Deeper integration with Visual Studio, VS Code, and Azure for more fusion scenarios
• Auto-generate Power Apps from APIs authored in Visual Studio and Published to APIM
Fusion
Teams

32. Power Platform blade in Azure API Management

33. GitHub Codespaces extension for Power
Platform

34. Extending collaboration to Pro Devs
Experimental Git Source code integration
• Developers can enable Git integration for
apps to provide source code integration,
version history and branching for multiple
developers.
• Multiple developers can work together on
branches of the same app, and have their
changes merged together.

35. Microsoft Confidential

36. Dynamic Schema Support for Custom Connectors
40% of Power Platform connectors
have some form of custom schema
This feature gives users the ability to
access the extra columns that the
dynamic schema provides
Can enable support for SQL stored
procedures in the future
June 2022

37. Thank You!
2022 Wave 1 Release Info: https://aka.ms/PowerPlatform2022Wave1
Power Apps Version Release Notes: https://aka.ms/PowerAppsReleaseNotes
Microsoft Build, May 24th – 26th : https://mybuild.microsoft.com/
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