Top picks from 2021 release wave 2 - Power Platform

1. TOP PICKS FROM 2021
RELEASE WAVE 2 IN
POWER APPS
By Sanjaya Prakash Pradhan (MCT)
Planned to release from
October 2021 through March 2022

2. POWER APPS
TOP 15 BEST FEATURES

3. Power Apps Features
Unified and
modern
Power Apps
designer
1

4. Power Apps Features
Intelligent
authoring
experience
with Power
Apps Studio
2

5. Power Apps Features
Improved site
map in model-
driven apps
3

6. Power Apps Features
Simplified Dataverse search configuration for
admins and model-driven app makers
4

7. Power Apps Features
Reinvented maker
experience for
configuring
model-driven apps
for offline use
5

8. Power Apps Features
Manage everything about
solutions and tables in a
modern way.
BYE TO “SWITCH TO
CLASSIC” MODE
6

9. Power Apps Features
Canvas component and
component libraries
Users will have the ability to package and ship component libraries and
applications using standard Microsoft Dataverse solutions. Component
libraries will also add support for new Fluent controls and Power Apps
component framework code components for custom pages.
7

10. Power Apps Features
Code component improvements
◦ For model-driven apps, code components can be created for the
simple lookup and multi-select option set (Choices) type, and
properties of these new types can also be added.
8

11. Power Apps Features
Advanced lookup capabilities for all users in
model-driven Power Apps
9

12. Power Apps Features
◦Modern search
for all end
users in
model-driven
Power Apps
10

13. Power Apps Features
New column options in grid view page
11

14. Power Apps Features
◦Model
driven apps
support
multiple
app side
panes
12

15. Power Apps Features
NO
Dynamics
365 -
custom app
13

16. Power Apps Features
New model-driven app
experience for editing
multiple records
14

17. Power Apps Features
New model-driven app
experience for editing
multiple records
15

18. POWER AUTOMATE
TOP 10 BESRT FEATURES

19. Power Automate Features
Resubmit many failed runs at once
1

20. Power Automate Features
Updates for instant flows in canvas apps
2

21. Power Automate Features
Roll back to a previous
version of a cloud flow
3

22. Power Automate Features
Undo edits in the cloud
flows designer
4

23. Power Automate Features
Real-time
presence in
cloud flows
5

24. Power Automate Features
Use connectors in desktop
flows
6

25. Power Automate Features
◦Use Microsoft Dataverse
from desktop flows
7

26. Power Automate Features
◦The log message
action is available in
desktop flows
8

27. Power Automate Features
Integrations with
team management
in Microsoft Teams
9

28. Power Automate Features
◦Data loss prevention
policies for desktop
flow actions
10

29. POWER VIRTUAL AGENT
TOP 5 FEATURES

30. Power Virtual Agent Features
Export and import topics
using Microsoft Power
Platform solutions
1

31. Power Virtual Agent Features
◦Automatically start a bot
conversation with a
welcome topic
2

32. Power Virtual Agent Features
◦Use and see different
versions of a topic
3

33. Power Virtual Agent Features
Use Microsoft Power
Platform connectors
directly in topics
4

34. Power Virtual Agent Features
◦Use the list variable to get
content from Power
Automate and Bot Framework
skills
5

35. POWER BI
TOP 5 FEATURES

36. Power BI Features
◦Multiple contributors to
Power BI dataflows
1

37. Power BI Features
◦Power BI
dataflows in
deployment
pipelines
2

38. Power BI Features
◦Quick create
on
Microsoft
Dataverse
3

39. Power BI Features
◦Natural language to DAX
generation
4

40. Power BI Features
◦Power BI integration with
PowerPoint
5

41. AI BUILDER
TOP 5 EATURES

42. AI BUILDER Features
◦Form processing typed
fields
1

43. AI BUILDER Features
◦Signature detection
in form processing
2

44. AI BUILDER Features
Form processing
support for
checkboxes
3

45. AI BUILDER Features
◦Extract entities from
unstructured
documents
4

46. AI BUILDER Features
◦AI Builder features in
Microsoft Teams
5