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Initial thoughts on certification: MB-280 (Beta) – Customer Experience Analyst Associate

I have always been extremely enthusiastic about Microsoft certifications. This enthusiasm has carried me to accomplish almost all Power Platform and D365 business solution oriented certifications there is available at the time of writing. Yeah, enthusiasm and maybe a little bit about having the bragging rights as well 😜 I know the certifications divide opinions…
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Use modern themes with custom logo in model-driven apps

It has already been a while, since Microsoft initially announced Fluent UI design for model-driven apps. Once it was generally available, users were able to see the “New look” toggle in the app header. It wasn’t until the Release Wave 1 / 2024, or monthly channel update April 2024, when it became gradually enabled by…
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Troubleshooting privilege related problems in security roles

You know the feeling, when you have designed comprehensive security model for the customer, and then you get the call that “something is not right, can you check it out”? If it’s production environment, then you are probably in a hurry already! But nevertheless, privilege related problems in security roles are very typical, and can…
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Testdriving the year-end release of the Approvals Kit

Talking about christmas coming early again! This time it was the announcement of the Approval Kit from Power CAT released as a public preview feature with their year-end release of the kit. There is certainly a demand for this kind of template which can be used and enhanced, and which already packed with features as…
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Using Azure DevOps to deploy Environment Variables with Azure Key Vault secrets

In my previous article I showcased how you can use Environment Variables to dynamically retrieve secrets straight from Azure Key Vault, and pass it to HTTP action in a secure way. After you successfully did the implementation, you might have started to wonder how do you then introduce this type of Environment Variable into your…
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How to use Environment Variables to read API Subscription Key from Azure Key Vault, and pass it securely in HTTP Request header inside Power Automate Cloud Flow

I’m certain that most of my readers are familiar with the concept of Environment Variables. What about using HTTP Request actions in Cloud Flows? Hands up how many of you have sometimes hardcoded values “because it was fast and easy”, or you “didn’t know any other ways to do it”. Then you ended up refactoring…
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Changing the default font settings for email editor in Dynamics 365

I was recently helping out a colleague who was struggling with changing the default behaviour of the email editor. Information floating around didn’t really cover all the corners, or was outdated in one way or another, so I felt it would be beneficial to share this with the community as well 🙂 How to change…
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Initial thoughts on 2023 Release Wave 1
It is again that time of the year. Release plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2023 Release Wave 1 has been made public! Once again very exciting content that is definitely worth to look for. This time I tried to browse the content through the Release Planner, and I must say that it surely…


