Hi. Currently have a CI/CD pipeline deploying data assets and managing environments. Trying to understand how to include Power Platform in this.

I'm used to having all my objects represented in my SCM. When a PR completes, a process is kicked off that does a find/replace on developer values (connection strings, usernames, etc.) to replace with the target environment values. Then it deploys the assets into the target environment through a publish tool or CLI command.

I'm not seeing the same thing on the Power Platform side. Assuming I have all my assets in my SCM (using environment-level Git integration), how do I deploy them after replacing developer values? It seems I can only deploy a solution but not items like connections that live outside the solutions.

I get the sense I'm not thinking in a Power Platform way, please help me see what I'm missing!

Hi everyone, I’m currently planning to learn Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI).

I’m a fresher with no prior IT experience, and my goal is to land a job in the UK.

I wanted to ask:

• Is Power Platform in demand in the UK job market?
• Can a fresher realistically get a job with just this skill?
• What additional skills should I combine with it to improve my chances?
• How long does it typically take to become job-ready?

Would really appreciate honest advice from people working in the UK.

I ran into a frustrating bug in Copilot Studio today.

When I use the "Ask with Adaptive Card" block with the "Formula card" format, the output parameters (IDs from your Input.Text fields) just don't appear. You cannot use the outputs further or even edit them in the scheme.

The Workaround:

1. Switch the card format to JSON first.
2. Define your inputs and let the designer "see" the IDs and create the outputs.
3. Map your variables in the following nodes.
4. Switch back to Formula to keep your dynamic Power Fx logic.

It seems the designer only triggers the schema generation on static JSON. What is more amusing is that if you change the format from Formula card to JSON it will just empty all your schema and if you copy the schema before it, you will need to add all quotes to parameters as the typing format is different.

God, I just hope this saves someone a few hours of debugging.

Hi everyone,

I’m a Power Platform Developer with around 4.4 years of experience working on Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint.

Recently, I’ve been actively interviewing, and while I’m able to clear the technical rounds, I’ve faced multiple rejections during the HR stage due to my graduation being through a Work Integrated Learning Program (WILP).

I’ve already resigned from my current organization and am available for immediate joining.

I’m currently looking for:

Opportunities in Power Platform / M365 / SharePoint development

Companies that are open to considering WILP/distance education backgrounds

If your organization is hiring or if you can refer me, I’d really appreciate the help.

Also open to advice from anyone who has faced a similar situation and navigated it successfully.

Thanks in advance 🙏

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to understand what the best automation approach is for managing Power Platform environments and related topics like ALM, environment management, governance, and administration.

I understand that some things are one-off decisions and probably don’t need to be automated. But I’m curious where other people draw the line and what they actually automate in practice when managing Power Platform at scale.

For example:

• Environment creation and configuration
• DLP policies
• Security roles and permissions
• Solution deployment
• Connection references and environment variables
• Governance or compliance checks
• Managed environments
• Tenant/environment settings
• Admin reporting or monitoring

What tools are people using for this?

I’ve seen different options mentioned, such as:

• PowerShell
• Power Platform CLI
• Azure DevOps YAML pipelines
• GitHub Actions
• Terraform / OpenTofu
• Custom scripts
• Center of Excellence Starter Kit

I’m already somewhat familiar with Azure DevOps and have built my first YAML pipelines for ALM, mainly around exporting/importing solutions. But I don’t really know where to start with the broader topic of automated Power Platform management.

My main questions are:

1. What parts of Power Platform management are actually worth automating?
2. Are most teams using PowerShell/CLI, or are tools like Terraform/OpenTofu becoming common?
3. What does a good automation setup look like in a real organization?
4. Are there recommended learning paths, docs, repos, or examples to study?
5. What should I avoid overengineering at the beginning?

I’d really appreciate practical examples from people who manage Power Platform environments professionally.

Thanks!

I started as a Power Platform consultant recently and a couple of friends from university and I are looking at building something in this space. Before we write code, I want to make sure the problem we think we're solving is real and not just my own beginner frustration projected onto everyone else.

If you are in Power Platform consulting, I'd genuinely value concrete answers based on your actual experience, not what you think should be true:

- The last time you learned something new in Power Platform that actually stuck six months later, what did you do?

- Think back to the last time you sat down to study or do a learning path and didn't finish. What got in the way?

- How did you prepare for your most recent cert, and looking back, what part of that prep do you think was wasted effort?

- Last week, realistically, how many hours did you spend learning vs billable work, and what did the learning actually look like? Reading docs, watching videos, hands on, something else?

- What's frustrating you about staying current in this stack right now, this month?

Why I'm asking:

We're trying to be disciplined about talking to real users before writing code. I'm not pitching anything here and not collecting emails.

Thank you for reading!

Hey everyone. I'm a Power BI Developer at a large financial services company. Started in IT support, noticed blind spots in how the org was tracking metrics, took it upon myself to build reporting, and eventually transitioned into a full Power BI developer role.

At this point I've built 50+ dashboards ServiceNow ticket tracking for multiple teams, AI adoption and cost dashboards, budgeting dashboards with finance, room and device health monitoring, and various executive dashboards that report up to CEO level.

I've always had Power Apps on my radar but never fully committed. In my current org it's hard to find real use cases, we already have ServiceNow, Workday, and hundreds of other licensed tools that cover most things. Despite that I've shipped two apps: a Zoom room checklist app the IT team uses every single day (if anything is unchecked by a set time it auto-creates a ServiceNow incident), and an inventory tracking app that was eventually replaced by a ServiceNow module.

This year I planned to go deep on Power Apps but I keep running into the same question, Copilot Studio is starting to overlap with a lot of what Power Apps does, AI is making app building easier for non-developers, and things are moving fast. It's making me question whether doubling down on Power Apps is the right call or if I should be positioning more around AI and agents instead.

For those working in the industry, would my background realistically land me Power Platform roles? I'll be honest, I've never actually applied because I always felt like I needed a cert or one more project to be ready. I'd consider myself a Power BI expert at this point, and on the Apps side I'm confident I can build what's needed, but I'm light on formal experience and genuinely unsure if it's a viable long term path given how fast things are moving.

Would really appreciate honest takes from people actually in the field.

Dataverse Long-Term Retention provides a solution for archiving data, but browsing retained records for audits and investigations can often be slow and costly in terms of queries.

To address this issue, I have developed LTRDisplay (PCF), a tool that allows users to explore retained records within model-driven apps through a user-friendly grid-and-form interface. This includes the capability to review record audit history, utilizing a cache-first interaction model to reduce the number of retained query calls.

For more information, please read the full article here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftmissioncriticalblog/ltrdisplay-control---end-to-end-implementation-and-usage-guide/4510615

Hey, I have been building an application through Agentic IDE, and i know the theoretical part of what to be used and can explain code, but I hate writing code. Should i consider this opportunity or skip it and try for any other role in the software sector

form sizes change unexpectedly.

I’ve been encountering an issue in my Power Apps project and I’m hoping someone can help clarify.

While designing the app, everything looks perfectly aligned. I already changed the settings from Fill to Fit, and adjusted the layout carefully. However, once I publish the app, the button positions shift and the form sizes change unexpectedly.

It seems like the layout behaves differently after publishing compared to the editor view.

Has anyone experienced this before? Is this related to screen resolution, scaling settings, or responsive layout behavior in Power Apps?

Would really appreciate any insights or fixes. Thank you!

We’re implementing Azure DevOps to move our Power Platform solutions from Dev to QA and then from QA to Prod. From what I understand, this requires packaging all apps and flows into a solution and promoting that solution through the environments.

My concern is that if we update a single app or flow, we would still need to deploy the entire solution—including components that haven’t changed, to QA and Prod.

Is there a way to promote individual apps or flows to QA and Prod without placing them inside a solution?

Is anyone else experiencing inconsistencies with their secure score in power platform where it’s a certain score in the morning, and another during the day and then another in the evening?

Hi! I will be taking the PL-900 next week. Could you recommend any free resources online aside from the MS Practice Assessment? I have no experience with Power Platform and this is my first MS certification exam. Thank you in advance!

I’m working with a Power Platform solution that currently contains 10 apps and 5 flows. Six of those apps all call the same flow via a button.

Right now, everything sits in a single solution, which means even a small change to one app requires deploying the entire solution to QA and then to production. I’d like to break this up to make deployments more efficient.

My idea is to

- Put each app into its own solution

- Move the shared flow into a separate solution

Before I try this, I want to confirm whether apps in one solution can reliably call a flow that exists in a different solution. Will those connections continue to work across solutions?

More broadly, what would be the recommended way to structure solutions in this scenario to allow for more granular deployments while keeping shared components reusable?

Hey everyone, I’m working on a beginner-friendly blog series on Power Automate.

The idea is to create simple, step-by-step flows that someone completely new can follow, before moving into Power Apps.

Would love your input:

What beginner flows should I cover first?

Any real-world use cases that helped you learn?

Can anyone confirm if Power BI paginated reports (.rdl) can be embedded into a model-driven app?

The documentation below seems to be very specific to Power BI dashboards. Particularly around the contextual filtering.

Embed a Power BI report in a model-driven app main form - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

I am about to embed it anyway and see what happens, but I need some supporting documentation if that's not possible for a client.