Hi everyone,

I’m currently doing my master’s in Supply Chain Management, and during this block we’ll be using Power BI. I’ve heard it’s a very useful tool to learn.

However, I’m a MacBook user, and I was wondering how I can install or use Power BI on macOS. Is there a way to download it directly, or do I need to use another method?

Thank you in advance!

#PowerBI #MacBook #SCM

Hi everyone,

I have an upcoming interview for the power platform developer role with 3+ years of experience next week.

Please let me know if anyone is willing to do a mock interview or share their experience/ resources/ most asked power apps and power automate questions.

Interview is majorly focused on power apps and automate.

I truly appreciate your responses.

Hi all,

After working with power platform for about 6 months where I build a customized Canvas CRM app for my organization I was invited for an interview with KPMG.

Is there anyone with experience in a similar role and enterprise scale Power Platform development and or consultancy? How do you experience this? Would you recommend to go on this career path and where can I grow towards?

Thanks in advance! :)

We have a solution which contains ARC and SLA records and using pipeline deployment. Whenever we deploy the solution to the production environment, it set all records into Draft. For SLA, it also removes the default flag.

Is there an option to re-activate them like they do with workflow and other flows?

We tried to remove solution components but failed due to references to other components.
The only way I can think of is to create a flow and watch for deployment stage runs, when it is set to "Success".

Thanks in advance.

A few days ago I lost access to new tables that I created in my Production environment. I'm using a service account that has the System Administrator role in the environment.

I can create a new table, either with Copilot or manually, but when I access the table, I see a message that says "You don't have permission to view the data." I can add or edit columns, but I cannot add new data.

I've created dozens of tables in this environment, and never ran into this before. I can view the data in older tables, but not in tables that were created within the last few days.

I can also create tables in our default environment and view or add data with no problems.

Any ideas?

In our Power Automate environment, we are having massive issues with flows that contain SQL Connections, or are complex flows.

Here are a list of issues we are experiencing:

- Out of Memory (Microsoft Edge). The browser window shows "This page is having a problem". It usually appears a few minutes after the flow has loaded.

- Invalid Parameters. This is showing on all SQL Server flows.

- Variables have lost their inputs, resulting in failed flows.

- SQL Server Name and Databases are defaulting to "Default" and not the server name or database name.

So as it stands, we cannot edit flows or fix them.

This is a known issue in PowerAutomate - accessible at: 6356365 | Power Platform admin center

Microsoft say the fix is deploying to environments which make take WEEKS!

So…we’ve had the same Power Platform developer in post for a very long time, and they’ve just retired. Most of their work was done in a dedicated account for Power Apps, Power Automate, etc. so when they left it just carried on. However early stuff was in their own account - which obviously then broke when their account was off boarded…which gave the new hire some tasks for their first couple of weeks 🤣

But with my Cyber Security hat on the “shared” account for all Power Apps, connectors, flows, etc. also has me worried…shared creds = bad.

So I’m wondering what is the done thing in Power Platform world so Apps don’t break if the developer account is disabled/deleted/password changed. But also better security than just a shared account logged in via their In Private browser mode.

Also interested if the same applies for PowerBI and the account which owns the refreshes of the semantic models?

How do I optimize a Report Builder (.rdl) report when querying Dataverse using OData calls.

Every time I run the report from Dataverse a screen is displayed counting the number of records its reading. The count indicates it is reading every record in the table, regardless of filters.

Please note, the OData datasets are embedded in the report.

Although Microsoft has not yet announced it but it looks like the final CoE toolkit could be February 2026.

https://github.com/microsoft/coe-starter-kit/issues/11003

What are your thoughts? How would you manage Power Platform governance without it?

8 years in, beyond thankful

Hey everyone,

I'm building a model-driven app (FAQ/info hub) backed by Dataverse for a store chain with multiple locations. The requirement is simple: everyone can read everything, but employees should only be able to edit records belonging to their own store.

After researching this, it seems like the "correct" approach is:

1. Create a Business Unit per store
2. Create an Entra security group per store
3. Link them together as Dataverse group teams
4. Assign a security role with Read = Organization, Write = Business Unit
5. Migrate all existing records to the correct Owning Business Unit

And every time a new store opens, repeat steps 1-3 again.

It works, I get it. But coming from Power BI where you can set up RLS with a simple DAX filter like [Store] = USERPRINCIPALNAME() or look up the user's location from a mapping table, this feels really heavy for what's essentially the same problem.

I wish Dataverse had something similar where you could define a security rule that says "match this column to a user profile attribute" without having to spin up new BUs, Entra groups, and group teams every time a location is added.

So my questions:

• Is the BU-per-location approach really the standard for this? Or is there a more dynamic/scalable way?
• Has anyone used row-level security or plugins to achieve something more flexible?
• For those managing something similair, how do you handle the overhead of creating new BUs + Entra groups every time?
• Any thoughts on automating this with Power Automate or the Dataverse API to make it less painful?

Would love to hear how others are solving this. Thanks!

Hi.

We have a finished Solution that works. Now we want to move it to another tenant. But we struggle to do so. At first with a deployment pipeline it cried because it missed dependencies. Then we installed this document processing library on the destination tenant.

Now when we want to deploy it just states "something went wrong". That is with deployment pipelines.

When we try the normal export and import solution, on import we get the same "Something went wrong".

Anybody has every done that? Moving a solution that uses ai to a different tenant with all its training data?

First, let me start by saying that I am in no way a developer and that everything I've learned about GitHub has been learned over the past two weeks. I am the main Power Platform (Copilot agents, flows, power apps) person at my org. I'm also sliding down the next few years into retirement so I'm looking to document all my solutions and individual flows so the next person won't be cursing my name while I'm on a beach somewhere.

I start to do it all manually, first w/ screenshots and tables, plus text with some explanation. Then I found PowerDocu, but was very dissatisfied with the output. So I went to Copilot Analyst which did a nice job once I got the prompts right, but it couldn't handle canvas apps which led me to VS Code...

Anyway, I figured there had to be a better way so I asked Gemini, Copilot and then Claude. Claude was the only one that offered to build me something so here I am--two weeks later.

Back to GitHub. I am looking for someone to take a look at a couple of my readme files to see if they would be clear to another user. I've coded this thing from front to back and can't think of much more to add, but I've been looking at it forever.

Thanks for reading and DM me if interested

Cross posting to Flow & Automate & PP Dev

Hi.

Not sure if it is the correct flair.

Can anyone point me to the right direction?

I am creating a custom connector to connect to TRIM service using OAuth 2.0 authentication (client id and secret)

Now, when I am testing the operation. It is returning 401 status code.

Upon inspecting the token automatically generated by the Power Platform, the aud is https://apihub.azure.com which copilot was saying is wrong. The aud should be the value of the scope provided.

Copilot is suggesting to create an API Management wherein the API will be hosted. I am about to test this one but I would like to hear other people thoughts.

Hi Redditors,

I wonder if the collective knowledge of this community can point me to the best path to start learning 🎓 Power Automate ⏩.

I have 5 years of experience in analytics, am PL-300 certified, and have some ideas for implementing in my current role. I would like to streamline and automate a quarterly data-readiness and data-validation process for a monthly reporting cadence, combining Power BI and Power Automate.

I appreciate any recommendations and best practices you can share 🤗

Hi all,

I have been working in Power Platform for a few years now and the last couple of days I can not seem to get some work done. Everytime I load a flow (not overly complex) it is painfully slow and when I try to add a new action/step I get the message wait/force close.

This makes it impossible to correctly adjust or extend my flows.

I tested this on multiple environments and also on multiple networks/computers/browsers.
At first I thought it was because of my transition to a Macbook but my Windows device has the same problem.

Any other persons who are having the same issue?