Power Platform 2026 Release Wave 1 (#81)

Surprise!🎉 

📣 Episode 81: 2026 Release Wave 1 🎁 

For those of you who have been waiting for the Release Wave since January - here it is!! 

Microsoft just released their plans 🧐 for what new features and updates that are coming for Power Platform in the next 6 months! In this bonus episode, Nick and Ulrikke talk through what stood out for them in the areas covered: Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, Dataverse, Governance, and Administration. 

Tune in to get an overview of this 🔎 release wave plan, and also our running commentary and how these features relate to our experiences with these products, and where Microsoft is heading with our favourite platform. 

This is a bonus episode wedged in between two of our normal episodes - and next week we will be back with a normal episode - recorded in Seattle as we are getting ready for the MVP summit. Stay tuned to get a recap of CPPS 🍁 and get the last update from the community. 

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Transcript

Welcome And What’s Ahead

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Oh hello. It's that time again for the Microsoft release plan. This time for 2026 Wave 1. There's quite a bit of interesting stuff in this release wave. It's gonna take me a while to read it all, or you can stay tuned and Erika and I will go through the highlights of what's in this release plan. Hope you enjoy it.

Nick 0:58

Hey Nick! I'm doing good. I'm still here. I'm still in St. John's from uh I was supposed to be home two days ago, but a lot of storm systems and kind of weather-related travel. But you know what? I'm not complaining because I was actually in the comfortable hotel room where a lot of my friends are stuck at airports either halfway home or they were stuck on the way here. People actually missed some people missed their competition, unfortunately. So all in all, not complaining, but I'm going home today and can't wait.

Ulrikke 1:29

So uh last time we recorded our usual episode was on Monday last week. Uh and uh I was kind of rooting for you and waiting for the link to the to what she lift and stuff. So tell people how did it go?

Nick 1:39

Uh two gold medals in bench press. Uh and in three lift top five. I got a couple PRs there, so I'm really happy overall with everything. It was a good week of good week of lifting and everything like that. So I'm very I'm happy looking forward to the next one. So I have a couple I have a couple choices to make in terms of international competitions and that kind of thing. So yeah, it was good. Uh and yeah, but I think uh the the we talked a lot last week about the weather and uh powerlifting and bunch of things. So maybe the people want to hear yeah, maybe the people want to hear about the release wave, which I think is always one of our more popular episodes. So I know we get a lot of listeners that don't always tune in, but you know, guys, like like and follow us every two weeks. We talk about the same stuff just in a different context.

Ulrikke 2:29

Yeah, and actually a lot of the times that we do this, it's old news because we've talked about it already. So it's like, oh yeah, so this is in the release notes, and then wait, this was private preview when and it's GA now? It's like this is old news, or there'll be things that we talked about the last release we have episodes. It's like, oh, is this old thing still here? They didn't get that out okay last time. All right, okay, so then it's coming back and it's coming back and it's coming back. And I'm like, will they ever unify the system user and the contact for the datavers for power pages? You think ever? Ever? Like it's been in the last three, two release waves. We'll see.

Nick 3:07

Stay tuned and find out.

Release Wave Timing And Scope

Ulrikke 3:09

Yeah. Funny. All right, so just just to say congratulations, well done on the powerlifting thing, and that's all we'll say about it. Moving on to the release uh waves, because we alluded to this in the last episode that was last week, that we had a surprise, but because of course you can't really say that the release waves are coming. And also, new um this year is usually either announced in January or in August, and then they are valid from kind of March until October. But this time they are closing the gaps, so we get them in March, and it's kind of from now until it's supposed to be October. And a lot of this is for kind of the summer, uh the next six months. Um but some some of it also extends kind of uh beyond that reach. So I'm I'm expecting the next next release wave won't be released until October. So that's kind of if you're waiting for some news, you can shift your schedule a little bit.

Nick 4:06

Um, April 2026. So it's literally in a couple weeks, some of these things should be lighting up. So it's not a case of this is coming in the far future. It's some of these things, and I mean some of these things are already there, just in still considered in preview, but they will be GA. And we'll we'll discuss that as we go through some of our favorites. And we'll I mean, we can't go deep dive on each and every one of these things, but let's hopefully we hit the highlights and give you folks enough info that you can kind of begin to take a look yourself and make some decisions on your projects.

Ulrikke 4:40

Yeah, because if we did that, we would be here for an hour. Yeah, that would be crazy.

Nick 4:45

An hour.

Ulrikke 4:47

Like we get one each, one each, and I'm the one to say that, and then I give you shit for not doing what I tell you to do, and then I'm the one that kind of go, Can I do three in one?

Nick 4:57

Yeah, you do, yeah.

Ulrikke 4:58

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. So we're gonna cover a power platform specifically, but I know that there are release waves for Dynamax 365 specific things, and also we got um a release wave uh plan for the sales and the other uh agent, customer and customer service business application specific agents. So if you're kind of into those areas as well, we don't cover those in this podcast, but you can I'm sure you can find other resources to do that. Or you can do what Nick usually does when these are released and put them out into a notebook and have notebook create a podcast for you, which is probably just as good as listening to this one. I don't know.

Nick 5:39

No, it's it's not. It's I mean, it's just it's that the two AI people they're chatting, whatever, but they don't have the same level of ridiculous banter and rabbit holes and segue and bad segues and bad jokes and talk about the weather and our families and all the crazy stuff that we do. So if you're looking for a boring one, check out that one. If you're looking for an unpredictable wild ride, then stay right here.

Power Apps Modern UI And Mobile

Ulrikke 6:04

I love it. All right, so we'll cover as power apps and uh power pages, and then there's power power automate, copyright studio, and then dataverse, and then also we'll uh have a little bit of a glance into what's deprecated at the end. So kicking off with power apps, it's the kind of each of these segments first, they list their focus areas for this next three, six months, and then kind of what they're investing in, and then they have specific release items with private preview, public preview, or uh GEA dates. And for Power Apps, the focus this time is a more modern look. So model-driven apps will get a refreshed, consistent uh look. Uh, it's gonna be default, so you're not gonna have to flip it on and off. Now they're focusing on mobile and offline uh improvements and also search improvements and AI enhancements with localization for genitive pages, which I am really keen to see. With building modern apps, better collaboration tools, which is gonna be exciting to see. And then enable enterprise scale, which I find is always in there somewhere, uh very non-specific. It's like, yes, and more, even more enterprise great, right? Okay, good. Because it was before, but skill is still and even more.

Nick 7:17

Yeah, it's now even more. It's like a serial box.

Ulrikke 7:20

Yeah, not only that, but and as you said, uh most of this is um kind of public preview March-ish and then GA April-ish. So very kind of there's an optimism, I would say, in these release notes for um power apps. The team's gonna work like crazy between um March and April, and then yeah, easy summer holiday from then on in. Probably.

Nick 7:44

It's my Microsoft calendar.

Ulrikke 7:47

Yeah, I say it bear quotes. And also the funny thing is for the enable enterprise scale item is um the usage page, which was actually a public preview in December. We'll see. Okay, what's your uh topic for uh out of all of these?

Nick 8:03

I I I have comments on other things, but my top one, which I think I'm excited about, and I think you're excited about is the fact that generative pages will be available globally. That to me has been for Canadian projects, because I'm working on a few, it's been a little bit of a roadblock. And I know for it's for you as well that uh there's been a few situations where you want to use uh generative pages and you can't because it's not yet available in your particular geography. And of course, you know, we're we're clever people, we think we're smart. That's okay. I'm gonna build it in a US environment and I'm gonna create my generative page and I'm gonna move my solution into my Canadian environment. Everything's gonna be fine. Code is code, right? Like, like, yeah, whatever. And then so I tried that in my Canadian environment and get a big ol' it actually gives a very typical to Microsoft Way, not a nice little message saying, sorry, it's not here yet. It's more like some weird error missing components, blah, blah, blah. So looking forward to the fact that generative pages will be available globally. And I know there's also some enhancements that we've talked about in the regular podcast that is coming there. Um, and I think we'll talk about that next week as well. Some of the things people in the community have been doing in terms of creating generative pages and tying it all in and just making that model-driven app experience this way better. So that is my top pick. What is your top pick?

Ulrikke 9:21

I knew you were gonna pick that. So I think something else. I uh picked um, because you can now use CLI to discover, create, and wire connections in code apps. It's gonna be public preview in May, and it's gonna be GA in June. Oh, sorry, July. Um, it's a two-month gap, and I think I expect it's gonna be delayed, but um it's um well let me just open it up right now. So the the new PowerPoint CLI will get new commands that will allow developers to discover available connections and create um connectors and create connections directly from the command line. So it's gonna remove uh yet another barrier for the developers to have to go in through the the UI kind of experience to do this. And also I saw discover and connect connection creation as part of the end-to-end prompt to app workflows. So it's kind of the enabling of the AI way of working even more. So I think that's um kind of what they're looking into enhancing, which is really cool.

Nick 10:22

Um and I just wanted to Yeah, I was gonna say that was my second pick for sure. Uh just and I've seen a little bit of that. If we we we always talk about Josh and Charles's videos, and they act they actually showed a little bit of that in their latest video, which we'll talk about in our next episode as one of those news items. So yeah, it's just making code code apps I'm excited about. I'm diving in and it's just gonna make building Power Apps Code apps so much more accessible to makers. So again, natural languages, the new low code, and these types of tools are, I think, I believe are accessible to makers, not necessarily pure pro code developers. So this is really cool stuff.

Ulrikke 11:01

Yeah, yeah. And so, and as I mentioned, the the enhanced modern refresh look for modeling apps is coming. And also, I saw something about enabling push notifications and custom branded apps, which is gonna be a good enhancement, I think. Uh, and also a lot of offline capabilities like offline profile using Fetch XML editor and download rapid apps uh directly from Dataverse. And it's a lot of nifty kind of uh news items for those things as well.

Nick 11:29

So yeah, yeah. And reading through some of that, like it looks like yeah, there's a lot of investment made in mobile apps because of course that was the whole thing a few years. Well, yeah, I guess a few years ago about we're not just working on desktops or anymore, we're working on our phones. And it's interesting because kind of related, not related. I'm finding a lot with these new AI tools. And um, I mean, you mentioned on the last episode Whisperflow. I've heard about it on Diary CEO. He also is a he has a promo code for it. I put that in my phone, and wow, I am now talking and not just talking on chats, whatever, but talking to my AIs as well. Like, so I was working on a proposal and I started working on that in one of my AI tools, you know, getting into structure, like it's still me, but I'm kind of directing it. And I actually was able to continue the conversation on my phone as I was having lunch the other day, and I was like, wow, I don't even need my laptop to work on a proposal. I'm back and forth chatting with the AI, going through all the nuances and all that stuff. So the fact that we're kind of focusing on Power Apps, getting more mobile, is sort of telling that again, we're we're kind of on the move, we're doing things. The offline profile using Fetch XML, of course, big fans of like Fetch XML have been using for years. It's well established. The the wrapped apps as well. I was kind of dove into that. What does that mean? It's a realizing, you know, this is something that's existed before, being able to distribute almost so for your it's for internal apps. Like you're not going to be releasing the next version of Bejeweled as a Power App on the store. Well, you could try, sure. But these are for internal users, but it's just a way to distribute that. So you're not running the Power Apps app and then launching the app within that. You can actually, it looks like a native app to your phone, whether it's uh Android or uh the iOS, but that actually is you don't no longer need the Azure blob storage like you do today. You'll be able to do that from Dataverse. And oh, there was something else. Yeah, push notifications, that's cool. But the new modern refreshed look, when they first their first iteration of the new look, and I'll be quite blunt was shit because the menu was moved over to the right-hand side. You actually had to do multiple clicks to get to menu items. So it was like, how is this better? You're adding clicks to process, people are used to going to the left-hand corner. So I know myself and a few other folks, we provided the the feedback. I'm sure a lot of their customer sites and they tried this. So I'm actually really curious to see sort of the final, final enhanced look to make sure that all of these things were taken into consideration. They even called it out in the in the in the release wave plan when you're kind of read the details of the fact they took a lot of feedback from during their public and private previews to help and make sure the things that some of the things they weren't losing anymore. So again, I'm cautiously optimistic about this. Again, because a lot of it, to be to be honest, a lot of it is to make room for some more AI features to have more agent interaction on model-driven apps. So that's the real impetus behind the new refreshed experience is to help the agents move in. And like I said before, this is how we're gonna get more into an agentic world from our existing apps. So we're not just switching over 180, it's just gonna creep in, and of course they need real estate for that. So interesting to see sort of what the final version is and making sure that we still can do all the things that we always could do before, but all the new cool stuff as well. Like it's you know, no, because the other thing they were talking about was the uh the enhanced row summaries, for example, which is something that I like. We need to make room for that kind of thing. So yeah, sorry, you go ahead.

Ulrikke 14:58

No, no, it's just um a common because it is a double-edged sword, right? Because you want to, as I said, you uh you introduce a model-like to a customer that's not used to that kind of UI, and they go, oh, this is very, very, very busy. Oh, what are all these buttons? And can we just hide all the things? Because that's what they want, right? Because they they need a kind of a more of a simplified user interface. So hiding away some of the tools or some of the buttons that some of the UI to to quiet it down a little bit is always a requirement. So for them to do that, it's it's probably listening to customer feedback. But then as you said, then you have on the other side of that, you have advanced users who've been using Model Rips Driven App for ages, and they have it in their fingertips that just do it automatically. They don't think and suddenly they have to go through another step or another click or another path to do it. They it's gonna add another step to their workflow. It's gonna mean they have to adjust to a new user interface, and it's gonna be taxing on them. And so for for Microsoft to try to have a unified interface for everyone and trying to balance on the naive's edge is really difficult. But as I said, it's I think that like I said, the idea is to create space for the agents to come in for both the new and the advanced users to not have to do all that manual work anymore, and for it to be a more renewed and to kind of play on each other's and give that tasks to do, and as we've now started to do to talk to it and just not click as much and not needing to get into that UI so much and not be so click-heavy and more kind of command, human command kind of a way to do it. So it's it's always I've been working with you um user feedback a lot and user interface kind of testing. And it's always the designer has to be in the conversation to level set what the users are saying because it's like faster horses and cars. They don't know what they really need and they can't see the future and what it would look like. The only thing they know is that don't add new clicks to my user interface, which is always the kind of yeah, so it's always a trade-off. And I see markets of trying to lean in that direction, then they go get pushback, but still they have to move in that direction, and it's gonna be unpopular for a little while until people get it and they're like, right, now I get it out, okay, because I'm not gonna click that button anymore. So I don't need to add that extra step, right? So it's always that little struggle, right? So you covered power-ups perfectly. Thank you. Very good summary, and it all kind of fits together in this cohesive story, which is very good. That's what this release wave should do. And I think we've had some release waves in the past where it doesn't, but actually this do, um, which I like. So any comments on power ups before we move on to to the next one?

Nick 17:39

Yeah, the the last thing, and I will talk, I think, a little bit about this. They talk about the usage page because this pops up a few times. Yeah, yeah, and as I was reading about that, like it I've looked at it, it's kind of handy. You can actually begin to get a good picture of what's going on in your overall enterprise. So, like how many people are actually using the apps and things that you've created, how much uh of all this other stuff. To me, it's it's beginning to lean a little bit more towards like in helping you make licensing decisions in terms of uh what's being used, how much is actually being used, and be able to adjust with that. There's a few other things I think in in Power Automate, some things adjusting around licensing. Like um, and it's also, I think, are we going down a road where the licensing enforcement is gonna be a little bit more rigid? And to be fair, Microsoft has been pretty, I think, generous in terms of people go a little bit over capacity, like Dataverse, if you go over, like it's not gonna shut you down. It's gonna give you all sorts of warning messages. And yeah, you you do legally need to be compliant with your licensing. So actually having this usage page also help enables you to make sure that you are and kind of focus on that. But I'm also wondering if this also is gonna give a case, a situation of if you go over, if you're habitually going over, are you starting to be seeing some some blockages because of that? And the fact we have this usage pane, there's no longer an excuse because it should be quite clear of what you're allocated for, what you're not. Uh, that's just pure speculation on my end. I I love this dashboard because it does give you a much better picture than trying to go through some other tools or other third parties to kind of see how much are you using or this or that, or trying to find different areas. Again, it says that usage page is just going to be very helpful going forward in overall the power platform. So we'll see.

Power Pages Templates And Security

Ulrikke 19:22

Yeah. And you see pop up uh a lot of different areas in in this release way as well. It was released in in December, so it's all already been around for a little bit. Um, and you can also hook it up to all sorts of uh kind of notifications and you can keep track of it. And and it's like you said, I think up until this point, it's been more of a reactive thing. You can see how much usage you've had and how much capacity you've used kind of in the past, like last month. Now you have the ability to do it real time, which is to your point, you don't have an excuse anymore. It's not as easy to say, I have no idea. You know, it's just yeah, yeah. No, you see it right there in it. So it's easier for them to enforce it. So yeah, very good. Next up is PowerPages. And the focus this time is around AI tools and enabling developers. There's a lot about that, and also uh authentication and security. Uh build and deploy with AI tools, site analytics, and server logs is also exciting. The Place into the same thing. End user transaction and auditing, uh, curator for security creators and for admins, and then portal uh authentication enhancements and a nuanced control for external authentication providers. So it's um uh it's kind of on the same path as we've seen for the last few years for PiberPages. There's not a lot of surprises in here. And anything kind of standing out for you?

Nick 20:46

Yeah, I'm probably I'm hoping I don't steal your thunder on this one because I know you're a big fan of the templates of the Dynamics 365 templates. I think one of the very first presentations I ever saw you give in person was at uh Scottish Summit oh a few years, like a few years ago, and you talked about the Dynamics 365 templates and all about that. Now, they have not, and of course, a lot of these templates are still comes back to the old ADX studio days, they've evolved like evolved not a whole heck of a lot. They've not seen a whole heck of a lot of love. And on the flip side, from what I've been told, one of the most biggest use cases for power pages is the customer self-service to be able to log tickets online and everything, a knowledge-based article search. And these templates have sort of been a little bit stuck in the past. But the what they've announced in this release plan that the the Dynamics 365 portal templates are going to be enhanced for Bootstrap 5 and the enhanced data model. Finally. So I'm pretty excited about that. Like um the I'm excited about a lot of these things, but that really stood out to me as something like okay, finally we can finally start deploying these portals on a brand on the proper. Platform, of course, with enhanced data model. They're solution aware. They can be transferred. Bootstrap 5. Um I am I am learning all about Bootstrap as much as I've been able to navigate through it. Claude Claude has been my Claude Code has been my friend with Bootstrap 5, uh fixing that uh in a project I'm working on now. So yeah, pretty that's that's pretty exciting. There's a lot of neat stuff. Some of the stuff, nothing that was that was an interesting announcement there. So yeah, there's a lot of stuff. Uh did I steal your thunder or do you have something else that stood out for you?

Ulrikke 22:32

No, no, that was my topic as well, as you knew, because that's what I'm it was very important to me that those kind of get up to speed. And I think they've been a bit slow adopting these. But also uh we have managed to kind of keep this alive a little bit by creating a new site from scratch, a new blank one, and then grabbing the components and the code bits and the the stuff over to the new world, so to speak. So it's good to see that they finally kind of um the gut those updated. I'm not sure if kind of the trains already left the station and it's a bit too late. Um, I'm kind of thinking maybe, but yeah, that's uh that was also my topic. But then I and I also looked into um or sorry, also I wanted to mention the enhanced open ID connect with encrypted token support, yeah, which I know is a big deal for a lot of people. It's gonna be public preview in June. Um, so it's doesn't have a GA date yet, which it's always always then we always kind of take it with a pinch of salt because we want to see that GA date to be kind of more confident that they're actually gonna go through with this. What this means is you'll be it opens up for PowerPages to use other identity providers than it has as of now, more advanced identity uh and and um authentication providers, um, which it can also uh be then you can still use your same user flows. It kind of enables more of the providers out there in a more secure way. So I know that we have a few projects where we've come up against this um um restriction or that that they don't have this right now. So this is something personally I'm very excited to see them bring this on. So um this is gonna be good. Let's see if there's something else. There was a lot of things that was um regional specific, and then they just list all the regions. And I'm like, well, why use page real estate when it's just all the same? But then, yeah.

Nick 24:26

Yes, but did you notice for for instance the the building power pages sites faster with AI coding tools that there's some geographies that are not supported or not on the list, or sorry, they're on the list, but there's been no date attached to them? And no. Okay, so I found that very, very like surprising. Like, first off, I thought, okay, it's a language thing. So for example, Wow.

Ulrikke 24:49

Australia is not supported.

Nick 24:52

Yeah, Norway wasn't supported, so I thought, okay, if it's the Norwegian language, I get it. But Australia, Australians speak English.

Ulrikke 25:00

No, no, it's not a language thing, it's the data centers. So then that means the data centers don't have the solution packages that is needed for this capability to be um supported. So it's the same thing as with the generative pages. The data center, the Norwegian, if you have a Dataverse environment in the Norwegian region, the data center don't have the necessary packages and the necessary things to uh support it. So and it's surprising still that that's the case for Australia. But I see. So New Zealand, same thing. Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain, Sweden, so many. And then of course US government and oh yeah, well, the US government clouds, of course.

Nick 25:40

That's always they're always a little bit behind. So yeah, if you are planning on using a specific feature, do check out the the dates on the or if it's gonna be available in your data center. Um, because you yeah, you don't want to be you don't want to be telling your customers, oh yeah, we're gonna do this, and then realize that you can't. Um or you make different decisions on your data centers if you can. And I know that's not always possible.

Ulrikke 26:03

Yeah, and also um we we always um we forgot to do this this time, but we usually also separate between features and functionality that are end uh kind of uh end user specific things and then also uh developer specific things. So this is a developer uh feature or capability which allows us to use AI tools to create, initialize, create, and finalize creating a PowerPages site, makes it um from end to end really. So it's about using claw code to to spin up uh a PowerPages SBA, a single page edge application. You can set up it will configure all the PowerPages config for you, don't have to go into the designer or anything, and it will build it into end. You could do that in a US environment, and then you can grab the SBA that it creates and bring that code into a Norwegian environment. That would work because it's the code is self-sufficient, because SBA is GA. So it's not that you can't do it, you just have to make sure you know what you're doing, and also, of course, if you do that, then you won't get support for that if that's what you've done, probably ish, that's what it means. But the the end functionality, the end result might be the same, even though it's not available in in Norway. So that's kind of how we look at it. But then you have other features of functionality where you want to use it in the environment that you are in. And if you're in a Norwegian environment, you can't access it because it doesn't exist. Like with generative pages, for instance, right? You can't use it because it's like you experienced you talked about just a minute ago, it's inaccessible to you, which is kind of different. But this is a developer thing, so you can work around it.

Nick 27:41

Yeah.

Ulrikke 27:42

But also, go ahead. Sorry, go ahead. No, no, no. You go. I scroll.

Nick 27:47

No, I was gonna say you you alluded to earlier about the that was it's also here, the unifying power pages off by merging web roles and the dataverse security roles. So we actually have dates on this now.

Ulrikke 27:59

Oh, yeah, we do. Uh let me find that.

Nick 28:03

It is public preview March 2026 with general availability August 2026.

Ulrikke 28:10

Well, I'll see it. I will leave it when I see it.

Nick 28:12

So that's uh page 27 um on the version that we have.

Ulrikke 28:16

Exactly. Right, so and and also other things. Um, as then these are not news. This has been around for a while. The service I logic, client API, and also the the build faster with um with AI tools as well, which and also some security agent stuff, which is not new. So a lot of the things for power pages are old news, basically, and things already known. But yeah, it's good to see that it's moving in the right direction.

Nick 28:44

Yeah. For sure.

Ulrikke 28:46

Any other comments for power pages?

Nick 28:48

No, I think, yeah, like all a lot of this is old news, but it's kind of nice to see some dates on things. So for instance, like uh server logic gonna be GA pretty shortly. I think I believe in April, uh, if I read that correctly. Um, and of course, even then the the client, the new client API, yeah, April 2026. Um and the you know, the the new uh CLI, like so adding and creating websites using like the pack CLI. Again, a little thing, but if you're batching a lot of these things and trying to create developer environments, it's just cool. You don't have to need to go into the user interface and start clicking through the whole wizard. You can just go and automate some of this stuff. So I think we're gonna hopefully we'll have a chance to talk a little bit about some of the ALM features overall in the power platform. One thing that I is I did not see here, and I'm curious of where they're at, is I find that if um in terms of ALM downloading, when you download the use the pack CLI commands to download the portal code to your local workstation, that always overwrites. If you actually link it up to GitHub, it always overwrites that GitHub information. So if we're syncing back up into source control, it's always it's been it is a bit of a blocker roadblock. I know that they're aware of it. I just don't see anything here about that. So I'm just kind of curious where that is in the grand scheme of things. But for the rest, yeah, the PowerPages team just keeps moving along with new stuff. It seems the last few months they've been almost every week there's been something new coming out. Uh, we'll talk about in the next episode about the agent APIs that they released a blog article about a week ago, which I don't see here, but that must have been in the last one. Or some of these features kind of sneak in around these release plans. But yeah, and it's exciting. It's also neat to see PowerPages listed as the number two thing. Usually it was always buried way, way deep in the release plans. And now you can see it's becoming more and more prominent as we get into this more agentic world. I think PowerPages is going to be one of those canvases that we're gonna be surfacing AI agents, especially to external users, to interact with our business systems. So um, as as we always say, exciting times.

Power Automate Desktop And Process Mining

Ulrikke 30:51

Yeah, definitely exciting times. Right. So moving on to the next one, which is kind of um so it's Power Automate, and Power Automate for a lot of us is just cloud flows, but it is a lot more than that. This release wave is more about desktop apps, no, sorry, desktop flows than anything else I find. So for Power Automate, the focus areas have been smarter automation. So automations on the desktop become more intelligent and resilient with AI agents. Well, we'll see. Um, and then self-healing capabilities again. I love that. It's just like, yeah, we don't believe it, but okay. Um, and then it's so this is a story we've heard before, especially with with desktop apps. Um it and make your productivity and collaboration. So gains uh authoriting and optimization assistance from agents. So you're now gonna collaborate with agent creating something. And also they talk a little bit about uh license sharing with flow groups and self-service restore capabilities. And then process mining gets a lot of love this time as well. Yeah. You can now, it's process intelligent introduces object-centric process mining for complex interconnected processes and a modern process intelligent studio workspace. Sounds grandiose, but it I mean, and it's also this is very interesting to me. We're gonna dive into it more, I'm sure. But it brings in fabric to the to the mix with process mining, yeah, and it kind of opens up the box to now big process mining for intertwined, interconnected, advanced processes across your whole Microsoft ecosystem, which is really, really cool. Um, enterprise governance and licensing is the last uh focus area. So and they also list the cloud flows and copilot for automate desktop flows and process mining, but there's uh nothing here on um um AI builder. Doesn't have anything. Yeah, which is kind of interesting, but yeah, okay. That's not the word.

Nick 32:54

The other as the evolution of things. Yeah, I noticed like in terms of cloud flows, which I mean I use cloud flows quite a bit. I th I think you do as well. I don't do a lot in the desktop flows area. I've looked at it a few times. Sometimes you hit a use case and like, okay, do we need to bring in the desktop flows because the APIs are weird or there's something sort of missing with all of this. In terms of the cloud flows, I know the new designer is there is a new designer. I've heard mixed reviews about that, and that's always a bone of contention. A lot of people still going back to the classic designer, how the copilot is gonna be better. Although we saw last week, like in our we discussed about Sean Astragan when he used the the Claude browser extension to write his flow for him, and it did a better job than Copilot did. So hopefully copilot built-in catches up a little bit here. There was one thing that did jump out to me that I thought was pretty slick in terms of for desktop flows, which we're probably we might see similar things pop up in terms of agents because we're all talking about well, give the agent the job and they're gonna go off and do it. But for desktop flows, they have video logs for unattended runs. So I guess what you know with desktop flows, you get that off and running, and all of a sudden you get an error message. Well, you have to look through the logs. What went wrong? What error message came up? And then sometimes, from my understanding, it doesn't always make a lot of sense. You kind of got to go through manually, go through the steps, what screwed up. It works now, didn't work before, or what's happened, what's changed. This way you can actually look at the video as if you can look at the screen, you can see the mouse move on the screen. Where did it click? Ooh, there was a strange pop-up that happened that normally doesn't happen. That's what disrupted the whole flow. So having that that video log is kind of like your security, like your security cam footage of there was a break-in to see what happened more visually. Uh, so I thought that was I would that's that's pretty cool. That could be something that um, you know, might kind of tie into other things. So that was just sort of like in terms of picks, that was sort of my pick. The other thing too was interest that kind of got me interested too, and again, I don't do a lot of desktop flows for all my RPA, all our RPA peeps out there. There seems to be a lot of cool stuff for you. If you have comments about it, uh definitely let us know. Um, the other thing that I saw was building better forms, the fact that it would more integrate better with the Power Apps forms. So even as, as we said, the interface is changing, but these forms might change a little bit. But the fact that we're using forms and not just screen captures instead, that makes it a little bit more robust and a little bit more solid as well. Yeah, a lot of interesting things in terms of power automate. But yeah, desktop flows and process mining seem to got a lot of love in this particular release wave.

Ulrikke 35:32

Yeah, really does. I also saw the this is a small thing, the view property value expanded in line in the new Cloudflow designer. And then you designer you talked about. I think that's something that's gonna save us a lot of time just because it's uh something you always do when you set a flow app. It's uh it's just a small thing. And I can it just I think I brought it up just to kind of uh exemplify the highs and the lows or the bigs and the smalls. Like this release wave, usually we usually there's a bit a bit of a difference between the areas. Some of them focus on really big things and small, few but big things, and then other areas sort of focus on really small details. And usually when we have Power BI in here, usually Power BI would be the one that had so many, like 20 small little detail things. But I think this time it's been more even, evenly distributed. But these small little things like this is can have a lot of impact, but then usually it'll get a lot of attention. So I think that's cool. So that's for cloud flows. But something that stood out for me for desktop flows is the ability to schedule desktop flows directly. Yeah. So before what you had to do is you had to create a cloud flow that would trigger a desktop flow to kind of have that schedule. But now, not even can not only can you then schedule the flow directly, but you also get something called the um the unified schedules list and automation center, which gives you an overview of all the scheduled flows that you have, and you'll kind of be able to see because that's always also an issue, right? To keep track of which flows are firing and whether they're firing. And then you have the if you have it in production, then you also have the maintenance window, and you need to make sure that things don't cross with Microsoft's maintenance stuff and your LM pipeline thing, and then you have the flows running, and when were they running again and what were they triggering, and then you have the FNO sync, and then so just having a place to kind of see all your docs in a row and kind of get a bit of an overview. It was gonna be awesome. And and then also I saw something for process mining, which I wanted to talk about. And this was the enable process intelligence studio, an object-centric process mining. It's uh public preview in April and it's gonna be GA by June. And it talks about a new process intelligence studio that eliminates friction between your questions and your answers. So kind of having that unified, more broader, cohesive way of looking at the process mining across your whole ecosystem or the whole Microsoft ecosystem is going to be very powerful. And this is something I'm really keen on looking more into because this is we haven't been diving too much into process mining. And to me, it's kind of like either you do that and you just do that and not a lot of other things, or it's kind of a little bit of a black box. And it sounds, and when I've looked, I've I've been to sessions where I've seen people um demo this and it looks almost magical to me. But what I've also heard is people can abuse that and or or try to use it and then kind of come to this point where they go, okay, it becomes almost too big. Yeah, you can see or what kind of because what it will do is it'll showcase kind of where you have bottlenecks, where your processes aren't working, maybe there's a bit of a and also in Norway we have a very strong protection of workers, and so you can't really you're not allowed to go in and say, Well, Trina's not doing a good job. Every time a case comes, goes through Tina, it's this happens, or because you need to be more anonymized and generalized than that. So that also kind of puts it a bit of a damper on things, but it is a very powerful, powerful tool, and you can look at it from a very cohesive way and you can bring fabric and maybe the IQ stack into this as well, and so it's gonna open up to see your whole system more holistically, which is really cool. So um, yeah, excited to see what that brings to the table.

Nick 39:28

Yeah, nice.

Copilot Studio MCP Servers Expand Agents

Ulrikke 39:29

Yeah. So next one, uh, so we have copilot studio and dataverse uh left to go. So for Markso Copilet Studio, the highlights of the focus areas are they're focusing on making it easier to create and operate agents. It's the kind of interplay and collaboration between Mark So365 co-pilot or agent builder.

Nick 39:53

Yeah.

Ulrikke 39:55

And Cold Play Studio this week is I know I'm just thinking before I speak. It's anything I've started to do. Um so the the interplay between them, the collaboration between them is getting tighter. Uh, and also high value, get high value out of the out-of-the-box actions in workflows with big W. I think I'm missing something. But okay, let's uh that what what was your favorite thing?

Live Workshop Promo And Discount Code

Nick 40:18

Um, I think uh just a lot of the enhancements on um the like about the MCP servers. That was, I mean, of course, that is just gonna open up a whole realm of opportunities for building agents and things like that. Like just the fact like MCP servers, just again, one of these other things that sort of came out of the blue last year. Like, okay, what is it and what does it do? And then once you start actually using it, you're like, wow, this is so cool. You don't have to mess around with like the APIs and things like that, like just talking to the MCP server, understanding what the commands are, understanding what your MCP server can do, but then tying that into your agents. And basically say connect any agent to any external data with custom MCP servers. That was the one that kind of really jumped out at me. There's a lot of definitely a lot of interesting things in here. And Alika, I wonder if I wanted to learn about how to build agents in Copilot Studio, what do you think I should do?

Ulrikke 41:12

If I were you, what I would do is I would actually sign up for Color Cloud in Hamburg in April, and I would go to workshop with two clowns that know how to make copilot agents and have them teach me how to create my agent.

Nick 41:29

Oh, that's great. Wow, that's really cool. Is there any way I could get a discount for that?

Ulrikke 41:37

I don't know. Is there?

Nick 41:38

You could use color boost to get a discount.

SPEAKER_01 41:41

But I think it's Yeah, you can use color boost. We're such bad at self-promotion. But yeah, yeah. Anyways, I thought I would just throw that in as we're talking here.

Evaluating Agents And User Credentials

Ulrikke 41:52

I love it. Uh the promotion with the feels like a real podcast now. It does. Yeah. Oh, I like it. So yeah, but actually a little less true. And and actually in that, so we're gonna go through the recruit part of the agent academy curriculum, the course, which will teach you both how to do um Marks of 365 Co-Pilot or using AI Builder to create a declarative agent and also create one from Co-Pilot Studio. So this is gonna tie you when you're done with that workshop with us, you're gonna be able to see uh both sides of this, and then also now you can work with them together. Yeah, I agree. The connect to any agent to connect any agent to any external data with MCP servers is gonna be public preview in March and it's gonna be general availability in April. So by the time we do color cloud, maybe it's shown up already. Yeah, um, so what stood out for me was the evaluate agents for uh Microsoft 365 Call Palette in Copa de Studio. Yeah. So this is the agent builder declarative agent, the one you create through a Microsoft 365. You can bring that into Copa de Studio and also referred to as declarative agents. And there's a very comprehensive evaluation framework tailored for these kinds of agents as you bring them in. And this to me speaks to the fusion team story, which we've had with with this platform for a while. The idea that any employee in your organization can go in through their own Marks of 365s and then create their own agent. But that is for them in in their context, and you can't really share it with anyone, and it has a limited amount of um knowledge sources it can create or connect to and and it's there's a limit. Now you can bring that into Copilot Studio and you can bring that into your development team, and then can they can evaluate it and they can also help you extend it, which is the next thing. You can now extend those Copilots, those agents to be Copilot Studio agents in what you could you they'll get more uh knowledge sources available, you know. To more uh with more tooling. Um, so there's there's more you can do. And this uh will be public. So the evaluate agents for Mark Str's by Co-Pilot in Copilot Studio will be public preview in July 2026. There's no GA date for it, unfortunately. And then yes, well, it always makes me a bit yeah.

Nick 44:26

And also, if I can what no no no, no, I I agree with you that if there's no GA dates, I'm like, okay, what is I think because we've seen in the past that there's no GA dates, it just it stays in perpetual preview forever. We've seen that in a few other features. Anybody? But so like they so, anyways, but yeah, there's there's things like that. The other the other thing as you're looking for that, the other thing that stood out for me was the grouping files with the instructions to guide agent answers. They gave a really good example in the release, the release plan, at least the vert the copy that we got. The it's funny because as I'm traveling and all sorts of weirdness is going on, they talked about you know using that particular feature for guiding agent answers. So if you happen to be flying in business class or something, the luggage rules are going to be slightly different for someone flying in economy. And so this is where they can begin to group the instructions based on where people are coming from and some of the context. Yeah, kind of go through the same motions, but kind of pull in different knowledge sources and grouping those, the the source file, the knowledge materials they're doing. So that was I think that's pretty and you know, beginning to get the getting your agents be able to configure them for different scenarios, but kind of begin to work with different knowledge sources around that, but it's the same process. So that I found pretty interesting as well. I haven't actually used it yet, but definitely some some neat things with that.

Ulrikke 45:47

Yeah. Yeah. And also I saw because this is something that uh Louise Fries talked about a little while ago, didn't she? And because this was public preview in 2025, uh, but this is now GA in May 2026. So um I think the the big news is that it's gonna be GA soon. But it's been a long time coming for that as well. And another thing that caught my eye was the you that you can now configure triggers with end user credentials. It's gonna be public preview in March and GA in May. And so you can now manage trigger natively with Copeland Studio and securely share autonomous agents that will run with end user credentials, which is something we've been able to do with Power Automate for a while. But now we can do it with a Copal Studio agents as well, which I which I know it's gonna be very handy. So it has to do with the connection, the connection references and and all how that works. But it's then gonna be able to trigger the end user and for them to authenticate and for it to run with that context into the action that it needs to do. And that was actually also listed with the with the geographies, and almost all of the geographies have that as March 2026, which is very good, except for the US uh government the government clouds stuff. Yeah.

Nick 47:05

Yeah. Yeah, that's always a thing. You do a presentation, and especially you do a presentation in North America in the US, it's like, is this gonna be available for GCC?

Ulrikke 47:14

Like no.

Nick 47:15

Nope. Not yet.

Ulrikke 47:17

Uh let's move on to Dataverse, which is the last one. So focus area for Dataverse is Dataverse and Work IQ. So if you remember uh night in November, they uh really announced the uh frontier framework and the work IQ, the foundry IQ and a fabric IQ. Uh and now you will have your business data natively integrated into Microsoft 365 co-pilot experiences, and then you'll have that kind of um link between Dataverse and Data Work IQ, which is uh phenomenal, which has been kind of Microsoft's 365 or M365 area kind of up until now. And then also agent programmically programmability and extensibility. So you have work IQ APIs and MCP servers of that developers can configure, extend, and integrate with business agents. And then you have storage management with data hub, storage advisory, yeah, etc. So anything here that kind of stood out for you that you wanted to highlight?

Nick 48:23

There wasn't. I mean, Dataverse has been one of those things. It is like the foundation of the Power Platform. It's it's you know, it's built on like 25 years of evolution. Um, and that's not a bad thing. It's it's that robust data storage. Yeah, but little things like monaging, monitoring the data management framework, like you said, with storage. Um that's always something that people are trying to figure out. Um so better tools around that's always good. Uh, of course, the MCP servers, the Dataverse MCP server, it's an amazing thing to work with that. I've been using that a little bit in my own software development. Of course, that getting that enhanced and continue on is cool. Interesting thing about we talked about this, I think probably a year ago. The ability to restore deleted records will be GA. So if you've been waiting to restore your deleted records, you finally, in a supported way, it's finally gonna be GA. Hopefully, it didn't go beyond that um the limits. I think that you can set up to a 30-day retention period in the back end if you need to restore records. I mean, it happens. I've had it happens with customers, they call in a panic, we lost data. And you have to kind of figure out your way around that. Yeah, so that that's that's um that's definitely coming. Yeah, but yeah, there's not like Dataverse didn't have like you know the pages and pages that it's you know, that we've seen with some of the other the other features. Um and then I do want to go ahead.

Ulrikke 49:42

No, no, yeah, because I because I did before you were just you're in the bomb. I just saw that you can now create and and you know, I I don't know a whole lot about this, but the way I read this is so you have monitor data management framework with Azure and Monitor and Application Insights for finance and operations, which I'm yeah. So I would just well I just wanted to touch on that bit before we m moved on, because if this means you haven't been able to connect finance and operations to application insights before, then now you can. And if that's the case, then wow, that's huge and very beneficial because then because of the the data is so connected. If you haven't before been able to see the data flow and monitor it across the different Dataverse and finance and operations, then now you can't, which is huge. And it's gonna be a public preview in March and January available in June. So I just wanted to mention that before we move to that.

Nick 50:38

Yeah, yeah, you see more and more of that that continuing emerging. Oh, I think I mean you gotta look at it historically. Finance and operations comes from Xapta, which had its own data storage, and more and more they've been trying to integrate that with Dataverse because as we work with the Power Platform, these systems are more to be interoperable, interoperable. We've worked on projects where dual write was a factor, and we always know that it that presents itself with a whole set of challenges and sometimes issues you have to work through with the dual write processes, but just to see again more and more of that merging. Hopefully that's gonna make again things work smoother and easier and a much more robust platform for for end customers that happen to be using both Dataverse for power apps or other things and finance and operations.

ALM With GitHub And Pipelines

Ulrikke 51:22

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there is another one. Did you have anything more for Dataverse specifically?

Nick 51:29

Not specifically for Dataverse, but I did want to touch on the fact that there is a section on governance and ALM because there's a couple things on ALM that I wanted to touch on specifically about to be able to deploy from Git with pipelines. That's pretty interesting. And then the fact that uh there's going to be GitHub support for source code integration. That's something currently you have to use. You use now, remember Git and GitHub. GitHub is like an online source, like it's like Azure DevOps. Microsoft does have a stake in that. Git is the sort of language, so sometimes it gets a little bit muddled there. But to be able to use GitHub as your source control for your power platform solutions and projects uh as part of the the kind of the built-in Git integration. Let's try to make sure I get all these terminologies right.

Ulrikke 52:15

Because up until now you've had to use uh Azure DevOps repo as your container, but now you can actually use GitHub as your container instead of.

Nick 52:24

Right. Yes. So you can use yes, absolutely. Yes. And that's that's something I know I've had, yeah, I've had customers asking me before. Can we do that? And I knew I knew it was coming. So finally we see this in the release plan. That's really cool. But also the fact that we can deploy from Git with with Azure with pipelines, that's pretty exciting because that way we can finally get to that more proper ALM process. So we don't have to worry about, and I and I know we I still see this in projects and is dataverse, your dataverse developer instance should not be your source control. Yeah, I know it is for a lot of people. So this way, if you actually have your source control is in, you know, it's in Azure DevOps or it's in GitHub, and they'd be able to deploy from that with a pipeline to say and go through the process. We need to do right right now, a lot of times we need a new dev environment, that's great, but we need to go through a few steps. And yes, people have written scripts to do this, but there's still a few moving parts here. If we can kind of smooth that whole process where it's like, hey, I'm a developer, I need to set up set up a dev environment, we need to work on a new feature, but also this helps with the parallelism as well, where you can actually deploy bug fixes for your production while you're working on new features and parallel and be able to do the proper merging and all of that other stuff. So the ALM story, as I said before, over the last I think five years or so has gone from like hack together PowerShell scripts that you get from the community to something more and more robust each, I think each year and each relief release plan. Of course, co-pilots and AI and agents are sort of stealing the show, but these things happening in the background, um, and I know the team's been working on a lot of things. We we worked a lot with uh power platform pipelines last year. That has come a long way as well. So the whole ALM story in the Power Platform just keeps getting better and better. Not 100% perfect yet, but it's it's getting to where it's on par with doing any other kind of software development, which is really cool to see.

Ulrikke 54:28

Yeah, yeah. It means it if for me, this is like, well, pipelines grew up and it's now being gonna be able to play with kind of the Azure DevOps pipelines and also the other dev kind of grown-up fail-in tools a way that it hasn't been doing in the past. And I also think because this also means that you can now I I don't see it in I've been trying to reading through as you were speaking about if but this also means that you now be able to schedule it, for instance, right? So because that's been a big thing in the past. So maybe this also means you'll have access to triggers that can mean that you can now also schedule these deployments in a way which hasn't been accessible only been accessible through the UI up until this point. But if they've managed to to kind of now dam this and so you can now work with it alongside all the other tools, so maybe you'll be able to do that. I hope a fingers crossed. It's it's public preview. Did you say that? Uh public preview April uh 2026.

Nick 55:25

Yeah, but no general availability.

Ulrikke 55:27

No GA dates. So we're very hopeful and I would love to see this come into fulfillment. But yeah, um, we'll see.

Nick 55:36

And just again, shameless plug. If you if you want to learn about ALM in the power platform, and I think when this gets released, it's probably gonna be the last day you're gonna be able to sign up for it. So if you were to pick a couple of MVPs in our community that come to mind as soon as you say ALM, what are three names that come to your mind?

Ulrikke 55:57

You and Benedict Roman and Chris Huntingford, and I don't know, no, um, and Michael Roth.

Nick 56:05

Interesting. So yeah, you said Benedict Benedict for me, Parvez.

Ulrikke 56:08

Oh yeah.

Nick 56:10

Uh, and and Sean Asterkan. So those three are doing a workshop at the Canadian Power Platform Summit. Like I said, it with when we release this, that's gonna be in a day or two in Vancouver. We have a we've other workshops have been selling out. This one I think could sell out as well. So you might be able to sneak in, get a ticket, and you're gonna learn ALM and the power platform from the best in the world.

Ulrikke 56:32

Yeah. So let's see if they've had probably don't have anything on this specifically, but yeah, I know. It's uh that's gonna be well worth it. So make sure to check that out. And I'm gonna see you there, and I'm excited about it. It's gonna be so much fun. Right. So anything else? There's a lot of things in here. I mean, I think we could just done a whole episode on this on the governance and alien part because there's a lot of and also the the new usage page is mentioned again. Yeah. So discover and foster power platform adoption with the new usage page. It was public preview, it says on February 13th, which I thought I saw December there somewhere for the one of the other ones, but it's GA in June, which and has so many, so it's all about the metrics, and it it includes power apps, power automate, couple of the studio sessions, token usage, users. They it covers a lot of things, and I'm sure we haven't heard the last of this usage page, but of course it has to do with kind of keeping on top of what you're using. And as we know, with AI, usage goes up. You need to make sure you keep an eye on your credits or credentials or tokens or what it's called this week.

Nick 57:44

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so there's I mean, there's there's tons of stuff. Like I said, you're right. We could have we could have done a podcast on each separate thing, but I think our goal here is to give everybody a little bit of an overview, get excited about some of these new features coming up to unless there's anything other new, just to wrap things up. Do you want to talk a little bit about the deprecations before we uh wrap this up for the day?

Ulrikke 58:07

Yeah, I haven't really looked uh all that much into them. I must be honest, I didn't really get that far. So did you take them out?

Nick 58:13

No, but these are things that are um that are are published on Microsoft Learn. I think things that shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. There is a deprecation of the editable grid and the power apps read-only grid controls because there is a new grid control being with that. So that's being deprecated. Now, again, deprecated doesn't mean deleted in most cases. It basically means no longer being supported. No, it would be supported, but no longer being enhanced. So it still is usable. And if it's going to be deleted, they specifically have to say that. So we have deprecations for Canvas apps and for power pages and for the power platform in general. Again, oh real big surprises here. Things like the old other things that were sort of things that don't even matter anymore, like the old Power Apps Portal Studio, if you remember that. That's officially now gone. And basically creating sites directly from Power Apps, I think that's already been gone for a couple years now. And yeah, so little things like that. So again, just it's always good to keep an eye on the deprecations. But like I said, there's nothing huge, there's nothing that people are going to be screaming in the streets about. So yeah, just again, this is always a good time to be a reminder. If you're a system admin or a power user, just go to those deprecations page just in case there's something that you're planning on using or planning or you have reusing that again, it's not might necessarily doesn't mean it's going away. It's just not going to be enhanced. So if you're if you're waiting for the co-pilot for business rules in that old interface, you know that that won't happen. So things like that.

Ulrikke 59:48

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, it's it's uh smart to keep an eye on the deprecation of create an app from Figma file, for instance, which uh I'm happy to see going away. And yeah, these are dated as well. So make sure you kind of keep up on track of both the things you're working on, but also kind of the the dates for when that's gonna happen. And it's also one of the the co-pilot for Mark so 365, uh sorry, model-riven apps for environments that don't have the biz apps, for instance, is gonna be replaced with something. That's a preview feature, and it was never a DA because by the time they kind of got that far, it's gonna be more of a unified interface where you have this one kind of side panel kind of unified experience, and then you won't be able to add that in. So something that was preview that never kind of came to fulfillment because by the time it was replaced with something else. So if you're using that, then you know that also something you need to kind of keep an eye on. Right, very good. So anything else you wanted to touch on before we uh leave people to kind of dive through this uh long hundred pages long thing?

Nick 1:00:47

130 pages. That's the the copy weed has 130 pages. I don't see that changing for the final version. Um, I think we touched on a lot of the highlights that stood out for us. I think uh if you want to get a good full comprehensive, I would say, you know, take take a read, read through it, check out the things, check out the areas that you're specifically working on, and hopefully what we've highlighted too helps you out if you just to give you a kind of brief summary. Uh these are I think these are always really cool episodes for us because this is for us like we get excited about these new things coming out as well, but sometimes there's just so much coming out. It's like, okay, wait a minute, have I heard about this before? Or what I find too is like, okay, I've heard about this, but was that under NDA, or were we were we not allowed to talk about it up until this point? So certain things like I mean, even the like the power pages, the merging of the contacts and users. I tried that last fall. I played around with it, but of course, that was at that point still under NDA as they're evolving it. So it's kind of cool to see some of these things kind of pop up into the you know to the public and people can begin to try them out. It just yeah, a lot of cool stuff. Never, never a shortage of new things to be learning. I am learning new things every week, and this is what makes this job so exciting.

Ulrikke 1:01:58

Yeah, yeah, for me as well. It's a bit hard to keep up with it every now. Well, I'll let me keep up with it all, but that's why we're here. So uh we try to keep up with things so that you guys can focus on your day job and then listen to us rant and talk and ramble about stuff and keep you up to date. And we'll continue to do that next week.

Nick 1:02:17

Yeah, and I will see you in person this uh this Friday, I think.

Ulrikke 1:02:21

I know, yeah. Isn't it crazy? Wait, I know to Canada for CPPS.

Nick 1:02:27

If I if I get out of here, which I hopefully will, all things considered, all green lights. So get home, do a load of laundry, and hop on a plane and get to Vancouver. So repacking. Yeah, so if you're yeah, so when you do hear this, if you are the Vancouver area, uh like you said, we are so oh yeah, I mean, we are sold out for our regular uh sessions. So if you have your ticket, we'll see you there. If you don't and you desperately want to go, sneaky the backdoor way to get in at this point is we still have some room and a few workshops. The workshops do come with a ticket to the main event, and there's some amazing workshops. Like I said, the ALM workshop on career and certification, and also I think creating um the the amazing the beautiful apps, um Catherine and Joe. There's still a few seats available. I need to check this morning, but they were on the verge of going over that point where we're shutting them down. Lisa Dion's co-pilot session, it did sell out completely. They are sold out. Thanks to the community for all your support for this event. We're really looking forward to it. The organizers, we've been working in the background to make this, I think, the trying to bring that vibe of those European events like Nordic Summit and Talon and Color Cloud, trying to bring that vibe into Canada, and but of course, have our own flavor and uh uh around that as well. So literally, I'm I'm super excited for this year. We, you know, we always kind of lead up to it like, oh, we're never gonna do this again. And then of course we do it like, oh yeah, of course we're doing this again next year.

Ulrikke 1:03:54

So the number of times we had that conversation, Nick. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nick 1:03:59

Yeah.

Ulrikke 1:04:00

I'm gonna make you put money down soon to to profit from it. I'm gonna be part of the volunteering group, and hopefully I'm gonna be at the door greeting everyone, giving you your card, your lineard, and all your stuff when you get there. So I'm really excited to see everyone. It's gonna be awesome. And I expect nothing more than to Vancouver to show up like it has for the the last time I was there, which is bright sun and spring feeling, and just yeah, getting my sunglasses out and everything. Yeah, yeah. You did sort that out, didn't you?

Nick 1:04:28

Well, yeah, the problem is if it gets sunny, then people might not show up. Like a bit of rain, then people will come. So it's Vancouver, it's probably gonna rain, but as long as it's not snowing.

Ulrikke 1:04:39

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's okay, yeah, yeah. All right, so safe travels home. Hope you get home. Hope you're you're not delayed anymore, and then I'll catch you later. Bye bye, everyone. Right. Thanks for listening. And if you like this episode, please make sure to share it with your friends and colleagues in the community. Make sure to leave a rating and review of your favorite streaming service and makes it easier for others to find us. Follow us on the social media platforms and make sure you don't miss an episode. Thanks for listening to the Par Platform Boost Podcast with your hosts, Ulrika Ackerbeck and Nick Dolman, and see you next time for your timely boost of Par Platform News.