If you are someone like me who utilises their M365 E5 Developer Tenant to learn, work on personal projects and so on, you may have been concerned, and rightly so, that Microsoft is discontinuing and eventually deleting unmanaged developer environments. What is changing for unmanaged developer environments The change comes from Microsoft’s deprecation notice for
A Power Automate flow description tells you what the flow is for. It does not tell you why the third action runs after every status, or why a lookup is bound by code instead of by GUID. Those answers usually live in the head of whoever built it, which is a poor place to keep
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Awaab’s Law measures damp and mould deadlines in working days. Ten working days to investigate, another five to make safe, three more for the written summary. Dataverse calculated columns cannot do working-day arithmetic, so none of those deadlines can be worked out until the platform knows which days do not count. That is why the
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GUIDs are great until they are not. A GUID gives every record a unique reference that is never duplicated, and it lets us find one specific record among hundreds of thousands. But there is a scenario where relying on one will catch you out. Imagine this. You’re developing a solution in a development environment. You
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I recently came across a guide from Nick Doelman about putting the Power Apps Maker Portal in the cupboard and bringing out Visual Studio Code and Claude Code instead. As someone who’s always looking for ways to improve how I work with the Power Platform — and, honestly, someone who likes exploring new ways of
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I’ve been playing around with the new Copilot Studio experience recently, after it’s had a facelift! I created an agent for my Power Pages site, BuyerHub, with the purpose of providing guidance, answering questions, and logging any complaints or queries buyers have about their orders. The first version of the agent worked, but not the
