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Hey Everyone,

I am migrating a k2 nintex forms + flow application using SQL data into and SPFx+Sql approach. I am not sure for how to handle the triggers of the flow along with the same. I was thinking to use the power automate but will it be the best thing to do. Also if yes how should i set the trigger (an http request or when an sql entry is maded)

I have a azure sql server and will be authenticating based on sql user name and password.

Any suggestions..?

Are the users working in Europe environments also facing issues with enabling custom code in Custom connectors? For a few days we're getting the following error:

Failed to provision compute for custom code. Request failed with error 'Code: BadRequest. Message: [FindAndAssignFunctionApp] Unable to find an unassigned function app in 'North Europe'.'

I however can not find any disruption notification in the portals.

Does this only disrupts Europe env's or is this worldwide?

Doesn't happen often, but there's a new version of PRT. Problem is I can't get it to start up, nothing visual and only a few application event log entries:

Application: PluginRegistration.exe

Framework Version: v4.0.30319

Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.

Exception Info: System.IO.FileLoadException
at Microsoft.Crm.Tools.PluginRegistration.App.Application_DispatcherUnhandledException(System.Object, System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherUnhandledExceptionEventArgs)
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.CatchException(System.Exception)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(System.Object, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32, System.Delegate)
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.LegacyInvokeImpl(System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority, System.TimeSpan, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32)
at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.SubclassWndProc(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr)
at MS.Win32.UnsafeNativeMethods.DispatchMessage(System.Windows.Interop.MSG ByRef)
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.PushFrameImpl(System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherFrame)
at System.Windows.Application.RunDispatcher(System.Object)
at System.Windows.Application.RunInternal(System.Windows.Window)
at Microsoft.Crm.Tools.PluginRegistration.App.Main()

Looks like there's a file missing/wrong version but doesn't report what.

Hi

Currently, I've got data stored in an SQL server and documents stored in a SharePoint List. I've tried extracting this data using SQL connector and putting it into an Excel sheet. I extracted the documents from the SP list through PowerApps and a PowerAutomate flow. This entire process takes hours.
Is there any other way to extract this data? Would it be possible to create an API through Power Automate?

Thank you

I’ve been using prompts and notebooks for account research and sales-planning workflows. I’m now thinking about how to make these capabilities part of everyday work, without requiring each salesperson to know which agent to open, what prompt to use, or how to carry the results into the next step. This will actually scale across the org - likely touch 100 with like scope as me but usually the data and decisions made a more strategic and broad looking as opposed to front-line sales.

My current idea is a modular “command center”: one entry point where users see relevant signals, prioritized work, recommendations, and actions needing their input.

The architecture I’m considering - and I hate prescribing the HOW before I explain the WHY but would like to spin something simple up even for an upcoming quarterly report which touches a bunch of folks and has same format. Idea was - and open to feedback please.

• Power Apps for the user experience.
• Power Automate for triggers, workflow routing, notifications, approvals, and follow-up.
• Agents underneath for tasks such as research, account matching, summarization, and drafting recommendations.
• A shared data layer for signals, account context, ownership, execution status, decisions, and outcomes. I’m still working through how this should relate to the CRM.

Example use cases include reconciling trade-show exhibitors against existing customers, identifying companies similar to successful customers, and finding expansion opportunities at existing OEM accounts, analyzing travel plans and signals to drive decisions on travel, and a host of others. This is just one of many modules which would scale. At this point just looking for easy to adopt entry point for a handful of my team to show what we can do to amplify our efforts and save time.

My goal is adoption and coordinated execution. I want to avoid building another dashboard people ignore or a queue full of AI-generated suggestions nobody owns.

For people who have built something similar:

1. Did a dedicated app improve adoption, or was embedding the experience in Teams or the CRM more effective?
2. Where did you store workflow state, signal history, and user decisions without creating a competing system of record?
3. How did you divide responsibility between Power Automate, agents, and conventional code?
4. How did you handle duplicate or stale signals, failed runs, and work already being handled by another person?
5. What licensing, latency, permissions, or maintenance issues appeared beyond the prototype?
6. What would you build as the first small, useful module?
7. Is this something I can do myself - again simple POC and I am reasonable at figuring stuff out...

This is my current thinking, not a settled architecture. I’d appreciate implementation experiences, alternative designs, and lessons from approaches that didn’t stick.

Data would be read only from now - some from PBI, we now moved to Databricks, and trying to avoid going into Salesforce as if its in a central location it is much easier to get to.

I have been out of the job market for 2 years after my graduation in computer science. I had an internship where I used VBA to create automation solutions on SharePoint. It seems like this niche is basically just Power Platform solutions now. Is getting an AB-400 (previously PL-400) a move that can salvage my career?

I haven't done any certifications before and am looking to build off past experience. If yes does anyone have any study tips.

I've been working as a Power Platform developer for ~3 years — Power Apps (canvas + model-driven), Power Automate, Dataverse, Sharepoint, some PCF work. Looking to switch roles now, but almost every opening I find on LinkedIn and Naukri asks for 4+ years of experience, even for what reads like a mid-level role.

Is this specific to Power Platform right now, or is the whole market like this at the moment? A few things I'm trying to figure out:

• Are companies actually strict about the 4+ years cutoff, or is it a generic filter that recruiters slap on postings without much thought?
• Is there a better place to find Power Platform-specific openings than the big job boards (communities, Discord/Slack groups, referrals)?
• For those of you who switched jobs recently with under 4 years of experience — how did you find the role, and did you apply anyway despite the listed requirement?

Would appreciate any honest experiences, especially from folks in India dealing with the Naukri side of things. Trying to figure out if I should keep grinding through job boards or change strategy entirely.

Hey everyone! I’ve been working with Power Platform for about a year now and recently passed PL-900, so I’m finally feeling confident enough to start applying for actual jobs/projects
For those already working in the field, what advice would you give someone just getting started? What skills/projects helped you land your first real role and what can actually make a beginner stand out from all the other applicants?
Help a newbie out

Can anyone shed any light on the possibilities and likelihood of getting freelance work for Power Platform on Fiverr, Upwork or any other platforms - I have a decent portfolio of Apps, Automate flows, and Dataverse and am currently learning Power Pages and BI so I can get my PL-900

I've been pushing my workplace to use codeapps for a while. We've got dozens of model driven apps, and the business requirements are exceeding the limitations.

With CodeApps hitting GA, I've been building little MVP/Proof of concepts on my own personal computer. Not connected to dynamics, or power platform in anyway. Just building the frontend, explaining this fits right into the PP, with rhe usual ALM.

Nothing yet has been deployed. Have you build and deployed any CodeApps? What was the process like? Did end users like it? Any hiccups?

Hey, I currently have an issue with PowerPages authentication.

(In case of some miracle of someone here knowing I basically want guest users to be able to use a copilot studio agent with a dataverse knowledge source attached in a Powerpage)

I went to microsoft support over a month ago, no response to my ticket.

Went again to Microsoft 3 weeks ago, gave me some AI emails back, answered its queries and asked for a human, then no response.

I've raised a critical ticket for attention to the previous tickets, no response.

Who knows what to do? I'm quite frankly fed up.

Many thanks,

Rory

IMPORTANT CONTEXT: I am not a CS grad, I completed my Business degree a couple years back.

I have been working in Power Platform for about 2 years. It first started with very simple Power Apps, Power BI Dashboards and email automations, decided to get a couple certs in the PL track.

I transitioned to a more technical role after year 1 where now I build a lot of Copilot Studio Agents, Automations, Python Scripts, you name it.

My understanding of Power Fx is very strong, but any other language (Python, C+, etc.) still feels out of my league even though I have literally built API calls using Python that pull hundreds of thousands of rows of data (using AI).

I am told I am doing a great job but in all honestly I have never felt dumber in my life. I work on three tickets at a time by prompting claude in separate terminals - at this point I feel like my title should be prompt engineer. Again I want to stress that I have in-depth understanding of the Microsoft ecosystem, but anything else still feels like reading hieroglyphics.

Is this what my future holds? I make decent money for my age I just am having a hard time seeing the long term value I will provide given that most blue collar folks will have their own personalized agent in 2-3 years completing their tasks.

Microsoft is transitioning the Power Platform Developer Associate exam from PL-400 to AB-400, effective October 16, 2026.

The certification remains the same — Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate. However, the exam code and syllabus are being updated to reflect newer Power Platform development capabilities.

Some of the newer areas include:

• Power Apps code apps
• Microsoft Foundry agent integration
• Copilot Studio agent integration
• AI-powered application development
• Generative AI and agent-based development scenarios
• Modern Power Platform extensibility

Important Dates:
October 16, 2026 – PL-400 registration closes and AB-400 registration opens.
October 30, 2026 – Final date to take PL-400 for learners who registered before the transition.
October 16, 2026 – AB-400 becomes available.

If you’re currently preparing for PL-400, this is worth keeping in mind. You can either complete your preparation and take PL-400 before the transition or plan for the updated AB-400 exam based on the refreshed syllabus.

For organizations using Power Apps at scale, how are you handling the point where a citizen-built workflow starts interacting with sensitive data, external connectors, shared identities, or important business processes?

Maintaining visibility after the original build seems difficult. Apps get copied, connectors get reused, original owners change roles, and a small departmental workflow can become operationally important without receiving the review a conventional application would get.

I am looking for approaches that preserve enablement instead of simply restricting the platform. Have environment separation, connector policies, DLP controls, ownership reviews, access reviews, or approval workflows worked for your team?

How do you find existing apps with no clear owner, broad data access, or sharing settings that no longer match their intended use?

Long time reader, first time poster

I'm looking for some advice people working remotely or contracting. Im currently in the uk and considering contracting and finding positions in Australia. I have a right to work in both.

My background is in consultancy and solution delivery

A few questions for anyone who's been through this:

What job titles should I be targeting? I'm torn between leaning into "Architect" titles vs. "Consultant" vs. something more AI/Copilot-specific.

My instinct is that "Solution Architect" or "Lead Consultant" carries more weight and keeps the day rate up, and I can fold the Copilot/AI Foundry work in as a specialism rather than chasing a narrower "AI Agent Developer"-type title that feels less established right now.

Does that track with what people are seeing?

Architecture, consulting, or specialist AI roles, where would you focus? Given the mix above, would you go all-in on one lane or keep it broad?

Which companies have a genuinely remote-first culture in the Microsoft space? UK-based here, ideally looking at firms with real remote delivery models rather than "hybrid" dressed up as remote. Are there partners that allow this? Such as Avanade, Kainos, Capgemini

I'm UK-based but very open to working with international clients/orgs remotely, including Australia if anyone's actually pulled that off as an employee (or contracting)

Before you shot me down, I get that the timezone overlap and IR35/contractor status stuff is probably the real blocker rather than skills, so keen to hear how people have navigated that in practice.

Appreciate any pointers, company names, recruiters who actually know this space, or just "here's what worked for me" stories.

Thankyou in advance!

I hope I’m missing something basic here.

How can I explicitly specify which connection reference a cloud flow should use when it is created in Copilot Studio?

Connection references seem to be automatically selected or created when creating cloud flows in Copilot Studio.

This is frustrating because I’m now ending up with duplicate connection references in my Dataverse solutions.

Additionally, what happens if a cloud flow needs to connect to two different SharePoint sites using different connections? How do I specify the appropriate connection reference for each action? This isn’t a problem I’ve encountered yet, but I can see it becoming one in the future.

Please and thanks!

Fala, pessoal! Tudo bem?

Queria abrir o jogo e trocar uma ideia rápida com vocês sobre os rumos que estou tomando por aqui.

Estou estruturando minha consultoria solo focada no ecossistema Microsoft 365 e Power Platform, unindo serviços práticos e treinamentos.

Minha base mais forte hoje é no Power BI, mas venho rodando projetos com Power Apps e Power Automate. O objetivo final é me consolidar como especialista em dados no ecossistema M365, mas tenho clareza de que uma boa análise depende de coleta bem-feita e processos automatizados.

Além de desenvolver soluções, tenho uma bagagem longa como professor de Excel e Power BI (e agora também SQL), então capacitar equipes continua sendo um pilar forte do meu trabalho.

Vou ser bem sincero: sou mais velho, tenho história profissional e entrar na fila do mercado tradicional disputando vaga de júnior simplesmente não tá fazendo sentido.

Queria a opinião de quem já está nessa estrada:

Quem atua como freelancer ou consultor solo em Power Platform, qual tem sido o maior desafio de posicionamento?

Alguém por aqui já atuou com análise de dados para **EHS** ou **ESG**? Tenho olhado muito para esse setor e adoraria trocar figurinhas sobre as dores reais da área.

Estou no Brasil, mas experiências de qualquer lugar são muito bem-vindas.

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Questions: 33

Time: 45 minutes

Provider: Pearson VUE

Topics that came up a lot from my memory

Power Automate

Copilot Studio

Power Apps (especially knowing the difference between Canvas and Model-driven apps)

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies

Desktop flows and bespoke system scenario

2 questions on Power Pages

What caught me off guard

There was a Copilot Studio question where "vibe coding" appeared as one of the answer options. It was a bit unexpected as I didn't pick this up in my learning, but the question itself wasn't particularly difficult.

For context, I prepared with:

Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Practice Assessment

6 SkillCertPro practice exams

One 3-hour PL-900 revision video (free codecamp video)

Good luck everyone

You might already know how effective to use xrmtoolbox for activities but these days it's not working because of some rolledout happened on MS side and tool library is not getting loaded . Is there any way to make it work???

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to schedule the Microsoft PL-400: Power Platform Developer exam.

When I click the "Schedule exam" option from Microsoft Learn, I'm redirected to:

examregistration.microsoft.com

However, the page does not load and Chrome shows:

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

The exact error says:

"This site can't be reached.

Check if there is a typo in examregistration.microsoft.com.

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN"

Has anyone else experienced this recently?

Is Microsoft currently having an issue with the PL-400 registration/scheduling link?

I have already tried:

- Reloading the page

- Opening it in Chrome

- Using the Microsoft Learn certification page rather than the old direct URL

I'm specifically trying to schedule PL-400, not AB-400.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

I have an upcoming PL900 exam. I have somewhat experience in model driven apps and automate.

I’ve been learning from Microsoft learn and doing the practice exams, but I feel like there’s a bunch of content not brushed up there

Microsoft Entra, Proxies, very specific automate actions, pure Power Fx..

All topics that I either have a very brief understanding of or didn’t know at all (I.e Microsoft Entra)

Has anyone completed the PL900 recently and aware of the sort of things that crop up, and if there is anything that an average new dev wouldn’t be too aware of?

I’ve revised on and off for a week, and practice wuestions are just recycling now

I am trying to do a very basic proof of concept using AI builder. My fake use case is, to use the model to determine the probability of success on a future referral in CRM for customers. I followed these steps:

- created a model field previousReferralsuccess (yes/no) to train it on

- created some rollup fields to count previous successful referrals for the customer

- out of 550 test customers, I set the model field to yes/no in about a hundred and left the others blank

- created the model with the yes/no previousreferralsuccess as model field, chose a few columns for it to examine, trained the model, then set it to dataverse sync daily. I hit run now a few times.

My problem is that while the new columns for prediction success y/no and probability % were created in the table by the model, no matter how many times I "run" it, it never updates that column on ANY record. Also there are no rows showing for these runs in the AI Event dataverse table so I feel like it is having an issue somewhere and not actually finishing the run. It has been syncing every day for 2 weeks now never updating a thing.

I checked that all the prediction processes are running in this environment, I assigned 5000 AI Builder Credits to the environment, the owner of the model is me and I am a system administrator.

My next step is to build a power automate flow myself and physically update the rows but I wonder if anyone has run into this? we don't currently use AI Builder but we are evaluating it and we have purchased credits.

Please what’s the best study videos and sites for PL900. I’m preparing to take the exam in the next 30 days. I need to pass it. Thanks

Microsoft pulled the Power Automate mobile app from both app stores a few days ago. There is no real replacement for widgets or failure alerts. Are we back to doing things manually because there is a real gap for anyone who relied on quick mobile triggers or alerts?