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How to convert UTC into Your Local Timezone in Canvas Apps
One of the technical challenges we have in the UK is that for half of the year we are in the UTC time zone that we’re all familiar with, and the other half we’re in British Summer Time (BST). Those lucky few that keep the same time zone all year… Continue reading…
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Modify An Owner’s Connection References in Power Automate
No matter how amazing an organisation may be, unfortunately there will always be the possibility of someone leaving the organisation. When it comes to Power Automate, this means that you can be stuck with the original Owner of the Cloud Flow having left the organisation, where Connection References eventually error,… Continue reading…
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Find & Use Microsoft To Do For Your Personal Account in Power Automate
Way before Microsoft had a fully-fledged Outlook and Microsoft To Do app for iOS and Android, there were two apps that tightly integrated with each other to form an absolute machine in productivity – Sunrise and Wunderlist. Tasks would show as ‘All Day’ items at the top of your calendar,… Continue reading…
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Delegation in Canvas Apps
A couple of weeks ago I found an empty slot in my diary, and I (dangerously) thought “I know, I’ll brush up on my Canvas app skills!”. In my role I find myself looking across multiple Dynamics 365 apps, Excel spreadsheets, and Power BI reports daily, and I set myself… Continue reading…
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Quickly Enable Migrated Power Apps Portal & Power Pages Configuration
Microsoft’s documentation goes to great lengths in order to explain how we can migrate Power Apps Portal data from one environment to another by using the Configuration Migration Tool, but it doesn’t quite go as far as explaining how to re-point the already-provisioned portal to your newly migrated data upon… Continue reading…
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Translating Unknowns into Tangible Requirements
For me, the most exciting part of a project is the challenge of figuring out exactly what a client is asking for based on a very short brief provided in an introductory call. This challenge is increased in my industry when you move from Dynamics 365 based projects to pure… Continue reading…
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What is Microsoft’s Accessibility Insights for Web?
One of my favourite things about consulting in Power Apps Portals is that I am able to step back in to the world of traditional web development temporarily, and I get to explore a whole host of tools to improve our solution. Visual improvement tools are cool, but helping ourselves… Continue reading…
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Expect Dataverse Deployments To Fail First Time
Whilst the process of deployment hasn’t changed too much since the days of Dynamics CRM, one thing that has changed significantly is the volume of possible components that can be included in a solution file. Not only is this due to an increase of readily-available functionality from Microsoft, but also… Continue reading…
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Welcome!
I’m Aaron, and this is my blog where I share all sorts of Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365 experiences. I am the Head of Power Platform at an organisation that specialises in change management & digital adoption, and absolutely love engaging with people with real productivity challenges.
The user’s perspective is at the heart of everything that I do, and whilst this blog may not be the most technical, you can guarantee that each outcome will result in an improved user experience.
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