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Highway to the danger zone: No testing of business apps
Business apps often look safe—but they’re not. Mocked data, manual testing, and lack of ownership make them fragile in ways most teams overlook. This post breaks down why integration-heavy, low-code, …
Tired of the AI hype machine
LinkedIn is full of AI vision posts, chatbot demos, and elephant memes. But inside real organizations, most AI projects stall at generic chat interfaces that solve nothing. This post cuts through the …
Should I automate it?
Automation promises efficiency—but without the right context, it can quietly scale chaos. This practical (and slightly cheeky) guide walks you through when to automate, when to pause, and when to call …
From duct tape to data discipline
Spreadsheets aren’t a data strategy. Move from duct tape to discipline with trust, ownership, and product thinking.
Still running on spreadsheets: the hidden cost of outdated infrastructure
Why your most “trusted” spreadsheet might be the biggest risk in your organization — and what to do about it.
I'm never going to financially recover from this
Too many Power Platform projects start with the wrong question: “Can we build this without premium licensing?” The real question should be: “What are we trying to achieve?” In this blog post, I break …
How to use Azure Container registry to standardize deployments using Bicep across your organization
This post is part of a series How to deploy Azure LogAnalytics Workspace and link Application Insights to it 📍 you are here - How to use Azure Container registry to standardize deployments using …
How to get from Dev? Ooops! 🤭 to proper (Azure) DevOps for Power Platform
Watch out - this is part 2 of a series around very good practices in Power Platform Part 1: Yolo! Let’s deploy Friday?! 📍 You are here –> Part 2: How to get from Dev? Ooops! 🤭 to …
Yolo! Let's deploy Friday?!
We do not deploy on Fridays, AmIRite? Ah, the infamous Friday Freeze – a term that became somewhat of running joke among developers. The idea is simple: Don’t deploy on Fridays. Why? Because if …
How to upload files to SharePoint for Dataverse integration in a Power Apps canvas app
Use Case Recently, someone asked me if it was possible to utilize the SharePoint integration in Dataverse not only from a model-driven app, but also from a canvas app. Challenge accepted! Tl;dr: yes, …
Get started with CLI Microsoft 365 for Power Platform people
tl;dr CLI for Microsoft 365 is an amazing tool to manage your Microsoft 365 tenant and SPFx projects. But did you know, that also people working with Power Platform can massively benefit from using …
Why your Power Platform service principal doesn't need a Dynamics user_impersonation scope
Auth is hard, for most developers. This is also true when building Power Platform solutions. As I see some blog posts explaining how to use a service principal in Power Platform that contain some …
How to create a custom connector for your own Azure hosted API
In this blog post I am going to cover How to create an API with JavaScript How to deploy this to Azure How to wrap the API into a custom connector How to use the connector in Power Apps Don’t …
How to deal with many to many relationships in Dataverse
While building an app that stores data in Dataverse, I came across a not easy to resolve problem. If you already follow me for a bit longer, you may assume that this is about ProvisionGenie, and so I …
How 3 makers, 2 devs and a princess came together to save kittens for a hackathon
How 3 makers, 2 devs and a princess came together to save kittens for a hackathon The Story (Michael) Just before Southcoast Summit 2021 got started, the organizers hosted the Automate Everything - …
ProvisionGenie - an open-source provisioning engine for Microsoft Teams
Once upon a time I teamed up with my friend and partner in crime Carmen Ysewijn. We both work as Power Platform developers and Microsoft 365 consultants, and got both tired of doing the same things …
Putting some more FUN into Azure Functions, Managed Identity & Microsoft Graph
I want to show, how you can use a Managed Identity in Azure Functions to get an access token for Microsoft Graph API. I will later expand on that scenario and make the solution available to be …
The friendly SMS reminder with Logic Apps, Azure Functions & Key Vault
Yay, this is a new blog post series on how to put the FUN in Azure Functions 🙂 Recently, I was learning about Azure Functions and came up with a sweet use case what I could do to combine Azure …
How to build a FAQ chatbot for Microsoft Teams with Power Virtual Agents
How to build an FAQ bot for Microsoft Teams with Power Virtual Agents in minutes In this blog I want to show you, how you can build, test and publish an FAQ bot for Microsoft Teams within minutes. We …
How to use a custom connector in Power Automate
How to create a custom connector in Power Automate Power Automate is a super cool tool, which gives us a lot of options. But sometimes, the built-in connectors, are not enough. In one of previous …
Templatize a Collaboration Contract workshop and provision teams that organizations will love
## intro In my day to day life as a consultant, my customers need a lot of guidance on HOW to work with Microsoft Teams. After I educated them in what is Teams and everything in Microsoft 365 is …
Power Platform Licensing QnA – Key take-aways
Early October 2020, I hosted together with Elio Struyf a QnA session about Power Platform licensing. As experts, we invited Ryan Cunningham and Chris Huntingford. Upfront, we asked Tech Community on …
On my way to become a Power User
Maybe you have been following my learning journey on the way to becoming a PowerUser for a while. If not, these articles can help: how it feels to create my very first #MicrosoftFlow working hours …