Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Monthly Update-July 2022

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Featured News

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Deprecations & Service Retirement

JUNE 2022

Power Apps Portals - Following are the features which will be deprecated starting June 2022 in Portals

• Changes to OAuth 2.0 implicit grant flow 2.0
• Entity List OData Feed Option
• Portals Runtime content editor
• Yahoo auth provider support
• Lucene.net based Search.

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Power Apps for Windows will be deprecated and replaced with a new app

• On June 20, 2022, Power Apps for Windows will be renamed to Power Apps for Windows 8. 
• After Sept 20, 2022, the app will be removed from the Microsoft Store, and will no longer be supported.
• The new app will be renamed from Power Apps (Preview) to Power Apps.

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JULY 2022

Dynamics 365 Sales | Premium auto capture will be deprecated

Effective July 2022, premium auto capture will be deprecated.

• The deprecation will impact customers who have enabled the premium auto capture preview.
• This feature enables users to get activity and contact suggestions.
• You can switch to basic auto capture to get activity suggestions.
• For more information about basic auto capture, see Capture customer-related activities with auto capture.

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SEPTEMBER 2022

Power Apps for Windows will be deprecated and replaced with a new app

Effective September 2022, Power Apps for Windows will be deprecated. Microsoft will continue to provide security and other critical updates for the app until Sept 20, 2022.

• Replaced with the new Power Apps for Windows

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OCTOBER 2022

Dynamics 365 Connector is deprecated

In October 2022, all existing uses of the Dynamics 365 connector for data integrations, flows, Logic Apps, and canvas apps will be disabled.

• At that time, you must migrate to using one of the available connectors.
• For required actions Learn More>>

Dynamics 365 Customer Service | SLA items in Web Client are deprecated. Removal scheduled &

Dynamics 365 Customer Service | Automatic Record Creation Rules in Web Client are deprecated.

Effective October 01, 2020, the service-level agreements (SLAs) are deprecated in the web client.

• Effective October 01, 2020, the automatic record creation and update rules are deprecated in the web client.
• You are encouraged to migrate your SLA items that were created in the web client to the new Unified Interface experience.
• For information on how to migrate the items:
  • See Migrate automatic record creation rules and service-level agreements.
  • See also the Playbook
• Note: The deprecation and end of life are not applicable to the feature in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (on-premises).

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NOVEMBER 2022

Dataverse OData v2.0 Service removal

We plan to remove the Dataverse OData v2.0 Organization Data Service on November 11, 2022.

• The Organization Data Service was deprecated with Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement v8.0 in favor of the Web API, an OData v4.0 service.
• Any code that uses the Organization Data Service should be migrated to use the Web API before that time.
• This announcement does not involve the deprecated Organization Service SOAP endpoint.

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Data Export Service (DES) is deprecated

Data Export Service will continue to work and will be fully supported until it reaches end-of-support and end-of-life a year from this announcement date, in November 2022.

• This notice is to allow you sufficient time to plan and onboard to Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse which is a successor to Data Export Service.

The Playbook will guide them through the initialization, planning, and adoption phases.

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Release Waves and Service Updates

Manage release wave updates

• CURRENT RELEASE WAVE: 2022 Release Wave 1
• Bring new innovations, new features, and capabilities into the products through 2 Waves per year.
• Release planner WEBSITE (Preview)
  • If you are familiar with the release notes that come out twice a year, you will love the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release planner that allows admins, makers and power users to review the new features of a release wave, timeline and track changes in a new portal experience as you sign in to flag releases you are interested in.

Understand release wave updates

• Release Wave Plan for visibility on what is coming.
• Release Wave schedule for visibility on deployment timelines for Power Apps, Dynamics 365 CE Apps, and Industry Clouds. 2 waves per year:
• Wave 1 Period:   April – September | Wave 2 Period: October to March.
• Release Wave Opt-in to early access update.
• General Availability deployment
  • After a release cycle has been made "generally available" to users, environments are typically automatically turned on. This is so users can receive ongoing mandatory updates which will enable the early access features and general available features of the release.

How to Stay Informed on Updates notifications

• Stay Informed on important service updates and other major updates changes with
• Message Center notifications through Email preferences for Dynamics and PowerApps using Microsoft 365 Admin center  OR
• Manage email notifications to admins using PowerShell

Manage Service Updates

• Continuously bring stability and reliability into the products with set of repaired functionalities, hotfixes. Usually on a weekly cadence.
• Note: Managing your maintenance Window for database and application updates in Power Platform Admin Center is in public preview.
• It does not apply to Release Wave features.

Dynamics 365 On-Premises

For the latest Service Updates for Dynamics 365 on-premise release version 9.0 and 9.1 visit Service Updates

• Dynamics CRM 9.1 On-Premises

• • Service Update 1.10 (9.1.10.102) – May 2022

• Dynamics CRM 9.0 On-Premises

• • Service Update 0.38 – MAY 2022

Product Updates

Power Apps

Announcing the general availability of canvas components and component libraries

• General availability (GA) of canvas components and component libraries.
• Canvas components enable low code/no-code developers to build reusable UX components using default Power Apps controls as core building blocks.
• These custom components can then be shared across app screens or multiple apps both within and across Power Apps environments.

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Announcing general availability of Power Apps for Windows

• General availability (GA) of our new Power Apps application for Windows.
• With the new Power Apps for Windows, you get device capabilities like camera, microphone, file picker, barcode scanning, geo-location, and many others.
• For everyone else, you just have to install the brand new “Power Apps” application from the Microsoft Store.

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Announcing the general availability of Power Apps modern commanding

• General availability (GA) of modern commanding with Power Fx is now generally available (GA).
• Modern commanding provides a maker friendly low-code/no-code experience for customizing model-driven app command bars – with the first ever in-product command designer and the ability to use Power Fx (or JavaScript) for expressing business logic.

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General Availability of the new Dataverse experiences on Power Apps

• Updated list of tables: We have updated the list of tables to make it simpler to find what you need with extensive support for filtering, sorting, search and have provided some key pivots on this list.
• Table hub: A view lets you simply update data in a spreadsheet-style mode, and just like a spreadsheet-style. You can quickly add new columns here too.
• What is using this table: Locate apps and flows using a specific table.

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Dataverse Service Client is now Generally Available

• This new Dataverse Service Client SDK has the following capabilities, which enables the community to extend the value of their applications:
  • Cross platform SDK based on .net core, Removed Dynamic Dependencies, Works with the Dataverse Web API, Targets cloud only Dataverse instances.

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PRO DEVELOPER | Power Platform Command Line: New Updates (April Refresh) v1.15.x

• The monthly refresh of the Power Platform Command line share information about the new features including:
  • Solution command updates, Packaging updates, Administration improvements.

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PRO DEVELOPER | Power platform Developer tools May Refresh

• This May refresh comes with capabilities ranging from:
  • Support for single sign-on.
  • Showing whether solutions are managed or unmanaged when listing out the solutions.
  • Support for packages that hold .cab files.

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Power Apps Portals Product Updates

Configure the rich text editor control on portals

• Configure Power Apps portals to add the rich text editor control to a basic form and then add the basic form to a web page.
• Portal users will be able interact with the rich text editor control to format text on the form.

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Configure column permissions

• In portals, table permissions are used to apply security to individual Dataverse table records.
• You can add column permissions to individual table columns. Column permissions are an optional configuration that you associate with web roles.

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Configure Dataverse search in portals (preview)

• Dataverse search delivers fast and comprehensive search results sorted by relevance in portals.
• Dataverse search is the same search service used in model-driven apps and other Microsoft Power Platform services built on Microsoft Dataverse.

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Configure a choices column on portals

• Makers can design basic forms and advanced forms to include choices columns defined in Microsoft Dataverse.
• This feature provides the ability for portal users to select multiple options while submitting data, and display views that include choices columns through lists.

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Overview of portals as progressive web apps

• You can enable your functional portal as a progressive web app (PWA), with native app–like look and feel, by using Power Apps portals Studio.
• With this feature, Power Apps portals now supports using progressive web app technology to provide multiplatform support to create an app that will work on all platforms (Android, iOS, Windows, and Chromebooks) and form factors (mobile, desktop, and tablet).

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Power Automate Product Updates

Making application lifecycle management (ALM) easier in Power Automate

• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is the end-to-end lifecycle management of applications and automations, including considerations like governance, development, and maintenance.
• Power Automate has two categories of enhancements that are improving the ALM story:
  • Solution cloud flow improvements
  • Core ALM improvement.

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Automate unstructured documents like contracts with AI Builder

• Here is the biggest update yet to our Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) capabilities for Power Automate by adding support, in preview, for unstructured document processing.
• With AI Builder document processing (formerly, form processing) and Power Automate, many organizations have been able to easily automate the extraction of information from structured and semi-structured documents such as invoices, purchase orders, application forms, surveys, delivery orders, tax forms, and many others.

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Change owner of a solution flow

• You can now reassign a solution flow to a new owner from the Power Automate portal.
• This feature enables owners, co-owners, and admins to change the owner of a solution flow to enable business continuity when the original owner is switching teams or leaving the organization.
• You can change the owner to an individual or an Azure Active Directory service account.
• If the flow is using a service account, see here for guidance on licensing service accounts.

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Power BI Product Updates

ENHANCED REFRESH WITH THE POWER BI REST API IS NOW GENERALLY AVAILABLE

• General Availability of Enhanced refresh with the Power BI REST API (formerly asynchronous refresh) in Power BI Premium, Power BI Premium per User, and Power BI Embedded.
• By using the enhanced refresh REST API, you can leverage built in features for refresh management, reliability, and granularity.
• Learn more to see examples Learn more>>

UPDATES TO FULL REPORT ATTACHMENTS FOR EMAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS IN PREMIUM GEN2

• With email subscriptions, you have the option to include a full report as a PDF or PowerPoint attachment if the report is saved in a Premium capacity or Premium Per User (PPU) workspace.
• There are several updates coming to email subscriptions that use full report attachments that we want to make you aware of.
  • Extending full report attachments to fifty pages –
  • Full report attachments in the Premium Gen2 metrics app
  • Deprecation of full report attachment in the original version of Power BI Premium (August 2022)

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PREVIEW DATA IS NOW AVAILABLE IN THE DATASET DETAILS PAGE

• The dataset details page helps you explore, monitor, and leverage datasets.
• When you click on a dataset in the data hub, a workspace, or other place in Power BI, the details page for that dataset opens. The dataset details page enables you to perform several actions.
• Learn more about the prerequisites on the new feature- Preview data.

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POWER BI JUNE 2022 FEATURE SUMMARY

• Welcome to the June 2022 update. We are excited to announce the general availability of the new Format Pane, error bars and information protection updates, table navigation improvements, Connect to Datamarts and Power BI Data Storytelling features.

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Learning and Training Corner

Dataverse Advanced Audit Log Deletion using the BulkDelete API

• Flexible audit data management was introduced recently and has benefits over the previous method.
• There is no longer a requirement to delete entire partitions from oldest to newest. The feature in Power Platform Admin Center allows the flexibility of deleting Audit history for a Table, Access Related or all audit history up to a specified data.
• Although, the new capabilities are exciting there are scenarios that currently not possible in the UI.
• For Advanced Scenarios we can also use the BulkDelete API

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