After many years of building apps on the Dynamics/PowerApps platform, I still get asked about how to architect PowerApps solutions. How do I group components? What’s the best solution for pipelines? What solution model works best for big or small teams? How do we future-proof ourselves so we never have to change our solution ever … Read More
Year: 2025
Adding Azure Key Vault Environment Variables to your Solution
When I was doing some early learning on Environment Variables, I came upon the inclusion of Azure Key Vaults within Environment Variables and wanted to dig into this more. If you haven’t seen this functionality, when you go and create a new Environment Variable in your solution you can select the source as an Azure … Read More
Building and Deploying your First Azure Function with Node.js
I’ve been writing Azure Functions for a while and working with Node and thought it was time I took the plunge to get both of them working together. To get started, you’ll want to have Node.js (because that’s what you’re building), VSCode (because that’s for coding), and the Azure Core Functions Tool Library (because that’s … Read More
Power Automate Flows Turning On when Off
I was recently working with a client on a project where we had to disable some of our flows from running to validate some data scenarios. Turn Flows Off, they turn off, all good. Then we decided to investigate what the problem might be so we opened up the flow and clicked on “edit”. Now, … Read More
The Never-Ending Managed vs UnManaged Solution Debate
I came across a great win the other day when doing some work using pipelines in PowerApps. When it came to deploying to another environment, the only option was to deploy as Managed. Yes, Managed. That was the only option and the first time that I have ever seen a definite push for people to … Read More
Using Environment Variables in Power Automate
I’ve been meaning to play with Environment Variables in Power Automate a bit more and spent some time with them today using them in conjunction with Pipelines. Environment Variables are a great replacement for those configuration entities you used to create that lets you configure environment data as you deploy it and then let your … Read More
Getting Started with GIT Connections in PowerApps/Dataverse
There have been many solutions over the years that seek to put your solutions into source control and “decompile” them so you can work on individual components. In looking at the new/preview features for GIT integration with PowerApps it’s exciting to see the work that’s being done here. It should be noted at the time … Read More
Using Pipelines in PowerApps
Deploying your solutions via PowerApps was always a bit of a task – whether you did it manually or through Azure DevOps. You always had to remember the steps you did last time and/or write a number of additional steps in a release pipeline that you didn’t quite need. In some cases, all you want … Read More
Accessing your Azure APIM Event Hub Logs
When I had initially configured my Azure APIM Logging to an Azure Event Hub, I thought viewing my logs would be very straightforward. Turns out there were a few things I had to go through. Find your Azure Event Hubs Your Azure Event Hubs are located within your Azure Event Hub Namespace. Validate that Messages … Read More
Do PowerApps Publishers Still Matter?
I get asked this question every now and again… “What does it matter if we have our own publisher?” It’s just an extension, it just looks nice… right? Right? The formal answers from Microsoft on Publishers are available here (which is quite informative, and a great read). At its core, Publishers help distinguish your solution … Read More