When importing Flow packages into different tenants, the configuration often needs updating e.g. with a SharePoint trigger you might need to update the URL of the SharePoint site and the name of a list/library. This can be very time consuming, for example if you are deploying the same Flow to multiple customer tenants. Wouldn’t it…
PowerApps – Notify users of updates to your apps
Currently there is no out of the box functionality available in PowerApps to ensure that your users’ are running the latest version of your app. When you publish a new version there is no guarantee that your users’ will get this straight away. This is because the PowerApps IOS/Android apps cache the apps (what a…
PowerApps – Creating and assigning CDS Security Roles
I’ve been working with the Common Data Service (CDS) recently while developing a few PowerApps and wanted to share my learnings with Security Roles. This was my first time using CDS so there was a bit of a learning curve but what I can say so far is that it’s awesome and incredibly powerful! I’m…
Flow – Get SharePoint list items by the current date using ODATA
The built in Flow ‘Get Items’ and ‘Get Files (Properties Only)’ actions are great for retrieving a filtered set of items from SharePoint lists and libraries using an ODATA query except when it comes to working with dates! Sometimes you may wish to query list items/files based on the today’s date e.g. Created, Modified or…
Office 365 Security & Compliance Admin Center not appearing
I recently asked a client to add us to the ‘Compliance Administrator’ role in the Security & Compliance center of their tenancy so I could set up some Labels and Retention policies for them. What we found is when granted the ‘Compliance Administrator’ or even the ‘Organization Management’ role (which should give a greater level…
Azure password-less sign-in ‘Something went wrong’ error
I recently enabled password-less authentication for our Azure tenant. A number of our staff already used the Authenticator app for MFA sign-in so it made sense to make the move to password-less! If you’re thinking of enabling it – I can confirm – it’s brilliant! but keep in mind it’s still in public preview.However I…