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Tech Talks Presents: Modern, refreshed look for model-driven apps | Feb 8th
Join us on Thursday, Feb. 8th at 8am PT as Christopher Moncayo, Sr Program Manager, presents a modern, refreshed look for model-driven apps. During this session we'll learn was updates have been made to date and delivery plans for 2024 Release Wave 1. Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Updates to Power Catalog | Feb. 1st
Join us on Thursday, Feb. 1st at 8am PT as Derek Kwan, Principal PM, Dataverse, shares the latest updates to Power Catalog. Power Catalog is now in preview and during this session we'll learn about the latest updates and a high-level roadmap of what's coming in the next year. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools herePartner Training | Build and extend AI-powered copilots with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft Copilot Studio lets you create powerful AI-powered copilots for a range of requests—from providing simple answers to common questions to resolving issues requiring complex conversations. Learn how you can build and extend these copilots, boot their capabilities with AI and extend them to perform actions, and provide answers for your copilot users. This three-day virtual training experience includes two-to-four hours a day of structured instructor-led training theory, hands-on labs to help develop specialized skills, and live Q&A with technical experts. Enroll today at: https://aka.ms/CopilotStudioPartnerTraining Note: Either register or sign into the Depth Training page, and then click on the Copilot Studio card to enroll, selecting the session appropriate to your time zone.Tech Talks Presents: Learn about the Latest Additions to Prompt Builder | Jan. 25th
Join us on Thursday, Jan. 25th at 8am PT as Gwenael Bego, Group Product Manager, AI builder, presents the latest capabilities of AI Builder’s Prompt Builder that is now Generally Available. With our latest release, Prompt Builder allows you to craft GPT Prompts and add them to Power Platform Solutions across Power Automate, Copilot Studio, Power Apps and Dataverse. Prompts support dynamic inputs, ALM, and include additional security and AI governance capabilities. We’ll cover typical customer scenarios and demo how to build and use Prompts. We’ll also highlight how to setup human in the loop validation and monitoring of GPT Prompts to control how Generative AI is being used by org makers. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Discover the Power of Microsoft Copilot Studio | Jan. 18th
Join us on Thursday, January 18th at 8am PT as Sarah Critchley, Principal Program Manager, introduces Copilot Studio. Learn about the evolution of Power Virtual Agents and how you can leverage the built-in Generative AI features of Microsoft Copilot Studio to create engaging conversational experiences. As Consultants, Architects, and Leaders, you'll also receive valuable guidance on high-impact areas to focus your learning, enabling you to better support your customer conversations. Don't miss out on this opportunity! We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Introducing Power Platform Advisor | Jan. 11th
Join us on Thursday, January 11th at 8am PT as Sid Gundavarapu, Principal Product Manager and Lane Swenka, Principal Program Manager introduce the new Power Platform Advisor and the Power Platform Admin v2 connector. With the Power Platform Advisor, customers can improve the health of their Power Platform tenants and with the Power Platform Admin v2 connector, customers can create flows/apps to perform various administrative tasks. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Introducing Approvals Kit | Jan 4th
Join us on Thursday, Jan. 4th at 8am PT as Grant Archibald, Sr. Program Manager - Power CAT introduces the new Power Platform Approvals Kit. The Power Platform Approvals Kit that was announced in public preview in December 2023. This session designed for Power Platform partners who are interested in learning more about this exciting new feature and how it can be used for you and your customers. We'll explore the key capabilities of the Approvals Kit, including its ability to streamline and automate approval processes across the Power Platform using low code pre packaged solutions. We'll also discuss how the Approvals Kit can help partners better serve their customers by providing a more efficient and user-friendly approval experience. Additionally, we'll highlight some of the key benefits of the Approvals Kit for the partner community, including assisting customers with their learning path to aid them in increased productivity, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about the Power Platform Approvals Kit and how it can help you and your customers achieve greater success! Related links: https://aka.ms/ApprovalsKit https://aka.ms/ApprovalsKit/Overview https://aka.ms/ApprovalsKit/Learn We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Two Part Call | Applied Skills & Sourcing and Skilling Non-Traditional Talent
Join us on Thursday, Dec. 14th at 8am PT for a two-part call as Gretchen LaBelle, Global Learning Portfolio Director and Yolanda Natal-Santos, Sr Business Program Manager present Microsoft Applied Skills & Sourcing and Skilling Non-Traditional Talent. Part 1: Introducing Microsoft Applied Skills Microsoft Applied Skills is a new interactive credential available to take on Microsoft Learn. We will discuss how to leverage the new credential as part of the learner journey for new-to-Power Platform people. You can feedback and ideas for new credentials scenarios to our Worldwide Learning team. Part 2: An innovative approach to sourcing and developing non-traditional talent We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Managed Environments Guidance | Nov. 30th
Join us on Thursday, Nov. 30th at 8am PT as Rui Santos, Sr. Program Manager – Power CAT presents Managed Environments Partner Guidance. Managed Environments is a suite of premium governance capabilities that allows IT administrators to manage Power Platform at scale with more control, more visibility, and less effort. Certain features can be configured upon enabling a Managed Environment. Once an environment is managed, it unlocks more features across the Power Platform. Join this call and get an understanding of all features and strategy around those. If you have feedback or concerns, we will have time at the end to answer those. We have enriched the documentation on https://aka.ms/MEGuidance if you are not familiar with Managed Environments. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Dataverse Accelerator vision and roadmap | Nov. 16th
Join us on Thursday, Nov. 16th at 8am PT Divya Kamath, Principal Program Manager–Dataverse and Denise Moran, Sr. Program Manager, present Dataverse Accelerator vision and roadmap. During this session we'll have a discussion about the vNext features inside Dataverse Accelerator app to solve any key maker problems that don’t exist inside the Dataverse product yet. We have several proposals to share but we want to deep dive most into Data Quality and Data Security capabilities. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Power Platform Template Library | Nov. 9th
Join us on Thursday, Nov. 9th at 8am PT as Derek Kwan, Principal PM, presents Power Platform template libraries. Learn about org specific templates in Power Apps and Power Automate to give you more useful starting points for creating solutions. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Dataverse Low Code Plug-ins now in public preview | Nov. 2nd
Join us on Thursday, November 2nd at 8am Pacific Time as Divya Kamath, Principal Program Manager–Dataverse & Tahir Sousa, Principal Engineering Manager presents Dataverse Low Code Plug-ins now in public preview. Improve your data load throughput with the new Bulk Operations in Dataverse: A set of 4 highly performant Dataverse APIs introduced to Create, Update, Upsert or Delete a batch of multiple records of the same table at a time. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Simplifying license management with auto-claim for Power Apps | Oct. 26th
Join us on Thursday, October 26th at 8am Pacific Time as Amiya Patra, Sr. Program Manager, presents simplifying license management with auto-claim for Power Apps and licensing insights for Power Automate. During this session we'll review: Simplifying license management with auto-claim for Power Apps License Consumption Insights: Monitoring Power Apps and Power Automate license consumption for your organization We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: SharePoint Custom Forms with Power Apps | Oct. 19th
Join us on Thursday, Oct. 19 th at 8am PT as Reza Dorrani, Principal Program Manager – Power CAT & Yash Patel, Sr. Program Manager, Power CAT present SharePoint Custom Forms with Power Apps. During this session you'll learn: What is SharePoint customized forms with Power Apps? Licensing for SP Custom Forms Challenges with SP Custom Forms and default environment How to setup a dedicated environment for SP forms? How to move existing SP forms from default environment to designated environment. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereFY24 FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect nominations now open!
Hello Partners, The Microsoft Business Applications & Platform engineering team confers the designation FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect to practicing enterprise solution architects who consistently exhibit deep architecture expertise and create high-quality solutions for customers. They typically work for systems integrator partners, who may nominate solution architects to recognize their expertise. Systems integrator partners may nominate their solution architects who meet the below requirements. A panel of solution architects from Power CAT will then assess the candidate based on the architecture related artifacts and solution quality of the candidate’s projects. Nomination Link: http://aka.ms/FTRSANomination Why Nominate Recognized architects’ profiles, and the partners they work for, are listed on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Architects and Power Platform websites. Partners may indicate the number of recognized architects they have in their promotional materials and may direct prospective customers to the recognized architect profile page. Recognized architects get an e-badge to share on LinkedIn and other social media platforms. * Partners and architects may opt out of this public listing. Requirements For an architect to be eligible for the FTRSA distinction, he/she must meet the following requirements: For Power Apps: Have a minimum of two years’ experience with Power Apps and a minimum of five years’ experience with Microsoft products. Have a minimum of three years’ experience as a solution architect. Be a Microsoft Certified Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600). Be the lead architect on at least one customer implementation with at least five apps in production or at least 1,000 users within the customer’s organization. Be responsible for the architecture and design of at least two customer implementation projects. Be employed at a Microsoft Partner organization that has at least one Gold competency and has achieved at least 3 out of 4 requirements for the Low Code Application Development specialization Have built solutions using Microsoft Dataverse, Power Platform products, integration with multiple systems, other Power Platform services, Azure services, custom connectors, and/or Power Apps component framework and can provide evidence of the depth and breadth of experience around these technologies. Have a good understanding of the administration, governance and ALM capabilities of the platform and have provided insights and custom tooling to customer organization admins as needed. For Power Automate: Have a minimum of two years’ experience with Power Automate and a minimum of five years’ experience with Microsoft products or robotic process automation. Have a minimum of three years’ experience as a solution architect. Be a Microsoft Certified Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600) or Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer Be the lead architect on at least one Power Automate customer implementation, with at least one mission-critical cloud-and-desktop flow in production within the customer’s organization. Be responsible for the architecture and design of at least two customer implementation projects. Be employed at a Microsoft Partner organization that has at least one Gold competency and is in the process of achieving the Intelligent Automation specialization. Have built solutions using Microsoft Dataverse, Microsoft Power Automate (both Cloud Flows and Desktop Flows), integration with multiple systems, other Microsoft Power Platform services (AI Builder, Document handling, Process Insights etc.), Azure services, and custom connectors and can provide evidence of the depth and breadth of experience around these technologies.Tech Talks Presents: Overviews for Power Up Program and FTRSA Program | Oct. 12th
Join us on Thursday, Oct. 12 th at 8am PT for a two-part call. Part one, Dimpi Gandhi, Principal PM Manager, shares an of overview of the Power Up program and the newly announced Power Up for Groups offering. Part two, Shanthini Radhakrishnan, Sr. Program Manager – SI Partner Succes, will provide an overview of the FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect program and current nomination cycle. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Public preview of Default Environment Routing | Sept. 28th
Join us on Thursday, Sept. 28th at 8am Pacific Time as Hazim Sharaf eldin, Principal PM Lead, shares how to streamline your environment strategy using Dev environments and Default Environment routing. Default Environment Routing, a new Managed Environments feature, allows Power Platform admins to automatically direct new makers into their own personal developer environment when they visit make.powerapps.com for the first time. Default environment routing offers new makers a personal, safe space to build with Microsoft Dataverse, without the fear of others accessing their apps or data. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools here
