KulenDayz 2023
01/09/2023, Didin Konak Kopačevo
Kopačevo, Croatia
Energise Your Power Platform Skills Workshop
microsoft365
powerplatform
dataverse
powerautomate
powerapps
powerbi
office365
powerpages
pva
microsoftflow
powervirtualagents
This interactive workshop, mostly demo-driven, will introduce you to Microsoft's Power Platform services, such as:
• Power Apps (a SaaS option for Power Users to build business applications, that can be used on desktop or mobile);
• Power Pages (low code business website);
• Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow, technically similar to Azure Logic Apps);
• Power Virtual Agents (an SaaS version of bots with much in common with Azure Bots and the Bot Framework);
• Power BI (needs no introduction!);
• Dataverse (an enterprise grade database with pre-defined minimum table schema that can be used in all Microsoft products, including Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and even Azure).
All these services are build on top of Microsoft 365 / Office 365 tenants, and can be integrated with other services, such as Exchange 365 / Outlook, MS Bookings, OneDrive (Personal or Business), Sharepoint, Dynamics 365, other Microsoft 365 and Azure services, as well as thousands of 3rd party services available.
Workshop contents:
0. Setting up a developer tenant (it's free!):
- You are invited to follow the workshop along on your developer tenant.
1. Quick intro to Microsoft 365 / Office 365 tenants:
- Quick list of Features and services;
- Basic tenant administration (focusing on what you need to get started with the Power Platform);
- Basic Power Platform services administration.
2. Power BI:
- Features and licencing;
- Getting started with Power BI Desktop (inc.PowerQuery)
- Power BI Service in the cloud (inc.managing workspaces, publishing Power BI content, sharing options and mobile)
3. Power Automate:
- Features, triggers/connectors and licencing;
- Building flows (multiple examples)
4. Power Apps:
- Different types of Power Apps and licencing;
- Building your first app... and your second app... (from multiple sources including SQL Server / Azure SQL Database and Dataverse);
- Integrating with the outside world with Power Automate;
- Publishing Power Apps and using them (inc.mobile).
5. Power Pages:
- Features and licencing;
- Building your first Power Page.
6. Power Virtual Agents:
- Features, comparison with Azure Bots (and how both use the Bot Framework and tools) and licencing;
- Build your first PVA chat bot (inc.publishing and sharing options);
- Fetching/saving data and executing actions with Power Automate.
7. Working better together:
- Integration examples between these services;
- Discussion of M365/Azure/Hybrid architectures.
8. Final Q&A
Attendees that want to try the examples during the workshop need to have:
• Laptop;
• Create/have a M365 Developer tenant (it's free - go to https://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/dev-program and create your own tenant, or alternatively if your company uses M365/O365 and your user has the necessary licences, you can try with that);
• Any browser should be fine, but you should access the developer tenant in a separate browser profile;
• Example data files will be provided during the workshop.
Target audience: Developers, System Administrators, Power Users
Pre-requisites: None
Certification: This workshop has content similar to what's covered in the PL-900 exam, and covers some content from other PL-xxx exams.