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Power Platform CLI is a simple, one-stop developer command-line interface that empowers developers and ISVs to perform various operations in Microsoft Power Platform related to environment lifecycle, authentication, dataverse environments, solution packages, portals, code components and more 1 . In this blog, I will show you how to install, update and use Power Platform CLI with different methods and commands. Installation You can install Power Platform CLI on Windows, MacOS and Linux devices. The easiest way to install Power Platform CLI, is to install the Power Platform Tools extension for VS Code. This will automatically install the CLI and make it available in the integrated terminal 2 . For Windows, it’s also possible to install the CLI via a MSI Installer 1 . Although Power Platform CLI is a cross-platform CLI, some commands only work on Windows. That’s simply because those commands work with tools that haven’t been available cross platform. In the docs on Microsoft Learn, you wi

Power Platform is a low-code platform that enables you to create solutions that automate workflows, build apps, analyze data, and create bots. Power Platform consists of four main tools: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. Power Platform can help you improve your productivity, efficiency, and innovation by enabling you to build solutions that suit your specific needs and scenarios. However, to get the most out of Power Platform, you need to have a strategy for adopting and supporting it in your organization. This is where Power Platform COE comes in. Power Platform COE, or Center of Excellence, is a collection of tools and templates that are designed to help you develop a strategy for adopting and supporting Power Platform in your organization. Power Platform COE helps you plan, govern, and nurture Power Platform adoption and innovation, while maintaining standards, consistency, and governance. Power Platform COE can help you achieve the following benefits:

Power Automate can help you improve your productivity, efficiency, and innovation by enabling you to build solutions that suit your specific needs and scenarios. However, to get the most out of Power Automate, you need to follow some best practices that will ensure the quality, performance, and security of your flows. In this blog, we will share some of the best practices that you should follow when using Power Automate. Understand Power Automate in the Power Platform ecosystem Power Automate is part of the Microsoft Power Platform, which also includes Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. These tools work together to enable you to create end-to-end solutions that automate workflows, build apps, analyze data, and create bots. You should learn how to use Power Automate with the other tools in the Power Platform to create powerful and integrated solutions. For example, you can use Power Automate to handle the business logic and data integration for your Power Apps, or to trigge

One of the common scenarios that you may encounter when using Power Automate is to retrieve data from a SharePoint list and perform some actions on it. However, if your SharePoint list has more than 5000 items, you may run into some challenges and limitations. In this blog, we will explain why this happens and how to overcome it using pagination. Why does Power Automate have a limit of 5000 items for SharePoint lists? The reason why Power Automate has a limit of 5000 items for SharePoint lists is because of the underlying SharePoint API that Power Automate uses to connect to SharePoint. SharePoint has a feature called list view threshold, which limits the number of items that can be returned in a single query to 5000 by default. This is to prevent performance issues and ensure optimal performance for all users. If you try to query more than 5000 items from a SharePoint list, you will get an error message like this: This error message will also appear in Power Automate if you use the Ge

One of the key features of Power Platform Dataverse is its rich security model that can adapt to many business usage scenarios. This security model is based on the concept of security roles, which are collections of privileges that define what users can do with the data and resources in Power Platform Dataverse. In this blog, we will explain what security roles are, how they work, and how to use them in Power Platform Dataverse. What are security roles? Security roles are groups of privileges that control access to data and resources in Power Platform Dataverse. Privileges are the basic units of security that define what actions users can perform on a specific type of data or resource, such as create, read, write, delete, share, or assign. Privileges are combined with access levels, which define the scope of access that users have to the data or resource, such as user, business unit, parent-child business unit, organization, or none. For example, a user with the read privilege and the

But did you know that there are two types of apps you can create with Power Apps? They are called canvas apps and model-driven apps, and they have different strengths and limitations. In this blog, we will compare and contrast these two types of apps and help you decide which one is best for your scenario. What are canvas apps? Canvas apps are apps that start with a blank canvas, like an artist’s canvas, and you can design the user interface by dragging and dropping controls, such as buttons, labels, galleries, forms, and charts. You can connect to various data sources, such as SharePoint, Excel, SQL Server, or Microsoft Dataverse, using connectors. You can also add logic and expressions to make your app interactive and dynamic. Canvas apps are good for creating pixel-perfect, customized user experiences that work across different devices, such as phones, tablets, and PCs. What are model-driven apps? Model-driven apps are apps that are based on the data model and business logic defined