Power Platform BOOST Podcast

05/02/2025

🤔 Episode 51: "It depends"! 🤔

When was the last time you used the phrase "It depends"? We find ourselves using it again and again as consultants when giving advice. Cause it does! 🤣 Or does it? 🤔

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In this episode we cover some new announces 🪁 from Microsoft by Hemant Gaur and Travis Shu. We highlight 📯 community content from Hardit Bhatia, Sean Astrakhan, Nari Turtledove and double trouble (but no code?) from 🤓 Amey Holden!

Also, last (or first), and not least, a beautiful poem to AI 😍 🤖 by the beautifully creative Rory Neary

We also have a little chat about two of our favourite 😻 events;
Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn, which Nick just spoke 🧑‍🎤 at, and
the Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge which Ulrikke just 👩‍💻 participated in.

23/01/2025

🌊 Episode 50: 2025 Release Wave 1 🌊

We have read through the 2025 Release Wave 1 notes for Power Platform, and we bring the highlights directly to you. 🤓

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We take you through the notes, top to bottom, and cover all the products 🫧 and the key investment areas 🌱 for them from March to October 2025. We mention the features that stood out to us ✨, and of course, we get deeper into the details of our personal favourites 😻

Join us for an hour, and you will understand the broader strokes of the release notes and gain some good insights into what's coming for the Power Platform in the next nine months.

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22/01/2025

🎉 Woop Woop! Get ready for episode 50 🎉 of the Power Platform BOOST Podcast…

…later this week 😧 😜

What better way to celebrate the 50th episode than to not release an episode? 😆
Just joking, of course. We have a very special treat for you coming later this week

In the meantime, let us take the opportunity to dedicate this day to saying a huge
🙏 "THANK YOU" 🥰 to all of you who listen to us ramble and rant, those of you who share our podcast with others, and especially all of you who contribute with your findings, failures, and insights every week so that the rest of us can learn.

We appreciate all the work you do, and from the bottom of our hearts, we thank you
❤️ 🧡 💚 💙 💜

Now stay tuned...
Something exciting is coming your way...
It's that special time of year 🌊 ... 😼

08/01/2025

❄️ 🏖️ Episode 49: Procrastinators Unite - Later! 🏖️❄️

Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉
We kick this year off by admitting to all the things we didn't get done over the holidays. Anyone else? 😅 Put a comment below if you relate, and tell us what you didn't get done over the break so that we don't feel so alone 😜

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📯 Some people did get things done over the holiday (including Nick, actually), like Femke Cornelissen, Nathan Rose, Matt Collins-Jones, Michel Mendes, Matthew Devaney, Megan V. Walker, and Howdang Rashid 😍

These wonderful people 🥰 have shared content on the new Plan Designer, , , , and PDF, , Real-Time with , and .

🤩 Also, a special shout-out and congratulations to the wonderful people behind Power Platform Weekly on their 4th anniversary: Carina M. Claesson, Daniel Laskewitz, Ed Gonzales, and Magnus Sørensen.🎉

We also announce that we are both hosting workshops at upcoming events!
🤖 Nick is doing "Developers Guide to Power Pages" at Tallinn on January 30th and
🤓 Ulrikke is hosting "Power Pages: From Creation to go-live!" at Color Cloud on April 24th
Hope to see you there!

25/12/2024

❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️
We hope you enjoy this freshly squeezed episode of the Power Platform BOOST Podcast while you enjoy some down time during the holidays!

🎄Episode 48: Updates and Dad Jokes 🎄

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In this last episode of 2024, we do what we have done all year, we provide you with news and updates from the Power Platform community. This time we also sprinkled with a little song 👩‍🎤 (not us singing) and dad jokes (that was us) 😂 Enjoy!

Thank you CRMK and Rory Neary for getting us into the Christmas spirit with you lovely songs. Also a huge shout out to Eric Sauve, Lukas Lesko, Eugene van Staden, Heidi Neuhauser, Rhea Patel, Guido Preite and Mark Carrington. Thank you for your amazing content!

From both of us to all of you;
🎅 Merry Christmas 🎅 and ✨ Happy New Year ✨

13/12/2024

Thank you to all our listeners, viewers, supporters and fans. We truly appreciate your support from all over the world!

Humbled and honoured to be in the top 25% of podcast downloads for Buzzsprout! 🥳

Please continue to listen, like, and subscribe to bi-weekly news and updates from the community!

11/12/2024

Let us 💥 BOOST 💥you today with a little bit of "Power to truth" in Episode 47 of the
Power Platform BOOST Podcast - the second to last episode of 2024 ✨

Nick and Ulrikke start by talking briefly about Nick's latest travels and a summary of the 2024 conferences, before diving into the news and updates.

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The list of updates from the last few weeks of news and updates from our lovely community friends include content on Agentic Copilots🤖 , Model Driven Apps 🧮 , announcements and new functionality for 📱 Power Apps, and a rant or two 💨

✨ Also, last but not least, we highlight some of the amazing 🎄 advent calendars we found related to the Power Platform 🥰

Shout out to the fabulous 🥰 Joe Griffin, Angeliki Patsiavou, Claire Edgson, Brigitte Maheu, Mark Christie, Jonas Rapp, Malin Martnes, Benedikt Bergmann, Lisa Crosbie, Keith Atherton, Dani Kahill, Fredrik Engseth, April Dunnam, Daryl Labar, Steve Mordue, Rory Neary, Nikita Chernevskiy, Katerina Chernevskaya, 😍
, and

27/11/2024

🤖 Ignite Special! Episode 46: Agents of Ignite 🤖

Buckle up for a loooooong episode where Nick and Ulrikke first cover the news and updates from the last two weeks - and then cover the hottest announcements from Ignite

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If you want to skip ahead directly to the Ignite stuff, feel free to skip ahead to 38:26 😜

Cause first, we covered content from the newest edition of
Dona Sarkar and Jeremiah Marble's 📰 newsletter,
a blog post by Linn Zaw Win (It does work - PEBCAK! I apologize, Linn 🥰 ) and Nishant Rana,
the amazing release plan 🧮 visualizations by Jukka Niiranen and Loryan Strant,
handy new🪂 tools by Paul Nurana,
podcast episodes🎧 from the Sprint Zero Podcast and Darknet Diaries 😱
the Community Power Platform 🫧 Project Challenge by AJ Zafar
and a fun Canvas App 🎫 project by Guido Preite.
We are blown out of the water by the amazing content you guys put out! 😍

Nick hosted a lab three different times at Ignite together with Angeliki Patsiavou, April Dunnam, Carina M. Claesson, Sean Astrakhan and Stalin Ponnusamy. Big shout out to the team!🤩 Nick also talked about his experience doing booth duty 🥼 , and what it's like being at such a big conference.

We touch on the keynote by Satya Nadella and all the annoucements that were made across the whole Microsoft stack, and also new phrases we learned this week, like "Copilot is the UI of AI" and "Agentic World". Some of the new features are freaking us out, and some is getting us , like new 🔮 Plan Designer from "The Future of Power Platform: Intelligent Apps" by Ryan Cunningham, Jonathan Beck and Clay Wesener. Shout out to EY Kalman for a great blog post that summaries the news for Power Platform Admin Center, and much much more.

Listen in to get all the details and really get up to date on the 📯 highlights 📯 from the latest news and updates from the 😍 community😍 and what we found most important coming out of✨ Ignite✨

13/11/2024

🎉 This just in: Episode 45: Nightmare on ALM street 🎉

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With some items left over from the last episode, we fearlessly dive into the world of news and updates this week, with baby sicknesses and all 😂 Nick talks about Business Central, and Ulrikke praises Microsoft support, and we establish the "mispronouncing peoples names jar" (cause we deserve it) 🤭

In the show notes you will find links to no less than four newsletters, including

▶️ "What's new with Power Apps" with Power Apps Pulse by April Dunnam
🤖 "What's new with Copilot Studio" by Omar Aftab
🫧 "Copilot Studio Newsletter" by Bülent Altinsoy
🐎 "3rd Rodeo AI" by Dona Sarkar and Jeremiah Marble

Not to mention the source of many of the news we present;
📰 Power Platform Weekly and Power Platform Dev Weekly

And as if that's not enough to keep us up to date, we also have content from the wonderful
Oleksandr Olashyn, David Wyatt, Megan V. Walker, Anthony Sheehi, Casey Bruke, Shan McArthur, Benedikt Bergmann, Matthew Devaney, Miti Joshi, Felix Mora and Laurens Vandendriessche. Thank you for putting your content out there with your voice and perspective
🤓 You are all awesome 🥰

30/10/2024

Join us down the AI Rabbit Hole in this freshly squeezed episode of the Power Platform BOOST podcast, with your hosts; Nick Doelman and Ulrikke Akerbæk.

In this episode, we mainly focus on three areas of the Power Platform: all the old and mighty 💪 Model Driven Apps, new and shiny ✨ AI Agents 🤖 , and the teenager Power Pages 🤓 for which we now have new monitor tooling 🕵️‍♀️

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Speaking of friends; as a community, we support each other, and we wanted to help pull together for our good friend, Nikita. Follow this link to learn more: https://buff.ly/3NLHHNp

We also want to 📣 shout out to the creators of the awesome 🤩 community content we highlighted this week; Megan V Walker, the Inogic bloggers, Peter Ruiter, Nathan Rose, The Low Code Approach and the Nordic Summit Podcast. 🥳 Keep the good stuff coming.

16/10/2024

Welcome to the Power Platform BOOST podcast therapy session! 😆 Spend the next half an hour with us and talk about news and updates for Power Platform, and nothing else (well.. 😄)

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In this episode, we cover content about

🫧 Power Platform Admin Center
🤓 Power FX Gallery
🔄 Connection References (yes, again)
🗝️ Power Pages and Entra External ID
🕵️‍♀️ Purview
🤖 Copilot Studio
↪️ Power Automate Best Practices
📱 and what's new with Power Apps

No wonder it's hard to keep on top of a platform with this diversity of products, features and capabilities.🙈 We hope we are of some help in keeping you up to date📯 . And if we do, would you mind sharing our podcast with a community friend or colleague? 😻 That would mean a lot to us.

✨ Thank you to all the wonderful people 🤩 who put this amazing content out there! Mark Smith, Jukka Niiranen, Vaibhav Karoor, Chris Fernandez, Benedikt Bergmann, Marthe Moengen, Lisa Crosbie, Reza Dorrani, Rasika Chaudhary, Foo Shen Wu and April Dunnam 👏

That's all for this week's therapy session. 🧘 See you back for the next one in two weeks? Until then, take care of yourself, breathe, and feel your feet on the ground. We love you 🥰

02/10/2024

📯 Get ready for Episode 41: Keep it real 📯

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This week, our episode is a chat between two people who are a bit tired after a long and fun 🥳 weekend at Nordic Summit🎉 We talk about all the news and 📢 updates we have seen from the community and the Microsoft announcements 📣 that caught our eye from 😻 Matthew Devaney, Jason Gumpert, Neeraj Nandwana, Karl-Johan Spiik, Jonas Rapp, Femke Cornelissen, Matt Collins-Jones and Isabel Liu 😍

There is no getting around the fact that AI 🤖 influencing all of our lives, whether we like it or not. When Nick shows Ulrikke a completely AI generated podcast 🎧 episode on the new Plan Designer, that triggers somewhat of an AI dystopia 🥴 rant for the both of us, where we can't trust any content anymore. Let's 🥸

30/09/2024

Join us as we recap from Oslo in Norway!

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We had a busy day from the keynote in the morning, recording the Nordic Summit Podcast, attending amazing sessions, presenting our own sessions and rounding things off with a gameshow.

Nordic Summit has a very special and unique vibe, everyone seemed to be having an amazing time.

A shout out to the organizers for putting on a one of kind event!
Antti, Benedikt, Carina, G**o, Gustraf, Jonas, Kathrine, Magnus, Malin, Terho, Thomas, Vivian, Ulrikke ❤️

For Nordic Summit 2025, the event is going back to Sweden, and we hope we will see you there.

18/09/2024

🫧 A new episode of the Power Platform BOOST podcast is out! 🫧

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This time we have lots of news and updates for the Power Platform, especially around Copilot and Power Automate. We cover community content from Caitlin Shaw, Eliza Benitez, Arun Potti, Jonas Rapp, Mónica Andrea Pérez, Olena Grischenko, Michel Mendes and Suparna Banerjee. We also have links to Steve Mordue's challenge for the coolest PCF control.

04/09/2024

Embark on a transformative journey into the realm of news and updates 🤣
Hahaha, just kidding 😜

Joking aside, a 📯 new episode of the Power Platform BOOST podcast is out 📣
Check it out on your favourite 〰️ streaming service 〰️

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In this episode, Nick and Ulrikke are recovering from a week of working day and night on a project.

We cover community content from Olena Grischenko, Jon Russell, Temmy Wahyu Raharjo, Felix Mora, Laurens Vandendriessche, Karl-Johan Spiik, Craig White, Amey Holden, Debajit Dutta, Neil Parkhurst, and Mark Smith.

Also, a huge shout out to Benedikt Bergmann for helping us understand how to work with Connections and Connection References in downstream environments.

21/08/2024

✨ New Episode: "Top To Bottom ( #39)" ✨

Get a 🚀 BOOST 🚀 today with some news and updates 📯 from the world of Microsoft Power Platform 🤓 with your hosts, Nick Doelman and Ulrikke Akerbæk

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These last two weeks, our LinkedIn feed has become almost like a 📍 messaging board for everything from bug 🐞 fixes to discussions 🗨️ In this episode, we highlight LinkedIn content from Matthew Devaney, Kristine Kolodziejski, Chris Hansen, Sean Astrakhan, Daniel Laskewitz, Nicholas Hayduk, and Anna Black. Keep the posts coming, cause we are only as good as the best workaround 🤓😜🥰

Also, did you know that back in the old CRM days you could attach a note to a timeline of a record before it was saved? 🤯 ! The feature is back! 🌟 Thanks, Nishant Rana, for bringing it to our attention.📣 We also found other content that caught our interest, from Fredrik Engseth, Alex Shlega, Scott Sewell and David Wyatt.

10/08/2024

In the latest episode of the Power Platform BOOST podcast, Ulrikke and Nick talk about the new Power Automate select a Dataverse row trigger, finally bringing the updated Dataverse trigger to parity with the legacy CDS trigger.

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48 episodes.The Power Platform Boost Podcast is your timely update of what's new and what is happening in the community of Microsoft business applications. Join hosts Ulrikke Akerbæk and Nick Doelman for a lively discussion of all things Power Platform!Like what you hear? Buy us a beer: https://www...

07/08/2024

🎉 New episode is out: "K***s and Switches ( #38)"🎉

In this episode, Nick is not 🙅‍♂️ ranting 👀 about not being able to get started with PACX by Riccardo Gregori. Ulrikke raves about knobs🎛️and switches🎚️from the Low Code Approach podcast episode with John Landgrave and Chris Simmons. Fancy a round of Healthy Smoothie Shot Game, anyone? 🤩

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This time we feature three smart tips and tricks from the community simply posted on LinkedIn as larger posts. Thank you, Kristine Kolodziejski, Andrew Butenko and Tolu Victor Sanwoolu for posting about meeting calculators💸 , Dataverse 🕶️ Dark mode and PowerFx 🤓 formulas. Nice! 🪁 Are we spotting a new trend with these posts? 🚀

Conference season part 2 is upon us soon 🤖 Make sure to get your tickets for all your favourite conferences this season! We will both be at the Power Platform Community Conference in Las Vegas✌️ 🐻‍❄️ in Oslo and, the 🦄 in Aberdeen and we hope to see you all there! 🥰