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Last year, Microsoft announced the public preview of Power Apps Ideas, which enables Power Apps makers to take advantage of Microsoft AI technologies that make it easy to write Power Fx formulas with no-code.

Please refer below article in which Microsoft is going to go behind the scenes to share what it took for the Power Apps engineering team to implement Power Apps Ideas and unveil some of the complexity that’s happening under the covers to support this user experience.

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/behind-the-scenes-what-it-takes-to-teach-gpt-3-how-to-build-low-code-apps/

Microsoft announced the General availability of portals as a progressive web app that was introduced as a preview feature, enabling makers to enable portals into apps with native app like look & feel right from portal studio in just few steps! This is my favorite announcement for which I was waiting for…

Microsoft is leveraging Progressive web app technology (PWA) to enable portal to multi-platform supported app which works on all platforms (android/iOS/windows) as well as all form factors (mobile/desktop/tablet).

With PWA, end user can pin Power Apps portals as an app to the home screen on a mobile device or install it from the app store

This great new feature is stuffed with following capabilities :

• Create low code-no code branded app in just few steps from portal studio
• Manage basic offline experience of your app
• Distribute your app via browser or app stores

Please refer the below link for more information –

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-ga-of-power-apps-portals-as-mobile-apps/?utm_campaign=Power%20Platform%20Developers%20Weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

To better accommodate the rapid expansion of Power Platform adoption across the enterprise, service administrators depend on advanced monitoring solutions.  Tenant-wide analytics are built on service telemetry data derived from Power Platform apps, bots, and services. These solutions allow environment admins to effectively monitor activities related to Cloud flows across the organization.  This update includes an expansion to the Data Export pipeline making Usage & Inventory metrics for Cloud flows available to Power Platform customers.

Please refer below link for more information –

https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-tenant-level-analytics-for-power-automate-cloud-flows-preview/?utm_campaign=Power%20Platform%20Developers%20Weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Microsoft released the new version of power automate desktop which has below features –

1. Monitoring notification window for console attended desktop flow runs
2. Performance improvements in flow designer
3. New ‘Display custom form’ action (Preview)
4. New actions to convert a file to base64 and vice versa
5. New ‘Extract tables from PDF’ action
6. New property for datatable variables
7. Renaming variables to existing names is now permitted
8. New ability to copy a subflow and paste in other flows
9. Auto clean up of local actions log file

Please refer below blog for more information –

https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-automate-for-desktop-february-2022-update/?utm_campaign=Power%20Platform%20Developers%20Weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Microsoft introduced a set of new audit features helping Dataverse administrators to stay compliant with internal and external auditing requirements and to manage log capacity at the same time.

Audit data is now also stored in a separate physical log storage so an organization’s audit log can grow to many terabytes in size without limiting available physical database storage. This change in physical storage is independent from the continued need for having sufficient storage entitlements for logs and database records.

What is the auditing feature?

The auditing feature logs changes that are made to customer records and user access so you can review the activity later. The auditing feature is designed to meet the auditing, compliance, security, and governance policies of many regulated enterprises.

Audit retention policy

Administrators can select an audit retention period from a dropdown menu or specify a custom retention period. Audit records are automatically deleted after the retention period is over, relieving administrators from the burden of deleting audit data manually. It is also possible to keep the audit log indefinitely by not specifying a retention period.

Try it out now! Go to Audit data and user activity for security and compliance – Power Platform | Microsoft Docs to learn more.

Flexible audit data management

With new flexible audit deletion options, we are removing a major pain point our customers were facing frequently: how do I delete a subset of the audit logs while keeping the rest?

We are introducing a set of new audit deletion options so administrators can delete the logs of one or more audited tables, delete the user access logs, or delete logs up to a specific date in order to free up storage space. The new delete options are replacing the audit log management view and quarterly log partitions.

Try it out now! Go to Free up storage space – Power Platform | Microsoft Docs to learn more.

Use the BulkDelete API to tailor deletions to your specific needs. Try it out now! Go to Retrieve and delete the history of audited data changes (Microsoft Dataverse) – Power Apps | Microsoft Docs to learn more.