Power Platform
20 articles
Mar 12, 2026
Two column types that look interchangeable and are not. Calculated columns recompute on read. Rollup columns recompute on a schedule. Teams who miss the distinction build dashboards that report numbers hours out of date.
Read MoreMar 10, 2026
Most Dataverse security models start with three roles and one business unit and are fine. The ones that hurt grew organically into fourteen custom roles, seven business units, and nested teams nobody can explain. Here is the restructure pattern we now apply at month three, not month thirty.
Read MoreMar 05, 2026
The Power Apps decision everyone gets slightly wrong on a first project. Canvas apps feel modern and flexible; model-driven apps feel rigid and powerful. The right choice is rarely about taste - it comes from four specific questions about the app's future.
Read MoreMar 03, 2026
Customer lookups that can point to either an account or a contact look tidy on a form. They generate three follow-on problems that every tutorial glosses over: reporting complexity, query cost, and integration pain. Here is when they earn their cost.
Read MoreFeb 26, 2026
Every Power Platform project starts with someone asking how to get the existing data in. The answer depends on whether you are doing a one-off load, a recurring sync, or a cutover from a legacy system. Here is the tool we use per scenario and why.
Read MoreFeb 24, 2026
Dataverse offers four places to put business logic, and teams default to whichever tool they know best. Here is the decision tree we run with the cost, latency and maintainability trade-offs that actually matter in production.
Read MoreFeb 17, 2026
Both exist so the same managed solution can run across Dev, Test, UAT and Prod without editing. They solve different problems, and mixing them up ends in flows that silently point at the wrong system. Here is the split we enforce.
Read MoreFeb 12, 2026
You shipped a managed solution update, the import succeeded, and the change is not visible in the UI. The solution layering model is almost always the reason. Here is the mental model, the diagnostic queries we run, and the three fixes that cover most real-world cases.
Read MoreFeb 10, 2026
Your publisher prefix ends up in every schema name, every Web API URL, every managed solution file. Changing it after a system is live is a multi-week migration. Here is how we pick one on day zero and the two exceptions we make.
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