MrDave's ( David Yack ) Blog

Understanding Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ

At the recent Ignite 2025 conference, Microsoft announced Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ. While these might sound like new products, they are really formalizing a foundational layer in their cloud services architecture, which will be the intelligence layer powering future AI solutions. While you could use these in

Accelerating Agent Flows with Express Mode

You might have noticed the new option on agent flows Express Mode This preview feature designed to accelerate agent flow execution that are invoked by and responding to a Microsoft Copilot Studio agent. Here's what you need to know about leveraging this speed up your flows. Understanding Express

Reflecting on the Power Platform Conference Keynote

One way to wake up an arena full of people who haven't had enough coffee is to open the keynote saying something they love is dead! That's exactly what Charles Lamanna did as he opened up the Power Platform Community Conference in Las Vegas last week.

Maximizing Productivity with Multiple Chat Agents

Here’s what you need to know: leveraging multiple chat agents can significantly enhance your productivity. My journey in utilizing these tools began with my first chat agent, ChatGPT. I quickly discovered that by adding other agents, I could streamline my work and increase efficiency. The Evolution of My Chat

Power Platform 2025 Wave 1 - What caught my attention

The latest Power Platform release notes are out and I had a chance to read through them. There is a lot of things in there but here are the changes that caught my eye and you might want to dig more into. If you have time you can of course

What is the Power Platform? - 2024 answer

Four years ago, I created the first version of this video to provide a short but informative answer to this question. Since then, the Power Platform has continued evolving, so it was time to produce a new version! While many of you may be long-time Power Platform friends, I encourage

Customize the maker portal navigation

In this video, I walk through how you can customize the maker portal navigation for what is important to you.

MVP show with Mark Smith

I recently had a chat with Mark Smith about the nuances of large language models (LLMs) and their role in AI. We dove into the criticality of context, the art of prompt engineering, and the tangible boundaries of AI's capabilities. I also touched upon the AI features we

Generate a diagram of your Dataverse tables

In this video, show off how to generate a table diagram (aka ERD) by easily choosing the Dataverse tables and relationships you want to include in the diagram. You can get started at https://www.cds.tools/ERD

Enable Dataverse auditing to track who did what

In this video I walk through how to enable auditing on Dataverse data. Auditing can simply let you know who to blame for a change or can save the day and let you recover lost data.

Application modernization with Power Platform

I recently had the opportunity to help out with a white paper on application modernization with Power Platform. Even if you are already familiar with building applications on the Power Platform, I think you will find some value in this content. This white paper explores the benefits, strategies, and best

Properly configure a Dataverse table primary column

You can easily configure a Dataverse table primary column. You only get one chance to get it right. You might also notice that if you now try to create a table outside of a Dataverse solution, you might be surprised what ends up being your primary column! For example, if

Code Magazine - Power Platform Focus

Recently Code Magazine published a special edition covering the Power Platform. You will find inside 9 articles focusing on different Power Platform topics. I wrote the Power Platform for code developers article. I hope you enjoy it! You can read the special edition online here

Add columns to a Power Apps grid on the fly

In this video I show how to quickly add a column to a Power Apps grid on the fly.

Printing from your Power Apps canvas app

In this video I show how easy it is to print from a Power Apps canvas app.

Automatically create environment variables for Power Aps SharePoint

In this video I show how to enable automatic creation of environment variables with Power Apps.

Take a minute to create a Power Apps personal view

In this video I show how in just a minute you can create your own personal views of Microsoft Dataverse data.

Using Power Automate to be more productive in Microsoft Teams

In this video I show how to use the Microsoft Teams triggers to build context sensitive actions that can be run on messages in Microsoft Teams

Choose your own maintenance window

In this video I show how you can configure when you want maintenance to occur.

What are Power Platform DLP policies

In this video I explain what app makers should know about DLP policies to keep their Power Apps apps and Power Automate flows happy!

Power Platform 2022 Wave 1 Highlights

In this video I highlight my top 10 + 1 features from the Power Platform 2022 Wave 1 release notes.   You can checkout the full release notes at https://365l.ink/2022Wave1

Don't settle for a generated Power Platform environment URL

In this video I show how easy it is to choose your own Power Platform environment URL.

Solve Power Apps user access issues with user diagnostics

In this video I show how to use the new user diagnostics to troubleshoot Power Platform environment access issues.

Speed up your Power Apps support requests with session data

In this video I show you how to get session data to help speed up your support requests.

Where to find Power Platform developer resource info

In this video show that the developer resources have a new home in the Power Apps maker portal and explains what useful info you can find there.