My Favorite Microsoft Power Apps Bloggers and their Blogs

by James Townsend

Updated 7/5/2022

Microsoft Power Apps is one of my favorite subjects, and I enjoy reading blog posts from members of this thriving technical community. Here are some of my favorite bloggers and their blogs:

The Official Microsoft Power Apps Blog

I have to start with the official Microsoft Power Apps blog. It has many contributors, largely Microsoft program manager, including frequent posters Denise Moran, Greg Lindhorst, Kartik Kanakasabesan, and Adrian Orth. This is the place to go for product announcements, updates and technical how-to for a broad range of Power Apps topics.

April Dunnam

April Dunnam was formerly focused on SharePoint and now devoting herself to Power Platform. April offers highly understandable explanations of Power Platform, Dataverse and other top Power Apps topics. She joined Microsoft in late 2019 and has a thriving YouTube channel.

Carl De Souza Power Apps Blog and eBook

This is one of the most extensive and best organized blogs on Power Apps. You can dip in and read individual posts or read it more like a book with the posts as small chapters. In 2021 Carl received the Microsoft MVP award.

Christine Kolodziejski

Christine Kolodziejski recently started a blog focusing on Power Apps and especially how to create the best user experience.

Dreaming in CRM and Power Platform

From Microsoft MVP Natraj Yegnaraman in Melbourne, Australia. Wide ranging topics which also cover Azure, PowerShell and other software development.

ReadyXRM

Nick Doelman is Microsoft Business Solutions MVP and covers the Microsoft Power Automate platform, with special emphasis on Power Portals.

Sara Lagerquist

She takes a low code/no code approach to Power Apps.

Steve Mordue

Steve's blog targets the Microsoft partner community, with analysis of Microsoft's partner model and strategy, interviews with Microsoft and partner insiders, and his trademark ambush phone calls to Redmond. He reads his blogs so you can consume them like a podcast. Steve is blunt and irreverent, so you can count on him for a smile or a groan with every post.

Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict

Hardit's blog is devoted to Power Apps how-to articles. If you wonder how to take Power Apps in new directions, his articles will spark new ideas for you.

Key Concepts for Microsoft Dynamics 365: Tenant, Instance, App and Solution

Updated 8/15/2022 To understand Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Dynamics CRM) and Power Apps, you need to learn some new terms and concepts that may be a bit different from what you know from databases and solutions that are hosted on premises. These concepts also apply to Power Apps. The main difference is that with Power Apps you are not starting with a Microsoft app but more of a blank canvas for your custom apps. This post introduces some key terms and how these concepts are important for planning your implementation. While Dynamics 365 is still available on premises, it is most commonly deployed on the Microsoft cloud. This blog post discusses only cloud implementations. Microsoft has multiple clouds such as commercial and government community clouds in several countries. We start with a Microsoft tenant . A tenant is the account you create in the Microsoft Online Services environment (such as Office 365) when you sign up for a subscription. A tenant contains uni

Understanding Dynamics 365 and Office 365 Admin Roles

Managing Dynamics 365 instances If you run Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Dynamics CRM) in the Microsoft cloud, you need to understand how your Dynamics instances relate to Office 365 and choose which of your administrators receives which roles and permissions to manage Dynamics 365. In on premises deployments, your network administrator would create and delete user accounts. The Dynamics 365 admin would then assign permissions to users in Dynamics 365. This post explains three administrator roles: Office 365 Global Administrator Dynamics 365 System Administrator Dynamics 365 Service Administrator You may think that the Dynamics 365 system administrator would have power to do all the actions needed to manage Dynamics 365, but this is not the case. What's different in Microsoft cloud deployments is that licenses and user accounts are managed in Office 365 by an Office 365 Global Administrator. This role is analogous to a network administrator for an on premises

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