Microsoft Power Platform 
A collection of awesome things regarding the Power Platform ecosystem.
- Power List
💬 General
Sign-in Links
- Power Apps - Sign-in to Power Apps maker portal where you can create apps along with other things.
- Power Automate - Sign-in to Power Automate where you can create flows, business process and UI flows.
- Power Virtual Agent - Sign-in to PVA where you can create and manage your bot.
FAQs
Important Links, Tools & More
- Licensing Docs - Understanding Power Platform Licensing.
- Power Platform Guidance Docs - Offical MS guidance docs that gets you started on Power Platform
- Power Platform Training Materials - Offical post that contains links to various training materials.
- Center of Excellence starter kit - Center of Excellence (CoE) kit helps you get started with developing strategy for adoption and support.
- Environment Strategy - Establish an Environment Strategy for Power Platform
- Community Mentorship Program - Log into your app, select your favorite mentor and get connected.
- XrmToolBox - An application that provides tons of tools to simplify management of your processes.
- Introducing Project Oakdale – low code data platform for Microsoft Teams - Blog post from Charles Lamanna, CVP of Low Code Application Platform
- ALM with Power Platform - Official MS guidance docs for ALM with Power Platform
- Power Platform Build Tools - Azure DevOps Pipeline tool to help with build and deployment tasks.
- Training lab: GitHub Power Platform Action - Learn how to use Power Platform Action for GitHub
- Pluralsight: Power Platfrom Fundamentals - Learn fundamentals of Power Platform on Pluralsight
- LinkedIn Learning: Power Platform - List of all courses available on LinkedIn Learninig
- Fluent UI: Controls - List of controls created using Fluent UI.
- Fluent UI: Styles - List of sytles provided by Fluent UI.
🌎 Environment for learning Power Platform
Sign up for the Microsoft 365 Developer Program and setup Microsoft 365 dev subscription.
Option 1 - Power Apps Trial Plan
With this you can sign up for the trial using your personal email address, and you also get Power Apps for Office 365 included in the trial. Even though the trial is only for 90 days, it will be extended indefinely, if there is valid developer activity.
Option 2 - Power Apps Community Plan
Using the username and domain created for Microsoft 365 dev subscription, you can signup for Power Apps Community Plan that gives you most of the features; for more details on which features are included see details here. Step-by-step process of creating the Developer Environment please read this blog post.
Difference between the two options
Both Power Apps Plan Trial and Power Apps Community Plan are free, but are created for different purposes. Details here.
💪 Common Data Service
Common Data Service lets you securely store and manage data that's used by business applications.
Important Links, Tools & More
- Overview: What is CDS? - Understand the basics of Common Data Service.
- MS Docs - Common Data Service - Offical Microsoft documentation for Common Data Service (CDS)
- MS Docs - Connectors - Offical Microsoft documentation for connectors
⚡ Power Apps
Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, connectors and data platform that provides a rapid application development environment to build custom apps for your business needs.
Forums
Register for Power Apps Forums here.
Important Links, Tools & More
- MS Documentation - Offical Microsoft documentation for Power Apps
- Create your first canvas App - Learn how to create your first canvas apps
- Create your first model-driven App - Learn how to create your first model-driven apps
- Training lab: App in a day - Download the training contents for creating apps
- Training lab: Admin in a day - Offical lab training for Admins
- Sample Apps - Collection of all community built sample apps.
- Videos & Webniars - Collection of community created videos & hosted webniars.
- Canvas Apps Components - Collection of canvas apps components that can be reused in your projects.
- Controls & Properties - List of all controls and properties in Power Apps
- Formula References - List of all formulas in Power Apps
- Optimize canvas app performance - List of things to perform to optimize the performance of canvas apps
- Training Courses - 365 Training - All courses related to Power Apps provided by 365.training
- Training Cources - Shane Young - All courses related to Power Apps provided by Shane Young
- Comparison: Maker Portal vs Solution Explorer - Comparison between new maker portal and old solution explorer
🚀 Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)
Installations
PCF: Important Links, Tools & More
- Overview Docs - Get yourself familiarize wiht Power Apps Component Framework (PCF)
- Forums - Official forums for PCF
- Community Resources - Links to all community resources for PCF
- PCF Gallery - PCF Gallery is a collection of controls created with the Power Apps Component Framework.
- PCF Builder for XrmToolBox - An XrmToolBox tool that provides a GUI for creating Code Components.
- PCF Builder for VS Code - VS Code extension to help you execute Power Apps CLI commands with ease.
- Learn - PCF for model-driven apps - A paid 16+ hours learning course on building code components for model-driven apps.
🐱🏍 Power Automate
Power Automate is a service that helps you create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and more.
Forums
Register for Power Automate Forums here.
- General Power Automate Questions
- Connecting to Data/Connectors
- Building Flows
- Using Flows
- AI Builder
Important Links, Tools & More
- MS Documentation - Offical Microsoft documentation for Power Automate
- Create your first flow - Learn how to create your first flow
- Training lab: Flow in a day - Training provided by the community on Power Automate
- Power Studio app - It has free and paid version that provides advanced functions beyond Power Automate flow portal
- Common Data Service (current environment) Cheat Sheet - Cheat sheet for various triggers and actions of Common Data Service (current environment) connector
- Power Accelerate app - Create entities and apps using data structure in Excel, SQL or even from images/screenshots.
🤳 Power BI
Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights.
Forums
Register for Power BI Forums here.
Important Links, Tools & More
- MS Documentation - Offical Microsoft documentation for Power Bi
- Create your first report - Learn how to create your first report
🤖 Power Virtual Agents
Power Virtual Agents allows you to easily create your bot, and embed it into your website with just a few clicks. Also, known as PVA.
Forums
Register for Power Virtual Agents Forums here.
Important Links, Tools & More
- MS Documentation - Offical Microsoft documentation for Power Virtual Agent
- Create your first bot - Learn how to create your first bot
- Training lab: Bot in a day - Training for creating your bots using Power Virtual Agent
📰 Newsletters
- Dynamics Weekly (Discontinued) - Weekly emails with overall list of articles and resources
- Power Platform Developers Weekly - Weekly emails with list of articles and resources focused for Developers
➕ Contribute
Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.
🐛 Found an issue
Two ways to help.
- Submit Pull Request, but first read contribution guidelines
- Create an issue