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Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, and Dataverse. en Solving Microsoft 365 Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/what-is-power-bi https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/what-is-power-bi#2026-08-30 Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform What Power BI is: Desktop, the Service, semantic models, licensing from Free to Fabric, how the pieces fit, and starting without a report swamp. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/what-is-power-automate https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/what-is-power-automate#2026-08-30 Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform What Power Automate is: cloud flows, desktop flows and RPA, what Microsoft 365 includes for free, and the governance that keeps it from becoming shadow IT. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/what-is-power-apps https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/what-is-power-apps#2026-08-30 Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform What Power Apps is: each app type and what it's for, where Dataverse fits, what's really included with Microsoft 365, and when not to use it. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/dataverse-explained https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/dataverse-explained#2026-08-25 Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform Dataverse is Microsoft's relational database for the Power Platform. Here's what it does and when you actually need it. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-query-primer https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-query-primer#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform Power Query is the data import and transformation engine inside Excel and Power BI. Here's the model. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-platform-licensing-explained https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-platform-licensing-explained#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform The Power Platform licensing model — what's free, what's premium, and how to plan for it. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-platform-environments-and-governance https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-platform-environments-and-governance#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform Environments are the unit of isolation in Power Platform. Designing them well prevents most governance problems. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-platform-dlp-policies https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-platform-dlp-policies#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform How Power Platform DLP policies govern which connectors apps and flows can combine — for data protection at the platform layer. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-platform-custom-connectors https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-platform-custom-connectors#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform How to build custom connectors for Power Automate and Power Apps — wrapping any REST API as a Power Platform connector. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-platform-coe-toolkit https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-platform-coe-toolkit#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform Microsoft's free toolkit of apps and flows for governing Power Platform at scale. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-fx-primer https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-fx-primer#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform A practical introduction to Power Fx, the formula language used across Power Apps and the Power Platform. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-workspace-design https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-workspace-design#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform How to structure Power BI workspaces for sharing, lifecycle, and governance at scale. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-semantic-model-design https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-semantic-model-design#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform How to design Power BI / Fabric semantic models for performance, usability, and reuse — star schemas, measures, and best practices. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-rls-and-ols https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-rls-and-ols#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform How RLS and OLS restrict what users see in Power BI semantic models — the patterns and the pitfalls. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-pro-vs-ppu-vs-fabric https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-pro-vs-ppu-vs-fabric#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform Choosing between Power BI licensing tiers — Pro, PPU, and Microsoft Fabric capacity for different scenarios. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-paginated-reports https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-paginated-reports#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform Paginated reports cover the print-and-export scenarios that interactive Power BI reports don't — invoices, statements, fixed-layout reporting. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-fabric-and-semantic-models https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-fabric-and-semantic-models#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform How Power BI fits inside Microsoft Fabric — semantic models, Direct Lake, OneLake, and the unified data platform. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-deployment-pipelines https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-deployment-pipelines#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform How to manage Power BI content lifecycle with deployment pipelines — dev, test, production. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-dataflows https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-dataflows#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform How dataflows centralise data preparation across many Power BI semantic models and reports. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-certification-and-endorsement https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-bi-certification-and-endorsement#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform How endorsement and certification surface trusted content in Power BI and Fabric — and the operational programme behind it. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-automate-process-mining https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-automate-process-mining#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform Process Mining analyses event-log data to discover real-world business processes and identify automation opportunities. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-automate-error-handling https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-automate-error-handling#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform How to make flows robust to failure — Run After, Try/Catch, retries, logging, and alerting. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-automate-desktop-flows-rpa https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-automate-desktop-flows-rpa#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform Desktop flows automate UI on Windows machines — Microsoft's robotic process automation capability inside Power Automate. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-automate-cloud-flows-deep-dive https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-automate-cloud-flows-deep-dive#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform The architecture, triggers, actions, and patterns of cloud flows — and the licensing rules that catch many users out. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-apps-performance-tuning https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-apps-performance-tuning#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform Common reasons canvas apps are slow and the patterns that fix them. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-apps-canvas-vs-model-driven https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/power-apps-canvas-vs-model-driven#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform The two main Power Apps types — what each is good at, and how to pick. https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/ai-builder-document-processing https://www.solvingmicrosoft365.com/guides/ai-builder-document-processing#2026-05-01 Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Emil Björk Power Platform How AI Builder extracts structured data from PDFs and images at scale, and where it fits with newer Copilot patterns.