Today, we are excited to unveil new features within Power Platform that incorporate next-generation AI, in including conversation boosters with Power Virtual Agents and AI Builder introducing a create text with GPT model. These features bring both a new way for developers to solve business problems and a new way for end-users to leverage AI in the flow of their work to be more productive. This is a glimpse of what’s to come as we continue to ramp up our investment in AI across Power Platform.

We are excited to share the ‘Power Platform Communities Front Door’ experience with you!

Front Door brings together content from all the Power Platform communities into a single place for our community members, customers and low-code, no-code enthusiasts to learn, share and engage with peers, advocates, community program managers and our product team members.

There are a host of features and new capabilities now available on Power Platform Communities Front Door to make content more discoverable for all power product community users which includes

• Forums
• User Groups
• Events
• Community highlights
• Community by numbers
• Links to all communities

Users can see top discussions from across all the Power Platform communities and easily navigate to the latest or trending posts for further interaction. Additionally, they can filter to individual products as well.

Users can filter and browse the user group events from all power platform products with feature parity to existing community user group experience and added filtering capabilities.

Users can now explore user groups on the Power Platform Front Door landing page with capability to view all products in Power Platform. 

Explore Power Platform Communities Front Door today.

Visit Power Platform Community Front door to easily navigate to the different product communities, view a roll up of user groups, events and forums.

Omar Aftab, Microsoft Vice President of Conversational AI, announced the Public Preview launch of this exciting new feature of Power Virtual Agents on Thursday, November 10, 2022.

Get the efficiency of low-code speed and the advanced design, development, and security tools usually offered by more traditional and complex development platforms. 

Since launching our communities, one of our ongoing goals has been to create a “home” where we could easily feature some of the most-used or looked-for pages, as well as simplifying how users could find what they were looking for. Our team has been working on a “front door” to all the incredible tools you are looking for when you visit our site, providing you with the best experience, including findability and a one-stop-shop for all things Power Platform. 

Join us for an incredible in-person event in Orlando, September 20-22, 2022. 

This post talks about making your bot accessible by adding Speech capability as well as surfacing to the famous Telephony channels

This post talks about the latest features and capabilities announced for Microsoft Power Virtual Agents at the Build 2022 conference.

If you are attending the Microsoft Build event May 24th to May 26th 2022, then you might be aware of some of the new capabilities that are coming to Power Virtual Agents! Microsoft is leveling up the Power Virtual Agents application and taking it to new heights! There were several exiting announcements made regarding the new features and functionality of the application and in this article I will give you a high level overview of some of the most important items that were mentioned. I am super excited about the new Power Virtual Agent features, and hopefully you will be too after reading this article and watching my video below! Keep in mind I haven't had a lot of time to play around with most of these features, but I am planning to write additional, more detailed articles on these features at a later time.

Organizations face new challenges every day. Priorities change, markets shift, opportunities emerge—the pace isn’t slowing down. As your competitors transform their business models and customer expectations evolve, your future depends on how well you can empower your teams to adapt, innovate, and make a positive impact every day. You need to be ready for disruption, to embrace constant change, and, most of all, be fast on your feet.

Join us on April 6 for the Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event. You’ll hear from Charles Lamanna, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Business Applications & Platform, along with senior Microsoft engineers and leaders as they guide you through the latest advancements in Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform and how they’ll help you:

Hello Community Members!  I have loved working on this project with our community success team here at Microsoft.

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform User Groups!

We are super thrilled to announce that Dynamics 365 and Power Platform communities supporting user groups. If you are a leader please check out the links below and request the creation of your group in this new experience. If you are looking to join, give a look to see if your user group has been requested if you are already a member of one. We hope to see many existing user groups being to join this new experience over the next few weeks and into the Summer. 

Dynamics 365 

Power Platform user groups

Power BI user groups

Power Apps user groups

Power Automate user groups

Power Virtual Agents user groups

If you would like more information on the user group program, please read our user group program FAQ before you request the creation of your group. 

For any additional questions, you can always reach out to our user group coordinators at d365ppc@microsoft.com.

We look forward to seeing you on your user group pages.

The Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event is almost here. Join us on April 6, 2021, from 9–10:30 AM Pacific Time (UTC -7) to discover how new innovations coming to the 2021 wave 1 release will give you the tools you need to transform your business by:

• Bringing a new level of innovation and agility to your organization with modular applications that all work together.
  
  
• Unifying relationships, processes, and data with connected, comprehensive, cloud business applications across your organization.
  
  
• Gaining end-to-end visibility while enabling your teams to achieve greater outcomes faster.
  
  
• Thriving as your business changes by extending existing applications and building new solutions.
  
  
• Giving your organization the tools it needs to provide a safer workplace while maintaining productivity as teams work remotely.

You’ll be able to participate in a live Q&A chat and hear from James Phillips, President, Microsoft Digital Transformation Platform, as he shares stories from customers about how they use Microsoft business applications to drive success.

You’ll also hear from the executives and engineers behind the technology as they discuss the new features and capabilities of Power Virtual Agents. Here’s a high-level overview:

• Authoring experience improvements with topic suggestions from bot sessions, image and video support, and new topic trigger management.

• Custom bot content created in Bot Framework Composer is now directly embeddable and executable from within Power Virtual Agents, so collaboration between bot makers and pro developers is easier than ever.

• New @mention capability for bots created in Microsoft Teams provides the ability to share that bot with a security group.

• Better error handling improves integration with Power Automate.

• New PCI and HITRUST certifications and support for the government cloud.

And that’s just the start. Register today to ensure you don’t miss a single update, insight, or in-depth product demonstration from the experts behind them.

Come join us. And experience tomorrow’s innovations for your business—today.

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