Rick Bakker #PowerAddict
formsandflows.nl
Rick Bakker #PowerAddict
@formsandflows.nl
Passionate about the realization of business solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform | Microsoft Business Applications MVP

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Power Apps was powerful because of the "no cliffs" mantra. Because of the graphical and model-based designer experiences for app makers.

AI agents like App Builder in M365 Copilot aren't like that. They are just an LLM, spitting out code for a React app. There is no "edit in Power Apps" button.
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
If you take Power Platform security serious, this blog post from @jukkan.bsky.social is a must read imo! And why not also become a paid subscriber to his perspective on Power Platform to support him?
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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The most useless "security" setting in Dynamics 365 and Power Apps is Export to Excel. Because there are numerous simple ways to take business data into a spreadsheet these days: www.perspectives.plus/p/you-can-al...

#Dynamics365 #PowerApps #Excel
You can always Export to Excel
Are you concerned that users could grab data from your business app into a spreadsheet? Here's why you can't just flip a switch and disable that in Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps or Power Apps. Or at lea...
www.perspectives.plus
October 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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💡 Power Platform Meets Terraform

Terraform your Power Platform: spin up environments, enforce DLP, and automate with Azure DevOps—explained by Brian Archer.

📺 Watch the demo → youtu.be/s20DNiE57H4

#PowerPlatform #Connectors #PowerAutomate
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I decided to make it available via a GitHub repo, in case others want to set up their own #PowerPlatform Monitor test flows for monitoring the Monitor.

github.com/jukkan/coin-...
GitHub - jukkan/coin-flip: Generate Power Automate cloud flow errors for Power Platform Monitor or any other telemetry tool you need to validate.
Generate Power Automate cloud flow errors for Power Platform Monitor or any other telemetry tool you need to validate. - jukkan/coin-flip
github.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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After 20 days of testing #PowerPlatform Monitor alerts, the reliability rate is now 30%. So, the chances of you getting a correct alert from the system when your #PowerAutomate flow is not working are less than a coin flip on average.🪙
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Metaverse gave us avatars with no legs. GenAI gave us AI assistants with no hands.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is sold as your personal AI assistant. Yet it can't handle 1) creating Outlook appointments, 2) comparing Excel lists, 3) talking to it about your agenda.

www.perspectives.plus/p/assistants...
Assistants without hands
When everyone talks about agentic AI, it's all too easy to forget how AI assistants like Copilot today can't be trusted to do things for us - if it involves anything more than talk.
www.perspectives.plus
August 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Prompt injection means email viruses are back. A researcher found a security vulnerability where you send an email with hidden instructions which when CoPilot scans the email, executes and then hides the source of the instructions.

It took Microsoft 5 months to fix the issue.
Microsoft Copilot flaw raises urgent questions for any business deploying AI agents
Microsoft fixed the Copilot flaw, but researchers warn the real danger lies in how all AI agents are built.
fortune.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I'm super happy to announce the release of my Power Platform Pipelines Framework. This is designed to help organisations adopt #Pipelines and think about the strategy around rolling this out, regardless of size.

github.com/MattCollins-...

#PowerPlatformPipelines
#PowerPlatform
#CommunityRocks
#ALM
Home
Contribute to MattCollins-Jones/PowerPlatformPipelinesCharonFramework development by creating an account on GitHub.
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June 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
April 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
PACo version 4.1.0 will be released on 2025-04-23.

#PowerAddicts #PACo
April 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I had a new experience this afternoon. A free fall for a few meters from a 20m high platform in a forest. The second time was fun 😁 Power Platform has a new meaning for me.
April 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Do you know that feeling that you are working on something and cannot wait to tell others about it but not just yet...
April 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
2 weeks ago, I released the first major version of #Kookaburra, the open-source project providing an extensible automation platform for business solutions to support application managers – functional and technical – in their day-to-day work.

Today I am announcing:
March 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Soon, very soon!, a new major version of hashtag#PACo will be released.

The new canvas component shown in the video is just one of the many updates.

www.formsandflows.nl/kookaburra/

#Microsoft #PowerPlatform #PowerAddicts
March 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
📯 Today, version 1.0.0 of Kookaburra has been released, being hopefully the start of a very interesting journey 🛣️

More info can be found here: www.linkedin.com/posts/rick72...
Rick Bakker on LinkedIn: #microsoft #powerplatform #poweraddicts
📯 Today, version 1.0.0 of Kookaburra has been released, being hopefully the start of a very interesting journey 🛣️ Kookaburra is an open-source project…
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March 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
As of today, I have no WhatsApp anymore for my work mobile. I do have Signal.
March 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
You can expect news about Kookaburra coming week 😁
March 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I am almost done finishing version 1.0.0 of Kookaburra, the open-source extensible automation platform for business solutions to support functional and technical application managers in their day-to-day work 🥳 built with the #Microsoft #PowerPlatform.

📯 v1.0.0 will be released Tuesday next week.
February 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Thank you Graz. We had a great time 👊🏻
February 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
You can expect some good news about the open-source project "Kookaburra" later next week 🙂
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February 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Somehow, I have the feeling that this will be a good year for me 🤩 Part of this is the growth of my 5 open-source projects related to the #Microsoft #PowerPlatform. Providing good information about the projects is, and will be, key and you can expect some improvements there.

www.formsandflows.nl
February 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
ℹ️Errors can be useful.

I recently added a screen in a #PowerApps Canvas App with logic in its OnVisible property. Because of an error in the logic, the webbrowser tab frooze when navigating to that screen.
February 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
There. It happened. The blue bird flew away for me.
February 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM