More CDS (Common Data Service) – Basically it’s a place to put your data (as opposed to putting it in a SharePoint list, Excel workbook, etc) so that it can be used by the Power Platform. Lots of advantages, and certainly a more mature and robust way to host data … but at what cost. And by that I mean, literally, it’s not included in our license so I need to know what it costs in $$$.
If we do like it, there are Data Flows that’ll let us import and transform our existing data.
Also attended a session called “The Power Platform for SharePoint People” where Ed Hild (Technology Architect, Microsoft) had a MS Flow running PowerShell to create teams in O365! He referred to it as a “Runbook” in his demo … but I can’t find any mention of it and the Power Automate folks at that booth have never heard of it! I’ve got him favorited and need to track him down after another session to ask!
The Adaptive Card feature in Teams is really shaping up to be something of interest, especially WRT Approvals, as is the way MS is expanding the presence of Tasks into Teams. Lots of potential for collaboration using Mentions and Tasks in teams discussions for the Web Team, and also possibly for other units who collaborate on documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint more). Must test and bring more info back to the team.
Lots more exploration and networking today, just with mixed results. Hoping for a better day Wednesday; sessions look much better for me there.
UPDATE
So Azure Runbooks are a absolutely a thing
https://azure.microsoft.com/nl-nl/blog/azure-automation-runbook-management/
And you can absolutely initiate them with powershell
So, that mystery has been solved.
