
Julian Sharp and The Study Group for Microsoft Certification Exams
12/18/22 • 55 min
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a repeat guest and fellow MVP, Julian Sharp, about the study groups that he runs for the Microsoft certification exams.
Some of the highlights:
- Julian's impressive beard
- Study Groups
- Meet twice a week, Thursday Evening and Sunday Morning
- Run on Teams
- 10 sessions over a couple of months
- Ask users to show up, ask questions
- How do people decide where to specialize?
- Microsoft Power Up
- Julians Flow vs Logic Apps Preferences
- Julian's love for Goals in the Sales Exams
Julian's Info and other links:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliansharp
- Twitter: @juliandynamics
- Blog: https://ukcrm.wordpress.com
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.
Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.
Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow
Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin | @LinnZawWin
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a repeat guest and fellow MVP, Julian Sharp, about the study groups that he runs for the Microsoft certification exams.
Some of the highlights:
- Julian's impressive beard
- Study Groups
- Meet twice a week, Thursday Evening and Sunday Morning
- Run on Teams
- 10 sessions over a couple of months
- Ask users to show up, ask questions
- How do people decide where to specialize?
- Microsoft Power Up
- Julians Flow vs Logic Apps Preferences
- Julian's love for Goals in the Sales Exams
Julian's Info and other links:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliansharp
- Twitter: @juliandynamics
- Blog: https://ukcrm.wordpress.com
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.
Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.
Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow
Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin | @LinnZawWin
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Kartik Kanakasabesan and Riding the Power Apps CLI Rocket Ship
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Microsoft employee Kartik Kanakasabesan about the Power Apps CLI.
Some of the highlights:
- The origin and history of the PAC
- New Tools to install using PAC
- Submitting a PR to PAC
- Using PAC in Azure DevOps
- PAC Canvas Create
Kartik's Info and other links:
- Kartik Kanakasabesan - LinkedIn
- @kkanakas
- List of Kartik blog posts - https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/author/kartikka
- Related blog posts
- Power Platform Developer Tools monthly release blog - https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-platform-developer-tools-monthly-release-september-refresh
- PAC Canvas Create - https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/automatically-create-a-power-app-from-a-rest-api
- PAC CLI in Azure DevOps - https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-version-of-power-platform-build-tools-and-a-feature-packed-update-of-power-platform-cli
- Dataverse Service Client - https://github.com/microsoft/PowerPlatform-DataverseServiceClient
- NuGet Packages
- PP CLI on Windows - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.PowerApps.CLI
- PP CLI on Linux - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.PowerApps.CLI.Core.linux-x64
- PP CLI on OSX64 - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.PowerApps.CLI.Core.osx-x64
- GitHub repository
- Github Actions - https://github.com/microsoft/powerplatform-actions
- VS Code extension - https://github.com/microsoft/powerplatform-vscode
Microsoft will be opening up the pac cli code on GitHub as read only soon for the time being please submit PAC CLI requests in these GitHub repos or send your feedback to [email protected].
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.
Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.
Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow
Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin | @LinnZawWin
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Power BI Dynamics 365 Sales Templates with Scott Sewell
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, Scott Sewell, about the Power BI Dynamics 365 Sales Templates.
Some of the highlights:
- Daryl's Europe trip
- Scott's superpower is working with Data, from SSIS/Kingswaysoft to SSRS to Power BI
- How Scott got into using the Titanic
- What not to do when starting with Power BI
- Scott explains a star schema for Daryl
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- Using pre-GA Power BI Solution imports
- Scott shares his proposal story
Scott's Info and other links:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mscottsewell
- Twitter: @scottsewell
- GitHub: https://github.com/mscottsewell
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MSFT_ScottSewell
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- Power BI modeling guidance for Power Platform - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/powerbi-modeling-guidance-for-power-platform
- A "Solution" for Power BI with Dynamics 365 Sales - https://youtu.be/mcdpm_5skpA
Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.
Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.
Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow
Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin | @LinnZawWin
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