Office Hours Questions

If you were starting a Power App that uses Dataverse and Power BI to show form data on the screen, where would you begin?

Can a Power App be built to work like Project Portfolio—specifically to read and write to multiple Planner plans?

What’s the best way to create a searchable, updateable Knowledge Base that works for multiple internal teams—and can also eventually be shared externally? We’ve struggled with SharePoint in the past and are unsure about tools like Notion since they're outside the Microsoft ecosystem.

Do you recommend setting up master lists (like locations, holidays, pay periods) that everyone in the tenant can use for automations?

Will the integration of Loop with Teams help with business concerns related to AI?

Do I need to pay for everyone in the company to have a Copilot license, or can a few of us create agents and automations that can help others who don't have paid Copilot?

Are you able to make one-time booking links that cannot be reused?

How to bring tasks or progress trackers into future meetings using Loop, and how to change someone's name in Copilot.

How to build a system for teachers to reserve art and tech items, and if there are alternatives to Microsoft Bookings in the Microsoft 365 world.

How to organize Teams folders/channels for sales, consultants, and team managers, and how to handle the transition from sales proposal stage to client stage.

The relationship between a checklist added to a loop page through the slash command and adding an existing planner plan through the Slash command.

Is Power App secure enough for me to use to store and share client contract data?

Does having Copilot include Premium Planner?

Can you recommend a beginner-friendly resource for Power Automate, aside from Google and YouTube?

Which Office 365 Copilot subscription should I request to capture notes from unrecorded meetings and streamline task management?

For each MOC client onboarding, should I create a new team or just a new Loop workspace?

Should I create a Team for each meeting or just use a Loop workspace?

What's the best way to manage a Dataverse Auto-number column's seed during ALM, especially when copying table data between environments?

How can I transition our Management of Change meetings from an Excel process to using Teams with Loop and Planner?

How can I capture in-person meeting notes so I can use Copilot afterward?

Should I manage tasks in Loop or import them from Planner? Pros and cons?

Any suggestions for replacing Viva Goals with a full M365 solution, given we're dropping Teamflect?

Does the new Outlook break flows or improve customization and accessibility?

Can the General channel in Teams be renamed, and what are the implications?

How do you redeploy a previous solution version in Power Platform pipelines, and what are the best practices for managing solutions and connection references?

What are the options for creating an employee directory in Microsoft 365?

Is it possible to integrate data from Loop with Power Automate?

What’s the main purpose of a Loop?

How do I set up Teams for my workplace for five? Is there a user-friendly tutorial for this?

Should I create a SharePoint for admin files and Teams for projects and communication?

What is the best way to set up file organization for a new company? (structure TEAMS and SharePoint effectively)

How do you manage a Power App with over 750 components and improve its performance?

How can you use tags in Teams for custom notifications to manage communications better?

How useful is the Loop workspace status feature for project management?

How does your team use Microsoft Loop for collaboration, and what challenges have you faced?

What are Microsoft’s plans to enhance Planner to compete with Smartsheets, especially for Gantt view and task dependencies?

What’s the recommended approach for managing data ingestion and dimension tables in SQL and Dataverse?

How do we migrate users between domains in Microsoft 365 while changing email domains and UPNs?

What's the best way to apply consistent theming across multiple Power Apps?

How can we ensure a Power Automate flow works for all users, not just the creator?

What are the thoughts and feelings around approvals in teams for approval workflows?

How to use planner alongside project for maximum productivity and reporting capability in construction projects?

How to structure teams and channels effectively?

How to transition from a master SharePoint site with subfolders for clients to a more team-centric model without overwhelming the team? 3

How can Microsoft 365 tools help organize and manage inquiries more efficiently?

How do you assign stakeholders to a specific project and manage who accesses what in Microsoft Teams?

How can the issue of effectively utilizing Teams for topic-based communication be approached?

Do you think workflows should be moved into Power Automate?

What is the best way to manage a SQL database connection through ALM for SQL and BLOB storage?

When recording emails in Salesforce using the Outlook plugin, is there a way to forward the original email to a group email box automatically?

How can Microsoft 365 tools help organize and manage a high volume of unformatted questions received in a shared inbox?

Can you suggest a process to take data tied to a particular date and export it as a PDF template for sharing with external users?

How would the Bulb team approach developing a system where employees can indicate their training interests and receive tailored emails?

Is there a way to seamlessly integrate mail merge functionality in Microsoft 365 with Salesforce's BCC capability?

What platform do you recommend to use for taking personal reference notes that are not job role specific, in a way that are accessible at work and even outside of work if you were to leave the company?

Is there a size restriction for lists from Excel, or a way round it?

Do you use a specific tool for tracking time?

Do you set aside time to work on tasks in four buckets at a certain frequency, or just work on important tasks until all of them are done?

What strategy would you recommend to manage multiple projects that are either important while also juggling to fix issue with old projects?

Is there a way to create a component that responds to a delete icon in a gallery without enabling the experimental "Enhanced component properties"? Are there any videos on how to do this?

What do you do when you see a message in a channel but you don't have time to get to it?

How to get the time ranges between the start and end time for an overtime app and apply the logic for time and half and double time.

What are your thoughts and feelings on the new planner and the road map updates that Microsoft has announced.

How to make a model driven app that can collect multiple entries of data with a good user experience.

Is it worth it to get a degree in IT?

How do you get people on board with automating routine tasks?

Why is the Azure Active Directory not available for lookups?

What app are you using with Slack?

How do I transition out of using shared inboxes?

What would be the best way to track expiration dates for medical licenses? The goal is for an auto reminder to be sent out before the expiration date.

When it comes to building client facing dashboards, tracking workloads, and progress, is this all possible when it comes to New Planner?

How do I implement a help desk template while using my own SharePoint list?

Which Teams app would you recommend the most for an editable platform for internal and external users to edit together and share ideas?

When designing a solution how would you distinguish if some of the design elements are future proof vs over designed?

Are custom images going to be re-enabled for Teams Announcement Headers?

When will nested M365 Groups become an available feature?

What is the difference between Synce and “Add shortcut to OneDrive”?

Any idea when array formulas will become an excel formula?

When syncing a SharePoint document library to your File Explorer, how do you ‘un-sync’?

What are the differences in a Dataverse rollup vs. calculated vs formula columns?

How do you prevent multiple runs of the same trigger in Power Automate?

Do you have recommendations for keeping track of my time? And monitoring where I may be wasting time?

Where can I “test” using Microsoft Teams?

Is there a way to do create a field in model driven apps that is specifically for time and goes in 15 min intervals?

What matrix or method do you use to prioritize (beyond urgent, important, etc.) tasks, whether it be HR, dev, or whatever topical category?

Is there a way to change multiple [Intranet] page designs at once?

How do you determine if a project would be a good candidate for a Power Platform solution or not?

Have you done an embedded canvas app into a model driven app, if so do you know how to make it smaller?

What words do you associate with Bulb Digital?

Biggest difference between OneNote and Loop?

Should I be using a Production environment for my solutions that are public? Should it be managed? Will it cost extra to connect to Dataverse?

What’s the best way to share an external video I don’t have downloaded with my team?

How do I default the saving of student’s document to the cloud instead of the desktop?

How do I restore a deleted meeting link and use same chat?

How do you control the user that shows in created by when patching from an app?

How do I display the name of the month previous from a given date?

Would you recommend calling a flow from PowerApps versus when an item is created or updated?

Developers new to a low-code approach?

How to navigate Pro Developers used to .Net solutions to understand the low code approach of power platform and a more agile approach?

How to integrate calendars and tasks?