Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

Those who are familiar with ADX Portals which later acquired by Microsoft and came up with ‘Dynamics Portals’ SaaS offering, ‘PowerApps’ Portal is the next evolution.

• With PowerApps Portals, Microsoft merging the capabilities offered by Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement portals in to PowerApps Portals.
• PowerApps Portals provides the ability to build low-code, responsive websites which allow external users to interact with the data stored in the Common Data Service (CDS).
• PowerApps Portals will seamlessly integrate with Microsoft services like Power BI embed, Microsoft Flow, Microsoft SharePoint, Azure Blob Storage, Azure AD B2C, and Azure Application Insights to enhance your portal with rich content and provide a personalized experience to your customers.
• All the components of Dynamics CE portals (i.e., Entity Forms, Web Templates, Web Forms,etc…) will be continued to available in PowerApps Portals.
• PowerApps portal uses the same ‘Liquid Template’ scripting conventions of Dynamics CE Portals.

How to get started?

• General availability of PowerApps Portal will from July 2019.
• A new App type called “Portal” will be available directly from PowerApps.

• You can subscribe here to be informed about the Public Preview availability.

Whats the upgrade path for existing Dynamics 365 CE Portals?

• All the existing Dynamics 365 CE portals will auto upgrade to PowerApps portals in coming months.

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