Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

With October 2018 release, Dynamics Portals coming up with below features:

Embed Power BI visualizations:

• Administrators will be able to configure and enable Power BI for a portal.
• This will require an appropriate Power BI license.
• Customizer’s can use liquid code to embed Power BI dashboards and reports within pages.

Restrict portal access by IP address:

• This feature would allow administrators to define a list of IP addresses that are allowed to access your portal.
• When a request to the portal is generated from any user, their IP address is evaluated against the allow list. If the IP address is not in the list, the portal replies with an HTTP 403 status code.

Manage SharePoint documents:

• This feature extends document management capabilities of Dynamics 365 applications to portals.
• SharePoint Online document libraries configured with entities in Dynamics 365 can be surfaced via portal entity and web forms.
• This allows portal users to perform the following actions:
  • Add documents
  • View and download documents
  • Delete document
  • Create folder

Simplified customization

• An intuitive experience abstracts data model complexities, lowers the learning curve for portal customization, and leads to increased user productivity

Self-service portal diagnostics

• This feature provides a self-service diagnostic tool that looks at portal configuration and identifies potential configuration problems as well as provides solutions on how to resolve the issues.

Configuration migration:

• A schema for Portal configuration migration that works with the Configuration Migration SDK tool will be available in this release.

I will elaborate these features in my next articles.

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