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How to Make AI Actually Do What You Want
Learn how AI reward hacking happens at the prompt level. This post covers how to design better prompts, avoid misaligned outputs, and get results that reflect what you actually want, not just what you typed. Prompt design is alignment.
Eric Lott
Jul 15 min read


Build It Right from Day One: 6 Enterprise-Grade Power Platform Practices
Getting Started with Enterprise-Grade Power Platform Practices Building solutions on Microsoft Power Platform can be exciting and...
Eric Lott
May 306 min read


How to Modify or Remove a Repeating Section in a Word Document via Power Automate
This article explains how to get around an issue with updating a Word template repeating section.
Eric Lott
Apr 29, 20243 min read


What's Next for the Power Platform?
As a full-time Power Platform consultant and part-time nerd, I've been closely watching how Microsoft has rapidly integrated artificial...
Eric Lott
Mar 4, 20248 min read


Add Resilience to Your Flows with Power Automate Work Queues
Work queues are a new Power Automate tool built on top of your Dataverse instance with an out-of-the-box user interface similar to...
Eric Lott
Feb 26, 20246 min read


What Makes Someone a Great Power Platform Developer?
The Power Platform, Microsoft's next-generation suite of business applications, empowers developers and non-technical users alike to...
Eric Lott
Feb 19, 20247 min read


What is JSON and Why Should Power Platform Developers Understand It?
If you've gotten into the technical weeds of the Power Platform, particularly Power Automate, you've probably run into JSON (pronounced...
Eric Lott
Feb 7, 20246 min read


How to Migrate Multi-Select SharePoint Columns to Dataverse
In my Dataverse migration series, I outlined how to import Choice columns from SharePoint to Dataverse via a Dataflow. One caveat to...
Eric Lott
Feb 2, 20243 min read


The Ultimate Guide to Migrating from SharePoint to Dataverse (Part Ten - Go-Live)
You're almost at the end of your data migration journey! Before we can call this project done, we need to check the final boxes to ensure...
Eric Lott
Dec 18, 20234 min read


The Ultimate Guide to Migrating from SharePoint to Dataverse (Part Nine - Training)
As we begin to wrap up this series on Dataverse migration, there are still some very important steps remaining, one being training your...
Eric Lott
Dec 11, 20233 min read


The Ultimate Guide to Migrating from SharePoint to Dataverse (Part Eight - Security)
Now that all of our data is in the Dataverse and validated, it's time to talk security. The Dataverse offers robust tools for securing...
Eric Lott
Dec 4, 20234 min read


The Ultimate Guide to Migrating from SharePoint to Dataverse (Part Seven - Testing and Validation)
Now that all of our data has been brought into the Dataverse, it's time to make sure it's in the format and structure we expect by...
Eric Lott
Nov 27, 20234 min read


The Ultimate Guide to Migrating from SharePoint to Dataverse (Part Six - Dataflow Importing)
Now it's time to take our data and map it into our Dataverse columns. Make sure to do this in a non-production environment so that if...
Eric Lott
Nov 20, 20234 min read


How to Interact with Power Automate in a Custom GPT
This is a start-to-finish guide to creating a custom GPT that calls a Power Automate flow.
Eric Lott
Nov 14, 20233 min read


The Ultimate Guide to Migrating from SharePoint to Dataverse (Part Five - Transforming the Data)
After all of the planning, it's finally time to really begin the process of moving data into the Dataverse! In this post, we'll discuss...
Eric Lott
Nov 13, 20238 min read


The Ultimate Guide to Migrating from SharePoint to Dataverse (Part Four - Relationships)
In the Dataverse, relationships are defined in a table record's metadata as an explicit reference to another record.
Eric Lott
Nov 6, 20234 min read


The Ultimate Guide to Migrating from SharePoint to Dataverse (Part Three - Configuration)
In the configuration stage, we will focus on laying the foundation for our migration by creating the objects necessary as well as the...
Eric Lott
Oct 30, 20236 min read


Understanding Dataverse Solutions and Application Lifecycle Management
Dataverse solutions give you the ability to package new and existing Power Platform objects in one environment and move them to another.
Eric Lott
Oct 27, 20236 min read


The Ultimate Guide to Migrating from SharePoint to Dataverse (Part Two - Planning)
This article walks through the process of mapping and diagramming your data so that you and your stakeholders understand the migration.
Eric Lott
Oct 23, 20237 min read


The Ultimate Guide to Migrating from SharePoint to Dataverse (Part One - Architecture)
This article breaks down the data structure of the Dataverse and covers what does (and doesn't) belong there.
Eric Lott
Oct 16, 20235 min read
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