Have you ever struggled to find the right release items for Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Dynamics 365 products when using the official Release Planner website? Did you ever get frustrated when Microsoft decided to categorize the release items in a non-intuitive way? Ever wished there was a quick way to see the most recently updated items on the release plans? Yes! Yes! And, yes!🙌 ...
Before there was the Release Planner website, Microsoft published all their Power Platform and Dynamics 365 release plans on MS Learn. They still do that. What this means in practice is that there is no single authoritative source for release plan item data. One very nice feature of the MS Learn based release plan documentation is the change history pages for each plan. As an example, for 2024 release wave 2 we can see changes like this: ...
We have deployed a Hugo website!🚀 Well, I have, at least. Since I figured it might be useful to have the ability to post updates here about changes to the Release Plans Visualized report, I wanted to have a lightweight, static website with a posts feature. I ended up installing Hugo and picking the PaperMod template. After some trial error, lots of discussion with ChatGPT and some Git struggles, I was able to get a seemingly working site pushed to my GitHub repo. Finally, I used Netlify to get the site publicly visible for all of you to access. The following video tutorial is a good reference in case you want to follow the same path as I did: ...