CoE Starter Kit November 2023

First Time Setup Instructions

• Get started with the CoE Starter Kit Setup: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/setup
• Get started with the ALM Accelerator for Power Platform Setup: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/setup-almacceleratorpowerplatform-cli

Upgrade Instructions

• Upgrading from the latest version of the CoE Starter Kit: https://docs.microsoft.com/power-platform/guidance/coe/after-setup
• Upgrading from the latest version of the ALM Accelerator for Power Platform: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/setup-almacceleratorpowerplatform-upgrade-config

Customizing the CoE Starter Kit

• Best practices on customizing and extending the CoE Starter Kit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/modify-components

Change Log

🐛 ALM Accelerator - BUGS (12)

• #3301-[ALM Accelerator - BUG]: Desktop Flow Owner not set correctly
• #4289-[ALM Accelerator - BUG]: ALM Accelerator "Commit a solution" - Add Validation to Profile Setup
• #4311-[ALM Accelerator - BUG]: Makers can choose Environment for which there is no service connection
• #6666-[ALM Accelerator - BUG]: ALM failing
• #6689-[ALM Accelerator - BUG]: Run Solution Checker Timeout
• #6773-[ALM Accelerator - BUG]: Stuck on Getting Solution Dependencies
• #6794-[ALM Accelerator - BUG]: Error when setting up a new Project using the ALM Admin App
• #6801-[ALM Accelerator - BUG]: Permission issue in October 2023 release
• #6831-[ALM Accelerator - BUG]: Deployment setting failing to overwrite env variables
• #6838-[ALM Accelerator - BUG]: Issue in moving connection reference from development environment to test environment
• #6848-[ALM Accelerator - BUG]: Can't save deployment profile that i want to add on a solution
• #6872-[ALM Accelerator - BUG]: Unable to deploy solution

✨ ALM Accelerator - OTHER (16)

• #6254-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] Import Managed Solution as Update - Connector import: FAILURE
• #6335-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] Secure and Unsecure Plugin Configuration.
• #6433-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] Code Promotion roles QUESTION
• #6434-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] deploy-solution-import-pre-hook.yml
• #6481-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] Wrong Deployment name in Request History Screen - AA4PP
• #6649-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] Prepare screen is just stuck on "GETTING SOLUTION DEPENDENCIES..."
• #6680-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] Repository Security for Multiple Environment Users Using Same DevOps Project
• #6690-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] Future of ALM Accelerator / GitHub Support
• #6729-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Git.Server.GitPullRequestNotEditableException
• #6732-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] The deployment shows successful but not seeing the solution deployed at target env
• #6830-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] CustomAzureDevOps connection issue with Dataverse AAD Security Group
• #6857-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] Commit works on 1 dev env only and Test pipeline is not triggerd on an another env
• #6888-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] Building (and substituting?) Web Resources
• #6896-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] What is the best approach to testing new versions of ALM?
• #6904-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] How to deploy flows that are used across multiple solutions?
• #6960-[ALM Accelerator - QUESTION] Pipeline Accelerator

🐛 CoE Starter Kit - BUGS (24)

• #6117-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Connection references need deduped before you add them - Sync Helpers
• #6608-[CoE Starter Kit - QUESTION] Admin | Compliance Details Request eMail (Apps) only sent once, no reminders
• #6728-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] System has no apps + few none orphaned apps without owner
• #6756-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] CLEANUP HELPER - Check Deleted (Cloud Flows) - Failing for Teams environments that are disabled
• #6758-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Pulse survey fails if user no longer exists in AD
• #6787-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Failed to embed Manage App/Flow Access App into Power BI
• #6789-[CoE Starter Kit - QUESTION] PPAdmin View Email Desktop Flow Users custom page error due to missing Office 365 Users connector
• #6806-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] SRs missing AI Builder Model / PVA Usage custom tables
• #6807-[CoE Starter Kit - QUESTION] Some flows returning giant unexpected nodes from Get Flow as Admin - results in "Encountered internal server error" on parse
• #6813-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Admin | Sync Template v3 (Connection Identities) - Action Limit
• #6815-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Environment Request Maker page not working
• #6817-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Retry policy needed for this helper flow - SYNC HELPER - Get Security Role Users
• #6862-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Get App as Admin failure for GCCH and DoD environments
• #6870-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Setup Wizard - Links to remove unmanaged layers do not work
• #6881-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Governance Dashboard - no apps in default - Environment ID different for Apps and Flows
• #6887-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Production_CoEDashboard_October2023
• #6893-[CoE Starter Kit - Feature]: Orphaned Flows view not included in MDA
• #6900-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Adele Vance is breaking the Flow Details report
• #6907-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] DLP Impact Analysis - UX problem with the Creator Kit command bar
• #6916-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Admin | Welcome Email v3 has failed for orphaned users
• #6919-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Power Platform Admin SR lost access to Archive Approval custom table
• #6954-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] identifying pending suspension flows as having their metadata changed when they havent really due to date difference between dataverse connector and flow connector
• #6972-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] PPAdmin View User Management Apps - Error loading control when a user no longer in the AD is in the shared with list
• #6973-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Changing permission to Can View in helper no longer downgrades from edit to view

🎉 CoE Starter Kit - FEATURES (5)

• #6015-[CoE Starter Kit - Feature]: Store App Connection Reference executionRestrictions for reporting on secure implicit connections
• #6601-[CoE Starter Kit - QUESTION] Upgrade Wizard - unmanaged layer of custom pages
• #6697-[CoE Starter Kit - BUG] Manage envts via capacity
• #6946-[CoE Starter Kit - Feature]: First Modern Dataverse Connector usage: Admin | Sync Template v4 (Desktop flows)
• #6966-[CoE Starter Kit - QUESTION] QUESTION - Track when a maker becomes orphaned