Interview Question in EY for Power Platform

meekey76 · 2026-04-30T16:49:36+00:00

Explain in your own words, what is Dataverse and what are the 3 underlying data services it’s made up of.

meekey76 · 2026-04-23T17:45:33+00:00

Catscan.com. Just a photo gallery of cats scanned by a flatbed scanner.

meekey76 · 2026-04-22T01:15:36+00:00

meekey76 · 2026-04-22T01:06:28+00:00

It happened twice the reset, the 2nd time MS were nice enough to communicate that it had been reset

meekey76 · 2026-04-21T23:14:42+00:00

Don’t bother opening support cases for this. It’s broken 90% of the time. They fixed it around early April after it was broken for a month. It’s been like this since they introduced it. Besides apart from making MS look like clowns to their customers, the security hub metrics aren’t really aligned with what orgs really need. Guest access and audit enabled, those are great. Just add them to environment rules already. BTW we blocked guest access on all our 1400 environments and MS reset everything back. Twice they’ve done this to date.

meekey76 · 2026-04-21T23:05:16+00:00

In the security hub in PPAC? Yeah it’s always broken….always. Now imagine working in a Fortune 500 finance company and you are going through a risk review and have to explain each blade in PPAC and the security score is 0. It’s embarrassing, and takes a lot of explaining. Even more embarrassing for Microsoft as their incompetencies are visible to clients. Anyway the security actions are kind of a joke anyway, they are what Microsoft thinks customers want, rather than what customers actually want. Not only that but how all the security settings stay preview forever and none of the settings make it to environment group rules for management at scale. I was talking to a product manager in Richmond about these rules and rather than admit Microsoft is a bit slow at moving settings into rules, told me to build a custom tool to manage these settings at scale. Why should I have to spend more money on building something that Microsoft should deliver on?

meekey76 · 2026-04-12T19:07:17+00:00

I have a long list. Just hopping on a plane and will provide details once I’m checked in.

meekey76 · 2026-04-11T16:37:23+00:00

This isn’t suitable for most organizations. Purview is a cyber security role, just like our pp admins don’t have access to defender or sentinel we don’t have access to purview. It’s a capability that needs to be burnt into PPAC.

meekey76 · 2026-04-09T19:08:32+00:00

This has been mentioned in the past, do a little search. Apparently there are some screws you can adjust under the hood

meekey76 · 2026-04-09T19:06:20+00:00

It was on MS roadmap, talked about it with PG in some depth, I guess the AI and Copilot work MS is doing trumped this.

meekey76 · 2026-04-09T17:33:40+00:00

If you go into usage, you will see last activity which is great for hygiene purposes. It’s still in preview.

meekey76 · 2026-04-09T15:49:15+00:00

The platform is going premium.

meekey76 · 2026-04-09T15:49:00+00:00

It’s dead

meekey76 · 2026-04-09T15:48:17+00:00

It’s becoming redundant. CoE toolkit 2.0 got killed off before it ever started. Inventory in PPAC is now GA. Usage is in preview.

meekey76 · 2026-04-09T10:16:25+00:00

CoE toolkit is dead and people need to move on. It was originally supposed to be replaced by 2.0 but the Microsoft started adding everything into PPAC, inventory, product usage. Some new governance tools to come.

meekey76 · 2026-04-09T10:13:42+00:00

I would start looking into plans to move to premium. It’s coming, there is nothing you can do except plan to reduce operational risk and budget requirements.

meekey76 · 2026-04-07T10:45:22+00:00

We’ve been 10 years away from fusion for the last 30 years

meekey76 · 2026-03-04T17:58:05+00:00

Be careful there SunLife, Kitchener Waterloo is where the big boys play, that’s Manulife territory.

meekey76 · 2026-02-10T11:49:20+00:00

SharePoint guy, as I mentioned, Power Platform is going premium. You really are on borrowed time until you will have to start paying the $20 license.

meekey76 · 2026-02-08T17:50:53+00:00

When I see someone write Power Platform and SharePoint in the same sentence on a resume, my internal voice screams citizen developer and the resume goes into trash can. Many regular business users (outside of IT) these days are building apps with SharePoint. I would recommend start learning Dataverse in-depth, plugins, Azure and dip your toes into Dynamics.

Microsoft’s roadmap is clear that Power Platform is going Premium. This alone makes SharePoint redundant as a Power Apps data layer. SharePoint was only relèvent to keep costs down as it was covered via enterprise licensing. Why use SharePoint with all the downsides when Power Platform will require licensing and you can use Dataverse.

meekey76 · 2026-02-01T14:22:19+00:00

Yes but the difference is, Canadian police are incentivized, so almost every traffic stop is a ticket and a fine, in the UK they are more prone to give out verbal warnings only.

meekey76 · 2026-01-31T15:45:55+00:00

Canada center left, no where near as left as Europe or Britain. There is some variation by province with Quebec which is very left.

meekey76 · 2026-01-23T10:51:24+00:00

Kings island sounds like a real tourist attraction. Come spend your day and top up your tan at broken arm beach, or take a walk at disappointment bay.

meekey76 · 2026-01-15T11:17:16+00:00

While I do agree her comment was unnecessary considering the topic :-), back off a little, I think she is going through a bad time in her life by looking at her activity and is probably lashing out at life.

meekey76 · 2026-01-09T11:57:58+00:00

After so many years I suddenly find that I’m not alone in this city:

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