Ross Boe
TruNorth Dynamics, SVP of Product Development
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Thirty years in development and still obsessed with learning, building, and sharing. I fell into Dynamics in 2011 and never looked back. My mission now? Help others see that being generous with knowledge doesn’t make you weaker—it makes the whole community stronger. We can share, collaborate, and still compete like pros. Friendly doesn’t mean soft—it means confident enough to help others rise too.
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Creating Dataverse Plugins with .Net
While the Power Platform is an extremely powerful Low-Code environment there is a lot of room for the Pro-Code developers to have some fun with Dataverse Plugins.
In this session we will cover the basics of creating a plugin. We will cover topics such as the IPlugin interface, plugin restrictions, and performance. Then we will look at the Dataverse event pipeline to understand where our plugins live. We will understand the different between the different pipeline stages. Lastly, we will look at some examples.
Confessions of a “Real” Developer in a Low-Code World
What happens when a “real” developer dives head-first into the Power Platform? This session explores the journey from hand-coding everything to embracing low-code tools without losing your technical edge—or your identity. I’ll share my story of learning to find joy (and serious power) in a platform that takes care of the “boring hard stuff” like security and data models, freeing me to focus on the fun: plugins, PCF components, and Azure integrations. It’s a challenge to every developer who’s ever dismissed low-code—what if this is where the real creativity lives now?
Stop Billing by the Hour: Our (Still-Messy) Journey to Productizing
AI is chewing through billable hours, and the consulting model we all relied on is shifting fast. Join Ole Gjerde and Ross Boe from TruNorth Dynamics as they share their ongoing journey transforming services into scalable products with BizApps Unlocked. We’re still learning—and we want to help other partners skip our mistakes. Expect real talk about culture shifts, business trade-offs, and tech hurdles, plus a fresh take on collaboration: we can compete and still lift the entire Microsoft partner community together.
When not If Your Client uses the Power Platform
You have invested a lot of time and energy building a relationship with your clients. The Power Platform provides tools that your customers will be evaluating to automate processes in their business.
What is the Power Platform?
Why should you care about the Power Platform?
What steps can you take now to guide your customer in the right direction?
How can you engage with your client and the Power Platform?
We will talk through all of these questions and more to help you engage with your customers at a deeper level.
Plugins at the Edge: Guarding Dataverse Business Logic in an Agent-First, Any-UI World
In an agentified world where “anything is the UI,” the only place you can truly enforce rules is the platform edge—your server-side pipeline. This session shows how Dataverse plugins remain the last frontier for protecting business logic when requests arrive from model-driven apps, Canvas, Copilots, custom portals, RPA, or direct API calls. We’ll cover the essentials of building a robust plugin: solution structure, dependency injection patterns, tracing/telemetry, and safe calls to external services. You’ll learn how to register steps correctly (sync vs. async; pre-validate, pre-operation, post-operation), use images and filtering attributes, avoid recursion, and respect platform limits. We’ll wrap with a demo that hardens a business rule end-to-end. If you want predictable outcomes no matter which UI—or which agent—hits your data, this is your map.
Power Platform for the IT Professional
Your internal or external customers are looking for answers to streamline and automate business processes. You can be their superhero with the Power Platform.
Why Attend?
- Demystify the Power Platform. We will breakdown what the Power Platform is and how it relates to Dynamics 365.
- Management and licensing of the Power Platform can be daunting. We will break it down.
- Everyone is looking to AI to automate and streamline their business. The Power Platform has the tools you need to transform processes.
- Your customers need solutions that fit small teams to the entire enterprise. The Power Platform can scale up and down to solve these scenarios.
- You don't need to code to create an app. The Power Platform provides different methods of creating apps.
Key Learnings:
- In this session you will walk away with a better understanding of what the Power Platform has to offer. You will gain the knowledge to understand how the Power Platform can be used to solve the challenges your business or your customers face.
- Understanding the Power Platform enables you to have a seat at the table to engage with them. The alternative is they will find a solution outside your input.
Who should attend:
This session is geared toward IT professionals and MSPs looking to understand the Power Platform better.
You might have customers asking questions about Power Automate or creating a Power App but have pushed them off because it is a big complex suite of applications.
You want to engage with your customers a deeper level to help them solve their problems and need an introduction to tools that can help you do that.
Your First PCF Component
The Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) has been around for a few years. PCF allows developers to create UI components that live natively in the UI of a Model Driven App.
This session will walk you through creating your first PCF component. We will introduce REACT, and how that fits within the framework, then create a simple PCF component.
You will leave this session with an understanding of what PCF is, how and when to use it, and an example of a PCF component to get you started.
Dataverse Plugin Updates
In this session, we will explore the latest releases around Dataverse Plugins.
Microsoft has introduced some new features for Dataverse Plugins. Some of these features include Plugin Dependencies, Managed Identities, and Application Insights. We will look at examples of each feature and how to implement each. With every new feature, there are limitations that we need to be aware of, we will talk through some of the limitations of each feature.
You will leave this session with examples of each feature and an understanding of how they can change your approach with plugins.
4 Uses For Azure Functions with Dataverse
In this session we will explore four ways Azure Functions and Dataverse are integrated. We will discover some surprising ways to use Azure Functions with Dataverse.
Using the Business Central Admin API
We will discover what the Business Central Admin API is and how it will improve the management of your Business Central environments. We will cover topics such as authentication, environment management, capturing telemetry, and managing upgrades.
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Ross Boe
TruNorth Dynamics, SVP of Product Development
Orlando, Florida, United States
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