From the Microsoft Power Platform blogs: Service principal authentication; YAML code generator; Power Pages reverse proxy; Visualize data models

In this week’s Microsoft Power Platform blog roundup:

• Use service principal authentication in custom connectors
• Power Apps YAML code generator
• Setting up my own reverse proxy for Power Pages with docker, nginx, oauth2proxy, Azure B2C and a custom cloud flow to do some extra checks
• Visualizing data models with Copilot in an ERD view 

Use service principal authentication in custom connectors

Writing on the Microsoft Power Platform developer blog, Daniel Laskewitz stated that connectors link the Power Platform to numerous external services and applications. 

He noted that currently there are more than 1200 connectors available out of the box. However, he asked what if the API you want to connect to doesn’t have an out-of-the-box connector, or the existing connector doesn’t do what you need, or your company has custom APIs that it wants to use with the Power Platform. 

He wrote that the answer to the above questions is “custom connectors.” He then briefly explained how to use custom connectors and noted that Microsoft recently launched a new Learn module to help you get started.

Power Apps YAML code generator

Writing on his blog, Matthew Devaney stated that he has created an app that builds Power Apps and the best part is it’s “100% real.”