#PowerPlatformTip 60: 'Power Platform Challenges'

TL;DR: powerplatformchallenge.com by Miguel Verweij is a free archive of numbered, hands-on Power Platform challenges (up to Challenge 037 “Plan Designer” in March 2025). Build them in your own practice environment and share your solution with the community.

💡 Challenge

One of the best ways to enhance your skills in the Power Platform ecosystem is by embracing hands-on challenges, but where do you find well-structured ones to practice with?

✅ Solution

Work through the Power Platform Challenge series by Miguel Verweij. Each challenge is a numbered post with a concrete task to build across Power Apps, Power Automate and the rest of the platform. The latest one is Challenge 037 “Plan Designer” from March 2025, and all earlier challenges stay available, so you can start at any time and pick the topics you want to practice.

🔧 How It’s Done

1. Prepare an environment

🔸 Read Before you start on the site. It recommends a sandbox tenant where you are the admin, because corporate tenants often block what a challenge needs.

🔸 Inside your company tenant, ask your admin for a managed developer environment (each user can have one), or start a 30-day standard trial environment. Unmanaged developer environments from the Power Apps Developer Plan are deprecated: new ones can’t be created from November 15, 2026, and existing ones are suspended from December 15, 2026.

2. Pick a challenge

🔸 Open Challenges and choose a topic you want to learn, or start with the newest one.

🔸 Subscribe on the start page (“Never Miss a Challenge”) to get an e-mail when a new challenge is published.

3. Build and share

🔸 Solve the task in your environment and keep notes on what you tried.

🔸 Post your result on LinkedIn or X with the hashtag #PowerPlatformTip, compare approaches and learn from how others solved it.

🎉 Result

You build practical expertise on realistic tasks, at your own pace, and see how other makers solve the same problem.

🌟 Key Advantages

🔸 Structured, guided practice across many Power Platform features

🔸 Free and available at any time, including the full archive

🔸 Community feedback and peer learning

🛠️ FAQ

1. What is the Power Platform Challenge?

A series of numbered, hands-on challenges by Miguel Verweij on powerplatformchallenge.com. Each one describes a task you build yourself to practice Power Platform skills.

2. Is it still a monthly challenge?

The latest published challenge is number 037 from March 2025. Treat the site as an archive you can work through at your own pace, and subscribe on the start page to hear about new ones.

3. Which environment should I use?

The site recommends a sandbox tenant where you are the admin. Inside a company tenant, a managed developer environment or a 30-day standard trial environment works for most tasks. Don’t build new practice work in an unmanaged Developer Plan environment, those are suspended from December 15, 2026.

🔗 Related Tips

🔸 #PowerPlatformTip 1: ‘Explore Community Resources’ - the wider community forum to compare notes with beyond the challenges.

🔸 #PowerPlatformTip 26: ‘Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge’ - Microsoft’s own gamified, Learn-based alternative to Miguel Verweij’s challenges.

🔸 #PowerPlatformTip 31: ‘Microsoft Power Platform: Learning Resources’ - more places to learn once you want structured courses.

🔸 #PowerPlatformTip 25: ‘Weekly tips, insights and updates’ - keep up with new features between challenges.