Earlier this month, it was announced that Power Apps model‑driven apps can now be part of Microsoft 365 Copilot conversations. Last week, the next step was introduced with custom tools and app‑powered UI.

Three new skills were also announced for the Power Pages agentic code plugin for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code CLI.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Re-introducing Data Validation Tool for Dataverse – PPTB

🛠️ Back in 2020, Matt Beard released his Data Validation Tool for Dataverse in XrmToolBox. Six years later, he has now released an updated version of the tool for Power Platform ToolBox.

Power Apps- Comparing Different Ways to Create Apps With AI

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 David Wyatt tests different options for building apps. He creates 2 demo apps and builds them across the different options. If you’re wondering about the viability, be sure to check this blog out.

Create Add To Outlook Link For Sessions or Events In CIJ

🦸🏻‍♀️ Megan V. Walker shows you how to link directly to Outlook instead of sending a .ics file to people. If you expose calendar invitations, be sure to try this.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Adventures with Power Platform: Deploying the Power Platform Communication Site Template by Matt Ruma

🦸🏻‍♀️ Accelerating Model-Driven App Development with Power Apps Generative Pages: A Simpler Way – Part 1 by Sam Kumar

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Power Pages Backend Trifecta by Oleksandr Olashyn

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Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast

👩‍💻 In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding our scope beyond Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and related Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?

Awkward Silence Podcast

🚀 Join us as we discuss Wave 1 updates relevant to Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform, focusing on Sales, Service, Power Apps/Dataverse, Project Ops, and Power Automate. On the Sales side, they highlight qualification, close, and research sales agents moving to GA, note FastTrack-enabled production access, question availability in Government Cloud, and debate whether sales agents will become as proactive as service agents. They emphasize that AI setup and evaluation criteria require significant effort and raise concerns about licensing and cost tradeoffs. For Dataverse/Power Apps, they call out restoring deleted records (admin-only, 30-day retention), generative pages going GA, added Copilot customization for summaries, view visualizations, and smart copy/paste. They also mention Project Ops time zone agnostic work to address inconsistencies across apps and scheduling boards. Power Automate items include restoring deleted flows, shared process license capacity, and an improved licensing dashboard.

Tech Directions Podcast

🧭 Step into a lively discussion where experts from EY and Microsoft share how Agentic AI is changing the game for enterprise operations—especially within the SAP ecosystem. Rather than sticking to traditional, reactive AI, the conversation explores how intelligent agents are now able to sense, reason, and act, bringing a proactive edge to business processes.

📅 Events & Webinars

Update Days Power Platform

(📅 April 27-28, 2026)

Curious about diving deeper into Power Platform? Encountering challenges while using it on advanced projects? You’re not alone. Join a conference that goes beyond the basics, offering practical insights into enterprise-level challenges like governance, professional development, and scalable solutions. Come learn from experts who work in the field every day, and connect with peers who, just like you, want to use Power Platform efficiently and strategically.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsCon

(📅 May 12-16, 2026)

Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 300 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking.

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

Build

(📅 June 2-3, 2026)

At Microsoft Build, you’ll go deep on real code, real systems, and real workflows with the teams building and scaling AI. Two days. Hands-on sessions. No fluff.

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

💙 Out of the Blue

Intelligent apps, human leadership, and the new shape of work

🧭🤵🏻🚀 Tiffany Treacy shares Microsoft’s vision on how intelligent applications are reshaping work by augmenting human decision-making rather than replacing it. The post covers how Power Platform fits into the broader strategy of empowering organizations to build AI-driven solutions while keeping people in the lead.

Custom tools and rich UI for app-based conversations are now in public preview

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Hemant Gaur announces the public preview of custom tools and rich UI components for in-app conversations in Power Apps. The post explains how makers and developers can extend Copilot chat experiences with tailored actions and interactive visual elements directly inside their apps.

More secure SharePoint integration in Power Pages with site-scoped permissions

👩‍💻🚀 Nagesh Bhat explains how Power Pages now supports site-scoped permissions for SharePoint integration, replacing broader tenant-level access. The post walks through how this least-privilege approach limits document access to specific SharePoint sites, reducing the security surface for portal deployments.

Translytical task flows (generally available)

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Zoe Douglas announces the general availability of translytical task flows in Power BI, which let report users add, update, and delete records or trigger external API calls without leaving a report. The post covers how Fabric User Data Functions connect reports to write-back actions, turning analytics into an interactive operational workflow.

Power BI April 2026 feature summary

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Katie Murray walks through the April 2026 Power BI Desktop and service update, covering expanded mobile Copilot chat, modern visual defaults with a base-theme switcher, fixed-size layouts for card and slicer visuals, and new modeling previews including Direct Lake calculated columns, user-context-aware calculated columns, and DAX user-defined function enhancements.

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• Microsoft 365 Copilot is now GA in model-driven apps

• New app skills are now GA in Power Apps.

• App-based form and grid experiences in Copilot Chat will reach GA in July.

• Agent feed with Power Apps MCP Server will be GA on May 4.

The Power Platform ToolBox continues to grow. A new addition is Pipeline Visualizer by Matt Collins-Jones, announced last week.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Power Apps: Canvas Apps vs. Code Apps – When Low-Code Hits Its Ceiling

🦸🏻‍♀️ Zsolt Zombik not only breaks down the differences between the different app types, but he also shows how you can make a code agent build the different types of apps.

Crafting Effective Instructions for Copilot Studio Agents

🦸🏻‍♀️ This post, by Craig White, covers why Copilot Studio agent instructions really matter, and introduces a framework that he built to help validate the instructions.

8 Microsoft Sales AI Agents and How to Choose

🦸🏻‍♀️ Hamish Sheild often has the same conversation with customers. Someone will say “we want to try the Dynamics 365 Sales Agent” and he would ask which one. They have no idea. Read this article and you will know.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Time for the Timeline by Anna Black

🦸🏻‍♀️ HELP! My Segments Have Expired - Customer Insights Journeys by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ How To Clear LookUp Fields Using A Custom Page by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Unique join link attendance tracking in Customer Insights - Journeys online Teams events by Amey Holden

🦸🏻‍♀️ What is coming to Dynamics 365 Contact Center in 2026 Release Wave 1 by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ VNet for Dataverse - How to not get your data stolen by Sean Astrakhan

🦸🏻‍♀️ Copilot Studio: Publish To Website With Single Sign-On by Matthew Devaney

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.NET Rocks Podcast

👩‍💻 How are LLMs changing software development? Carl and Richard talk to Rob Conery about his experiences as a consultant bringing the new AI tools and techniques into companies. Rob talks about focusing on the most painful problems first to show the team quick results and make their lives better. The conversation digs into how these tools seriously change the way developers work and what it takes to embrace those changes. Lots of good thinking from a very experienced developer on how to do more than ever before!

Unresolved Dependencies Podcast

🧭 In this special third episode of their podcast, Joe and Sebastian look ahead to the 2026 ColorCloud in Hamburg, April 15 - 17. Sebastian will talk about Project Operations, what’s new there, and how the App can make a difference for each business. On top, he will be joined by community legend and trivia quiz moderator Andrew Bibby for an ultimate showdown on Agent Builder vs Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Merge Conflict Podcast

👩‍💻 James and Frank dig into the messy world of AI agents—Claudes, Copilots, “claws”—and why now is the wrong time to over-box these tools. They debate GUI vs. CLI futures, explain when AI should be invisible and baked into workflows, and warn about AI-produced “slop” and long-term maintenance. Plus, James’ Light Phone/e-ink experiment adds a practical take on simplicity and real-world tradeoffs.

📅 Events & Webinars

Update Days Power Platform

(📅 April 27-28, 2026)

Curious about diving deeper into Power Platform? Encountering challenges while using it on advanced projects? You’re not alone. Join a conference that goes beyond the basics, offering practical insights into enterprise-level challenges like governance, professional development, and scalable solutions. Come learn from experts who work in the field every day, and connect with peers who, just like you, want to use Power Platform efficiently and strategically.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsCon

(📅 May 12-16, 2026)

Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 300 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking.

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

Build

(📅 June 2-3, 2026)

At Microsoft Build, you’ll go deep on real code, real systems, and real workflows with the teams building and scaling AI. Two days. Hands-on sessions. No fluff.

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

💙 Out of the Blue

No, you don’t need a Copilot license to deploy agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Henry Jammes explains how Copilot Studio agents can be deployed to Microsoft 365 Copilot without per-user Copilot licensing, using Copilot Credits instead. The post covers the differences between custom and declarative agents, the evolution from pay-as-you-go billing to standalone prepaid capacity packs (no Azure subscription required as of April 2026), and channel-specific gotchas to watch for.

Bridging the gap: Connecting legacy desktop applications to Copilot Studio agents

👩‍💻🚀 James Papadimitriou demonstrates two approaches for connecting legacy desktop applications to Copilot Studio agents: a Separation of Concerns pattern that pairs scheduled Power Automate desktop flows with a Dataverse knowledge source, and a fully agentic approach using Computer Use Agents (CUA) that navigate desktop UIs through vision-based automation.

Making business apps smarter with AI, Copilot, and agents in Power Apps

🧭🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Ryan Cunningham announces that Microsoft 365 Copilot is now generally available in model-driven apps and in public preview for canvas apps, alongside GA app skills for data entry, exploration, visualization, and summarization. The post also covers the agent feed with Power Apps MCP Server coming GA in May 2026 for human-in-the-loop oversight of agent activity.

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Last week the general availability of Power Platform Monitor Alerts was announced, the Power Platform April 2026 feature update was presented, and recent updates to Agent Academy were highlighted.

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📰 Articles

What to Put in Place Before You Deploy Copilot Studio Agents to Production

🦸🏻‍♀️ In this article, Hamish Shield shares why AI agents built with Microsoft Copilot Studio need to be treated as ongoing systems rather than one-time projects, requiring clear ownership, continuous monitoring, and regular updates to stay accurate and valuable.

Make your Power App available directly in a chat with M365 Copilot

🦸🏻‍♀️ Arild Aarnes explored the new public preview feature that lets you use model-driven Power Apps directly inside Microsoft 365 Copilot chats, so you can view, create, and update records conversationally without switching apps.

“Can I Bring Someone?” - Solving Plus-One Waitlisting in Customer Insights Journeys (Part 2)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Waitlists can be a powerful tool, but they can become difficult to manage, especially when manual processes are involved. Martin P. López shows an approach to automating event waitlists with companions in Customer Insights Journeys.

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🦸🏻‍♀️ I built an AI companion for conference attendees. It's called BRIEF by Ana Inés Urrutia

👩‍💻 PCF: Theme and missing border radius tokens by Andrew Butenko

🦸🏻‍♀️ Copilot Studio: Publish To Website With Single Sign-On by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Finding Configuration diffs in Dynamics 365 F&O with AI by Ted Ohlsson

🦸🏻‍♀️ Under the Hood: How Dataverse Skills Work and How to Write Your Own by Zsolt Zombik

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dataverse Skills for Enterprise Architects: Governance, ALM, MCP Billing, and Production Readiness by Zsolt Zombik

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Microsoft Mechanics Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ Access Anthropic and OpenAI models directly from Microsoft 365 Copilot. Generate briefing documents, presentations, and Excel files from a single prompt with Copilot Cowork, pulling from your emails, calendar, and SharePoint through Work IQ — and fold in new tasks mid-run without stopping. Using Copilot Cowork, you can use the same platform that powers Claude Cowork. It’s designed for long-running, multi-step task automation.

Use Critique in Researcher to pair a generation model with a dedicated review model, applying source reliability and evidence grounding before the report lands. Run model Council to submit one prompt to GPT and Claude simultaneously and compare their full reasoning side-by-side.

Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast

🧭 In this episode, we reflect on Microsoft certifications and what value they provide. It's been a while since we last looked at these, and plenty has happened - what's new, what's retired, and what's useful in 2026? We also reflect on the usefulness of certifications for juniors and seniors.

MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast

🤵🏻 In this audio and video episode recorded live at Microsoft headquarters during the MVP Summit, Ben welcomes a return guest, Joy Apple, to the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast and discuss her 20-year career in the Microsoft collaboration space, from financial services to SharePoint training, consulting, and her current role at Orchestry Software. Joy explains Orchestry as a Microsoft 365 governance automation layer covering templated provisioning for SharePoint and Teams, archiving policies (including Microsoft 365 Archive), guest management, and OneDrive governance. They emphasize that AI and Copilot amplify existing information architecture, permissions, and data hygiene issues, making governance more critical. They describe the MVP Summit as a “family reunion” where MVPs attend sessions and reconnect with peers. Joy and Ben also spend some time describing paths becoming an MVP and how much they just enjoy the community around the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and connecting with people both at MVP Summit as well as various conferences throughout the year.

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ColorCloud

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

Update Days Power Platform

(📅 April 27-28, 2026)

Curious about diving deeper into Power Platform? Encountering challenges while using it on advanced projects? You’re not alone. Join a conference that goes beyond the basics, offering practical insights into enterprise-level challenges like governance, professional development, and scalable solutions. Come learn from experts who work in the field every day, and connect with peers who, just like you, want to use Power Platform efficiently and strategically.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsCon

(📅 May 12-16, 2026)

Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 300 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking.

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

Build

(📅 June 2-3, 2026)

At Microsoft Build, you’ll go deep on real code, real systems, and real workflows with the teams building and scaling AI. Two days. Hands-on sessions. No fluff.

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

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Power Platform monitor alerts are now generally available

🚀👩‍💻 Arjun Mayur announces general availability of Power Platform Monitor alerts, introducing predefined alerts that surface degraded high-use apps, flows, and agents with zero configuration, plus a redesigned overview page, code app alert support, and work queue alerts in public preview.

Agent Academy spring drop: Special Ops, Cowork Collective, and a whole new look

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 April Dunnam announces a major update to Agent Academy, adding a Special Ops section with targeted MCP and YAML labs, a Cowork Collective section with hands-on Copilot Cowork missions, and a redesigned site with live search and a recent changes page.

What’s new in Power Platform: April 2026 feature update

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Tiffany Treacy rounds up the April 2026 Power Platform feature update, covering GA custom theming for model-driven apps, public preview of canvas app authoring with AI coding agents via MCP, GA external tool support for generative pages in all public clouds, and new code app alerting in Power Platform Monitor.

From DEV to PROD: auto-install and pinning for Copilot Studio agents

👩‍💻🚀 Henry Jammes walks through three deployment paths for Copilot Studio agents in Teams, showing how to customize manifests for DEV/TEST environments and use Setup Policies in Teams Admin Center for automated production rollouts with auto-install and pinning.

Deploying Copilot Studio agents in Teams (because test chat was too easy)

👩‍💻 Henry Jammes presents eight production patterns for Copilot Studio agents in Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, covering reinstall handling, inactivity-based context clearing, global context variables, self-service troubleshooting with diagnostic cards, and suggested prompts.

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Last week the general availability of Agent Evaluation in Microsoft Copilot Studio was announced. New generally available capabilities for multi-agent Copilot Studio solutions were also introduced.

Dataverse Skills - an open-source plugin that teaches coding agents how to build and manage Dataverse solutions - was announced and a practical framework for adaptive governance was highlighted.

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From Scripts to Intent: How Dataverse Skills Redefines Enterprise Development & Getting Started with Dataverse Skills: Install, Configure, and Build Your First Agent-Driven Solution

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻Zsolt Zombik presents the new Dataverse Skills. What impact they could have on our development flow and how to use them.

The Frontier Firm Has an HR Problem

🦸🏻‍♀️🧭 Ana Inés Urrutia presents the hardest problem for frontier firms, how to handle change management. If you feel the tech is not the struggle, then read this blog.

Dataverse: Avoiding Timezone Pitfalls When Integrating Dataverse Date and DateTime Fields

👩‍💻 Temmy Wahyu Raharjo shows how to handle datetimes in Dataverse, ensuring you pick the right settings every time.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Google ReCAPTCHA v3 and Cloudflare Turnstile for marketing and event forms in Dynamics 365 by Amey Holden

🦸🏻‍♀️ Triggering Copilot Studio Agents Autonomously using Microsoft Graph Change Notifications + Power Automate by Mohamed Ashiq Faleel

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Pages: A Governed Platform for Hosting by Nicholas Hayduk

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to Build a Cross-System Copilot Agent in Dynamics 365 Using MCP Server by Sam Kumar

🦸🏻‍♀️ Why Microsoft Support Asks for a HAR File …? by Pavan Mani Deep Y

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Power Platform Panic Room Podcast

🧭 In this first episode, Craig and Emma introduce the show’s concept and their plan for future episodes, delve into Craig’s favourite governance tools, and get into Emma’s biggest fears working in this tech space. They also discuss how they keep up with the latest news and some of the cool governance upgrades coming in the latest wave update.

Merge Conflict Podcast

👩‍💻 At MVP Summit, we dig into Agentic Workflows — write Markdown prompts that drive AI agents to run CI, open PRs, and automate cross‑repo tasks — and MAUI DevFlow, which lets agents interact with native UIs to click, screenshot and validate designs. Listen for practical takeaways on ditching brittle YAML/scripts and automating tedious maintenance and testing, plus the real caveats: security front‑matter, a compile/lock step, and token costs.

The Copilot Connection Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ This week, Zoe and Kevin dig into Copilot Cowork and Agent 365. Fresh from a week at the Microsoft campus in Seattle, Kevin shares his key takeaways from MVP Summit — including a surprising amount of cross-product collaboration and a hands-on experiment building a conference bingo app entirely using GitHub Copilot’s coding agent. Zoe and Kevin then dive into two of the biggest recent announcements: Copilot Cowork, now available in Frontier tenants, which takes Copilot from answering questions to actually taking action on your behalf, from organising your inbox to scheduling your week and creating reusable skills; and Agent 365, Microsoft’s control plane for agents, launching on 1 May, which brings observability, governance, and threat protection for all your agents in one place. They also cover the practical steps to enable Cowork in your tenant, the current data residency considerations for European organisations, and the open licensing questions still to be resolved before general availability.

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ColorCloud

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

Update Days Power Platform

(📅 April 27-28, 2026)

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European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsCon

(📅 May 12-16, 2026)

Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 300 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking.

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

Build

(📅 June 2-3, 2026)

At Microsoft Build, you’ll go deep on real code, real systems, and real workflows with the teams building and scaling AI. Two days. Hands-on sessions. No fluff.

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

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Dataverse Skills: your coding agent now speaks Dataverse

👩‍💻 Suyash Kshirsagar introduces an open-source plugin that gives coding agents like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code the ability to connect to, build on, and operate Dataverse through natural-language prompts, covering environment discovery, solution creation, and bulk data operations.

Public preview: Your business apps, now part of every conversation

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Claudio Romano explains how makers can now expose model-driven Power Apps in Microsoft 365 Copilot through a built-in MCP server, surfacing Grids and Forms automatically so users can view, create, and update business data without leaving the Copilot chat canvas.

New and improved: multi-agent orchestration, connected experiences, and faster prompt iteration

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Nitasha Chopra covers the April Copilot Studio update, including generally available multi-agent coordination across Microsoft Fabric, the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, and open A2A protocols, plus Anthropic Claude model support in the Prompt Tool and improved prompt authoring controls.

Building trustworthy AI: A practical framework for adaptive governance

🧭🚀 Ryan Jones presents a risk-based governance model for AI agents, showing how organizations can classify agent risk into graduated zones and enforce controls through managed environments in Power Platform rather than relying on manual review processes.

Server logic in Power Pages is now generally available

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️ Nagesh Bhat announces the general availability of server logic in Power Pages, enabling developers and makers to run server-side business logic for more secure and performant web experiences.

Generative AI search and data summarization now available in Power Pages for U.S. government clouds

🚀🧭 Nagesh Bhat announces generative AI search and data summarization capabilities for Power Pages in U.S. government cloud environments, along with governance controls for AI features through the Copilot hub.

Dataflows: thank you for eight years of Gen1—and why Gen2 is the future

👩‍💻🚀 Miguel Llopis announces that Power BI Dataflows Gen1 is moving to Legacy status, with all future innovation landing in Gen2. The post details Gen2 improvements in destinations, performance, AI assistance, diagnostics, and cost, along with migration guidance.

Chat with Copilot inside a report on the Power BI mobile app (preview)

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️ Efrat Mininberg introduces the full conversational Copilot chat experience inside Power BI reports on the mobile app, allowing users to summarize, ask data questions, and explore insights directly from their phone or tablet.

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Last week the MVP Summit was held in Redmond, Seattle. Check out the podcast section, Ulrikke and Nick recorded an episode of the Power Platform Boost Podcast in the DevRel Studios! 📹

It was also a special moment for us. For the first time ever, all four of us on the Power Platform Weekly team were in the same place at the same time. A huge thank you to our fantastic photographer, Sean Astrakhan, for capturing it.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

“Can I Bring Someone?” Solving Plus-One Waitlisting in Customer Insights Journeys (Part 1)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Martin P Lopez shows a way to implement plus one functionality on the registration, so event attendee numbers show up as expected.

GitHub Agentic Workflows: The Next Evolution of Repository Automation for Power Platform and Enterprise Developers

👩‍💻 This post by Zsolt Zombik breaks down what GitHub Agentic Workflows are, how they work, and why they matter for enterprise developers working in the Power Platform and broader Microsoft ecosystem.

Copilot Studio ALM – Know Before You Go

🦸🏻‍♀️ This post by Suparna Banerjee shares real‑world lessons on Copilot Studio ALM: what actually moves with a solution, what doesn’t, and how to avoid surprises when deploying to QA and Production.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to estimate the cost of a Copilot Studio agent before you build it by Arild Aarnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ Set Your Preferred Solution for the Dataverse MCP by Richard Wilson

🦸🏻‍♀️ Add Information Buttons To Provide Additional Details For Custom Page Users by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Which Microsoft AI tool should actually run your HR? by Ana Inés Urrutia

🚀 Microsoft Is Doubling Your Dataverse File Storage: What Every Dynamics 365 Admin Should Do Before April 15 by Sam Kumar

🦸🏻‍♀️ Vibe Migrating between F&O Environments by Ted Ohlsson

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Pages Authentication Methods: The Complete Guide (2026) by Zsolt Zombik

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Microsoft Teams Insider Podcast

🧭 Alev Tamer, Senior Partner Solution Architect for AI Business Solutions at Microsoft, and Chris Wheeler, Senior Copilot Solution Engineer at Microsoft, break down the rapidly evolving world of Microsoft 365 Copilot agents — from personal assistants to autonomous digital colleagues.

Power Platform Boost Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ This episode was recorded on the first day of MVP Summit, in DevRel Studios at Microsoft campus in Redmond, Seattle. We had a lot of fun recording in a professional studio🎥 , and we are so grateful for the opportunity to record here🙏 . Unfortunately, even though the sound quality in impeccable for once, Ulrikke's voice was not 🙃

We did a short recap of Canadian Power Platform Summit in 🍁 Vancouver where Nick was one of the organizers and Ulrikke was part of a panel discussion. The amazing keynote by Keegan Chambers was heartwarming 💗 and touched on a topic that a lot of us in tech relate to; neurodivergence.

One of the major highlights this last few weeks was the announcement of 🤖 Copilot Cowork. We also wanted to highlight community content around how we see community friends and old colleagues play with different AI tools and put them to work in creative way, like Fredrik Engseth and Sean Astrakhan. There is also a lot happening around the Frontier Framework and the Microsoft IQ stack that we keep an 👀 eye on and share some new learning resources for.

Code. Deploy. Go Live. Podcast

👩‍💻 In this episode, Andrew and Julie dive deep into the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit (ATK) version 6.6.0 release, exploring the latest features and changes for building declarative agents. Andrew walks through the new embedded knowledge functionality that allows developers to include knowledge directly within agents without requiring separate SharePoint uploads, and he shares insights on improvements to actions and plugins. The conversation also covers significant template changes in the toolkit, including what was removed and what's new, along with some frustrations about missed opportunities in how Microsoft is presenting this powerful toolkit to developers.

📅 Events & Webinars

Adriatics Tech Summit

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.

ColorCloud

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

Update Days Power Platform

(📅 April 27-28, 2026)

Curious about diving deeper into Power Platform? Encountering challenges while using it on advanced projects? You’re not alone. Join a conference that goes beyond the basics, offering practical insights into enterprise-level challenges like governance, professional development, and scalable solutions. Come learn from experts who work in the field every day, and connect with peers who, just like you, want to use Power Platform efficiently and strategically.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsCon

(📅 May 12-16, 2026)

Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 300 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking.

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

Build

(📅 June 2-3, 2026)

At Microsoft Build, you’ll go deep on real code, real systems, and real workflows with the teams building and scaling AI. Two days. Hands-on sessions. No fluff.

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

💙 Out of the Blue

Custom graders in Copilot Studio: Setting high standards for agent evals

👩‍💻🚀🧭 This blog by Efrat Gilboa and Dikla Dotan‑Cohen explains how Custom Graders in Copilot Studio enable teams to evaluate agent behavior using organization‑specific policies and guardrails. It shows how this approach helps developers, admins, and decision makers build more trustworthy, compliant, production‑ready agents.

Live Demo: Using the Claude Code Plugin to Author a Copilot Studio Agent

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Giorgio Ughini demonstrates how to use the Claude Code plugin to rapidly build a full Copilot Studio agent from scratch using natural language. The demo shows how complex agents can be created and deployed much faster without replacing the Copilot Studio UI.

Dynamic MCP Routing in Copilot Studio: One Connector, Many Endpoints

👩‍💻🚀 In this blog, Adi Leibowitz explains how to use dynamic MCP routing in Copilot Studio to route a single custom connector to multiple MCP endpoints using a catalog service, dynamic dropdowns, and C# URL rewriting, avoiding connector sprawl and hard‑coded endpoints.

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📅 Events & Webinars

The 2026 Release Wave 1 plans are out, have a look in the Release Planner, and don’t miss the official blog post: 2026 release wave 1 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Copilot Studio offerings.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Secure Your MCP Server with Entra ID Authentication for Copilot Studio & Service Principal Authentication

🦸🏻‍♀️ Mohamed Ashiq Faleel gives a detailed description on how you can secure your MCP server in the context of a user or a service principal in Copilot Studio.

Everything You Need to Know About the Copilot Studio Kit

🦸🏻‍♀️ The Copilot Studio Kit is a free, open-source toolkit maintained by Microsoft’s Power CAT team. Nilüfer Doğan shows what we can use it for.

Power Pages SPA Learning By Doing - Keep it clean

👩‍💻 Riccardo Gregori shows how you can more easily work with Power Pages SPA. Where the documentation is lacking his practical experience shows the way forward.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Open D365 Records From Your Custom Page | Env Variables by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Email the documents stored in SharePoint directly from a custom page in D365 CRM by Svara Consulting

👩‍💻 Setting Your Environments Up for Code Apps by David Wyatt

2026 Release Wave 1 summaries:

🦸🏻‍♀️ Release wave 1 2026 Customer Insights – Data by Malin Martnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ Release wave 1 2026 Customer Insights – Journeys by Malin Martnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ What is coming To Dynamics 365 Customer Service in 2026 Release Wave 1 by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Best 10 Power Platform Features – 2026 release Wave 1 by Rami Mounla

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Platform Release Wave 1 2026 by Albert-Jan Schot

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Power Platform Deep Dive Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ If you want to start building AI-powered solutions, the Microsoft Power Platform is becoming one of the easiest places to begin. Kayode and Annabel discuss how tools like Power Automate, Copilot Studio, and Dataverse make AI automation more accessible for developers and solution architects.

Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast

👩‍💻 In this week's episode, the team will look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, they're expanding our scope beyond Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and related Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?

The Copilot Connection Podcast

🧭 Microsoft helped us make an episode this week but dropping some big Copilot news! In this episode, Zoe and Kevin dig into some of the news related around Copilot Wave 3, talk about what the recent org changes at Microsoft will mean and also highlight some of the upcoming events going on.

📅 Events & Webinars

Adriatics Tech Summit

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.

ColorCloud

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

Update Days Power Platform

(📅 April 27-28, 2026)

Curious about diving deeper into Power Platform? Encountering challenges while using it on advanced projects? You’re not alone. Join a conference that goes beyond the basics, offering practical insights into enterprise-level challenges like governance, professional development, and scalable solutions. Come learn from experts who work in the field every day, and connect with peers who, just like you, want to use Power Platform efficiently and strategically.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsCon

(📅 May 12-16, 2026)

Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 300 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking.

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

Build

(📅 June 2-3, 2026)

At Microsoft Build, you’ll go deep on real code, real systems, and real workflows with the teams building and scaling AI. Two days. Hands-on sessions. No fluff.

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

💙 Out of the Blue

2026 release wave 1 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Copilot Studio offerings

🧭 Ryan Martin announced the 2026 release wave 1 plans for Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Copilot Studio slated for April through September 2026.

The Orchestrator’s Secrets: Chain-of-Thought & Transcript on Demand

👩‍💻 Remi Dyon wrote about two under-the-radar Copilot Studio tricks: surfacing the orchestrator’s chain-of-thought as it works and pulling the full conversation transcript into a variable on demand.

FabCon 2026

This week at FabCon 2026, there was loads of exciting news and announcements. Here are some of the highlights:

Power BI March 2026 Feature Summary

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Katie Murray announced the Power BI March 2026 feature summary, covering updates across Copilot, reporting, modeling, and data connectivity.

TMDL View on the Web (Preview)

👩‍💻 Sara Lammini Rodriguez wrote about TMDL View on the Web, a new code-first semantic modeling experience that lets developers view and edit semantic models directly in the browser.

Semantic Layers: The foundation of enterprise AI

🧭 Mohammad Ali wrote about how Power BI semantic models serve as the foundation for enterprise AI, with new capabilities making Power BI more open, powerful, and deeply integrated.

Deep Dive into Modern Visual Defaults and Customizing Theme Improvements (Preview)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Zoe Douglas wrote about the modern visual defaults aligned with Fluent 2 design, featuring style presets, uniform styling, and customizable themes in Power BI Desktop.

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📅 Events & Webinars

Last week the Agent API for Power Pages was introduced. The Copilot Studio Kit March release was also announced, worth checking out for the latest updates.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Essential PPAC Settings for Copilot Studio

🦸🏻‍♀️ Craig White guides admins through the most important Copilot and AI governance settings in PPAC, what they do, why they matter, and where to be cautious.

Question Nodes vs. Topic Inputs In Copilot Studio

🦸🏻‍♀️ Matthew Devaney explains the real differences between question nodes and topic input variables in Copilot Studio and how each approach shapes data extraction, conversation flow, and agent behavior.

Access API’s in Power Platform Without Secrets Using Managed Identity in Custom Connectors

🦸🏻‍♀️ Mohamed Ashiq Faleel shows how Managed Identity eliminates client secrets in Power Platform custom connectors, enabling secure, secretless access to APIs such as Microsoft Graph.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Power Apps Code Apps in Practice: Recreating Model-Driven App Patterns by Axel Schlumberger

🦸🏻‍♀️ Alerts via Power Automate in D365 Finance and Operations by Ana Inés Urrutia

🦸🏻‍♀️ Add Activities To A Record Timeline Using Custom Pages by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Auditing Business Process Flow movements by Jeroen Scheper

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dynamic content in Customer Insights - Journeys Marketing and Event forms by Amey Holden

🦸🏻‍♀️ Accelerating Power Platform Adoption: A Case Study by Hamish Sheild

🦸🏻‍♀️ Adventures with Copilot Studio: The Right Agent for the Job by Matt Ruma, Ragnar Pitla and Tina van Heerden

🦸🏻‍♀️ Project Operations Winter Wrap-Up: 5 Improvements you may have missed by Sebastian Sieber

👩‍💻 Dataverse: Avoid Concurrency issues by using Azure Service Bus Queue and Azure Functions by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Power Platform Boost Podcast

🤵🏻 This week’s episode kicks off with a bold and humorous cold open before settling into a wide-ranging conversation about AI, fitness, and the future of building apps. From powerlifting routines and community connections to whether AI could ever fairly judge a competition, we blend the human side of tech with practical experimentation. On the AI front, we explore Claude Code automating Power Automate, browser agents helping with MVP logging, and the evolving landscape of Office plugins, costs, and Pack CLI updates. We also tackle the hype around code-first apps versus Canvas apps, the rise of “vibe coding,” and why rapid AI prototyping still needs enterprise-minded architecture. The episode wraps with big news around Power Pages with agents, discussions on data models and permissions, and a thoughtful look at creativity, anxiety, and why staying curious—and thinking like an explorer—matters more than claiming to be an expert in the AI era. 🚀

Cloud Architects Podcast

🚀 We sit down with Mona Ghadiri to explore the rapidly evolving world of AI governance. As organizations rush to deploy AI agents, copilots, and automated workflows, Mona argues that the industry is focusing too much on shiny tools and “guardrails” while neglecting the broader governance frameworks needed to manage risk responsibly. The conversation covers everything from prompt injection and supply chain vulnerabilities to the challenges of securing AI across users, applications, models, and training data. Mona shares practical insights on why many organizations are more prepared than they think, how existing security tools can be adapted for AI, and why starting with clear workflows is critical before building AI solutions. It’s a thoughtful discussion on balancing innovation with accountability in a world where AI capabilities are accelerating faster than the processes designed to control them.

The Shift Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ The Shift, Agentic Edition connects the people building AI tools with those creating agents, so we can all level up together. In this episode, members of the Microsoft Fabric team, Ron, Dipti, Cillian and Josh explore a question from you, our community: Are my agents hunting for data?

📅 Events & Webinars

Canadian Power Platform Summit

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

Adriatics Tech Summit

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.

ColorCloud

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

Update Days Power Platform

(📅 April 27-28, 2026)

Curious about diving deeper into Power Platform? Encountering challenges while using it on advanced projects? You’re not alone. Join a conference that goes beyond the basics, offering practical insights into enterprise-level challenges like governance, professional development, and scalable solutions. Come learn from experts who work in the field every day, and connect with peers who, just like you, want to use Power Platform efficiently and strategically.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsCon

(📅 May 12-16, 2026)

Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 300 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking.

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

Build

(📅 June 2-3, 2026)

At Microsoft Build, you’ll go deep on real code, real systems, and real workflows with the teams building and scaling AI. Two days. Hands-on sessions. No fluff.

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

💙 Out of the Blue

Infuse intelligent experiences into Power Pages sites with the new Agent API

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Nagesh Bhat announces the Agent API for Power Pages, enabling site creators to build custom chat and intelligent experiences powered by Copilot Studio agents. The API supports context-aware conversations, custom-branded interfaces, and AI capabilities like content summarization and form assistance.

Seamlessly embed Copilot Studio agents into Power Pages

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 In this blog, Nagesh Bhat covers new enhancements for embedding Copilot Studio agents into Power Pages, including full authentication support, in-studio testing, and web role-based visibility controls. These updates simplify bringing existing agents into Power Pages while maintaining fine-grained access control.

Skills for Copilot Studio: Build agents from YAML code, up to 20x Faster

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Giorgio Ughini announced Skills for Copilot Studio, an open-source plugin for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot that lets you build agents from the terminal using natural language. The plugin encodes CAT team best practices to generate valid YAML, enabling up to 20x faster agent development.

Salesforce Handoff to Copilot Studio: From Bare Docs to One-Click Deploy

👩‍💻🚀 Adi Leibowitz wrote this blog about a major overhaul of the Salesforce-to-Copilot Studio handoff docs, now featuring complete Apex code, Named Credentials, and one-click deployment scripts. The integration routes unrecognized Einstein Bot queries to Copilot Studio via Direct Line, with future plans for authenticated agents and Agentforce support.

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Last week brought improvements to Copilot Studio agent evaluations, computer use, and several other updates, all gathered in this announcement . New enhancements to Power Automate work queues were highlighted as well.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

We Have Automation. But Which Level Are You Actually At?

🦸🏻‍♀️ Pauline Kolde gives us a practical guide for D365 Customer Insights product owners and end users who want to stop guessing and start levelling up.

Product Advisory Agent using generative AI

🦸🏻‍♀️ Jeroen Scheper gives a practical demonstration of how to build your first agent with Copilot Studio. He built a Product Advisory Agent using generative AI to give recommendations about padel rackets for Padel Vamos.

PPTB - Metadata Browser

🦸🏻‍♀️🛠️ Carl Cookson has created Metadata Browser. Still going strong on the XrmToolBox the legend Tanguy Touzard created the original, and Carl’s version respectfully copies that with a reimagined interface to take advantage of the capabilities of the Electron PPTB.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Sales Agent Extensibility - 5 Build Lessons by Angeliki Patsiavou

🦸🏻‍♀️ Adding Multiple Screens To A Custom Page To Confirm Create by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Create Reusable Content Cards In Customer Insights by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ What is Connectors and what is it used for? by Malin Martnes

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Power Platform Deep Dive Podcast

👩‍💻 Our main deep dive focuses on AI automation, Copilot Studio, and Application Lifecycle Management in a low-code world. We discuss architecture decisions, prompt engineering, governance, and whether developers still need to learn code in the AI era.

Awkward Silence Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ In this episode, we unpack what vibe.powerapps.com (The Vibe Experience) actually is (and isn’t), how it compares to Plan Designer, and why it feels both exciting and a little off‑brand in the Power Apps world. From AI‑generated, React‑based custom apps to Dataverse‑only constraints, we talk through what Vibe produces, who it’s really for, and where functional consultants, makers, and pro‑code developers might collaborate—or completely check out. Whether you’re curious about Microsoft’s AI‑first direction, wondering if Vibe is the future (or just a fun preview experiment), or you just want to understand why everyone’s suddenly “caught a vibe,” this episode breaks it down with honesty, humor, and real‑world perspective.

BIFocal Podcast

🧭 John and Jason break down the Power BI January 2026 Feature Update — covering the key report, model, and service changes, what’s actually impactful, and how it fits into the broader Microsoft Fabric roadmap.

📅 Events & Webinars

Canadian Power Platform Summit

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

Adriatics Tech Summit

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.

ColorCloud

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsCon

(📅 May 12-16, 2026)

Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 300 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking.

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

Build

(📅 June 2-3, 2026)

At Microsoft Build, you'll go deep on real code, real systems, and real workflows with the teams building and scaling AI. Two days. Hands-on sessions. No fluff.

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

💙 Out of the Blue

New and improved: Agent evaluations, computer use, and advanced maker training

🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Nitasha Chopra outlines the latest Copilot Studio updates: improved agent evaluations that let you test across full scenarios and compare versions side by side, computer-using agents with new model options and scalable Cloud PC pools, and a new Agent Academy Operative training path for building multi-agent systems. Also now generally available: copying agents from Agent Builder into Copilot Studio and querying your agent inventory via Azure Resource Graph.

Every Path to Integrating Your Copilot Studio Agent

👩‍💻 Adi Leibowitz walks us through an interactive decision wizard that helps developers pick the right integration pattern for their Copilot Studio agent, from no-code embeds to self-hosted WebChat, native mobile SDKs, and server-side connectors. The guide branches on audience type, authentication model, and UI needs to land on a recommendation with working code samples.

Copilot Studio Kit: Beyond Test Automation

🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Written by Petri Simolin, this blog dives into the Copilot Studio Kit, a free open-source solution that goes beyond test automation to include agent inventory, compliance governance, conversation analytics, and webchat customization. The toolkit supports both makers and admins looking to operate agents at enterprise scale.

Improve Power Pages security by activating Web Application Firewall independently

🚀 Nagesh Bhat introduces two enhancements to Web Application Firewall (WAF) in Power Pages: WAF can now be enabled without first configuring CDN, and it is automatically activated when converting trial sites to production. These changes ensure production environments start secure by default with less friction for admins.

New enhancements to work queues that will transform how your teams manage and monitor automated workflows

🚀 Tristan Dehove announced in his blog new enhancements to work queues in Power Automate, including SLA violation alerts in the Monitoring Hub and a new aggregated operator view in the automation center. These updates give teams better visibility and control over their automation operations at scale.

Connecting Copilot Studio to a Dataverse MCP Endpoint Across Environments

👩‍💻🚀 In this blog, Ricardo Calejo shares a step-by-step guide for securely connecting a Copilot Studio agent to a Dataverse MCP endpoint in another environment using OAuth and a custom connector. The walkthrough covers Entra ID app registration, Application User setup, and importing the MCP-Streamable-HTTP connector.

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📰 Articles

The end of Power Pages? (As we know it?)

🦸🏻‍♀️ The Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code is now in public preview, and Nick Doelman tried it out to see how well it works. It was able to build and deploy a full Power Pages site with very little manual work, though it still has its limits. Nick also explains why the traditional Power Pages tools still matter alongside this new option.

Automated weekly product emails in Customer Insights - Journeys

🦸🏻‍♀️Wouldn’t it be good if you could have email that’s automatically and dynamically generated on a regular basis to send customers product information or special offers, using only your data in Dataverse and Customer Insights – Journeys? Amey Holden shows us how.

How to make Deep Links with Code Apps and call them from Model Driven Apps

👩‍💻 In this post, Diana Birkelbach shows how to make deep links for Code Apps and open them directly from model‑driven apps. She walks us through the setup of a Code App that’s going into production and explains how she solved a specific requirement.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to Publish Marketing Forms in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys: A Practical Guide by Pauline Kolde

🦸🏻‍♀️ Review The Calculate Working Day Connector Power Automate by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Show Loading Screen In Your Custom Page For Collections by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Wave opt-in has moved?! Release channel it is! by Jeroen Scheper

🦸🏻‍♀️ Change or remove the Escalate functionality in Copilot Studio by Arild Aarnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ Share and revoke the SharePoint folder with the external users directly from D365 CRM – Custom Page by Svara Consulting

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Voices of the Neighborhood Podcast

👩‍💻 We discuss the evolving role of AI in software development. In this episode we explore how large language models and tools like Copilot are transforming productivity and code quality for developers. Erik Jensen shares practical insights on integrating AI into existing projects, maintaining coding standards, and automating tasks such as testing and documentation. The conversation also highlights Erik’s new SQL database project power tool, designed to help database schema management in source control.

Dynamics Corner Podcast

🚀 Kris and Brad are joined by Renato Fajdiga, a Croatia-based Dynamics veteran with a decade of experience spanning NAV development, Business Central consulting, and Finance & Operations implementation across 12 countries. Renato shares his unique perspective on running both BC and F&O, side by side, explains when multi-country organizations should lean toward one platform over the other, and breaks down how his team uses Microsoft Fabric to address consolidation challenges that ERPs were never designed to handle. The conversation takes a fascinating turn into AI, where the group compares Copilot capabilities between BC and F&O, and debates what happens when AI handles your transactions, reports, and even tells you to enjoy your day at the beach. Renato also shares how he uses AI in his personal life — from workout plans with follow-up suggestions to hiking route planning with AllTrails — proving that the impact goes well beyond code. Whether you’re an SMB evaluating your first data warehouse or a consultant navigating the rapidly shifting ERP landscape, this episode is packed with insights and a few laughs along the way.

Power Platform Boost Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ This week’s episode starts light—with tiny wins, mugs of tea, and even a bit of Olympic and hockey heartbreak—but quickly pivots into one of the most important conversations in tech right now: AI security. After community shoutouts, free Agile training reflections, and career insights from the Architect Accelerator, we dive into OpenClaw—where hype meets real risk. We unpack email-based threats, extortion scenarios, prompt injection, and why “nothing to hide” is a dangerous myth. From Dataverse POCs and guardrails to the hidden risks of one-click installs, this episode balances security fatigue with practical urgency. We close with actionable Copilot tutorials and a clear message: innovation is powerful—but only when it’s secure. A thoughtful, real-world look at where the Power Platform and AI collide. 🚀

📅 Events & Webinars

Canadian Power Platform Summit

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

Adriatics Tech Summit

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.

ColorCloud

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsCon

(📅 May 12-16, 2026)

Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 300 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking.

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

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Computer-using agents now deliver more secure UI automation at scale

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 In this blog, Mustapha Lazrek announces major improvements to computer‑using agents, including model choice, secure credentials, and advanced monitoring. These updates make UI automation more secure, reliable, and easier to scale.

New quality updates to modern controls in canvas apps

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 Yogesh Gupta announced reliability and performance improvements to nine modern canvas app controls, including Combo Box, Text Input, and Date Picker. These updates remove previous limits (like the 800‑item Combo Box cap) and fix common behavior issues to make apps more stable across mobile and desktop.

Build Power Pages sites with AI using agentic coding tools (preview)

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 In this blog by Neeraj Nandwana, Microsoft announces a preview Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code that lets developers generate full sites using natural‑language prompts. It automates scaffolding, data setup, permissions, authentication and deployment so developers can build faster.

Input slicer: Filter reports and collect user input (Generally Available)

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Zoe Douglas introduces the new Power BI input slicer, which lets users filter by typing values directly - which is great for large datasets or partial matches. It also supports free‑form input, enabling new interaction patterns like comments or approval notes inside reports.

Power BI February 2026 Feature Summary

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 In this blog by Katie Murray, the February 2026 Power BI update brings key improvements like expanded Copilot prompts, a GA Input Slicer, enhanced visuals, and faster Azure Maps. It also includes important deprecations and admin updates ahead of community events like FabCon.

Embedding Copilot Studio Directly in ServiceNow (And Why Auth Was the Easy Part)

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Adi Leibowitz shows how to embed a Copilot Studio agent directly into ServiceNow using a widget that avoids the ServiceNow Virtual Agent integration, iframes, and any need for federation with PingFederate. He also explains how MSAL handles authentication silently and how an automated deployment script makes setup fast and repeatable.

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📰 Articles

Practical AI, Copilot & Modern Development Insights Power Apps MCP Server: Complete Feature Guide (2026)

🦸🏻‍♀️ The Power Apps MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server is now in public preview. It exposes three tools that let AI agents automate tasks inside model-driven apps with built-in human supervision via a redesigned agent feed. This guide by Zsolt Zombik covers every feature, technical detail, current limitation, and step-by-step setup path.

Creating F&O Legal Entities from Copilot Studio

🦸🏻‍♀️ Last week, Ted Ohlsson was blown away by Sean Gallagher’s posts in which he configured a new legal entity and added a new demo to Dynamics 365 F&O data using VS Code, the Dynamics 365 ERP MCP server, and the Business Process Catalogue. And now he is showing how to do it in Copilot Studio.

Power Pages: Cache Conquered!

👩‍💻 A very common question that comes up while configuring Power Pages is how to get around cache issues. Using Power Pages Server logic, there is now an official way to skip the cache! Nick Doelman shows us how to use it.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Granular Tracking Controls in Customer Insights – Journeys: A Privacy-First Must for Regulated Organizations by Gustaf Westerlund

🦸🏻‍♀️ A unique app to create and manage family trees - Part 1 and Part 2 by Hardit Bhatia

🦸🏻‍♀️ Setting Up Google reCAPTCHA v2 For Realtime Forms by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Set A Business Process Flow Stage With A Custom Page by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Business Process Catalog: Develop people strategy (D365 HR) by Ana Inés Urrutia

🦸🏻‍♀️ Conversational CRM: How to use Sales Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot (preview) by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to publish a Copilot Studio agent to everyone in your organization by Arild Aarnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ Create An MCP Server And Deploy To Copilot Studio by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ M365 Makeover: App Builder, Workflows & Agents by Untethered 365

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🎙️ Podcasts

Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ In this episode, we take a look at the transition from "vibe-coding" to shipping verifiable, production-grade AI applications. This is the critical shift from relying on "gut feel" and prompt tinkering to implementing rigorous audit trails, versioning, and security controls. We discuss why many AI pilots fail due to a lack of explainability, the specific risks of privilege expansion and data leakage in agentic workflows, and also outline how to use Microsoft Foundry/Azure AI Studio to operationalize your models like true regulated software.

Microsoft Community Insights Podcast

👩‍💻 Choosing the right AI model shouldn’t feel like roulette. We sit down with Kate Catlin, the product manager from GitHub. Kate shares how model strengths and explains how auto mode aims to pick the right model for the job so developers can focus on outcomes.

Awkward Silence Podcast

👩‍💻 In this episode, Ed and Ashley talk through the Fast Track Recognized Solution Architect (FTRSA) process, including the different tracks (Dynamics and Power Platform) and what it takes to qualify. They discuss options for submitting documentation that won’t be publicly published, as well as the review and interview process where work is closely evaluated. The conversation also covers the challenge of holding both Microsoft MVP and FTRSA at the same time, noting that the contribution expectations don’t overlap and effectively create double work, and how rare that combination is within their company. And it wouldn’t be a podcast without a natural transition to TV Series that we’re watching! Stay to the end for recommendations & reviews.

📅 Events & Webinars

Canadian Power Platform Summit

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

Adriatics Tech Summit

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.

ColorCloud

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsCon

(📅 May 12-16, 2026)

Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 300 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking.

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

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What’s new in Power Platform: February 2026 feature update

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 In this overview blog by Tiffany Treacy, all the changes that came out in the last month for the Power Platform are summed up. Some didn’t get a full blog post, but are still interesting to know! Make sure to go through this to catch up on all the good new stuff!

More choice, more flexibility: xAI Grok 4.1 Fast now available in Microsoft Copilot Studio

🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 In this blog, Ami Shastri announces that next to the OpenAI and Anthropic models, xAI Grok 4.1 Fast is now available in Microsoft Copilot Studio as well! That means you now have even more model choice!

Power Apps MCP and enhanced agent feed for your business applications

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Hemant Gaur announces the public preview of the Power Apps MCP Server and enhanced agent feed, letting AI agents automate routine app tasks while humans review, approve, and guide actions directly inside Power Apps.

The Conversation History Gap in the M365 Agents SDK (And How We Filled It)

👩‍💻 Adi Leibowitz writes in this blog about a gap in the M365 Agents SDK where WebChat clients lose conversation history on refresh, despite the agent retaining context server‑side. Adi presents an open‑source adapter that restores conversation history using custom storage and WebChat middleware.

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Navigating to and from Generative Pages

🦸🏻‍♀️Diana Birkelbach gives us a complete rundown of how you can navigate to and from Generative Pages.

My advice for Still Growing Developers

👩‍💻 Recently, Jonas Rapp got a request, or rather a kind ask, if he could give his perspective on how to grow even more in our small, tiny, little part of the world – the Power Platform.

Multi-Stage AI Invoice Approval in Dynamics 365 Using Copilot Agents

🦸🏻‍♀️ In many organizations, invoice approvals are still manual, slow, and inconsistent. In this blog, Sam Kumar designs a smart multi-stage invoice approval process using Copilot Agents.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Adventures with Copilot Studio: Oh Analytics! Where are Thou? by Matt Ruma

🦸🏻‍♀️ Adventures with Dataverse: Power BI and Elastic Tables by Matt Ruma

🦸🏻‍♀️ Assign Records To A User Or A Team From Your Custom Page by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate - Building Readable Flows by David Wyatt

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

.NET Rocks! Podcast

👩‍💻 How does Artificial Intelligence impact our approach to building secure software? Carl and Richard talk to Ben Dechrai about his experiences working with AI tooling and building AI apps, and how that impacts security. Ben talks about the concerns organizations have about using AI tools - what these tools might do with the code they are exposed to, as well as the code the tools generate. The conversation steers to local AI as a solution, although so far, the equipment and tools are very limited. Ben also talks about how AI tools are being used to both attack and secure software and the challenges of this arms race - hopefully the good guys win!

Cloud Architects Podcast

🚀 Microsoft AI MVP James Westall helps with a candid “state of the nation” discussion on AI in 2026. Moving beyond the LLM hype of 2024 and the agent frenzy of 2025, the conversation explores what’s actually delivering value for organizations today and what isn’t. We unpack common pitfalls like oversold expectations, poor use case selection, and the challenge of measuring ROI, while highlighting practical success stories. We also tackle model “religion wars,” cost realities, developer productivity, and the importance of strategy and governance.

Dynamics Corner Podcast

🧭 Kris and Brad are joined by Bobby Small and Bri from the Dynamics User Group (DUG). It all starts when Brad shows up to the DUG Southeast Regional Winterfest in Tampa — and gets turned away at the door. What happens next earns Bri a nickname she’ll never live down. Bobby and Bri then share the one thing most attendees get wrong at conferences, and the simple mindset shift that could transform your entire event experience. They reveal the secret to landing your first speaking opportunity — and it’s not what you think. Want to know the number one mistake speakers make when submitting sessions months in advance? Bobby has a surprising take. The group also tackles a question that’s on everyone’s mind: in a world where AI can replicate your voice and your writing style, what’s the one thing it still can’t do? And just when you think the conversation is winding down, Brad delivers a PSA so passionate it might just change the way you behave at every conference from now on. Whether you’re a seasoned community member or attending your first event, this is one episode you don’t want to skip.

Canadian Power Platform Summit

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

Adriatics Tech Summit

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.

ColorCloud

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsCon

(📅 May 12-16, 2026)

Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 300 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking.

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

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Power Pages Server Logic (preview): Enhancements

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 In this blog by Nagesh Bhat, Power Pages Server Logic preview adds real‑time Dataverse access with cache bypass, support for the Standard Data Model, and local debugging in Visual Studio Code to speed up and improve server‑side logic development.

Deprecation of old Excel and CSV import experience in Power BI Service

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 In this blog by Grace Gong, Microsoft announces the deprecation of the old Excel and CSV import experience in the Power BI service, explaining that reports built this way will stop refreshing and must be recreated using the newer connectors. The post outlines who is affected and highlights key 2026 deadlines while reassuring users that Excel and CSV remain supported through modern import options.

Deep dive into composite semantic models with Direct Lake and import tables

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Zoe Douglas announces that Power BI now supports composite semantic models that mix Direct Lake and Import tables in one model, combining large, live fact tables with fully featured imported dimensions for better performance and flexibility.

Zero Noise, Maximum Relevance: Dynamic Knowledge URLs in Copilot Studio

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Doug Bellingeri announces Copilot Studio supports dynamic knowledge URLs to tailor grounding by context and reduce duplicated sources.

Mastering WebChat Middleware for Copilot Studio Agents

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Giorgio Ughini shows how WebChat Redux middleware lets you intercept and customize Copilot Studio messages without building a custom chat UI.

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Last week Microsoft officially announced the general availability of code apps in Power Apps. The new automated testing and agent evaluation capabilities in Copilot Studio were also highlighted.

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📰 Articles

Adventures with Copilot Studio: Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot Channel Challenges

🦸🏻‍♀️ Matt Ruma shows just how hard it is to work with Copilot Studio agents in Microsoft Teams.

Dataverse MCP Server revisited, agent context reduction strategies and the future of BizApps

🦸🏻‍♀️ Andreas Adner explores the Dataverse MCP Server and the different reducers that makes sense when you use it.

🚀🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Platform Advanced Connector Policies

Craig White has blogged a lot about DLP. With Power Platform Managed Environments, we’re able to take this up a notch with Advanced Connector Policies. The differences to standard Data Policies are quite powerful, but are they enough to move away from the OG? Read here to find out.

Other articles

🚀🦸🏻‍♀️ Data Loss Prevention for Copilot Studio Agents by Craig White

🦸🏻‍♀️ Vibe Coding an XrmToolbox Tool part 4 - Optimisation and destroying my entire tool by Matt Collins-Jones

🦸🏻‍♀️ Evaluating Specific Form Fields In Customer Insights by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Modern Delete Confirmation Popup In Your Custom Page by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ AI Document summary on the opportunity when the document is uploaded to SharePoint by Raghu Chalasani

🛠️ SQL 4 CDS v10.3 Released by Mark Carrington

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Pages: Data Change Request Architecture by Nicholas Hayduk

🦸🏻‍♀️ Disposition Codes Explained: How to Track and Report on Dynamics 365 Customer Service Outcomes by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to restrict Unwanted Power Automate flow execution by Sam Kumar

👩‍💻 MobX State Management for Power Apps PCF Controls: Your Complete Guide 2026 by Zsolt Zombik

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🎙️ Podcasts

BIFocal Podcast

🤵🏻 John & Jason talk about their predictions about 2024 & how they aged into 2025 and make their predictions for 2026 for Power BI & Microsoft Fabric.

Azure Friday Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ Elijah Straight, PM for Microsoft Agent Framework, walks through how to build a multi-agent workflow to automate work using the framework’s graph-based orchestration capabilities. Microsoft Agent Framework is a multi-language SDK for Python and .NET that enables building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents with support for streaming, checkpointing, and human-in-the-loop capabilities.

Merge Conflict Podcast

👩‍💻 James and Frank reminisce about their mobile‑dev roots, and dig into how AI, the Copilot CLI/SDK and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are reshaping workflows. Frank demos an MCP‑powered tool that turns app reviews into prioritized GitHub issues and automations — a real example of AI-as-glue — with practical takeaways on prompt engineering, UI extensions, and when to automate versus curate manually.

📅 Events & Webinars

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

Adriatics Tech Summit 2026

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.

ColorCloud 2026

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsMinds 2026

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

European Power Platform Conference 2026

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

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How to evaluate AI agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Efrat Gilboa wrote that evaluating AI agents in Copilot Studio is essential once agents move beyond demos, because real users, multi‑turn conversations, tools, and permissions quickly expose gaps in behaviour and trust. She explains how built‑in agent evaluations provide a structured, repeatable way to measure variability, monitor drift over time, and gain confidence before and after production deployment.

Deep dive into composite semantic models with Direct Lake and import tables

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Zoe Douglas announces that Power BI now supports composite semantic models that mix Direct Lake tables with import tables, enabling flexible modelling while preserving expected report performance.

Mastering WebChat Middleware for Copilot Studio Agents

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Giorgio Ughini shares a video‑first walkthrough on using WebChat Redux middleware with Copilot Studio agents. He shows how middleware lets you intercept, modify, filter, and store messages without building a custom chat UI.

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Last week brought guidance on Copilot Studio agents and an overview of secure development practices for Power Platform:

• The 6 pillars that will define agent readiness in 2026

• Breaking down the facts about secure development with Power Platform

The Custom Engine published new posts and a video. It’s a blog for the bookmarks!

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📰 Articles

Create and View related records from a Custom page

🦸🏻‍♀️ Megan V. Walker describes how to build a custom page that lets users quickly create and view related records while preventing duplicates. She shows how to load existing records into a collection and validate new entries before adding them. The page then updates a gallery instantly so users can see changes as they happen.

Improve your lead data using the enhanced lead duplicate detection feature

🦸🏻‍♀️ Jeroen Scheper highlights how the enhanced lead duplicate detection feature helps improve data quality by going beyond traditional rule‑based checks. He explains that the new experience uses an AI model capable of more flexible, fuzzy matching to identify potential duplicates directly from list views.

Dataverse: Get best Threads and Rows Count

🚀👩‍💻 Temmy Wahyu Raharjo shows how challenging it can be to send data to Dataverse due to factors like hardware, network conditions, table behavior, and API limits. He demonstrates an approach that gradually increases rows and threads during processing. This method helps maximize throughput while staying within Dataverse’s constraints.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Copilot Studio Search Multiline Text & File Dataverse Fields by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Create Hierarchy Overview Of Compliance Setup In Customer Insights - Journeys by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Extract information from expense receipts, invoices, Canvas app for submission- approval by Svara Consulting

🦸🏻‍♀️ What is Power BI and what is it used for? by Malin Martnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ Adventures with Power Automate: How to Handle AutoSave in Office Documents by Matt Ruma

🚀 Check your Power Platform solutions for secrets with Pester and PowerShell by Leo Visser

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to Fix Dynamics 365 Knowledge Article Workflow Timeout Error When Using Copilot Studio by Arash Aghajani

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate Scheduled Flows won’t save if Excel Pagination is over 5,000 by Ellis Karim

🦸🏻‍♀️ Data Loss Prevention for Copilot Studio Agents by Craig White

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🎙️ Podcasts

Microsoft 365 Business Boost Podcast

🧭 You can do so much with AI these days when it comes to building Power Apps, but is it TOO much? That was the discussion had on the latest episode of the M365 Business Boost show, joined by Howdang Rashid.

This was a great discussion because you can hear three thoughts about what the future might look like and what it means to you as a business owner and maker/developer.

Power Platform Boost Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ This episode comes to you live from Oslo at ACDC, capturing the energy, chaos, and lessons of a real-world hackathon. We break down the judge-versus-participant dynamic, the event’s theme and rules, and how a “dream home to Minecraft” idea took shape under pressure. Along the way, we hit very real challenges—from local success and cloud headaches to networking pivots and protocol pain—plus the importance of owning mistakes (hello, Dough Badge). We celebrate the moment the end-to-end build finally clicks, reflect on lessons you can take straight into client work, and zoom out to talk broader tech stacks and AI pair coding. We wrap with a Power Platform Toolbox announcement and a call to support the community tools that keep this ecosystem thriving. If you like honest takes from the trenches, this one’s for you. 🚀

The Copilot Connection Podcast

👩‍💻 This week, Kevin McDonnell and Garry Trinder explore the world of coding agents and how they could change software development. They run through what coding agents are along with the importance of context, memory, and specifications in using AI tools effectively. Also, they think about how you need to change habits and also touch on the challenges faced by junior developers in adapting to AI technologies, the role of personality in AI agents, and the future of work with AI. This isn't just the joy of agents though, this is about the need for security and ethical considerations when integrating AI into development processes, while also encouraging developers to embrace the potential of AI to enhance productivity and creativity.

📅 Events & Webinars

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

Adriatics Tech Summit 2026

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.

ColorCloud 2026

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsMinds 2026

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

European Power Platform Conference 2026

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

💙 Out of the Blue

When to use MCP Server vs Power Platform Connectors

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 In this blog by Jay Padimiti, you can learn about the differences between using MCP servers and Power Platform Connectors. It’s a question that a lot of people have been asking over the last couple of months, so this is a very welcome blog!

Retrieve Meeting Transcripts in Copilot Studio & Block Focus Time

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Giorgio Ughini demonstrates how an autonomous agent built with Copilot Studio can analyze Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts and automatically block focus time in Outlook for open action items. The blog shows how agents can move beyond chat to run end-of-day workflows that identify tasks, estimate effort, and take calendar actions on the user’s behalf.

Modern Visual Tooltips in Power BI (Generally Available)

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Jacinda Eng explains that modern visual tooltips in Power BI are now generally available, making report interactions more intuitive and consistent across platforms. She highlights built-in drill actions, theme-based styling, and backward compatibility, helping users explore data faster while simplifying report creation.

The 6 pillars that will define agent readiness in 2026

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 Nitasha Chopra explains that organizations are moving from experimenting with AI agents to operationalizing them for real business impact in 2026. She outlines six pillars of agent readiness, including empowering more people to build agents, enabling agents to own end-to-end workflows, and scaling agents with strong governance and control. Together, these pillars describe how enterprises can turn agent adoption into sustained, measurable value.

Breaking down the facts about secure development with Power Platform

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 Joe Unwin and Justin Tung explain that Microsoft Power Platform enables rapid innovation while maintaining strong enterprise security. They highlight built-in governance, access controls, and data protection that are integrated directly into the development lifecycle, allowing organizations to scale low-code solutions with confidence.

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Last week the general availability of the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code was announced.

NEW! 🛠️ Inspired by the legendary Tanguy TOUZARD and XrmToolBox, team members from our fellow newsletter Power Platform Developers Weekly, together with other contributors, introduced Power Platform ToolBox. Check out the announcement and give it a try.

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📰 Articles

Modern Power App development takes a lot of... SPACE

👩‍💻 There was a time when any client request that drifted outside the “blessed” Power Apps patterns triggered a long conversation about platform constraints. That era is over. Riccardo Gregori shows you how to ship more PCFs and webresources, while keeping your folder sizes at a minimum.

Best open-source tools for Microsoft Power Platform you should know

🛠️ This is a three-part series by Kamil Kowalczyk. In Part 1, he focuses on tools that help you stay informed, enhance your browser workflow, and plan licensing more confidently. The next parts will cover tools for low-code makers, pro-code developers, and essential utilities every consultant should know.

PPTB - Environment Manager

🛠️ Much as Carl Cookson loves XrmToolBox, and loved making tools for the toolbox, he has always thought that the visual aspect of the tools left something to be desired. With the new Power Platform ToolBox he created his first tool, the OrgSettings Tool.

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🦸🏻‍♀️ Use Dynamics Environment Default Theme In Your Custom Page by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Hide The View In Browser Link | Customer Insights - Journeys by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Cockpit view with the multi-table visual hierarchy by Jeroen Scheper

🦸🏻‍♀️ Export copies of sent emails from Customer Insights - Journeys for record keeping and compliance by Amey Holden

🦸🏻‍♀️ Pipelines – Download Solutions by Joe Gill

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Run As Radio Podcast

🧭 How do you get an idea to implementation in your organization? Richard chats with Amber Vanderburg about the work she’s done helping teams understand the process of getting projects started and finished. Amber talks about defining a clear starting line, ending line, and dead line. While many projects are important, prioritization is the challenge. This means often other priorities have to be resolved before something new can be started - you need resources and time to be successful. Working through the process takes time, but the alternative is failure to meet expectations. It takes planning and clear communication to get things done!

Scott & Mark Learn To...Podcast

👩‍💻 In this episode, Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich explore how AI-assisted vibe coding is changing the way complex software gets built, debugged, and refined. Mark walks through real-world experiments using AI to tackle difficult engineering problems, including gRPC shared memory, Win32 UI work, and major new features coming to ZoomIt. The conversation digs into where AI meaningfully accelerates development, where it still requires careful human oversight, and how tools like screenshots, debug output, MCP servers, and multimodal feedback loops are reshaping modern developer workflows. The result is an honest, technical discussion about productivity gains, limitations, and the evolving role of human judgment in AI-driven software engineering.

📅 Events & Webinars

Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2026

(📅 January 29-30, 2026)

Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn is a two-day event dedicated to deepening your expertise in the Microsoft Cloud, with sessions on AI, data, infrastructure, and collaboration to accelerate innovation and growth. It is also a unique community gathering at Tallinn’s Creative Hub, combining world-class learning with networking in the heart of Estonia’s capital.

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

Adriatics Tech Summit 2026

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.

ColorCloud 2026

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsMinds 2026

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

European Power Platform Conference 2026

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

💙 Out of the Blue

Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code Is Now Generally Available

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Sarah Critchley announces the general availability of the Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code. You can now build and manage Copilot Studio agents from the Integrated Development Environment you already use.

Power BI Report Server January 2026 Feature Summary

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 In this blog, Denyse Niwenshuti presents the January 2026 Power BI Report Server feature summary, highlighting new visualization and reporting enhancements for on‑premises environments.

Introducing Markers in Azure Maps for Power BI

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Harleen Kaur introduces Markers in the Azure Maps visual for Power BI, a new feature that enables richer, more expressive location-based storytelling without complex GIS tools. Markers allow report authors to use custom icons, dynamic sizing, colors, transparency, and category-based visuals to represent assets, routes, and performance metrics more intuitively.

Agentic Tooling: Making Agent Performance Transparent and Measurable

👩‍💻🚀 This blog by Vineet Kaul shows how to build a custom observability tool for Copilot Studio agents using the M365 Agents SDK, Python, and Gradio to make agent performance transparent and measurable.

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Last week the Power Platform Advocate🥑 team announced a new learning path, Agent Academy: Operative. Also see the dedicated blog post.

For anyone interested, the PPCC call for speakers is now open and closes on January 31. Read more here.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Power Platform Managed Identity: migrate from version 0 to version 1

👩‍💻 Yannick Reekmans shows how to migrate your version 0 implementation of Power Platform Managed Identity to version 1 of the specification, to be prepared for future deprecation of the version 0 format.

Vibe coding an XrmToolBox Tool part 2 - Now we vibing!

👩‍💻 In Matt Collins-Jones’s previous post, he wrote about how he tried to build a XrmToolBox tool with no C# or plugin experience by Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot and the results were, quite frankly, amazing.

Power Apps- Moving Away From Inline Code

🦸🏻‍♀️ David Wyatt gives his take on when to use User Defined Functions, and when to use User Defined Subroutines.

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🦸🏻‍♀️ Disconnect From Sales Sequence Via Customer Insights Trigger by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Creating Dynamic Cascading Dropdowns with Related Entities in a Custom Page by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Show/Hide custom buttons with PowerFX when a lookup column has no value by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ FTRSA '26/27 - Information to know by EY Kalman

🦸🏻‍♀️ Quick Tip: Finding the Right Many-to-Many Relationship When Adding Subgrids by Linn Zaw Win

🦸🏻‍♀️ Bringing Third-Party Apps into D365HR by Ana Inés Urrutia

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Apps Per-App License Retirement: What Teams Should Review by Sailaja Mantripragada

🦸🏻‍♀️ How-to avoid to many responses from Copilot Studio connected agents by Arild Aarnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) – Facilitate mandatory and non-mandatory attributes – 4 by Raghu Chalasani

🦸🏻‍♀️ Announcing: Mastering Microsoft Copilot Studio in VS Code by Zsolt Zombik

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The Citizen Developer Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ Join us for this insightful episode as we chat with Nick Doelman, a seasoned Power Platform Specialist and Microsoft MVP. With over 25 years of experience, Nick shares invaluable insights about the single most crucial focus area for Power Platform professionals today. This episode is a must-listen for anyone aspiring to excel in the Microsoft ecosystem, especially with the rise of AI and Copilot technologies.

Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast

🧭 In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding the scope beyond just Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and similar Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?

Microsoft Community Insights Podcast

👩‍💻We walk through a plan-first workflow that asks Copilot to survey the codebase, propose a step-by-step solution, and only then switch to agent mode to implement. That simple change lifts code quality, reduces rework, and keeps diffs aligned with architecture. We also dig into custom agents with scoped permissions and roles: a testing agent for unit coverage, a docs agent for READMEs, a refactor agent limited to certain directories. Prompt craft matters, but stable configuration, coding standards, and CI guardrails matter more. Think of it as turning best practices into reusable instructions that AI can follow every time.

📅 Events & Webinars

Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2026

(📅 January 29-30, 2026)

Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn is a two-day event dedicated to deepening your expertise in the Microsoft Cloud, with sessions on AI, data, infrastructure, and collaboration to accelerate innovation and growth. It is also a unique community gathering at Tallinn’s Creative Hub, combining world-class learning with networking in the heart of Estonia’s capital.

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

Adriatics Tech Summit 2026

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.

ColorCloud 2026

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsMinds 2026

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

European Power Platform Conference 2026

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

💙 Out of the Blue

Announcing Agent Academy: Operative

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 In this blog, April Dunnam announces the new Operative course in Agent Academy. After the beginner level Recruit course, the Operative course is aimed at beginners. The first badges are awarded already, so make sure to get yours too!

The Welcome Message That Never Was: Mocking Agent Greetings in WebChat

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Adi Leibowitz explains in this blog how to display a friendly welcome message in Copilot Studio WebChat without actually triggering the agent or consuming messages, avoiding unnecessary topic executions and skewed analytics. The post walks through a practical technique to “mock” the greeting so users see a welcome message while the agent stays idle until real interaction begins.

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Last week Bas Brekelmans spotlighted new security improvements for using Anthropic models in Copilot Studio.

A new community tool has been released: 🚀 Dataverse ERD Visualizer. Check out the announcement for all the details, along with more in the articles section.

Huge congratulations to Julian Sharp for passing the 100th certification exam! 🎖️

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Building a cost‑transparent agent strategy: Chargeback models for agents

🦸🏻‍♀️ This article by Carsten Groth provides a practical, enterprise‑ready framework for building a transparent, defensible charged‑back model using the latest capabilities across Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Power Platform Admin Center, and the emerging Agent 365 control plane.

Generative Pages: Link Them to Your Model-Driven App Forms

🦸🏻‍♀️ Ben den Blanken has been hands‑on with Generative Pages in Model‑Driven Power Apps. Short version: you get results fast. And when you already know Dataverse and the client APIs, they get really good, really quickly.

Dataverse ERD Visualizer: See Your Data Model, Understand Your Data

🛠️ There’s no built-in ERD tool in the Power Platform. Sure, you can export metadata, draw diagrams in Visio, or use external tools that require API connections and configuration. But what if you could just click a button inside your environment and instantly see an interactive, draggable, zoomable entity relationship diagram? That’s exactly why Allan De Castro built the Dataverse ERD Visualizer.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Exam AB-731: AI Transformation Leader by EY Kalman

🦸🏻‍♀️ How To Send Monthly Updates With Customer Insights Journeys by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Add A Custom Page To A Table Using The Command Bar by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Copilot Studio: Readily-available information about the logged in user by Rishona Elijah

🦸🏻‍♀️ What is AI builder and what is it used for? by Malin Martnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ Segments in Customer Insights - Journeys: Bulk delete with Power Automate by Amey Holden

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to Send Emails from a Shared Mailbox in Power Automate (Without Giving Up Privacy) by Ellis Karim

🦸🏻‍♀️ Copilot Studio Generate A Word Document by Matthew Devaney

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

BIFocal Podcast

🚀 John & Jason talk about the Fabric November 2025 Feature Summary part 3 including updates to Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence, and Data Factory.

Run As Radio Podcast

👩‍💻 AI tools continue to evolve - what can we do with them today? Richard chats with Cecilia Wirén about her experiences using the latest AI tools to support DevOps workflows, diagnostics, and the crafting of new scripts. Cecilia focuses on tools that can help admins who occasionally work on scripts, including getting into a GitHub workflow to track prompts and results generated by LLMs, so you can always revert and learn from various approaches to interact with these new tools. The tools continue to evolve; it’s worth looking at the latest features and models!

The Community Dig Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ How are we using AI: Recipes, Trip planning, and oh, this little thing that Microsoft and Rachel Profit brewed up called the Business Process Catalog. Don’t miss out on Lil’ Beau and his pocket steaks and the warning to avoid AI “Copy and Paste!” Tune in to hear from some folks on the frontline of the introduction of usable AI, Copilot, and Chat GPT. Where are experts seeing AI adoption coming to fruition.

📅 Events & Webinars

Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2026

(📅 January 29-30, 2026)

Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn is a two-day event dedicated to deepening your expertise in the Microsoft Cloud, with sessions on AI, data, infrastructure, and collaboration to accelerate innovation and growth. It is also a unique community gathering at Tallinn’s Creative Hub, combining world-class learning with networking in the heart of Estonia’s capital.

Update Days Power Platform 2026

(📅 February 12-13, 2026)

Update Days Power Platform is a conference that goes beyond the basics, offering practical insights into enterprise-level challenges like governance, professional development, and scalable solutions. Come learn from experts who work in the field every day, and connect with peers who, just like you, want to use Power Platform efficiently and strategically.

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

ColorCloud 2026

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.

DynamicsMinds 2026

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.

European Power Platform Conference 2026

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.

💙 Out of the Blue

The One Card: Build Once, Speak All Languages

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 In this blog, Adi Leibowitz explains a major Copilot Studio improvement that automatically includes static text from Adaptive Cards in localization files, eliminating the need to manage separate cards per language. Developers can now build an Adaptive Card once and translate it using the same download–translate–upload workflow used for regular topic content.

Implement Cloud PC Pool for Computer Use in Microsoft Copilot Studio

👩‍💻🚀 Jay Padimiti shows how Cloud PC pools enable secure, enterprise‑ready UI automation in Copilot Studio by running the Computer Use tool on Microsoft‑managed Windows 11 Cloud PCs. This allows agents to automate apps and websites using natural language while maintaining Entra ID, Intune, and compliance controls.

The Power BI Dataviz World Champs is back!

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 In this blog, Shannon Lindsay announces the return of the Power BI DataViz World Championships, a global contest celebrating creativity, analytical excellence, and data storytelling. Participants will compete across three weekly visualization challenges, followed by community voting, a judges’ wildcard, and a live finale at FabCon 2026 on March 16.

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While many took a well‑deserved break over the holidays, others in the community kept building and shipped new updates, including new versions of SQL 4 CDS and FetchXML Builder.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

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Power Pages: Bring your own code! (Tutorial)

🦸🏻‍♀️ The following tutorial by Nick Doelman provides a step by step process to build a React based website, display records from a Dataverse table, enable authentication, and implement security to control what the logged in user can see and do.

Exploring the Agent 365 CLI

👩‍💻 In this blog, Andreas Adner explains in detail how this was done, so you can try it out for yourself - as well as learn a thing or two about the technology that powers Agent 365.

How to use Rich Messaging in Customer Service to Create Better Customer Experiences

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dian Taylor shows the different Rich Messaging capabilities, which includes images, videos, forms, and even interactive elements like adaptive cards.

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🦸🏻‍♀️ Exam AB-900: Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals by EY Kalman

👩‍💻 Agent 365 notifications by Andreas Adner

👩‍💻 Power Pages: Adding Tabs to Forms Using Web Link Sets by Nicholas Hayduk

🛠️ SQL 4 CDS v10.2 Released by Mark Carrington

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dynamics 365 Expense Management App Overview by Ana Inés Urrutia

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M365 Voice Podcast

🧭 In this episode, we provide an overview of the major announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025 and offer an analysis grounded in our expertise. Key topics include Agent 365, SharePoint Knowledge Agent, and Agent Governance. We also address advancements in Security Copilot, Data Security, Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, integration with other models through Copilot, as well as several additional themes presented at Ignite 2025.

Azure & DevOps Podcast

👩‍💻 Scott Hanselman is a teacher at heart. He speaks all over to whoever will listen. He’s have written code that you, dear listener, has used. Scott has been blogging, coding, and podcasting a LONG time. He codes, writes, speaks, empowers, promotes, braids, learns and listens - usually not in that order. And he’s a Vice President at Microsoft in his day job focusing on Developer Community. You can find him on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Mastodon! His Hanselminutes podcast has surpassed 900 episodes, and his Azure Friday show, over 750 episodes. Connect with him at hanselman.com

Code. Deploy. Go Live. Podcast

🤵🏻 In this end-of-year episode, Andrew and Julie dive into how AI has become an integral part of their daily lives. They discuss the various AI tools they rely on for personal tasks, business operations, and software development, including Gemini, Claude, and GitHub Copilot. The conversation covers when and why they choose specific platforms, how AI assists in their writing processes, and the role of AI coding assistants in their development workflows. They also touch on thought-provoking content about AI's impact on society, referencing episodes from the Diary of a CEO podcast featuring discussions on brain health and leadership perspectives from Simon Sinek.

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Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2026

(📅 January 29-30, 2026)

Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn is a two-day event dedicated to deepening your expertise in the Microsoft Cloud, with sessions on AI, data, infrastructure, and collaboration to accelerate innovation and growth. It is also a unique community gathering at Tallinn’s Creative Hub, combining world-class learning with networking in the heart of Estonia’s capital.

Update Days Power Platform 2026

(📅 February 12-13, 2026)

Update Days Power Platform is a conference that goes beyond the basics, offering practical insights into enterprise-level challenges like governance, professional development, and scalable solutions. Come learn from experts who work in the field every day, and connect with peers who, just like you, want to use Power Platform efficiently and strategically.

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

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It was a quiet week, there were no Microsoft blogs in the past week!

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Last week brought us the What’s new in Microsoft Copilot Studio: November 2025 summary. We’ve moved the great posts from The Custom Engine to the Out of the Blue section, don’t miss it!

Next week, the Power Platform Weekly team will be on holiday, and we’ll be back on January 5. From all of us to all of you, we wish you a very Merry Christmas ☃️🎄 and a Happy New Year! 🌟

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Creating dynamic MCP Servers using Agent 365

👩‍💻 A while back, Andreas Adner showed how to use the Microsoft 365 MCP Management Server in Agent 365 to dynamically create MCP Servers. In this blog, he explains how he did it.

Extending Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales with Copilot Studio — Tailor It Your Way

🦸🏻‍♀️ In this post, Allan De Castro explores the different extensions available for Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales using Copilot Studio and summarizes what he showcased at his PPCC session.

Generative Pages on top of Recruitment add-on

🦸🏻‍♀️ Ana Inés Urrutia tested the new Generative Pages feature in model‑driven apps by adding a welcome page to the Recruitment add‑on. In this post she shares her findings.

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🦸🏻‍♀️🧭 The Rise of the Agentic Enterprise by Carsten Groth

👩‍💻 Customizing Copilot Agent appearance in Power Pages - Christmas edition by Oleksandr Olashyn

🦸🏻‍♀️ Create Article Content Blocks From An RSS Feed In D365 by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Using The HTML Text Control To Improve Your Custom Pages by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ What is Copilot Studio and what is it used for? by Malin Martnes

🛠️ Find the right tool in XrmToolBox by Jukka Niiranen

🧭 The Future of the Power Platform by David Wyatt

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O365Eh! Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ In this episode, we talk with fellow MVP Dominick Raimato on building Copilot reports with Microsoft Fabric and how to use these reports to understand corporate user adoption.

BIFocal Podcast

🤵🏻 Power BI November 2025 Feature Summary by John White & Jason Himmelstein.

Power Platform Boost Podcast

🧭 This week’s episode embraces the chaos of December while cutting straight to what matters most in the Power Platform world. We unpack why Dataverse capacity doubling is a big deal, how rising Copilot demand forces tough capacity tradeoffs, and what Microsoft’s new icons signal about the future of UI design. From choosing the right place to build agents to a first look at the Dataverse SDK for Python, we balance strategy with hands-on updates. We also tackle pipeline pain points, citizen developer deployments vs. DevOps, and the new modern theme designer for model-driven apps. Rounding things out, we dive into UX psychology, Power Pages enhancements with HTMX and cleaner validation, process maps in Power Apps plans, and what “Power Platform reborn” could mean with a more code-first Power Pages future. Fast-paced, opinionated, and packed with insight—this one’s a must-listen. 🚀

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Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2026

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Update Days Power Platform 2026

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Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

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What’s new in Microsoft Copilot Studio: November 2025

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Nitasha Chopra summarized the new updates to Copilot Studio in this blog. If you want to catch up to all the changes, this is THE blog to read. New updates include GPT-5 Chat, Human In The Loop for autonomous agents, SharePoint grounding, Action Groups and more!

Kill the [1]: How to Remove Citations from Copilot Studio Answers

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Henry Jammes shows how to remove citations from Copilot Studio. In the blog he also highlights when this is a good idea and when it’s not a good idea! Great blog that includes code snippets for you to use.

Connecting Snowflake to Copilot Studio: Step-by-Step Guide

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 In this blog by Hazim SharafelDin, you can learn more about how to connect Snowflake to Copilot Studio. This blog really takes you by the hand with a step-by-step guide!

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Last week GPT-5.2 in Copilot Studio was announced, and Process Maps in Power Apps became General Available.

There’s a new way to explore community tools, and it’s through the XrmToolBox Plugin Catalog. Read more in the announcement from Jukka Niiranen.

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Building a Multi-Hierarchy Ticket Classification System

🦸🏻‍♀️ Luise Freese describes how you go from a simple keyword classification system to a multi-tiered smart classification system.

The spirit of the licensing.guide

🧭🦸🏻‍♀️ In the past, Jukka Niiranen has written a lot of posts on his blog under the Licensing category. Now, there’s a dedicated place for that, the Licensing Guide website.

We thought our Power Platform was governed. Then Agents changed the rules

🚀🦸🏻‍♀️ Carsten Groth describes how an organization took their robust governance framework and adapted it to be ready for AI-driven automation.

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🦸🏻‍♀️ Extending Copilot for Sales with Copilot Studio — A Practical Guide to Custom Extensions by Allan De Castro

👩‍💻 From Dad Jokes to A2A: Building Python Agents That Talk to Copilot Studio by Roel Schenk

🧭🦸🏻‍♀️ Comprehensive Copilot Studio Licensing Guide by Untethered 365

🦸🏻‍♀️ Visualize Complex Relationships with New Hierarchy Control by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Boost Engagement: Configure Your Own Gamification by Jeroen Scheper

🦸🏻‍♀️ Connect to a Microsoft Foundry agent by Arild Aarnes

👩‍💻 Extending Copilot with Dataverse grounded declarative agents by Lewis Baybutt

🦸🏻‍♀️ Make Fields Required In Your Custom Pages To Prevent Issues by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Deleting Records In The msdymkt_segmentexecution Table by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Copilot Studio: Connect An Azure SQL Database As Knowledge by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Platform Pipelines oAuth Configuration App by Matt Collins-Jones

🦸🏻‍♀️ What is Power Automate and what is it used for? by Malin Martnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ Installation guide: D365 HR Power Apps Recruitment add-on within D365 Finance and PPAC by Ana Inés Urrutia

🛠️ Alias, Foundry and Impatience Release 1.2025.12.1 by Jonas Rapp

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Enhancing Power Pages interactivity with htmx by Oleksandr Olashyn

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Awkward Silence Podcast

🚀 Join us for an exciting episode as we welcome our very first guest, Ali Nelson, to the podcast! Together, we dive into the complicated world of CRM security and discuss strategies for managing security roles and business units effectively. Ali, who just started a new job managing a system with over 11,000 users, grapples with the headaches of security and shares insights and challenges. We explore solutions ranging from automating processes with Power Apps and Power Automate to leveraging dynamic security roles and advanced visualizations. Whether you’re an admin or a CRM enthusiast, this episode has valuable takeaways for improving your system’s security and efficiency.

Microsoft Mechanics Podcast

🧭 Power Platform Adjacent - Bring AI agents directly into your daily workflows with Microsoft Agent 365. Agents have their own identity, email, OneDrive and Teams presence, and collaborate just like coworkers. Onboard agents, give them the policies and knowledge they need, and let them work in parallel with you to handle procurement, approvals, research, and updates using the same Microsoft 365 tools you already rely on.

Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, shares how you can adopt autonomous agents at scale with confidence, security, and clarity across your business.

Cloud Realities Podcast

👩‍💻 AI is transforming software development—redefining roles, creativity, and community, while challenging developers to embrace ambiguity, orchestrate specialized agents, and stay human through empathy and curiosity. Will AI make developers more creative, or will we forget how the machine really works under the hood?98

This week Dave, Esmee , Rob sit down with Scott Hanselman, VP Developer Community at Microsoft for a wildly energetic, deeply human, and brilliantly practical conversation about how AI is reshaping software development and what that means for creativity, careers, and all industries.

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Update Days Power Platform 2026

(📅 February 12-13, 2026)

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Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

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Available today: GPT-5.2 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Jared Spataro announced that GPT‑5.2 is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, bringing advanced AI capabilities to early release environments. Users can explore Copilot Chat and Copilot Studio to customize and enhance productivity across Microsoft 365 apps.

Process Maps as Part of Your Plan: Now Generally Available

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 In this blog by Dami Alajogun, Microsoft announced that Process Maps are now generally available as part of Power Platform planning tools, enabling users to visualize and optimize workflows more effectively. This feature helps organizations streamline processes and improve efficiency by integrating mapping into their planning experience.

Drillthrough in Excel now supported for Direct Lake and DirectQuery Models

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Kay Unkroth announces that Power BI now supports drillthrough in Excel for Direct Lake and DirectQuery semantic models, removing the previous limitation that only allowed this feature for Import models. This update enables users to double‑click PivotTable cells to view underlying detail rows while maintaining filters and security roles, delivering a consistent and seamless analysis experience across all model types.

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Last week the create a plan from a solution feature was announced. Flexible Dataverse capacity was introduced and the Dataverse SDK for Python was announced.

We also spotted a new community tool: the Power Apps SVG Converter browser extension, created by Arjan Rijsdijk. See the announcement for more details.

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful week!

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Running Microsoft Agent 365 MCP Servers from a custom agent & Part 2 - Building the agent

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Andreas Adner shows how to build a custom agent that uses the Microsoft Agent 365 MCP Servers. The Agent 365 MCP allows agents to interact with Microsoft 365 to create documents, send emails, book meetings etc.

Quickstart: Connect an A2A Agent to Copilot Studio

🦸🏻‍♀️ Giorgio Ughini gives a quickstart on how to connect to an agent-to-agent enabled agent in Copilot Studio.

Dataflows for Power Apps are not a part of the environment backup

🦸🏻‍♀️ Recently, Olena Grischenko was required to restore a production environment from a backup. The essential functionality was the integration they had built with Dataflows. After the restore, she discovered that all Dataflows had disappeared.

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🦸🏻‍♀️ Custom Themes Per App Not Just Environment In Dataverse by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Show Or Hide Custom Pages Using Power Fx Formulas In MDA by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Trigger HTTP Flows From Dataverse With Modern Command by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Smarter Navigation in model-driven apps by Jeroen Scheper

🦸🏻‍♀️ What is Power Pages and what is it used for? by Malin Martnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate: Fixing OData Filter Errors When Strings Contain Apostrophes by Ellis Karim

🦸🏻‍♀️ Fixing Power Platform Pipelines by David Wyatt

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Code. Deploy. Go Live. Podcast

🧭 Join Andrew Connell and Julie Turner as they recap Microsoft Ignite 2025, diving deep into the latest announcements for developers. They discuss Agent 365’s new governance capabilities, Copilot API updates, including retrieval and search features, and exciting declarative agent enhancements. The hosts also cover Security Copilot’s inclusion with E5 licenses and share their thoughts on Microsoft’s evolving AI and agent ecosystem.

Beyond the Blue Badge Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ Take a front-row seat for one of the boldest transformations in Microsoft’s history—the journey to the cloud. In this episode of Beyond the Blue Badge, hosts Becky Monk and Larry Herb (aka Major Nelson) sit down with alumni legends Steve Guggenheimer, Bob Muglia, Gavriella Schuster, and Karen Fazzio. Hear firsthand how Microsoft shifted from boxed software to a global cloud powerhouse, the challenges of building Azure, and the partner ecosystem that made it all possible. Discover stories of resilience, reinvention, and the drive to democratize technology—plus, how initiatives like Women in Cloud are opening doors for the next generation.

Microsoft Research Podcast

👩‍💻 In 2006, three PhD students organized the Women in Machine Learning Workshop, or WiML, to provide a space for women in ML to connect and share their research. The event has been held every year since, growing in size and mission.

In this episode, two of the WiML cofounders, Jenn Wortman Vaughan, a Microsoft senior principal research manager, and Hanna Wallach, a Microsoft vice president and distinguished scientist, reflect on the 20th workshop. They discuss WiML’s journey from a potential one-off event to a nonprofit supporting women and nonbinary individuals worldwide; their friendship and collaborations, including their contributions to defining responsible AI at Microsoft; and the advice they’d give their younger selves.

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Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2026

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Update Days Power Platform 2026

(📅 February 12-13, 2026)

Update Days Power Platform is a conference that goes beyond the basics, offering practical insights into enterprise-level challenges like governance, professional development, and scalable solutions. Come learn from experts who work in the field every day, and connect with peers who, just like you, want to use Power Platform efficiently and strategically.

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.

💙 Out of the Blue

Introducing the Dataverse SDK for Python

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Paul Liew wrote a blog post about the introduction of the Dataverse SDK for Python. This enables developers to connect Dataverse to Jupyter Notebooks, Pandas and more.

Unlock More Value from Your Existing Solutions with Plans

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Dami Alajogun introduced new functionality for Plans that a lot of people have been waiting for! You can now create a plan from an existing solution! Make sure to try it out! In the blog post you can find a getting started section that should make it easy for you!

Flexible Dataverse capacity for apps and agents

🦸🏻‍♀️🧭👩‍💻🚀 In this blog by Ritesh Pandey, Microsoft introduces Flexible Dataverse capacity, which lets organizations pool storage for apps and Copilot agents instead of assigning fixed amounts. This change improves cost efficiency, scalability, and simplifies management across Power Platform solutions.

Deprecating Power BI Q&A

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Monica Calleja Luque announced the deprecation of Power BI Q&A. The experiences will be replaced by Copilot experiences that have similar functionality. You have until December 2026 to replace the functionality.

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