Last week, a few of the latest Copilot Studio features were highlighted, including the GitHub Copilot harness, agent skills, and more.

The general availability of Canvas apps agentic coauthoring was also announced.

It was also great to see our fellow newsletter, Power Platform Developers Weekly, back from a break.

Have a great week, and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Building a Microsoft Release Radar with MCP in Copilot Studio and VS Code

🦸🏻‍♀️ Kristine Risberg shows how the Microsoft Release Communications MCP Server can bring current roadmap information directly into GitHub Copilot and Copilot Studio. A “Release Radar” is used as an example of how users could understand what’s changing, what’s coming, and when action or preparation may be required.

How To Send And Receive SMS Text Messages In Copilot Studio

🦸🏻‍♀️ Matthew Devaney shows how to connect a Copilot Studio agent to SMS so users can communicate with it from their mobile phone. Using Dynamics 365 Contact Center and Twilio, he builds a hotel concierge agent that can answer guests’ questions by text message.

Creating a Gen Page using Copilot CLI

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Carl de Souza created a series of posts highlighting Power Apps generative pages and how to build them using AI code-generation tools. This article explains how to use the Copilot CLI and the /genpage command to create a generative page. Also see the related posts on installing GitHub Copilot in VS Code and setting up the Copilot CLI.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ No Code, No PCF, the new column visuals explained by Jeroen Scheper

🛠️ Dynamics 365 Performance Probe Browser Extension by Peter Ruiter

🦸🏻‍♀️ Opening hours, live queues and callbacks your voice agent can actually speak by Peter Ruiter

🛠️ SQL 4 CDS 10.5 Released by Mark Carrington

🦸🏻‍♀️ Copilot Studio: Bypassing the Connector Consent Card in Agents by Arild Aarnes

👩‍💻 Power Pages: Bulk Edit Interface Using Custom Code by Nicholas Hayduk

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Microsoft Fabric Architecture Podcast

👩‍💻 A Fabric workspace isn’t a folder — it’s a cut through OneLake carrying every access rule, capacity bill, and residency commitment. Fabia and Matthias trace the boundaries hiding inside one object, starting with the documented fact that Contributor overrides OneLake security and ending with why a cross-region move is a deletion disguised as a dropdown.

Everyday AI Podcast

🚀 Join us as we give you the 101 on AI Governance and the 5 AI Rules Every Company Needs to Follow.

AI Governance in Plain English: 5 AI Rules Every Company Needs to follow -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson

M365.FM Podcast

🧭 Does Microsoft 365 Copilot really make people more productive? In this episode of the M365 FM podcast, Mirko Peters speaks with Microsoft MVP Adrian Espes about what Copilot actually delivers in everyday work—not in a polished demo, but during a normal working day filled with meetings, emails, documents, Teams messages, deadlines, and constant interruptions. Adrian brings a practical perspective shaped by his experience in training, business analytics, modern workplace consulting, and Microsoft 365 adoption. Together, Mirko and Adrian look beyond the marketing and explore where Copilot is genuinely useful, where expectations are still unrealistic, and what organizations need to consider before rolling it out.

📅 Events & Webinars

HELish Summit

(📅 September 17, 2026)

HELish Summit is a Microsoft technology focused conference offering ideas, insights, cases and lessons learned for every IT enthusiast. Whether you’re a consultant or working in internal IT, communications or other technology role - there is something special for you!

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Nordic Summit 2026 takes place at LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference in Billund, Denmark, with a strong focus on connecting the Nordic Microsoft community around Power Platform and Dynamics 365. As the largest in-person event in the Nordics for these technologies, it offers focused sessions, community connection, and practical insights for makers, consultants, and architects.

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise 2026 is a focal point for the global Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management partner ecosystem in Copenhagen, with focused strategic and technical content. Across three days, partners connect with Microsoft, SIs, ISVs, and industry leaders to explore Agentic ERP, real-world AI, and practical approaches for enterprise solution delivery.

Baltic Summit

(📅 September 24-26, 2026)

Baltic Summit 2026 gathers the Microsoft Power Platform, AI, and Business Applications community at the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park in Gdynia, Poland. Three days of hands-on workshops, expert-led sessions, and real-world case studies give makers, developers, and business leaders practical guidance on automation and AI integration.

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Scottish Summit 2026 heads to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh for two days centered on AI, Copilot, and practical learning across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Attendees connect with experts, MVPs, and peers through sessions and workshops designed to share real-world approaches and community-driven innovation.

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Community Summit North America 2026 gives the Microsoft AI and Business Applications community five days in Nashville for learning, training, and connection. With hundreds of sessions, academy workshops, and a broad partner ecosystem, attendees gain practical guidance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Copilot.

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Directions EMEA 2026 hosts the Dynamics 365 Business Central community in Paris for three days of technical sessions, strategy, and ecosystem networking. Resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, and consultants explore the latest innovations and practical approaches shaping Business Central across EMEA.

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference 2026 welcomes the global maker and solution builder community to Las Vegas for three days of practical learning and collaboration around AI apps and agents. Attendees explore sessions, workshops, and certifications across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the full Microsoft Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions they can apply right away.

💙 Out of the Blue

Canvas authoring agent plugin is now generally available

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Tasha Scott introduces production-ready agent coauthoring for canvas apps, with MCP tools for creating screens, updating Power Fx formulas, and validating changes in a live session. She explains how makers can switch between agent-assisted and direct editing while retaining existing governance practices and control over token usage.

New and improved: GitHub Copilot harness, agent skills, and richer context

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Jason Moore covers the generally available GitHub Copilot harness and how skills, workflows, and MCP tools equip Copilot Studio agents for multistep business processes. He also outlines previews for Work IQ, memory, and environment-level telemetry, showing how teams can add organizational context and monitor agent execution.

SharePoint metadata filtering in Copilot Studio: From topic logic to agent decisions

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️ Adi Leibowitz demonstrates how GitHub Copilot harness agents filter SharePoint documents by library metadata and scope knowledge searches to the matching files without hand-built topic routing. He explains when stricter guidance is useful and why metadata quality and existing SharePoint permissions still matter.

PPCC 2026: Bringing AI and your business processes together

🧭🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Ryan Cunningham previews the October 27-29 Power Platform Community Conference in Las Vegas, highlighting sessions on connecting Copilot, agents, apps, workflows, and data. He outlines learning opportunities around end-to-end process design, governance, security, and AI cost management to help attendees plan their agenda.

Power BI architecture choices for Azure Databricks: A storage-mode benchmark

👩‍💻🧭 Eiki Sui presents a white paper comparing two Direct Lake patterns, DirectQuery, and composite models with Import aggregations. The post explains how data volume, cache state, and query coverage affect report performance, giving architects evidence to guide testing with their own workloads.

Power BI sample reports, refreshed with modern visual defaults

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Zoe Douglas walks through updated sample reports with clearer semantic models, newer visuals, and mobile-optimized layouts. She highlights reusable patterns such as calculation groups, report page tooltips, and the new card visual that report authors can apply to their own designs.

Available today: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra in Microsoft Copilot

🤵🏻🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Bas Brekelmans introduces the rollout of GPT-6 Astra to Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio, explaining how Work IQ grounds delegated tasks in organizational content within existing permissions. He also covers admin controls for access and notes that availability varies by region and organization.

Available today: Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 in Microsoft Copilot

🤵🏻👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️ Bas Brekelmans writes about Claude Fable 5.1, a new model option for long-running tasks, financial analysis, and front-end visual coding in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio. The post explains how Work IQ supplies business context and where admins can manage access as the model rolls out to eligible users.

What’s new in Microsoft Copilot: August 2026

🤵🏻🚀 Daniel Vargas rounds up updates including Cowork effort and credit controls, Power BI grounding in Chat and Cowork, and reusable personal skills in SharePoint. He also covers upcoming dashboard data exports and other app-specific improvements, distinguishing released capabilities from previews and planned rollouts.

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📅 Events & Webinars

Last week, Microsoft announced that the new Managed Environment rule Draw from tenant credit pool is now generally available. Check out Henry Jammes’ post for an overview, and don’t miss this week’s featured article by Em D’Arcy on how to use the new rule to help control Copilot Credit consumption.

Starting in September, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Dataverse roadmap content will move to the AI at Work roadmap. As part of this change, the release waves and Release Planner are being retired, so be sure to follow the AI at Work roadmap instead. Read the announcement for more details.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Using Environment Group Rules to Manage Cost Control for Copilot Credits

🦸🏻‍♀️ Em D’Arcy explains how Environment Group Rules can help administrators prevent developer environments from consuming tenant Copilot Credits and avoid unexpected charges.

Power Fx in Customer Insights Emails: A Practical Guide

🦸🏻‍♀️ Pauline Kolde explores the new Power Fx capabilities in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights email personalization, with practical examples for formatting and transforming dynamic content.

The Case That Knows What to Do Next: Using AI Builder Prebuilt Prompts with Dataverse Low-Code Plug-ins

🦸🏻‍♀️ Sam Kumar shows how AI Builder prompts and Dataverse low-code plug-ins can automatically summarize cases, detect sentiment, classify issues, and draft responses in Dynamics 365.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ D365 Hacks: Custom Lookups by Angeliki Patsiavou

🦸🏻‍♀️ Leveraging Compliance Hub from the Copilot Agent Kit to Automate Agent Governance by Em D'Arcy

🛠️ Moving Contact Center config between environments is still this painful. So I built a tool that skips CMT entirely by Peter Ruiter

🛠️ Theme Studio: my first Power Platform ToolBox tool by Riccardo Gregori

🦸🏻‍♀️ Agent Builder vs Copilot Studio: Which Should You Use? by Pavan Mani Deep Yaragani

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

.NET Rocks Podcast

🚀 Ready for a rant? Carl and Richard talk to Billy Hollis about the impact of artificial intelligence on software development. The conversation starts with a listener comment about going all-in on AI to speed up development radically, which raises the question of how much AI is the right amount. What’s safe and what is reckless? And how will that position change over time? Are the problems we’re having today just growing pains of the tools, or are they systemic to the technology? Lots to debate!

Mondays at Microsoft Podcast

🧭 In this episode of Mondays at Microsoft, Jonathan Jones and Josh Leporati explore how organizations are moving beyond AI experimentation and driving meaningful business transformation. We discuss Microsoft’s latest Frontier Transformation insight and how businesses are turning AI curiosity into lasting Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption.

MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast

👩‍💻 Welcome to Episode 435 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott take a lap around what’s new in Power BI, starting with the two MCP servers now in preview, one local and one remote, that can clean up your data model, write DAX for you, and turn a messy pile of tables into an actual usable semantic model. Ben shares how it helped him tame a 44 table QuickBooks Online mess, and why he had way better luck with it than with Copilot in Power BI.

From there they get into PBIP, the newer Power BI project file format that breaks a report into files you can actually put in Git and collaborate on like real developers, branches, rollbacks, and all. It has been in preview since 2023 and still lacks solid guidance from Microsoft on wiring up CI/CD, but Ben and Scott dig into why it is worth adopting anyway, even if you are working solo.

📅 Events & Webinars

HELish Summit

(📅 September 17, 2026)

HELish Summit is a Microsoft technology focused conference offering ideas, insights, cases and lessons learned for every IT enthusiast. Whether you’re a consultant or working in internal IT, communications or other technology role - there is something special for you!

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Nordic Summit 2026 takes place at LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference in Billund, Denmark, with a strong focus on connecting the Nordic Microsoft community around Power Platform and Dynamics 365. As the largest in-person event in the Nordics for these technologies, it offers focused sessions, community connection, and practical insights for makers, consultants, and architects.

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise 2026 is a focal point for the global Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management partner ecosystem in Copenhagen, with focused strategic and technical content. Across three days, partners connect with Microsoft, SIs, ISVs, and industry leaders to explore Agentic ERP, real-world AI, and practical approaches for enterprise solution delivery.

Baltic Summit

(📅 September 24-26, 2026)

Baltic Summit 2026 gathers the Microsoft Power Platform, AI, and Business Applications community at the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park in Gdynia, Poland. Three days of hands-on workshops, expert-led sessions, and real-world case studies give makers, developers, and business leaders practical guidance on automation and AI integration.

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Scottish Summit 2026 heads to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh for two days centered on AI, Copilot, and practical learning across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Attendees connect with experts, MVPs, and peers through sessions and workshops designed to share real-world approaches and community-driven innovation.

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Community Summit North America 2026 gives the Microsoft AI and Business Applications community five days in Nashville for learning, training, and connection. With hundreds of sessions, academy workshops, and a broad partner ecosystem, attendees gain practical guidance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Copilot.

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Directions EMEA 2026 hosts the Dynamics 365 Business Central community in Paris for three days of technical sessions, strategy, and ecosystem networking. Resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, and consultants explore the latest innovations and practical approaches shaping Business Central across EMEA.

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference 2026 welcomes the global maker and solution builder community to Las Vegas for three days of practical learning and collaboration around AI apps and agents. Attendees explore sessions, workshops, and certifications across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the full Microsoft Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions they can apply right away.

💙 Out of the Blue

One always-on roadmap: Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Dataverse join the AI at Work roadmap

🧭🚀🦸🏻‍♀️ Richard Riley explains that the twice-yearly release wave plans are being replaced by a single continuously updated AI at Work roadmap starting September 2026. He covers what the change means for how organizations track upcoming features and plan their adoption cycles.

Where are your Copilot credits going? Build a tenant-wide view with the Power Platform API

🚀👩‍💻🧭 Petros Feleskouras walks through the Power Platform licensing endpoints that return tenant entitlement and daily per-agent Copilot Credit consumption, including the paging and dimension details that trip people up. He also shares a community solution of a daily flow, three Dataverse tables, and a Power Apps code app that keeps the history beyond the admin center’s reporting window.

SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – August 2026

👩‍💻 Vesa Juvonen covers the SPFx 1.24 Beta 3 release, the upcoming React 18 support in 1.24, and a new Copilot Components preview program open to customers and partners.

Direct Lake calculated columns (preview)

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️ Vivienne Vereen introduces DAX calculated columns for Direct Lake on OneLake semantic models, closing a long-standing gap with Import and DirectQuery. She shows how to define them in web modeling or Power BI Desktop without switching storage mode or reshaping data upstream.

Upgrade Power BI Dataflows Gen1 to Fabric Dataflows Gen2 with the upgrade wizard (preview)

🚀👩‍💻 Eran Benayun presents a guided wizard that assesses each Dataflows Gen1 item before upgrading it to Fabric Dataflows Gen2 with CI/CD support. The post clarifies which properties carry over, what follow-up actions to expect, and that Gen1 stays supported in a legacy state while investment moves to Gen2.

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📅 Events & Webinars

Last week the Custom Engine blog published a deep-dive post on the Copilot Agent Kit, focusing specifically on the Agent Review Tool.

The Copilot Agent Kit August update is here, with Agent Change Tracker, ready-to-deploy MCP Apps in the Agent Library, support for GitHub Copilot harness-based agents in the Agent Review Tool and Agent Debugger, and more.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

What Went Wrong For Copilot

🦸🏻‍♀️ David Wyatt gives his take on the way Microsoft integrated Copilot with Microsoft’s products, why he thinks it hasn’t gone as planned, and what could be done to improve it.

Tracing undocumented application users in Dataverse

🦸🏻‍♀️ Linn Zaw Win goes through his troubles figuring out what an application user in Dataverse was used for.

What does a Dynamics 365 Contact Center actually cost? I built a calculator to find out

🧭🛠️ Ask three people what a Dynamics 365 Contact Center costs and you get three answers and a shrug. Peter Ruiter made a calculator that goes beyond users times license cost.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Record creation in Dynamics 365 with Sales agent by Raghu Chalasani

🦸🏻‍♀️ 4 Learnings from Multi-Session Events in Customer Insights - Journeys by Martin P. Lopez

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Microsoft Community Insights Podcast

👩‍💻 We talk with Navyasree Potluri from Microsoft about FabricIQ Integration.

Insights Unlocked Podcast

🚀 Discover how Greg Nudelman approaches UX for AI, AI product design, customer discovery, risk, and ROI to build AI products that deliver real value.

Unresolved Dependencies Podcast

🧭 HARNESSSSS - your new favorite buzzword in the agentic world we are trying to survive. But what is a harness? And what can GitHub Copilot do to save Copilot Studio?

Learn everything about the new Copilot Studio experience and what’s different from the Standard Harness. Do these changes make our licensing talk obsolete? What are the costs involved? And what is actually inside a Harness?

📅 Events & Webinars

HELish Summit

(📅 September 17, 2026)

HELish Summit is a Microsoft technology focused conference offering ideas, insights, cases and lessons learned for every IT enthusiast. Whether you’re a consultant or working in internal IT, communications or other technology role - there is something special for you!

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Nordic Summit 2026 takes place at LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference in Billund, Denmark, with a strong focus on connecting the Nordic Microsoft community around Power Platform and Dynamics 365. As the largest in-person event in the Nordics for these technologies, it offers focused sessions, community connection, and practical insights for makers, consultants, and architects.

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise 2026 is a focal point for the global Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management partner ecosystem in Copenhagen, with focused strategic and technical content. Across three days, partners connect with Microsoft, SIs, ISVs, and industry leaders to explore Agentic ERP, real-world AI, and practical approaches for enterprise solution delivery.

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Scottish Summit 2026 heads to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh for two days centered on AI, Copilot, and practical learning across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Attendees connect with experts, MVPs, and peers through sessions and workshops designed to share real-world approaches and community-driven innovation.

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Community Summit North America 2026 gives the Microsoft AI and Business Applications community five days in Nashville for learning, training, and connection. With hundreds of sessions, academy workshops, and a broad partner ecosystem, attendees gain practical guidance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Copilot.

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Directions EMEA 2026 hosts the Dynamics 365 Business Central community in Paris for three days of technical sessions, strategy, and ecosystem networking. Resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, and consultants explore the latest innovations and practical approaches shaping Business Central across EMEA.

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference 2026 welcomes the global maker and solution builder community to Las Vegas for three days of practical learning and collaboration around AI apps and agents. Attendees explore sessions, workshops, and certifications across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the full Microsoft Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions they can apply right away.

💙 Out of the Blue

Review before release: Using Agent Review Tool for Copilot Studio agents

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Ramakrishnan Raman demonstrates a pre-release workflow that uses review findings, the skill evaluator, and the agent map to surface overlapping skills, ambiguous tool references, and gaps in evaluation coverage. He explains why conversation testing in the Preview tab only exercises one path, and how configuration review complements it.

Power BI August 2026 feature summary

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Katie Murray walks through this month’s releases across reporting, modeling, connectivity, mobile, and embedded analytics, including generally available modern visual defaults, the date picker slicer, and matrix column expand and collapse. Preview items cover Direct Lake calculated columns and converting Direct Lake tables to import storage in web modeling.

The AI semantic layer you probably already have

🧭👩‍💻🚀 Bogdan Crivat argues that every published Power BI report already carries a semantic model encoding the metric definitions, relationships, and hierarchies an organization has agreed on. He explains why that accumulated business meaning is exactly the grounding a language model needs to answer a question such as “what was our churn last quarter” consistently.

Edit your Power BI projects anywhere and reload them instantly in Power BI Desktop (Preview)

👩‍💻 Sara Lammini Rodriguez shows how Power BI Desktop now detects PBIP file changes made by editors, scripts, or AI-assisted tools and offers an Apply external changes prompt instead of requiring a restart. A new Open in VS Code entry point launches the project folder as an active workspace.

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The GitHub Copilot (GHCP) harness for Copilot Studio was announced. Check out this breakdown by April Dunnam, and if you want to get hands-on, the Agent Academy has a new path: Recruit - GitHub Copilot Harness.

The Power CAT team published a technical deep dive covering the GHCP harness and workflows. For even more guidance and samples, check out Henry Jammes’ post.

Vivian Voss created Credential Quest, where you can browse Microsoft Learn certification exam content and test yourself in quiz mode.

Our fellow newsletter buddy Megan V. Walker announced that the D365 Marketing Weekly has come to an end. She also announced that the CX Newsletter, from Pauline Kolde and Björn Zahnow, will launch on September 8. Make sure to subscribe!

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Ditch the Power Apps maker portal!

🦸🏻‍♀️ Are you a maker, a low-code developer, a builder? Do you want to be ten times more productive when you build canvas apps, model-driven apps, Power Automate flows, and Power Pages? Nick Doelman shows you how you can leverage agents to do just that.

The GitHub Copilot Harness Copilot Studio

🦸🏻‍♀️ Microsoft migrated the backend and created a new frontend for Copilot Studio, and that’s what David Wyatt created a blog about. So is it any good? This is what Copilot Studio should have been from day one, it now feels and acts like other LLM agents. It no longer feels like the old legacy Power Virtual Agent, it is something new and modern.

Building a Secure Power Platform Architecture with Managed Identity & Virtual Network

🚀 When Dynamics 365 or Power Platform solutions need to talk to the outside world, two security questions immediately arise. Who is making the call? How does the traffic get there? Allan De Castro gives a very detailed solution to both questions.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ The 5 stages of an HR Agent powered by Copilot Studio by Ana Inés Urrutia

🦸🏻‍♀️ Meet Service Agent: Everything you need to know by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ New D365 Field Service Scheduling Enhancements You Need to Know by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to enable and configure Service Agent in D365 by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Automate Cloud Flow Failing with 403 Forbidden on a Dataverse Action by Linn Zaw Win

🦸🏻‍♀️ Is your Power Pages site secure? by Nick Doelman

🦸🏻‍♀️ The New Copy Opportunity feature, a blessing of a curse? by Jeroen Scheper

🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Platform Admin V2 - Create Rule Set Explained by Matt Collins-Jones

🦸🏻‍♀️ How To Orchestrate Chat Without Topics In New Copilot Studio by Matthew Devaney

🛠️ Dynamics 365 Contact Center Conversation & Routing Diagnostics by Peter Ruiter

🦸🏻‍♀️ Let’s Get Started with the Copilot Agent Toolkit by Em D’Arcy

🦸🏻‍♀️ Copilot Agent Kit: Agent Inventory by Em D’Arcy

🦸🏻‍♀️ Advanced Connector Policies: Don’t Break Customer Insights - Journeys Publishing by Martin P. Lopez

🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Custom API’s in Power Automate by David Wyatt

🦸🏻‍♀️ Using the New Copilot Studio Skills by David Wyatt

🦸🏻‍♀️ Implementing a Simple Honeypot in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys Real-time Marketing Forms by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Fix: Power Automate “Get File Thumbnail” Missing URL Bug by Ellis Karim

🛠️ PACX in 2026: Growing Alongside the Agent-First Era by Riccardo Gregori

🦸🏻‍♀️ Tracking Field Completion in Dynamics 365 with a Custom Progress Bar by Raghu Chalasani

Supplier Engagement Module by Ted Ohlsson

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

The Microsoft 365, Azure & AI Audio Podcast with Mirko Peters

🚀 In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters talks with Michael Roth [MVP] about building Power Platform governance that protects the organization without killing innovation. They explore security, Data Loss Prevention policies, environment architecture, inventory, application lifecycle management, citizen development, and the responsibilities organizations take on when Power Platform becomes part of their business infrastructure.

Power Platform Boost Podcast

🧭 Yiiiihaa!! This time we spent a fair bit of time talking about the mental model around the new announcements for Copilot Studio, and that it’s now based on the GitHub Copilot Harness, and what that means.

Microsoft Mechanics Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ Build a fully working model-driven app from your existing Dataverse, SharePoint, or SQL data in under a minute — screens, navigation, and forms included. Generate new pages from a natural language prompt with Generative Pages, auto-populate records from any document in seconds with Automatic Form Fill, and embed Copilot to query your app data directly.

Layer in an Agent Feed to proactively surface decisions, missing data, and action items, then connect to Outlook and Microsoft 365 through Work IQ to act on your app data without leaving your inbox.

Jed Brown, Power Platform Group Product Manager, shares how to turn existing business data into a modern, AI-powered app.

📅 Events & Webinars

HELish Summit

(📅 September 17, 2026)

HELish Summit is a Microsoft technology focused conference offering ideas, insights, cases and lessons learned for every IT enthusiast. Whether you’re a consultant or working in internal IT, communications or other technology role - there is something special for you!

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Nordic Summit 2026 takes place at LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference in Billund, Denmark, with a strong focus on connecting the Nordic Microsoft community around Power Platform and Dynamics 365. As the largest in-person event in the Nordics for these technologies, it offers focused sessions, community connection, and practical insights for makers, consultants, and architects.

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise 2026 is a focal point for the global Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management partner ecosystem in Copenhagen, with focused strategic and technical content. Across three days, partners connect with Microsoft, SIs, ISVs, and industry leaders to explore Agentic ERP, real-world AI, and practical approaches for enterprise solution delivery.

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Scottish Summit 2026 heads to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh for two days centered on AI, Copilot, and practical learning across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Attendees connect with experts, MVPs, and peers through sessions and workshops designed to share real-world approaches and community-driven innovation.

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Community Summit North America 2026 gives the Microsoft AI and Business Applications community five days in Nashville for learning, training, and connection. With hundreds of sessions, academy workshops, and a broad partner ecosystem, attendees gain practical guidance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Copilot.

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Directions EMEA 2026 hosts the Dynamics 365 Business Central community in Paris for three days of technical sessions, strategy, and ecosystem networking. Resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, and consultants explore the latest innovations and practical approaches shaping Business Central across EMEA.

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference 2026 welcomes the global maker and solution builder community to Las Vegas for three days of practical learning and collaboration around AI apps and agents. Attendees explore sessions, workshops, and certifications across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the full Microsoft Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions they can apply right away.

💙 Out of the Blue

We took a short summer break, but the Power Platform did not. This catch-up edition brings together 31 releases, technical guides, and announcements published in the last months.

Start with the five developments most worth knowing about, then browse the remaining stories by topic. The persona emojis show who will get the most value from each article.

Start here: Five things to know

The new Copilot Studio agent sandbox

👩‍💻🚀 Chris Garty explains how the managed Copilot Studio sandbox lets agents run Python, inspect files, calculate results, and create artifacts. He contrasts generated code with reviewed Skill scripts and clarifies the sandbox’s temporary storage and no-network-egress boundaries.

Secure and govern AI agents with Microsoft Entra Agent ID for Dataverse

🚀👩‍💻🧭 Paul Liew explains how Microsoft Entra Agent ID and Dataverse agent users give each agent a dedicated identity. Organizations can assign appropriate security roles and retain visibility into agent activity when agents access Dataverse.

Power Pages Security Agent (Preview)

🚀🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Bipul Deora introduces a conversational assistant in the Power Pages Security workspace that reviews site configuration and recommends improvements. It can help configure authentication, authorization, permissions, CSP, and other protections, with explicit approval required before changes are applied.

TMDL View on the web: Edit semantic models as code in your browser (Preview)

👩‍💻🚀 Sara Lammini Rodriguez introduces browser-based TMDL editing for published Power BI semantic models. Developers can inspect advanced metadata, make bulk changes with IntelliSense, reuse model objects, preview updates, and recover through version history without switching to Desktop.

Bringing Power BI insights to every Copilot user

🧭🤵🏻🚀 Sara Vredevoogd describes how governed Power BI semantic models ground answers in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and support multi-step work in Copilot Cowork. She clarifies when to use conversational data answers versus delegated analysis and follow-up actions.

Copilot, agents, and AI

Is your data ready for AI?

🧭🚀👩‍💻 Tommy Graham shows how Dataverse capabilities for capacity, retention, security, auditing, and recovery help administrators prepare a governed data foundation for AI.

Adopting the GitHub Copilot harness: Cost control and governance in Copilot Studio

🚀🧭👩‍💻 Lewis Baybutt presents a repeatable process for governing Copilot Credit consumption through environment classification, capacity controls, agent limits, inventory, and APIs.

The next measure of AI momentum is work transformed

🧭🚀 Jared Spataro argues that AI progress should be measured by redesigned work and business outcomes rather than seat counts alone.

Prompt columns are generally available

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🧭 Vaishanavi Mirapurkar shows how prompt columns persist AI-generated classifications, summaries, recommendations, and other insights directly in business data without code.

Turn your daily digest into a podcast

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️ Remi Dyon builds a Copilot Studio Skill that turns documents, email reviews, and newsletters into a two-host podcast using multi-voice SSML, Azure Text to Speech, and Teams mobile.

Extending agentic Dynamics 365 Sales with MCP

👩‍💻🧭 Mike Morton explains how Model Context Protocol connects Dynamics 365 Sales agents to external data, tools, and actions across business systems.

Redlining documents with the new Copilot Studio experience

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️ Andrew Hess and Remi Dyon demonstrate a Copilot Studio Skill that compares Word or PDF submissions with a template and returns genuine tracked changes while preserving formatting.

Video demo: Upgrading a classic agent to modern orchestration

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️ Giorgio Ughini demonstrates GitHub Copilot CLI and the Copilot Studio plugin redesigning a classic agent’s capabilities as modern Skills and tools.

Rest of Power Platform

Extend Liquid with server logic in Power Pages

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️ Nagesh Bhat demonstrates how Liquid can invoke secure, reusable server logic that stays close to the Power Pages experience and remains manageable at scale.

A deep dive into Power Pages enhanced authorization

👩‍💻🚀 Gokul Narayanan explains how mapped identities, security roles, and record filters enforce external-user authorization natively in Dataverse.

Link to Fabric gets a refreshed experience

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Anirudha Bakore presents a streamlined experience for connecting Microsoft Dataverse operational data to the Fabric analytics stack.

Dataverse plugin expands to OpenAI and Codex marketplaces

👩‍💻 Kent Weare announces that developers can bring the Dataverse plugin into the OpenAI and Codex coding environments where they already work.

Dataverse plugin for coding agents arrives in Cursor Marketplace

👩‍💻 Kent Weare introduces a direct way to work with Dataverse from Cursor while building data-backed Power Platform solutions.

Native Dataverse authorization for stronger Power Pages security (Public Preview)

👩‍💻🚀 Nagesh Bhat introduces a centralized model that enforces external-user access for Power Pages directly in Dataverse.

What’s new in Power Platform: July/August 2026 feature update

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Tiffany Treacy writes about recent releases across apps, agents, automation, governance, and development, including the generally available modern data grid for canvas apps.

Power BI and Fabric

Conditional formatting for lines and legends

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Zoe Douglas shows how rules, gradients, and field-driven colors can highlight changing values and keep categories consistent across Power BI visuals.

Power BI July 2026 feature summary

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 Katie Murray covers report-wide visual defaults, conditional formatting, org app APIs and audiences, service model options, and TMDL View on the web.

Modern visual defaults and report-wide formatting (Preview)

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Zoe Douglas explains how authors can centrally manage palettes, typography, visual styling, page settings, and filter pane formatting while preserving visual-specific customizations.

Power BI reporting with the date picker slicer (Preview)

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Zoe Douglas demonstrates dynamic default date ranges alongside manual dates, ranges, and rolling periods that remain useful as data refreshes.

Shape Map in Power BI is generally available

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Zoe Douglas demonstrates built-in geographies, custom TopoJSON or GeoJSON boundaries, URL-based maps, and data-driven colors in Shape Map.

Tooltip options in Power BI visuals are generally available

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Zoe Douglas explores tooltip options ranging from curated fields and sentence-style explanations to fully customized report pages.

Add calculations directly to Power BI visuals

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Zoe Douglas explains how visual calculations let authors add DAX calculations directly in the visual where they are used.

Power BI reports and Fabric Apps

👩‍💻🧭 Zoe Douglas compares governed Power BI reports with custom Fabric Apps built on the same semantic model data and business logic.

Power BI Desktop Bridge (Preview)

👩‍💻 Sara Lammini Rodriguez introduces a secure local server and CLI that let agents inspect Power BI Desktop state, reload edited files, and capture screenshots for validation.

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📅 Events & Webinars

Last week agentic CRM was highlighted on the Dynamics 365 blog.

This week the European Power Platform Conference (EPPC) takes place from June 29 to July 2, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Follow the buzz: #EPPC26!

The Power Platform Weekly team is now taking a summer break. We’ll be back in August! 🏖️☀️

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Are We Replacing Clicks With Prompts?

🦸🏻‍♀️ One thing has been bothering Thomas Sandsør lately. For as long as he has worked with CRM systems, people have complained about clicks. But have they just been replaced with prompts?

Create A Segment For People Searching On Your Website

🦸🏻‍♀️ Most websites have some kind of search functionality, especially if you have a blog. If you do, you can use this to your advantage and build a segment to find people searching on your website for specific keywords. Megan V. Walker shows you how to do it.

How to Set Up Verbatim Knowledge Responses in Dynamics 365

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dian Taylor is a big fan of the copilot that lives in the sidecar in Dynamics 365 Customer Service. However, if the knowledge in the system is incorrect, the responses offered to the user will be incorrect too. This is where the Knowledge Management Agent comes in.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ AI Agent Johan is on Fire, NL vs Tunisia two in a row? by Jeroen Scheper

🦸🏻‍♀️ Optimizing Prompt Columns in Microsoft Dataverse with Filters: Part 2 by Sam Kumar

🦸🏻‍♀️ Running Dataverse MCP Server in non-Microsoft clients by Andreas Adner

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Microsoft Mechanics Podcast

👩‍💻 Cut through alert noise and move from detection to root cause using the Azure Copilot Observability Agent. It autonomously investigates incidents, correlates signals across logs, metrics, alerts, application health, and ML anomalies, then surfaces root cause with charts and recommended next steps.

Extend coverage to your AI agents in Microsoft Foundry, track Gen AI errors and token consumption with trace-level detail, and write plain-language instructions to tune autonomous behavior to match your team’s workflow.

Matt McSpirit, Microsoft Azure expert, shares how to take full control of incident response at scale.

M365 Nuggets Podcast

🚀 Joy, Ragnar, and Christian welcome Alan Cox, a fellow M365 MVP and independent AI and governance consultant, to discuss why organizations need separate AI governance and AI enablement functions to successfully scale adoption. Together, they explore the tension between risk management and innovation, and why treating these responsibilities as the same job often leads to poor outcomes. The panel examines lessons learned from SharePoint, Teams, and Power Platform deployments, and how those experiences apply to today’s AI initiatives. They also discuss the growing impact of agentic AI and what organizations must do now to build an operating model that balances control, adoption, and business value.

Unresolved Dependencies Podcast

🧭 Right before Joe starts his summer vacation, an offline retreat in the hills of England, maybe just a runaway from his unresolved dependencies with Seb, we have a closer look at the recent announcements at Microsoft Build 2026.

📅 Events & Webinars

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen serves as a meeting point for 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.

HELish Summit

(📅 September 17, 2026)

HELish Summit is a Microsoft technology focused conference offering ideas, insights, cases and lessons learned for every IT enthusiast. Whether you’re a consultant or working in internal IT, communications or other technology role - there is something special for you!

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Nordic Summit 2026 takes place at LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference in Billund, Denmark, with a strong focus on connecting the Nordic Microsoft community around Power Platform and Dynamics 365. As the largest in-person event in the Nordics for these technologies, it offers focused sessions, community connection, and practical insights for makers, consultants, and architects.

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise 2026 is a focal point for the global Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management partner ecosystem in Copenhagen, with focused strategic and technical content. Across three days, partners connect with Microsoft, SIs, ISVs, and industry leaders to explore Agentic ERP, real-world AI, and practical approaches for enterprise solution delivery.

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Scottish Summit 2026 heads to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh for two days centered on AI, Copilot, and practical learning across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Attendees connect with experts, MVPs, and peers through sessions and workshops designed to share real-world approaches and community-driven innovation.

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Community Summit North America 2026 gives the Microsoft AI and Business Applications community five days in Nashville for learning, training, and connection. With hundreds of sessions, academy workshops, and a broad partner ecosystem, attendees gain practical guidance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Copilot.

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Directions EMEA 2026 hosts the Dynamics 365 Business Central community in Paris for three days of technical sessions, strategy, and ecosystem networking. Resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, and consultants explore the latest innovations and practical approaches shaping Business Central across EMEA.

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference 2026 welcomes the global maker and solution builder community to Las Vegas for three days of practical learning and collaboration around AI apps and agents. Attendees explore sessions, workshops, and certifications across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the full Microsoft Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions they can apply right away.

💙 Out of the Blue

Building reliable voice agents: A practical guide

🧭🚀👩‍💻 Jamie Flores shares a practical playbook for designing customer-facing voice agents in Copilot Studio that are not just capable, but reliable from prototype to production.

Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on for the Denodo connector in Power BI (Preview)

🧭🚀👩‍💻 Kay Unkroth introduces preview Entra ID SSO for the Denodo connector, flowing the report viewer's identity end-to-end through DirectQuery without on-premises Kerberos delegation.

Protect once, enforce everywhere: Protection policies for Power BI (Generally Available)

🧭🚀👩‍💻 Yael Biss explains how Microsoft Purview protection policies are now generally available, letting you restrict access to Power BI semantic models by sensitivity label so every downstream report is automatically secured.

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We usually include links to content or tools updates announcements from the past week. If you see a great blog post or video, let us know one way or another!

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🤵🏻 Business User

🦸🏻‍♀️ Maker

🧭 Decision Maker

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🛠️ Tools

📅 Events & Webinars

Last week the general availability of Copilot Cowork was announced.

The winners of the Agent Academy Hackathon were also revealed. Be sure to check out the winning projects and the scenarios participants covered.

Have you explored the Power Platform ToolBox yet? Whether you're looking for useful tools or interested in contributing your own, check out the latest version announcement.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

A Formula That Respects Your Time Zone and Your Lunch

🦸🏻‍♀️ There’s a question that comes up more often than you’d expect in our projects: “Is this person, or this system, actually available right now?” Albert-Jan Schot gives his Power Fx formula for answering that.

Vibe Coding My Own Power Platform Admin Center

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 David Wyatt decided to use his free tokens on his own Power Platform Admin Center. It solved his main issues in the first hour, but beware of the urge to scope creep. Read his story here.

New bulk delete options come to Dataverse

🚀 Mark Carrington gives his take on what relevant news comes from the bulk-deletion improvements.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Automating Copilot Studio Evaluations by Craig White

🦸🏻‍♀️ Create A Segment Using Unmapped Fields On Marketing Forms in Customer Insights Journeys by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ AI Agent Johan’s revenge: Netherlands vs. Sweden by Jeroen Scheper

🦸🏻‍♀️ Your Copilot, Your Rules: Customizing Chat For Model-Driven Apps by Allan De Castro

🦸🏻‍♀️ How To Fuzzy Search Dataverse Tables In Copilot Studio by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ How We Successfully Removed the Resco Woodford Managed Solution from Dynamics 365 Field Service by Nishant Rana

🦸🏻‍♀️ Invite Leads to Your Customer Insights Journeys Events by Martin P Lopez

🛠️🦸🏻‍♀️ PPTB - Bulk Data Studio by Carl Cookson

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

MSDW Podcast

🧭 Steve Mordue joins us to talk about the AI landscape that SMBs are facing today and how that led to his team’s launch of a new AI offering, RapidClaw, an OpenClaw-based agent framework that made it to market before the reveal of Microsoft’s latest autonomous offering category, Autopilot, and the first of its agents, called Scout. Steve explains how he has made sense of some of the big choices today in the enterprise IT space like pre-built services from hyperscalers, the rise of AI agents, different user interface options, and a variety of billing models. He also explains how his team made some of their decisions, like the use of OpenClaw as an agent harness that each organization can host with full control.

MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast

👩‍💻 Scott and Ben dig into Microsoft Scout, the new desktop AI application announced at Microsoft Build. They walk through the real onboarding experience on both Mac and Windows, the licensing maze and admin controls needed to activate it, and how Scout’s architecture ties together models, automations, and integrations like MCP, GitHub Copilot, and Work IQ. Along the way they cover the model selector and personality options (everything from professional to sarcastic teenager), the automations and heartbeats that run on schedules to update you on industry news, monitor workflows, and manage meetings, and the limitations and workarounds around skills, session management, and local file access. They also sort out where Scout overlaps with and differs from Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot, how to rationalize all three for ROI, and what token-based, consumption-based pricing means for enterprise AI strategy.

Power Platform Boost Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ This episode starts with a recap of the biggest 📣 news and announcements for the Power Platform ecosystem from Microsoft BUILD last week. We are still buzzing from learning about Microsoft IQ, the new Autopilot from Microsoft called Scout🦞, the new Closed Loop Learning 👩‍🎓 for Power Apps MCP Server, and the Connector Inventory 🗃️ for governance.

Our friends from The Cloud Advocacy 🥑 team at Microsoft published some great resources again this week, including a guide by April Dunnam to help us understand when to use Scout, Copilot Cowork, M365 Copilot, or Copilot Studio. Scott Durow posted a great visual walkthrough about the completely new ✨️ experience for building with Copilot Studio! It’s not just a facelift - it has been rebuilt from scratch, and the whole mental model has changed!

📅 Events & Webinars

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen serves as a meeting point for 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.

HELish Summit

(📅 September 17, 2026)

HELish Summit is a Microsoft technology focused conference offering ideas, insights, cases and lessons learned for every IT enthusiast. Whether you’re a consultant or working in internal IT, communications or other technology role - there is something special for you!

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Nordic Summit 2026 takes place at LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference in Billund, Denmark, with a strong focus on connecting the Nordic Microsoft community around Power Platform and Dynamics 365. As the largest in-person event in the Nordics for these technologies, it offers focused sessions, community connection, and practical insights for makers, consultants, and architects.

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise 2026 is a focal point for the global Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management partner ecosystem in Copenhagen, with focused strategic and technical content. Across three days, partners connect with Microsoft, SIs, ISVs, and industry leaders to explore Agentic ERP, real-world AI, and practical approaches for enterprise solution delivery.

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Scottish Summit 2026 heads to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh for two days centered on AI, Copilot, and practical learning across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Attendees connect with experts, MVPs, and peers through sessions and workshops designed to share real-world approaches and community-driven innovation.

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Community Summit North America 2026 gives the Microsoft AI and Business Applications community five days in Nashville for learning, training, and connection. With hundreds of sessions, academy workshops, and a broad partner ecosystem, attendees gain practical guidance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Copilot.

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Directions EMEA 2026 hosts the Dynamics 365 Business Central community in Paris for three days of technical sessions, strategy, and ecosystem networking. Resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, and consultants explore the latest innovations and practical approaches shaping Business Central across EMEA.

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference 2026 welcomes the global maker and solution builder community to Las Vegas for three days of practical learning and collaboration around AI apps and agents. Attendees explore sessions, workshops, and certifications across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the full Microsoft Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions they can apply right away.

💙 Out of the Blue

Copilot Cowork is now generally available

🧭👩‍💻🚀 Charles Lamanna explains that Copilot Cowork is now generally available after becoming one of the fastest-growing experiences in the Frontier program. The post shows how the feature supports more action-oriented collaboration across Copilot and agent experiences.

Meet the Agent Academy Hackathon winners

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀 April Dunnam highlights the winning agents from the Agent Academy Hackathon and the scenarios they addressed. The post gives builders a clear view of the ideas and patterns that stood out in the competition.

Power BI May 2026 feature summary

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Katie Murray summarizes the May 2026 Power BI updates across Copilot, sematic modeling, reporting, and data experiences. Readers get a concise view of the release and the practical improvements it brings to daily analytics work.

Org apps with audiences for Power BI and Fabric (Generally Available)

👩‍💻🚀🧭🤵🏻 Dustin Askins announces that org apps in Power BI and Fabric are now generally available with audiences. The update helps teams tailor app content for different audiences without duplicating content.

Migrating from embedded ODBC drivers to ADBC in Power BI and Fabric

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Michaela Isaacs explains that Microsoft is moving connectors such as Databricks, Snowflake, and BigQuery from embedded ODBC drivers to ADBC in Power BI and Fabric. The post outlines the impact on existing connections and what teams should plan for before the change lands.

Workspace outbound access protection for Power BI reports (Preview)

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Kay Unkroth introduces preview support for workspace outbound access protection on Power BI reports. The update gives admins a stronger way to limit where data can flow and reduce exposure in reporting environments.

Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on for the Starburst connector in Power BI (Preview)

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Kay Unkroth explains that Power BI now supports Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on for the Starburst connector in preview. The update lets report viewers authenticate with their own identity and apply data access policies in DirectQuery scenarios.

Simplified Oracle connectivity in Power BI (Preview)

👩‍💻🚀 Kay Unkroth explains how the preview simplifies Oracle data connections in Power BI by bundling the Oracle ODP.NET provider and supporting direct service connections. The update reduces setup overhead for report authors and admins working with Oracle data.

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Do you have a blog, YouTube channel or podcast that you want us to track, or do you know someone creating great content or community tools you think we should be aware of? Let us know about it!

We usually include links to content or tools updates announcements from the past week. If you see a great blog post or video, let us know one way or another!

You can find us on X and LinkedIn.

🕺 About the “Persona icons”

🤵🏻 Business User

🦸🏻‍♀️ Maker

🧭 Decision Maker

👩‍💻 Developer / Architect

🚀 Admin / Center of Excellence

🛠️ Tools

📅 Events & Webinars

Last week the Power Platform June feature update was presented, the latest Dataverse MCP updates were highlighted, and we also learned more about the data science behind Copilot Studio agent evaluations.

Save the date: Megan V. Walker and Amey Holden will talk through the June 2026 release for Customer Insights - Journeys and answer your questions in a webinar. See the announcement for more details.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Create a Customer Insights Journeys Overview Page for Contacts

🦸🏻‍♀️ Megan V. Walker built a Contact Journey Overview custom page that provides a complete view of a contact’s participation in Customer Insights – Journeys.

Customise Double Opt-In Confirmation Email {{OptedInPurposeTopic}} - Customer Insights - Journeys

🦸🏻‍♀️ Amey Holden fixes the double opt-in implementation. Double opt-in allows you to send a single email where the subscriber they can confirm all of their subscriptions by clicking a confirmation button.

Dataverse MCP Server: The 15 Tools That Make Power Platform Agent-Ready

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dataverse MCP server is a concrete set of fifteen named tools that any MCP-compatible agent can call against a live Dataverse environment. Zsolt Zombik shows how we should use it.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Stairway to Dataverse Heaven - Governance & Business Skills by Angeliki Patsiavou

🦸🏻‍♀️ How Copilot Cowork, Dynamics 365 Sales plugin and a custom skill run a sales pipeline by Hamish Sheild

🦸🏻‍♀️ Editing The Theme & Styling A Power Pages Site by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Create A Segment Using Custom Event Registration Questions in Customer Insights Journeys by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Why Customer Insights Data? By Gustaf Westerlund

🦸🏻‍♀️ D365 Quality Evaluation Agent: Step-by-step configuration guide by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ AI Agent Johan his first prediction: Netherlands vs. Japan by Jeroen Scheper

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

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?

Unresolved Dependencies Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ Two weeks in a row, and Joe and Sebastian find themselves in-person once again. This time, in the very charming and beautiful Portorož 🇸🇮 and DynamicsMinds 2026. But can such an amazing conference finally be the catalyst to resolve their dependencies? This time, discussions will range from the latest AI-infused Microsoft exams, through to odd quirks when using MCP and Skills with Dataverse, and what the German word is for UFO (spoiler alert: don’t get your hopes up) 🛸

The Worklab Podcast

🧭 What does it take to move the needle with AI? Top AI voice Allie K. Miller joins WorkLab to share why some of the biggest advances aren’t coming from the usual places—or people. She explains how organizations can unlock new value by giving unconventional thinkers room to experiment, why speed and iteration matter more than perfection, and how leaders can turn edge ideas into real business impact. Plus: how agentic workflows, voice interfaces, and cross-disciplinary teams are reshaping the future of work.

📅 Events & Webinars

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen serves as a meeting point for 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.

HELish Summit

(📅 September 17, 2026)

HELish Summit is a Microsoft technology focused conference offering ideas, insights, cases and lessons learned for every IT enthusiast. Whether you’re a consultant or working in internal IT, communications or other technology role - there is something special for you!

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Nordic Summit 2026 takes place at LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference in Billund, Denmark, with a strong focus on connecting the Nordic Microsoft community around Power Platform and Dynamics 365. As the largest in-person event in the Nordics for these technologies, it offers focused sessions, community connection, and practical insights for makers, consultants, and architects.

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise 2026 is a focal point for the global Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management partner ecosystem in Copenhagen, with focused strategic and technical content. Across three days, partners connect with Microsoft, SIs, ISVs, and industry leaders to explore Agentic ERP, real-world AI, and practical approaches for enterprise solution delivery.

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Scottish Summit 2026 heads to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh for two days centered on AI, Copilot, and practical learning across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Attendees connect with experts, MVPs, and peers through sessions and workshops designed to share real-world approaches and community-driven innovation.

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Community Summit North America 2026 gives the Microsoft AI and Business Applications community five days in Nashville for learning, training, and connection. With hundreds of sessions, academy workshops, and a broad partner ecosystem, attendees gain practical guidance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Copilot.

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Directions EMEA 2026 hosts the Dynamics 365 Business Central community in Paris for three days of technical sessions, strategy, and ecosystem networking. Resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, and consultants explore the latest innovations and practical approaches shaping Business Central across EMEA.

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference 2026 welcomes the global maker and solution builder community to Las Vegas for three days of practical learning and collaboration around AI apps and agents. Attendees explore sessions, workshops, and certifications across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the full Microsoft Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions they can apply right away.

💙 Out of the Blue

Dataverse MCP Server: Understanding the New Tool Shape

👩‍💻🚀🦸🏻‍♀️ Kent Weare explains how the Dataverse MCP server exposes clearer tool boundaries for agents working with business data. The update highlights better metadata inspection, record queries, and structured data access for agent workflows.

AI-Powered Power BI reporting: From design to deployment with agent skills (Preview)

👩‍💻🚀🦸🏻‍♀️ Harleen Kaur shows how AI-powered Power BI reporting skills let agents move from design to deployment with natural language and PBIR authoring. The preview brings report authoring, screenshots, and iterative refinement into one workflow.

Announcing Low-latency sync for Dataverse to Fabric in GA

👩‍💻🚀 Anirudha Bakore announces that low-latency sync for Dataverse to Fabric is now generally available. The update improves data freshness for Dynamics 365 and finance and operations workloads in Fabric.

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

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Tiffany Treacy summarizes the June 2026 feature update across Copilot, governance, and application experiences. Readers get a concise view of what shipped and how the latest capabilities fit into daily platform work.

Bulk Deletion in Microsoft Dataverse: New capabilities for data lifecycle management

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Ritu Joshi explains how bulk deletion expands data lifecycle management in Dataverse with improved control and operational efficiency. The update gives admins and developers stronger options for retention and cleanup at scale.

Power BI June 2026 Feature Summary

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Katie Murray summarizes the June 2026 Power BI updates across Copilot, reporting, and AI-powered experiences. Readers get a concise view of what changed and how the release reduces repetitive analytics work.

Who evaluates the evaluators? The data science behind agent evals

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Dikla Dotan-Cohen explains how Copilot Studio evaluates agent quality at scale through data science and measurement. The post shows how teams can improve reliability and consistency in agent performance.

The Admin Control That Closes the Door Before “Hello”

🚀👩‍💻🧭 Adi Leibowitz explains how a new Power Platform admin control governs how users authenticate to Copilot Studio agents. The post shows how to close authentication paths before a session starts and strengthen governance.

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Last week Microsoft Build took place. If you’re wondering where to find the traditional Book of News, it has been replaced this year by Microsoft Build 2026 live. Don’t miss Lisa Crosby’s summary, and the sessions can be watched on-demand.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Stairway to Dataverse Heaven

🦸🏻‍♀️ There’s a moment in every agentic strategy project where you realize that how your agent connects to data matters just as much as what data it sees. Angeliki Patsiavou shows us the "stairway to Dataverse heaven" by breaking down the strengths, limitations, and ideal use cases for Dataverse as a knowledge source, the Dataverse connector, and the Dataverse MCP server.

Agent Evaluation in Copilot Studio

🦸🏻‍♀️ Vivian Voss explains Agent Evaluation in Copilot Studio, from what it does to setting up your first evaluation and tips for building test sets. She also shows how it fits into broader agent testing alongside toolkits like the Copilot Studio Kit and UI testing using Playwright.

Code Apps: What June 2026 shipped and what’s next

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dennis Chi summarizes the June 2026 Code Apps updates, including shipped features like mobile play and CLI-based connection creation. He also highlights upcoming CLI expansions and the broader direction of the Code Apps roadmap.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Why I’m finally building UI tests for Power Platform & Dynamics 365 by Fredrik Neiderud

🦸🏻‍♀️ Copilot Studio Evaluations by Craig White

🦸🏻‍♀️ Trigger a flow when a Power Automate Approval is complete (Accepted or Rejected) by Amey Holden

🦸🏻‍♀️ Microsoft Build 2026: What HR actually needs to know by Ana Inés Urrutia

🦸🏻‍♀️ Using Event Templates With Realtime In Customer Insights Journeys by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Open Custom Page For Multiple Selected Records In A View Or SubGrid by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Full AI ERP Migrations by Ted Ohlsson

👩‍💻 Power Pages: Multiselect List by Nicholas Hayduk

🦸🏻‍♀️ AI Agent Johan: Training the AI Builder model by Jeroen Scheper

🦸🏻‍♀️ Bringing AI Agent Johan in Copilot Studio to life by Jeroen Scheper

👩‍💻 Dataverse Web API: Returning Record Data During Create Using Prefer: return=representation by Nishant Rana

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Microsoft BizApps Deutschland Podcast

🚀 In our latest Microsoft Biz Apps podcast, I talk with Rachel Profitt about her role at Microsoft, her passion for the Dynamics community, and why business process excellence matters so much when organizations want to implement technology faster, better, and with less risk. Rachel shares great insights into the Microsoft Business Process Catalog, the future of AI and agents in business applications, and why strong foundations across process, data, people, and technology are more important than ever. We also talk about what makes Dynamics Minds such a special event, her impressive commitment to volunteer work, and a few very personal stories that make this episode especially authentic. It’s a thoughtful, inspiring conversation about innovation, community, and the human side of digital transformation.

M365 FM Podcast

🧭 In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters sits down with Carike Botha (MVP) to explore the evolution of Power Apps from traditional low-code development to the emerging world of pro-code applications. The discussion challenges the common assumption that low-code platforms eliminate the need for developers, showing instead how modern Power Platform solutions increasingly blend citizen development with professional software engineering.

Figuring Out Fabric Podcast

👩‍💻 Simon Sabin talks about how SQL Bits picks sessions when the data world keeps splintering into more tools. We talk about the tension between Fabric and the older stack people still use at work, and why session selection has to cover both. We also talk about why discernment is the skill you need with AI, since the model is an “automated idiot” and you have to catch when it’s wrong. Power Query’s declarative engine comes up too, along with the pub quizzes and board game nights SQL Bits runs so introverts can actually meet people.

📅 Events & Webinars

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen serves as a meeting point for 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.

HELish Summit

(📅 September 17, 2026)

HELish Summit is a Microsoft technology focused conference offering ideas, insights, cases and lessons learned for every IT enthusiast. Whether you’re a consultant or working in internal IT, communications or other technology role - there is something special for you!

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Nordic Summit 2026 takes place at LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference in Billund, Denmark, with a strong focus on connecting the Nordic Microsoft community around Power Platform and Dynamics 365. As the largest in-person event in the Nordics for these technologies, it offers focused sessions, community connection, and practical insights for makers, consultants, and architects.

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise 2026 is a focal point for the global Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management partner ecosystem in Copenhagen, with focused strategic and technical content. Across three days, partners connect with Microsoft, SIs, ISVs, and industry leaders to explore Agentic ERP, real-world AI, and practical approaches for enterprise solution delivery.

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Scottish Summit 2026 heads to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh for two days centered on AI, Copilot, and practical learning across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Attendees connect with experts, MVPs, and peers through sessions and workshops designed to share real-world approaches and community-driven innovation.

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Community Summit North America 2026 gives the Microsoft AI and Business Applications community five days in Nashville for learning, training, and connection. With hundreds of sessions, academy workshops, and a broad partner ecosystem, attendees gain practical guidance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Copilot.

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Directions EMEA 2026 hosts the Dynamics 365 Business Central community in Paris for three days of technical sessions, strategy, and ecosystem networking. Resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, and consultants explore the latest innovations and practical approaches shaping Business Central across EMEA.

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference 2026 welcomes the global maker and solution builder community to Las Vegas for three days of practical learning and collaboration around AI apps and agents. Attendees explore sessions, workshops, and certifications across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the full Microsoft Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions they can apply right away.

💙 Out of the Blue

Page-Level PDF Citations in Copilot Studio

👩‍💻🚀🦸🏻‍♀️ Lewis Baybutt & Remi Dyon explain how to surface page-level PDF citations in Copilot Studio so answers point to the exact source page in SharePoint or uploaded files. Readers learn how to improve grounding and trust in file-based agent responses.

DAX User-Defined Functions (Generally Available)

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Kay Unkroth explains that DAX user-defined functions are now generally available after community feedback and validation. Readers learn what this means for semantic model design and where the feature fits in production Power BI workloads.

ALM for Copilot Studio Agents: The Foundation

👩‍💻🚀🧭 James Papadimitriou explains how to set up application lifecycle management for Copilot Studio agents from environment strategy through deployment confidence. Readers learn the foundation for reliable release management and governance across environments.

Building in the Agentic Era with Power BI and Fabric

👩‍💻🚀🧭🤵🏻 Sujata Narayana shows how Microsoft Build 2026 introduces Agent Skills for Power BI and Fabric Apps for semantic models. Readers learn how AI agents can help build and deploy analytics experiences from raw data to app.

Power BI at Microsoft Build 2026: The Agentic Era of analytics

👩‍💻🚀🧭🤵🏻 Mohammad Ali outlines the Build 2026 announcements that bring agentic analytics to Power BI, from AI-assisted building to broader app delivery. Readers get a concise view of how the platform is evolving for analysts and developers.

Copilot in web modeling (Preview)

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Jacinda Eng introduces Copilot in web modeling, an AI-powered assistant that helps improve semantic models using natural language. Readers learn how the preview can reduce manual model editing and speed up data modeling tasks.

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Last week the Copilot Studio May feature update was presented, and Mistral joined the list of available AI models.

It’s Microsoft Build week 🎉 Don’t forget to register!

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Inside Built-In and Custom Copilot UI Widgets powered by Power Apps

👩‍💻 Diana Birkelbach provides a complete walkthrough of MCP and Power Apps capabilities, explaining how to work with them and how far you can extend them.

Respond to Power Automate Approvals in Power Apps (Custom Page & Canvas App Guide)

🦸🏻‍♀️ Amey Holden shows how you can use a custom page or canvas app to respond to Power Automate approvals.

Handling Localization in PCF Components: A Practical Walkthrough

👩‍💻 Riccardo Gregori provides a step-by-step walkthrough of setting up .resx files and explains an issue that can arise when debugging your PCF locally.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Using the Variable Inspector in Copilot Studio by Vivian Voss

🦸🏻‍♀️ Understanding the Dynamics 365 Quality Evaluation Agent: A Complete Breakdown by Dian Taylor

🦸🏻‍♀️ Building AI Agent Johan's Brain - The data layer by Jeroen Scheper

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to Set Up a Copilot Studio Agent Using Dataverse MCP Across Environments by Arild Aarnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ Exam AB-410: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate by EY Kalman

🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 The CoE toolkit is dead, Long Live Managed Environments! by EY Kalman

🦸🏻‍♀️ How To Create Copilot Custom UI Widgets In Power Apps by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ AdxStudio Portals To Power Pages | A Journey Of Learning by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Create Your Own Event Overview Analytics Dashboard In CI-J by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Nordic Summit 2026: Join Us at LEGOLAND by Zsolt Zombik

👩‍💻 PCF’s default Fluent UI version is broken... and how to fix it by Riccardo Gregori

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Fabric Architecture Podcast

👩‍💻 Microsoft Fabric ships its own MLflow registry — but is it a replacement for Azure Machine Learning? Matthias and Fabia work through the four-layer registry model, PREDICT versus Model Endpoints, the Direct Lake prediction loop, and the architectural question that actually determines the answer: where do your predictions land?

Cloud Wars Live Podcast

🧭 In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I look at how Microsoft and EY are combining engineering and consulting expertise to scale AI transformation.

📅 Events & Webinars

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 serves as a meeting point for 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.

HELish Summit

(📅 September 17, 2026)

HELish Summit is a Microsoft technology focused conference offering ideas, insights, cases and lessons learned for every IT enthusiast. Whether you're a consultant or working in internal IT, communications or other technology role - there is something special for you!

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Nordic Summit 2026 takes place at LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference in Billund, Denmark, with a strong focus on connecting the Nordic Microsoft community around Power Platform and Dynamics 365. As the largest in-person event in the Nordics for these technologies, it offers focused sessions, community connection, and practical insights for makers, consultants, and architects.

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise 2026 is a focal point for the global Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management partner ecosystem in Copenhagen, with focused strategic and technical content. Across three days, partners connect with Microsoft, SIs, ISVs, and industry leaders to explore Agentic ERP, real-world AI, and practical approaches for enterprise solution delivery.

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Scottish Summit 2026 heads to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh for two days centered on AI, Copilot, and practical learning across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Attendees connect with experts, MVPs, and peers through sessions and workshops designed to share real-world approaches and community-driven innovation.

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Community Summit North America 2026 gives the Microsoft AI and Business Applications community five days in Nashville for learning, training, and connection. With hundreds of sessions, academy workshops, and a broad partner ecosystem, attendees gain practical guidance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Copilot.

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Directions EMEA 2026 hosts the Dynamics 365 Business Central community in Paris for three days of technical sessions, strategy, and ecosystem networking. Resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, and consultants explore the latest innovations and practical approaches shaping Business Central across EMEA.

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference 2026 welcomes the global maker and solution builder community to Las Vegas for three days of practical learning and collaboration around AI apps and agents. Attendees explore sessions, workshops, and certifications across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the full Microsoft Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions they can apply right away.

💙 Out of the Blue

Build Power Pages sites with AI through agentic coding tools, now generally available

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Neeraj Nandwana announces the general availability of the Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code, extending the conversational workflow to production with native ALM pipelines, security hardening, and expanded authentication setup. Readers learn which skills cover deployment, firewall and header configuration, vulnerability scanning, and multi-provider sign-in.

New and improved: Computer-using agents, a new workflows experience, and real-time voice

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻🚀🧭 Nitasha Chopra rounds up the May 2026 Copilot Studio release, covering the general availability of computer-using agents, a redesigned workflows experience, and Work IQ extensibility. Readers get a single view of what shipped and where each capability fits into building and operating agents.

Mistral joins Copilot Studio’s growing lineup of model providers

👩‍💻🧭🚀 Ben Appleby explains how Mistral Medium 3.5 is now available in Copilot Studio, adding model choice with in-region data control, multilingual performance, and admin governance. Readers learn what the new provider offers and how it fits into model selection for production agents.

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Last week the Copilot Studio team shared a guide to managing real-time voice agents at scale. The Power BI team published its May 2026 feature summary.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Create An Event Invitation Process In Customer Insights

🦸🏻‍♀️ Sending invites to an event is easy, just send an email. But actually managing those invites is harder. Megan V. Walker shows us how we should do this with Customer Insights.

Test canvas in Copilot Studio

🦸🏻‍♀️ The testing canvas is your new best friend in Copilot Studio. It works both when your agent is in draft or published state and is always just a click away. Vivian Voss gives us the insights into how to use it.

Power Apps Code App: Pick Any Vite Framework

👩‍💻 Even though the default Code App template uses React, you are not forced to use it. Dennis Chi shows how you can write Code Apps in different front-end frameworks.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ Conversation trace in Copilot Studio by Vivian Voss

🦸🏻‍♀️ What is Dynamics 365 and what is it used for? by Malin Martnes

🦸🏻‍♀️ Start A Power Automate Flow From Your Custom Page Easily by Megan V. Walker

🛠️ SQL 4 CDS 10.4 Released by Mark Carrington

🦸🏻‍♀️ 10 Things I Love About Copilot Studio Workflows by Matthew Devaney

🦸🏻‍♀️ How to Configure Reply-To for No-Reply Senders in Customer Insights Journeys by Martin P Lopez

🦸🏻‍♀️ One-Click User Permissions Cloning in D365: Security Roles, Field Security & Teams by Raghu Chalasani

👩‍💻 Power Pages SPA, local authentication, and the “Private” flag that blocks local development by Riccardo Gregori

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Community Voices Podcast

🧭 In this episode of Experts Live UK: Community Voices, Bruce Cullen and Geoff Ross are joined by Melissa Hale, Power Automate MVP and M365 consultant from Liverpool. Mel shares her remarkable journey from researching snake venom and parasites to landing a job in tech before finishing her bootcamp. She talks about her work co-founding Manchester AI Group, leading AI governance for charity Collaboration for Kids, and why she thinks being comfortable as the least experienced person in the room is the most powerful mindset you can have.

Along the way, Mel breaks down the Power Platform for Bruce, explains the difference between canvas apps and model-driven apps, and reveals something genuinely cool about choosing your own AI model when building Copilot agents in Copilot Studio.

Oh, and she does horseback archery.

Power Platform Deep Dive Podcast

👩‍💻 In this episode of Power Platform Deep Dive, we explore one of the biggest shifts happening in modern development. Why are low-code developers suddenly using pro-code tools like GitHub, VS Code, MCP servers, and AI coding agents?

As AI continues to change how software is built, the traditional boundaries between low-code and pro-code development are starting to feel less clear than ever.

Kayode and Annabel discuss the growing role of GitHub in Power Platform development, how AI coding agents are changing workflows, and why understanding the foundations behind tools like MCP servers, connectors, prompts, and ALM matters more than simply chasing hype.

Power Platform Boost Podcast

🚀 There might have been some caffeine in the mix this week as well, cause someone's energy is running high 🫨 . Someone else has a nice tan 😎💪 (We know what you are thinking, and it's the other way around 😜)

Anywho - this episode is full of both community content and golden nuggets from Microsoft! We loved Agent Academy Live from the Microsoft Cloud Advocacy Team! Dona Sarkar 💃 and April Dunnam 👠 were great hosts in the studio, and we were inspired by Ryan Cunningham's 👩‍🚀 keynote. What's your moonshot? 🚀

📅 Events & Webinars

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 gathers the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community 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 serves as a meeting point for 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.

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Nordic Summit 2026 takes place at LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference in Billund, Denmark, with a strong focus on connecting the Nordic Microsoft community around Power Platform and Dynamics 365. As the largest in-person event in the Nordics for these technologies, it offers focused sessions, community connection, and practical insights for makers, consultants, and architects.

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise 2026 is a focal point for the global Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management partner ecosystem in Copenhagen, with focused strategic and technical content. Across three days, partners connect with Microsoft, SIs, ISVs, and industry leaders to explore Agentic ERP, real-world AI, and practical approaches for enterprise solution delivery.

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Scottish Summit 2026 heads to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh for two days centered on AI, Copilot, and practical learning across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Attendees connect with experts, MVPs, and peers through sessions and workshops designed to share real-world approaches and community-driven innovation.

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Community Summit North America 2026 gives the Microsoft AI and Business Applications community five days in Nashville for learning, training, and connection. With hundreds of sessions, academy workshops, and a broad partner ecosystem, attendees gain practical guidance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Copilot.

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Directions EMEA 2026 hosts the Dynamics 365 Business Central community in Paris for three days of technical sessions, strategy, and ecosystem networking. Resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, and consultants explore the latest innovations and practical approaches shaping Business Central across EMEA.

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference 2026 welcomes the global maker and solution builder community to Las Vegas for three days of practical learning and collaboration around AI apps and agents. Attendees explore sessions, workshops, and certifications across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the full Microsoft Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions they can apply right away.

💙 Out of the Blue

The in-depth guide to managing real-time voice agents at scale

👩‍💻🚀🧭 The Microsoft Copilot Studio Team explains how to govern customer-facing real-time voice agents across build, release, runtime, and lifecycle stages. Readers get a practical framework covering escalation design, security controls, monitoring, and compliance readiness for production-scale deployments.

Wiring up a Snowflake-managed MCP server in Copilot Studio

👩‍💻🚀 Adi Leibowitz walks through how to connect a Snowflake-managed MCP server to a Copilot Studio agent using delegated OAuth with Microsoft Entra ID. Readers learn the required Cortex Agent prerequisites, the manual OAuth flow in Snowflake, and the setup details that avoid common integration failures.

Building a custom human-in-the-loop experience for Copilot Studio workflows

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Adi Leibowitz explains how to implement a custom human-in-the-loop approval pattern for Copilot Studio workflows through a custom connector. Readers see how to route workflow steps for human validation while keeping orchestration inside the agent experience.

Power BI tenant migration: Trade-offs, risks, and realities

🚀👩‍💻🧭 Winnie Li outlines practical considerations for Power BI tenant migration, including risk areas, dependency mapping, and sequencing decisions. Readers learn which trade-offs to evaluate before choosing migration approaches for enterprise-scale deployments.

Power BI May 2026 feature summary

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Katie Murray summarizes the May 2026 Power BI updates across Copilot and AI, reporting, modeling, data connectivity, and visual experiences. Readers get a concise view of what changed and where the release improves day-to-day analytics workflows.

New Power Query experience in Power BI Desktop (Preview)

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️🚀 Sara Lammini Rodriguez and Miguel Escobar introduce a preview of the updated Power Query authoring experience in Power BI Desktop. Readers learn what is changing in the query editing flow and how the new experience can streamline data preparation.

Outbound access protection for semantic models (Preview)

🚀👩‍💻🧭 Kay Unkroth explains how outbound access protection can now be applied to semantic models to block external traffic by default and allow only trusted destinations. Readers learn how this preview strengthens workspace-level governance and network security for sensitive BI workloads.

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Vibe coded Power Pages SPA: unfiltered

🦸🏻‍♀️ The developer Riccardo Gregori tries to lean into the full vibe for Power Pages SPA. Don’t read anything, ask the agent to do everything. Read his detailed experience in this blog.

Turning Maintainability Guidelines Into an Agent Skill

🦸🏻‍♀️ Albert-Jan Schot shows how you can translate your guidelines into an agent skill to ensure your solution adheres to them.

Important M365 Sales Agent features coming in 2026 Wave 1 you need to know!

🦸🏻‍♀️ Dian Taylor shows off the latest features from the Sales Agent. Some of these are simple, but powerful.

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🦸🏻‍♀️ Dynamics 365 App for Outlook vs the Sales Agent – What’s the Difference? Jeroen Scheper

🛠️ Context + Expectations => Better Relationship by Jonas Rapp

🛠️ Context/Instructions/Expectations - FXB Release 1.2026.5.1 by Jonas Rapp

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

🦸🏻‍♀️ How To View Conversation Transcripts In Copilot Studio by Matthew Devaney

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Microsoft Mechanics Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ Ground every Microsoft 365 Copilot response in your real work data. Pull context from SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, email, and meetings — all through Work IQ. Draft Word documents that carry your existing sensitivity labels, and resolve calendar conflicts in Outlook. Run multi-step Copilot Cowork workflows that generate files, schedule meetings, and send status updates from a single prompt.

Ragnar 365 Nuggets Podcast

🧭 What happens when AI stops being a tool and starts being a colleague? In this episode, I sit down with Michael Gannotti, Principal AI Solution Engineer at Microsoft, to explore SMFWorks – his autonomous multi-agent "company" of 14 AI colleagues built on OpenClaw and Hermes. We talk about agents that dream, hold their own 6 AM staff meetings, design their own avatars, email each other, and evolve a true sense of identity through Markdown-based "souls." If you're into agentic AI, multi-agent orchestration, or just want to see where this is all heading – this one is for you.

Run As Radio Podcast

👩‍💻 What does a production-grade large language model look like? While at NDC Sydney, Richard talked with Vaishnavi Gudur from Microsoft about her work scaling LLMs for Teams transcriptions, summaries, and more! Vaishnavi discusses the underlying complexities of operating the Teams LLM infrastructure for a large array of customers across different countries and regulatory regimes. Data sovereignty also plays a large role: different countries have specific rules on where data must reside and how it can be accessed. As the scale increases and the tail gets longer, the rules set gets more complex! Lots of great thinking about what LLMs look like in a production environment.

📅 Events & Webinars

DynamicsMinds

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

DynamicsMinds 2026 gathers the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community 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 serves as a meeting point for 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.

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Nordic Summit 2026 takes place at LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference in Billund, Denmark, with a strong focus on connecting the Nordic Microsoft community around Power Platform and Dynamics 365. As the largest in-person event in the Nordics for these technologies, it offers focused sessions, community connection, and practical insights for makers, consultants, and architects.

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise 2026 is a focal point for the global Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management partner ecosystem in Copenhagen, with focused strategic and technical content. Across three days, partners connect with Microsoft, SIs, ISVs, and industry leaders to explore Agentic ERP, real-world AI, and practical approaches for enterprise solution delivery.

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Scottish Summit 2026 heads to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh for two days centered on AI, Copilot, and practical learning across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Attendees connect with experts, MVPs, and peers through sessions and workshops designed to share real-world approaches and community-driven innovation.

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Community Summit North America 2026 gives the Microsoft AI and Business Applications community five days in Nashville for learning, training, and connection. With hundreds of sessions, academy workshops, and a broad partner ecosystem, attendees gain practical guidance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Copilot.

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Directions EMEA 2026 hosts the Dynamics 365 Business Central community in Paris for three days of technical sessions, strategy, and ecosystem networking. Resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, and consultants explore the latest innovations and practical approaches shaping Business Central across EMEA.

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference 2026 welcomes the global maker and solution builder community to Las Vegas for three days of practical learning and collaboration around AI apps and agents. Attendees explore sessions, workshops, and certifications across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the full Microsoft Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions they can apply right away.

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Power Fx: User defined types generally available

👩‍💻🦸🏻‍♀️ Greg Lindhorst explains that Power Fx user defined types are now generally available, alongside UDFs and enhanced component properties for production use. Readers learn how UDTs improve formula reliability and maintainability, especially when structuring records and validating ParseJSON data.

Agentic administration: Dataverse Admin Skills now available in public preview

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Anirudha Bakore introduces Dataverse Admin Skills (dv-admin), which lets admins use natural language in coding tools to manage Dataverse environments at scale. Readers learn how the plugin maps intent to PAC CLI commands with guardrails for settings management, bulk delete, and retention workflows across multiple environments.

Power Apps MCP server introduces closed-loop learning for enterprise agents

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Srihari Srinivasa explains how closed-loop learning on the Power Apps MCP server turns Agent feed corrections into organization-wide improvements for agent accuracy. Readers see how memory-based optimization and Genetic-Pareto optimization help data entry agents reduce manual corrections over time.

New and improved: Agent governance, intelligent workflows, and connected app experiences

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Nitasha Chopra outlines April Copilot Studio updates, including stronger governance controls, workflow improvements, and expanded connected app experiences. Readers learn what changed for building and operating agents and how these updates affect production readiness.

Herding clouds: Taming pay-as-you-go billing policies in Power Platform at scale

🚀👩‍💻🧭 Rranjit Sekitekin shows how to manage pay-as-you-go billing policies across many environments with a bulk assignment script and an automated unlinking pipeline. Readers learn a practical governance pattern to reduce manual effort and control spend at scale.

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Work Trend Index 2026: the Agency Gap is real, and HR owns the fix

🧭 Ana Inés Urrutia gives a detailed analysis based on the Microsoft Work Trend Index 2026. She says the bottleneck is never the technology. It’s always the system around it.

Why Computer Use in Copilot Studio is finally interesting for the enterprise

🦸🏻‍♀️ Arild Aarnes gives a brief description of Computer-Using Agents (CUA). Agents that can actually use a computer the way a person does. Move the mouse, click buttons, type into fields, read what is on the screen.

Power Apps Vibe Coded Experience [Preview]

🦸🏻‍♀️ Priyesh Wagh shows a quick but precise demo of vibe.powerapps.com.

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Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast

👩‍💻 The Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code - formerly the AI Toolkit - is Microsoft's answer to fragmented AI development workflows, bringing model selection, prompt iteration, agent building, evaluation, and production tracing into a single VS Code extension. In this episode, we walk through the full feature surface. Whether you're picking your first frontier model or shipping a hosted agent to Microsoft Foundry, this is the episode for you!

Code. Deploy. Go Live. Podcast

🧭 In this episode, Andrew and Julie sit down with Paolo Pialorsi at a Microsoft conference to explore Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility and the newly announced Work IQ platform. They dive into the three pillars of Copilot extensibility: declarative agents (which leverage Copilot's foundational models and orchestrator), custom engine agents (which give you full control over the model, orchestrator, and customization), and AI apps built with Work IQ that operate outside the Copilot UI. Paolo breaks down how Work IQ differs fundamentally from Microsoft Graph by adding context, memory, and business understanding on top of data, then shares practical guidance on choosing the right path for your scenario.

Power Platform Boost Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ This week’s episode covers a lot of ground in the AI-meets-low-code space — from Microsoft’s Public Preview of custom tools and rich UI for app-based conversations, to a community deep-dive comparing the various ways you can build Power Apps with AI today. There’s also an important community conversation about the impending sunset of the CoE Starter Kit, plus coverage of Power Pages, the Timeline control, and a look at Charles Lamanna’s Copilot Cowork announcement. Whether you’re building agents, managing governance, or just trying to keep up with the pace of change, this one’s worth your commute time.

📅 Events & Webinars

Agent Academy Live

(📅 May 12, 2026)

A free, full-day virtual event hosted by April Dunnam and Dona Sarkar with deep dives from Microsoft engineers and community experts on building agents with Copilot and Copilot Studio. Sessions cover multi-agent design, ALM patterns, agent testing, MCP integrations, and more.

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

Dataverse is your agent data platform: here’s what’s new

👩‍💻🚀🧭 Julie Koesmarno highlights new Dataverse capabilities for agent-driven scenarios, including business skills in public preview, the Dataverse plugin now available on the Claude Marketplace, Microsoft 365 Copilot integration through an intelligent semantic layer, and 6× faster agentic search initialization.

Semantic model settings pane (Preview)

🚀👩‍💻 Kay Unkroth introduces a redesigned semantic model settings experience in Power BI that opens as an in-context side pane with collapsible sections and a search feature, replacing the full-page navigation that previously took users away from their workspace.

Execute DAX Queries REST API (Preview)

👩‍💻 Kay Unkroth announces a new public REST API for running DAX queries against Power BI semantic models that returns results in Apache Arrow IPC format, supporting native data-type fidelity, no fixed row limits, and multiple EVALUATE statements per request.

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Last week the general availability of real-time voice agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio was announced.

Congratulations to Mike Hartley on releasing a new documentation tool, PP-MD. 🎉 Try it out and share your feedback. See the announcement.

Copilotverse 2.0 is here, with weekly meetups every Friday. Join here, and see the announcement.

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Dataverse Actions, Functions & Flows in Power Apps Code Apps: Complete Guide

👩‍💻 Zsolt Zombik has been building Power Apps code apps for a while now, and the question that kept coming up was always the same: how do I call actual server-side logic from here? With the microsoft/power-apps npm CLI hitting v1.1.1, that question finally has a clean answer.

AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: Why the Architecture Matters

🦸🏻‍♀️ Sailaja Mantripragada describes the key differences between a system built on AI agents and a system built with an agentic architecture.

ALM on Power Platform: ADO + GitHub, the best of both worlds

🦸🏻‍♀️👩‍💻 Riccardo Gregori explores a hybrid setup where Azure DevOps handles planning and pipelines, while GitHub powers AI-driven development.

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👩‍💻 Power Pages: Escape Filters by Nicholas Hayduk

🦸🏻‍♀️ Access Event Registration Custom Questions & Answers In CIJ by Megan V. Walker

🦸🏻‍♀️ Find Contacts With Failed Form Submissions Via A Segment by Megan V. Walker

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

🦸🏻‍♀️ The death of BizApps and the rise of the agentic Power Platform by Andreas Adner

🦸🏻‍♀️ Abracadabra, create me a F&O environment by Ted Ohlsson

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Microsoft Mechanics Podcast

👩‍💻 Build a shared semantic foundation for your enterprise data in Microsoft Fabric IQ. Generate a full business ontology from an existing Power BI semantic model, map entities and relationships, and embed real-time operational signals alongside business rules that live inside the ontology with the data and its meaning.

From there, trace cascading operational impacts across your business through the relationship graph, stand up Operations Agents in natural language with Teams-based actions, and connect the same ontology as a knowledge source in Copilot Studio or Azure AI Foundry.

Chafia Aouissi, Fabric IQ Principal PM Manager, shares how to model your business operations, embed intelligence in your data, and deploy agents that act on it.

Power Platform Podcast

🧭 Cat Schneider is super cool on any front, but also…the intro music.

In this episode of the Power Platform Podcast, Mark and Malin are joined by Microsoft MVP Cat Schneider—self-described chaos agent, community personality, and Power Platform enthusiast from Florida.

Weekend Power Platform Podcast

🦸🏻‍♀️ Most professionals fall into the trap of thinking their career is a straight line. Michelle Serna challenges this myth, sharing her unexpected journey from consultant to building a Business Central team. Meanwhile, Shawn Sissenwein's transition from managing cattle to technology highlights the diverse paths one can take. Their stories reveal how falling in love with different areas of technology can reshape your purpose and your path over time. In this episode, Michelle and Shawn dive into the power of community, demonstrating how authentic connections and sharing your journey can spark new opportunities.

📅 Events & Webinars

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.

Agent Academy Live

(📅 May 12, 2026)

A free, full-day virtual event hosted by April Dunnam and Dona Sarkar with deep dives from Microsoft engineers and community experts on building agents with Copilot and Copilot Studio. Sessions cover multi-agent design, ALM patterns, agent testing, MCP integrations, and more.

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

Introducing real-time voice agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio

🧭🚀 Nitasha Chopra announces the general availability of real-time voice agents in Copilot Studio, a new premium voice mode optimized for low-latency, interruptible speech-to-speech conversations that launches in Dynamics 365 Contact Center. The post covers how these agents handle high-volume B2C scenarios like billing, scheduling, and eligibility checks, with plans to extend to Teams Phone and additional channels.

Dataverse plugin is now on the Claude Marketplace

👩‍💻🚀 Suyash Kshirsagar walks through how the open-source Dataverse plugin for coding agents is now listed on the Claude plugins marketplace, reducing installation to a single command. The post covers the full setup orchestration behind the scenes, including toolchain checks, authentication, MCP server configuration, and the admin consent and environment allowlisting steps required to connect securely.

The new loop: How Power Pages builds software with AI

👩‍💻 Priyanshu Agrawal shares how the Power Pages engineering team has integrated AI coding agents into their development workflow, from design documents and custom agent skills like /tdd and /fix-a11y-bug to AI-assisted code reviews and automated quality gates. The post also covers what still doesn’t work well, including large monorepo navigation and agent tendencies to skip code reuse.

How to set context variables to Copilot Studio agents using WebChat

👩‍💻 Giorgio Ughini explains how to reliably pass context variables to Copilot Studio agents embedded via WebChat using a Redux middleware pattern that works on both Direct Line and the M365 Agents SDK. The post walks through why channelData and early event dispatch fail, and shows the correct approach of dispatching a custom event after the first incoming agent message.

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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.

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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.

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🦸🏻‍♀️ 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.

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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

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

.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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📅 Events & Webinars

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.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 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.

Other articles

🦸🏻‍♀️ 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

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

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.

📅 Events & Webinars

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

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.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

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

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

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.

📅 Events & Webinars

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

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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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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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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