Power Platform Weekly

Power Platform Weekly - Issue #267

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:12:45 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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.

📺 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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #266

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:27:07 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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.

📺 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)

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)

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

💙 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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #265

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:14:15 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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.

📺 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)

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

💙 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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #264

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:45:58 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

Last week the Copilot Studio April 2026 updates were highlighted. Power Apps MCP server closed-loop learning was introduced, and the general availability of Power Fx User Defined Types was announced.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

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.

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

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)

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)

Nordic Summit

(📅 September 21-22, 2026)

Directions for Enterprise

(📅 September 23-25, 2026)

Scottish Summit

(📅 October 2-3, 2026)

Community Summit North America

(📅 October 11-15, 2026)

Directions EMEA

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

Power Platform Community Conference

(📅 October 27-29, 2026)

💙 Out of the Blue

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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #263

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:16:06 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

Last week the different roles Microsoft Dataverse plays in in agentic scenarios were highlighted.

Don’t miss your chance to join Agent Academy Live on Tuesday, May 12! Register here and learn more by checking out April Dunnam’s announcement.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

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.

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #262

Carina M. Claesson — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:49:56 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

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.

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

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)

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)

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)

💙 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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #261

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:50:31 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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

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

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Re-introducing Data Validation Tool for Dataverse – PPTB

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

Power Apps- Comparing Different Ways to Create Apps With AI

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

Create Add To Outlook Link For Sessions or Events In CIJ

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

📺 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?

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)

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)

💙 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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #260

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:22:20 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

Last week brought several general availability (GA) announcements:

Microsoft 365 Copilot is now GA in model-driven apps
New app skills are now GA in Power Apps.
App-based form and grid experiences in Copilot Chat will reach GA in July.
Agent feed with Power Apps MCP Server will be GA on May 4.

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

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

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

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

Crafting Effective Instructions for Copilot Studio Agents

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

8 Microsoft Sales AI Agents and How to Choose

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

📺 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)

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)

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)

💙 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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #259

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:24:56 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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.

📺 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)

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)

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)

💙 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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #258

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:59:11 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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.

📺 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)

Update Days Power Platform

(📅 April 27-28, 2026)

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)

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)

💙 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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #257

Carina M. Claesson — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:39:44 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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.

📺 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)

Update Days Power Platform

(📅 April 27-28, 2026)

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)

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)

💙 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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #256

Carina M. Claesson — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:45:11 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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.

📺 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)

Update Days Power Platform

(📅 April 27-28, 2026)

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)

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)

💙 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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #255

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:02:13 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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.

📺 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)

Update Days Power Platform

(📅 April 27-28, 2026)

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)

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)

💙 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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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #254

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:15:44 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

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

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

Product Advisory Agent using generative AI

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

PPTB - Metadata Browser

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

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Power Platform Deep Dive Podcast

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

Awkward Silence Podcast

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

BIFocal Podcast

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

📅 Events & Webinars

Canadian Power Platform Summit

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

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)

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)

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)

💙 Out of the Blue

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

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

Every Path to Integrating Your Copilot Studio Agent

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

Copilot Studio Kit: Beyond Test Automation

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

Improve Power Pages security by activating Web Application Firewall independently

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

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

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

Connecting Copilot Studio to a Dataverse MCP Endpoint Across Environments

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

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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #253

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:29:33 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

Last week the public preview of the Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code was announced, and the community is already experimenting with it.

Improvements to computer-using agents (CUAs) were also presented, and quality updates to modern controls in canvas apps were highlighted.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

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

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

Automated weekly product emails in Customer Insights - Journeys

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

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

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

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Voices of the Neighborhood Podcast

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

Dynamics Corner Podcast

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

Power Platform Boost Podcast

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

📅 Events & Webinars

Canadian Power Platform Summit

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

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)

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)

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

💙 Out of the Blue

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

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

New quality updates to modern controls in canvas apps

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

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

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

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

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

Power BI February 2026 Feature Summary

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

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

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

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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #252

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:22:33 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

Last week the preview of xAI Grok 4.1 Fast in Copilot Studio was announced.

The Power Platform February 2026 feature update was also highlighted.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

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

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

Creating F&O Legal Entities from Copilot Studio

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

Power Pages: Cache Conquered!

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

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast

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

Microsoft Community Insights Podcast

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

Awkward Silence Podcast

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

📅 Events & Webinars

Canadian Power Platform Summit

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

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)

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)

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

💙 Out of the Blue

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

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

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

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

Power Apps MCP and enhanced agent feed for your business applications

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

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

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

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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #251

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:00:12 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

Last week the Public Preview of the Power Apps MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server was announced.

The new agent architecture guidance hub and a refreshed Microsoft Copilot Studio guidance hub were highlighted.

We are seeing more and more AI generated articles and we truly welcome all forms of content. However, to be featured in PPWeekly, please make sure your article goes beyond what’s already available in the official documentation.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Navigating to and from Generative Pages

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

My advice for Still Growing Developers

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

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

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

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

.NET Rocks! Podcast

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

Cloud Architects Podcast

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

Dynamics Corner Podcast

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

Canadian Power Platform Summit

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

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)

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)

European Power Platform Conference

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

💙 Out of the Blue

Power Pages Server Logic (preview): Enhancements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mastering WebChat Middleware for Copilot Studio Agents

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

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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #250

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:27:50 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

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

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

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

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

🚀🦸🏻‍♀️ Power Platform Advanced Connector Policies

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

📺 Videos

Bonus Video:

🎙️ Podcasts

BIFocal Podcast

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

Azure Friday Podcast

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

Merge Conflict Podcast

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

📅 Events & Webinars

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Adriatics Tech Summit 2026

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

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

ColorCloud 2026

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

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

DynamicsMinds 2026

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

European Power Platform Conference 2026

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

💙 Out of the Blue

How to evaluate AI agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio

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

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

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

Mastering WebChat Middleware for Copilot Studio Agents

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

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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #249

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:22:01 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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

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

Don’t forget to follow Power Platform ToolBox on LinkedIn to get the newly added tools in your feed.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

Create and View related records from a Custom page

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

Improve your lead data using the enhanced lead duplicate detection feature

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

Dataverse: Get best Threads and Rows Count

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

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Microsoft 365 Business Boost Podcast

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

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

Power Platform Boost Podcast

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

The Copilot Connection Podcast

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

📅 Events & Webinars

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Adriatics Tech Summit 2026

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

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

ColorCloud 2026

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

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

DynamicsMinds 2026

(📅 May 25-27, 2026)

European Power Platform Conference 2026

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

💙 Out of the Blue

When to use MCP Server vs Power Platform Connectors

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

Retrieve Meeting Transcripts in Copilot Studio & Block Focus Time

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

Modern Visual Tooltips in Power BI (Generally Available)

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

The 6 pillars that will define agent readiness in 2026

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

Breaking down the facts about secure development with Power Platform

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

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Power Platform Weekly - Issue #248

Carina M. Claesson — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:00:35 GMT

Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!

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

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

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

📰 Articles

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

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

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

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

PPTB - Environment Manager

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

📺 Videos

🎙️ Podcasts

Run As Radio Podcast

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

Scott & Mark Learn To...Podcast

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

📅 Events & Webinars

Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2026

(📅 January 29-30, 2026)

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

Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026

(📅 March 21-22, 2026)

Adriatics Tech Summit 2026

(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)

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

ColorCloud 2026

(📅 April 15-17, 2026)

European BizApps Summit

(📅 May 5-7, 2026)

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

DynamicsMinds 2026

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European Power Platform Conference 2026

(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)

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Power BI Report Server January 2026 Feature Summary

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

Introducing Markers in Azure Maps for Power BI

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

Agentic Tooling: Making Agent Performance Transparent and Measurable

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

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