Power Platform Weekly - Issue #187
Power Platform Weekly - Issue #187
Announcements from the Power Platform Community Conference 2024!
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Power Platform Community Conference was held, and it included lot’s of announcements. Copilot Agents “from simple to more advanced to autonomous“, Copilot Pages ”a dynamic, persistent canvas designed for multiplayer AI collaboration” and more.
Public Preview: Power Automate AI recording for desktop flows, GitHub Copilot in Power Pages, Copilot Agents, Agent Builder. General Available: Two-action panes in the Power Automate designer, co-authoring in Power Apps. Other: Power Automate generative actions with inline cloud flows, GPT-4o in Copilot Studio, agents directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Don’t miss the Out of the Blue section!
The Power Platform Community Conference will be back in Las Vegas next year. October 28-30, 2025. Save the Date!
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Dataverse LowCode Plugins Performance Benchmark
👩💻 How do low-code plugins measure up against their tried-and-true C# counterparts? In this post, Riccardo Gregori dives deep into a performance comparison between traditional C# plugins and the new low-code approach, uncovering the strengths, limitations, and practical use cases of each.
🚀 Let's Talk About the Power Platform Default Environment
David Wyatt has wanted to talk about the Default environment. It probably had the biggest impact on his thoughts on the Power Platform. Join him on the journey reflecting over it.
Accessing Dataverse with Entity Framework
👩💻 Back when Mark Carrington originally looked at Dataverse’s TDS endpoint, one of the things he noticed was that you couldn’t use the Entity Framework reverse engineering tools to access the data. Thankfully, things have changed!
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Steps to Add Copilot Control to Your Rich Text Editor by Inogic
🦸🏻♀️ New Lead Qualification Experience by Nishant Rana
🚀 Power Pages: Management App vs PPAC vs Design Studio by Nicholas Hayduk
🦸🏻♀️ What Happens When You Hide Outbound Marketing? by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️🛠️ New-but-not-new feature by Jonas Rapp
🦸🏻♀️ Use OptionSet Wrapper component to show color-coded options on the form – Model-driven apps/ Dynamics 365 by Nishant Rana
🦸🏻♀️ (Preview) Add canvas apps and cloud flows to a solution by default by Mónica Andrea Pérez
🦸🏻♀️ Create text with GPT model in AI Builder by Mónica Andrea Pérez
🦸🏻♀️ Dynamics 365 Contact Center – Chat Widget Domains by Neil Parkhurst
🦸🏻♀️ Unified Routing – Diagnostics in Azure by Neil Parkhurst
🦸🏻♀️ Power Platform Community Conference & Copilot Wave 2 by Carina M. Claesson
👩💻 Dataverse: Create ServiceClient Strategy by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
🦸🏻♀️ Spotlight on Dynamics 365 Customer Service Agent Scripts by Sharon Smith
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate: HTML Table Styling Code explained by Ellis Karim
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🤵🏻 The Power Platform Boost Podcast is your timely update on what's new and what is happening in the Microsoft business applications community. Join hosts Ulrikke Akerbæk and Nick Doelman for a lively discussion of all things Power Platform!
The Power Time Podcast
🧭 Welcome to another exciting episode of the Power Time Show with Matt and Scott! Today, we dive deep into leadership and innovation with our special guest, Justin Graham, a respected leader in the Microsoft space.
In this episode, Justin shares his journey through the tech industry, from working in startups to leading groundbreaking projects at Microsoft. He reveals the secrets to motivating technical teams, the importance of democratizing access to technology, and his vision for the future of AI and business processes.
Low-Code Approach Podcast
🚀 Microsoft Power Apps allows makers to rapidly build and deploy applications to help organizations modernize their business processes. But how do makers and admins ensure that their applications run efficiently and provide a great experience? We have Austin Laugesen, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft join us to discuss the ways that the Power Platform Product team is building features to make the low code approach the right approach for your organization with Power Apps.
📅 Events & Webinars
Nordic Summit 2024
(📅 September 28, 2024)
The Nordic Summit is the biggest and only in-person conference in the Nordics focused exclusively on Microsoft’s Power Platform and Dynamics 365. This year the Nordic Summit is coming to the beautiful capital of Norway… Oslo!
Bizz Summit ES 2024
(📅 October 4-5, 2024)
Bizz Summit ES is here! The international reference event on Microsoft Business Solutions in Spain. Happening in Madrid, Spain early October!
Community Summit NA 2024
(📅 October 13-17, 2024)
Community Summit North America is going to San Antonio, TX! From October 13th to 17th, you can learn all about GP / Dynamics 365 / Power Platform & AI.
Scottish Summit 2024
(📅 October 18-19, 2024)
Scottish Summit 2024 is coming to you from P&J Live, Aberdeen's state-of-the-art event complex. This is going to be the biggest Scottish Summit to date, spanning 3 days. The Scottish Summit 2024 is gearing up to be the Fall spotlight of the Microsoft community calendar! It will have an exhilarating three days packed with over 100 sessions, workshops, and panel discussions that will leave you briming with knowledge and inspiration.
Directions EMEA 2024
(📅 November 6-8, 2024)
Directions EMEA is the "Go To" place where Dynamics partners share the future. It's the preferred global community for collaborating and learning from Microsoft, MVPs, and ISVs.
Low Code No Code Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2024
(📅 November 9, 2024)
Don’t miss this 24-hour event in November - there are keynotes, live demos, workshops and more! This conference is aimed at developers, IT pros, business analysts, citizen developers, CTOs, and technology leaders. There is content for everyone!
Ignite 2024
(📅 November 19-22, 2024)
Ignite returns to Chicago! The first edition of Ignite was in Chicago and now the first edition after COVID that’s not in Seattle is there as well! This hybrid event is one of the flagship events from Microsoft and promises to bring the latest updates!
ESPC 2024
(📅 December 2-5, 2024)
ESPC 2024 is coming to Stockholm, Sweden this year. Learn all about Microsoft 365, Azure and Power Platform at this great 3-day conference with over 100 speakers!
💙 Out of the Blue
AI-powered business innovation with the Power Platform Community
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 At Power Platform Community Conference, the latest Power Platform updates have been announced. Check out this blog by Richard Riley who highlights AI-powered desktop flow recording, generative actions, and natural language processing, all designed to streamline automation and enhance productivity.
Unveiling Copilot agents built with Microsoft Copilot Studio to supercharge your business
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 This blog by Charles Lamanna unveils the new features for Microsoft Copilot Studio, including the ability to publish Copilot agents directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot and a user-friendly experience for creating agents within BizChat and SharePoint.
IT Governance Controls for Your Copilot agents
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog by Ryan Jones, you can learn more about how Microsoft 365 Copilot’s governance capabilities enhance AI-driven productivity while ensuring data security and compliance. Learn how tools like Microsoft Copilot Studio and the Power Platform admin center empower IT admins to innovate confidently and manage AI solutions effectively.
Build user-focused intelligent solutions in Power Apps, start with a plan
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Clay Wesener announces the new plan capabilities for Power Apps. Read the blog for all the details about the new plan designer which promises to change the way we create our solutions!
Advancing automation with new AI capabilities in Power Automate
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog by Joe Fernandez, learn more about 'Record with Copilot', creating desktop flows from a description, and generative actions. A lot of new updates from the Power Automate team, so make sure to check out the blog!
Announcing the Copilot for Power Pages (@powerpages) participant in GitHub Copilot Chat for VS Code (preview)
👩💻🚀 In this blog from Neeraj Nandwana, learn how the @powerpages participant in GitHub Copilot Chat can make your Power Pages development easier and faster. Follow the simple steps highlighted in the blog to boost productivity and improve your code.
On-premises data gateway September 2024 Release
👩💻🚀 The September 2024 release of the on-premises data gateway now supports Fabric Pipelines and integrates with SQL servers smoothly. Make sure to update your data gateway to get the lastest updates.
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