Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Public Preview of Copilot chat extensibility for model-driven apps was announced. The Power Platform Advocate🥑 team presented their Copilot Studio video series ‘AI in Action: Building with Copilot Studio’ in a blog.
As an early Christmas gift, Clay Wesener announced that the Plan Designer now can be tried out in early release environments. It’s being rolled out and there’s already community content on this topic!
You can now register for the Powerful Devs Conference and related hackathon!
Are you ready to explore the spectrum of agents? Check out the Power Platform Challenge in the article section.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles



Power Apps Grid API – Disabling
👩💻 Diana Birkelbach does a deep dive on how to handle disabling for a Power Apps grid. She details solutions for all granularity: grid, columns, and cells.
Use AI search in a power app to search an API
🦸🏻♀️ Leo Visser was asked if it was possible to create a Power Apps app which would search through a library containing data for a specific system, but also search on synonyms and words which are contextually the same. Check out how he utilized Azure AI Search to solve it.
My Power Platform - Your Year in a Dashboard
🦸🏻♀️ My Power Platform is a simple extension that grabs all your Power Platform data and transforms it into a simple dashboard. This blog is all about how to use it and how David Wyatt built it.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Challenge 035 | The Spectrum of Agents by Miguel Verweij
🦸🏻♀️ Power Platform Plan Designer (Preview) by Nick Doelman
🦸🏻♀️ Extending Dynamics 365 Business Central to Power Pages by Nick Doelman
🦸🏻♀️ Embedding Agents by Angeliki Patsiavou
🦸🏻♀️ Enhancing Copilot Conversations in Model-Driven Power Apps using Copilot Studio by Andrew Ly
🦸🏻♀️ Train Copilot to Understand and Adapt to Your Business Terms by Sam Kumar
🦸🏻♀️ Enable sales usage reports to gain insights by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Extend Power Pipelines with Azure DevOps Pull Requests by Geron Profet
🦸🏻♀️ List More than 250 Power Automate Flows, Filter and Delete by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Split Your Audience Using Customer Insights Journeys by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Website Tracking In Realtime Marketing - How Does It Work? by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ How to Dynamically Set Event Images on Registration Forms in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights Journeys by Carl Gustavsson
🦸🏻♀️ The Art of Over Engineering on the Power Platform by David Wyatt
🛠️ Create unique D365 views with Fetch XML Builder! by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ CI-D Measure dependency on Dataverse by Gustaf Westerlund
👩💻 Add a Custom Component (Preview) in the Power Pages Portal by Sam Kumar
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Ready to master ALM? The New Dynamics 365 ALM Guide is Here! by Adrià Ariste Santacreu
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages available in Norway by Thomas Sandsør
🛠️ PowerDocu - Power Platform Documentation by Joe Gill
🛠️ PACX - Projects, aka how to manage scopes by Riccardo Gregori
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages: Power Automate List Action Button by Nicholas Hayduk
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts



Amazing Apps Podcast
In 2025, it’s surprising how many Power Platform and Dynamics 365 professionals still lack an understanding of Scrum or only partially grasp what it entails—which often becomes evident during job interviews. This short episode aims to bridge that gap by explaining what Scrum truly is, why it is considered a framework rather than a methodology, and offering a simple hack to remember its 18 components.
Low-Code Approach Podcast
Customer success is a big topic and there are many paths to success for organizations using Microsoft Power Platform. In the first episode of the new year, Nick Miller, Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft talks about how to build proofs of concept, modernizing solutions, and incorporating agents and Microsoft Copilot into Power Platform solutions.
Nick gives some great examples of what's possible with Microsoft Power Platform and provides tips on how to get successful solutions built quickly!
XrmToolCast Podcast
Happy New Year from the XrmToolCast team! In this episode, Daryl and Scott sit down with Rick Wilson, former MVP and now a Microsoft employee, to discuss his innovative PCF calendar control. This versatile control works seamlessly with both Model-Driven and Canvas apps, offering greater customization than the standard options available out-of-the-box.
📅 Events & Webinars



Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2025
(📅 January 30-31, 2025)
Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2025, set for January 30-31, will bring together top experts to share updates on Microsoft Cloud technology, including AI, machine learning, and scalable infrastructure.
Update Days: Power Platform
(📅 February 4-5, 2025)
Update Days is a conference for professional developers building enterprise grade solutions. It will be hosted in Prague, Czech Republic on the 4th and 5th of February 2025!
Powerful Devs 2025
(📅 February 12, 2025)
Powerful Devs is back! Microsoft is organizing another conference aimed at fusion developers! Make sure to check out the sessions on the agenda and register via website!
ColorCloud Hamburg 2025
(📅 April 24, 2025)
ColorCloud is back in 2025! After the highly successful first edition, the new edition is happening in April 2025. Again, it will be a great event for everyone who likes Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure & Power BI.
European Collaboration Summit, European AI and Cloud Summit & European BizApps Summit 2025
(📅 May 26-28, 2025)
With 3000 attendees, the European Collaboration Summit, European AI and Cloud Summit & European BizApps Summit 2025 are uniting forces to become a big, shared conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. New this year is the European BizApps Summit with a focus on Power Platform, Fabric and Dataverse.
DynamicsMinds 2025
(📅 May 26-28, 2025)
An awesome Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Community Conference. Where brilliant minds meet, mingle & share.
💙 Out of the Blue
Unlock new possibilities by customizing Copilot chat in your apps with Copilot Studio (Preview)
Hemant Gaur wrote a blog about customizing Copilot chat in your apps. Now you can customize a copilot that’s available in your model-driven app and add your own content to it!
December 2024 update of Power Automate for desktop
During the holiday break, there was a new update for Power Automate for desktop. Repairing flow errors is now easier, and dark mode is available!
Exploring the Essentials: Building Basics with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Elaiza Benitez sums up a bunch of the videos + knowledge that got shared during the series she and her team did about Microsoft Copilot Studio! Make sure to check out the series if you haven’t yet!
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