Power Platform Weekly - Issue #204
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the January update of Power Automate for desktop was announced.
Tomorrow Tuesday the virtual event Power Platform Community High Five - February 2025 will be held, check it out!
Have you registered for the Powerful Devs Conference and the related hackathon yet? Only one week to go! Time to explore the agenda.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles



Context-aware Agents
🦸🏻♀️ Imagine an agent that understands you. Your flow of work, the context you need to do your job faster. Or, just get to an answer faster. You do not need to repeat the obvious. Angeliki Patsiavou shows an approach to doing this in Power Pages.
Power Pages for internal projects
🧭🦸🏻♀️ That's right using Power Pages for your internal projects can be a much cheaper alternative than model-driven apps. Sean Astrakhan walks through the reasoning.
Automatically Categorize Your Data with AI Classify in D365 CRM
🦸🏻♀️ One of Sam Kumar’s clients had a significant challenge managing their emails. They spent countless hours reading each email and manually categorizing them into groups. With AI builder, this process becomes trivial.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Enable Attendees to Cancel Their Own Registrations in D365 Customer Insights Journeys: Part 2 by Carl Gustavsson
🦸🏻♀️ Using AI record summary for tables by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Filtering on Lookups in Triggers, Journey Branches and Email Content in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Marketing Website Clicked Trigger Glossary CI-J by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ 2025 Wave 1: Dynamics 365 Sales by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Power Platform 2025 Wave 1 - What caught my attention by David Yack
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages: Form Label Best Practices by Nicholas Hayduk
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages Multistep form Deep Dive by Wilmer Alcivar
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot Studio + AI Prompts: A fit, Coffit. by Ana Inés Urrutia
🦸🏻♀️ Challenge 036 | Power Automate by Miguel Verweij
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate: Actions, Outputs & Body Functions by Matthew Devaney
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate - The Super Connector by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ Power Apps User().Email Doesn’t Return the Email You Expect – Here’s Why by Ellis Karim
🦸🏻♀️ 2025 Release Wave 1 for Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Data by Pauline Kolde
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts


Low-Code Approach Podcast
2024 was a big year for Microsoft Power Platform and the story is even bigger in 2025. Who better to shepherd us into the new year than Ryan Cunningham, VP Power Platform Applications, to answer all of our questions on how agents are changing the landscape of low code solutions, how do organizations approach governance at the pace of innovation, and what was the news that may have been missed pertaining to governance licensing!
The Community Dig Podcast
Kelly Mazur & Savannah Dill, two successful people in our community, shared a few thoughts on how far they have come, the importance of varied mentorship, and despite the stagnating rate of women in tech (23% +/-) I get a feeling of encouragement from these two, that despite more work to be done, success can be found.
📅 Events & Webinars



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
New Security Features for Desktop flows: Enhancing protection of identities, secrets and desktop infrastructure
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Quentin Sele Barancy & Ken Seong Tan introduce some amazing new security features for desktop flows! The features are grouped in the groups ‘protecting identities and secrets’ and ‘protecting networks’. Check them out now in the blog!
Register Now for Power Platform and AI workshops in a city near you!
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 The Power CAT team introduces new Kickstarter workshop for the Power Platform and AI! Read this blog by Chitra Jayachandran to see which cities have a Kickstarter workshop soon!
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