Power Platform Weekly - Issue #209
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week new sales agents were announced. Sales Agent for Microsoft 365, Sales Chat for Microsoft 365 and Sales Research Agent, new in Dynamics 365 Sales. A new program was announced as well, Microsoft AI Accelerator for Sales.
The Power CAT Tools were highlighted and officially announced.
If you're located in the US, don't miss out on the Power CAT Kickstarter Workshops.
Catch up with the February 2025 Feature Updates for Copilot Studio and Power Apps.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Using Copilot to visualize data in views
🦸🏻♀️ A promising preview feature that has been released recently, now you can use Copilot to visualize data in views. Based on the data and columns in your views, Copilot can now generate charts for you. Jeroen Scheper shows us how well it works.
Dataverse: Updated ServiceClient Strategy For Better Performance
👩💻 Temmy Wahyu Raharjo found yet another way to do bulk operations faster, with a reduced memory footprint.
Optimizing Speech in Copilot Studio: Tips for Voice-First IVR Systems
🦸🏻♀️ Voice-enabled agents now revolutionize customer service in call centers, mobile apps, and messaging platforms. In Peter Ruiter’s job as Solution Architect more and more he uses Microsoft IVR systems to help businesses automate their customer interactions successfully.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Simple Event Session Check In Canvas App by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Generate And Send QR Codes For Event Sessions Realtime by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Power Platform - Moving All Flows to Dataverse by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ All roads lead to PPAC: Unified Experience for D365 FO and PP by Ana Inés Urrutia
👩💻 Dataverse Web Resources - Say Goodbye to CRA, Hello to Vite! by Riccardo Gregori
🚀 Power Platform ALM Solution Dependencies Enhance Your Calm by Carina M. Claesson
🦸🏻♀️ How to Secure HTTP Requests Using OAuth Authentication in Power Automate by Sam Kumar
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Tech Directions Podcast
The shift toward advanced analytics, AI, and a streamlined data supply chain is transforming how organizations manage finance, accounting and assurance. A robust data-first approach—encompassing real-time insights, scalable technology, and heightened security—helps organizations gain clarity over billions of records, reduce risk, and uncover new efficiencies.
Host Susannah Streeter welcomes Michel Porter, a Partner at EY and EY’s Global Assurance Analytics Leader, and Arun Ulag, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Azure Data, to discuss how this technology-driven collaboration is unlocking value from some of the world’s largest and most complex data sets.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
In this episode, we explore the latest advancements and challenges in the Power Platform space! Is the shift to low-code plugins a step forward or sideways? We break it down. Plus, dive into process mapping for multi-flow automations in 2025 Release Wave 1, strategies for mastering model-driven apps, and the latest Plan Designer challenge. We also cover Fluent UI 9 styling for PCFs, Power Pages enhancements like environment variables and Entra External ID configurations, and why Liquid and FetchXML might outperform the Web API for read operations. Need UI improvements? We discuss creating smooth Word and Excel templates, integrating Copilot Studio agents with Entra External ID, and the evolving automation paradigm. Finally, we touch on Power Platform adoption strategies to help you stay ahead. Whether you're a developer, consultant, or low-code enthusiast, this episode has something for you—tune in and level up!
📅 Events & Webinars
Canadian Power Platform Summit 2025
(📅 March 21-22, 2025)
The 2025 edition of the Canadian Power Platform Summit is coming up soon! Lots of MVPs will travel to Vancouver before the MVP Summit to speak on their favorite topics, so it promises to be a great event!
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.
Power Summit – Power Platform Developer Community Bootcamp
(📅 May 24, 2025)
Power Summit is the Largest Free Power Platform & A.I. Community Conference in the United Kingdom, celebrating our 10-year anniversary in teaching low code development & A.I. to solve your organisational challenges. Power Summit aims to demystify the complexities of A.I. and Power Platform development using fun & creative learning techniques inspired from lego and Star Wars to provide a fun day of insight driven learning for technology professionals.
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.
European Power Platform Conference 2025
(📅 June 16-19, 2025)
The European Power Platform Conference 2025 promises to be another great conference! The speakers will be announced soon, but make sure to check out the site already for the early bird sale!
💙 Out of the Blue
Publishing, Managing and Securing: Building with Microsoft Copilot Studio
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this third blog in a blog series about the Building with Microsoft Copilot Studio, the amazing Scott Durow of the Power Platform Advocates team sums up the last episodes of the series. He writes about publishing an agent to Teams, securing and auditing your agent, how to use DLP together with agents and how to work with telemetry in agents! Make sure to read this and watch the videos in the blog!
Streamlining ALM in Power Pages with Environment Variables for Site Settings
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 One of the big gaps in ALM for Power Pages with pipelines in Power Platform was the lack of support for setting site settings. That all changed now with the release of Environment Variables for site settings! Check out the blog by Pramitha Udupa to learn more!
Code View is now Generally Available
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Marcel Ferreira wrote a blog about the fact that Code View is now GA! It’s not just a label, but there are a couple of improvements in there as well, like for instance the ability to paste multiple screens now and just having single copy & single paste options instead of having two! Make sure to read the blog, since Marcel is a source of knowledge!
Enable Robust Security and Governance for Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by Zohar Raz, there are a lot of tips and tricks mentioned on how to secure and govern your agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Make sure to read this because there are a lot of helpful tips and tricks!
Elevate your Microsoft Power Platform development experience with Power CAT Tools
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 The Power CAT kits are very well known in the community, but now Denise Moran announced the Power CAT Tools in this blog! The Power CAT Tools consists of the Code Review Tool, AI-Generated Solution Documentation, Risk Assessment and more! Make sure to check out this blog to read all about the tools!
What’s new in Copilot Studio: February 2025
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by Omar Aftab, the latest and greatest in Copilot Studio is listed! Examples of this are publishing custom agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, adding enterprise data with new Microsoft Graph connections & importing and exporting agent components in Copilot Studio. There is much more, so make sure to read the blog!
What’s new in Power Apps: February 2025 Feature Update
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Clay Wesener sums up the features that have been updated in February 2025 for Power Apps.
Confidently adopt and administer Microsoft Copilot Studio with managed security and governance
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by Shawn Nandi, he explains how Managed Security and Governance can help you adopt and administer Microsoft Copilot Studio!
Governance Control in Power Pages: Restrict External Authentication Providers
👩💻🚀 Pramitha Udupa was busy this week, because apart from the above blog, she wrote another blog! This blog is about restricting external authentication providers. This feature is now GA!
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