Power Platform Weekly - Issue #211
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the first release of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in Microsoft Copilot Studio was announced. Updates to monitoring automations in Power Platform Admin Center was announced.
Greetings from Seattle, where part of the team has gathered for MVP Summit this week. We’re looking forward to seeing many of the content creators that inspire us each!
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Two Way Communication with the Form Component Control
👩💻 The Form Component Control (FCC) is not new, but still awesome! Diana Birkelbach shows how to let the form communicate with the embedded FCC, and how to let the FCC subgrid refresh the main form.
The Future of Automation: AI Agents and Copilot Studio?
🦸🏻♀️ Apparantly too often the term AI Agents are used when they are basically automation in disguise. As Ben den Blanken is building and learning more about Agents with Copilot Studio he often wonders what he is building.
Everything you didn't know you needed to know about Power Automate Errors
🦸🏻♀️ Getting the error message from a Cloud Flow is anything but simple. If you want to know how and all of the quirks to getting those error messages, this blog by David Wyatt is for you.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Classic vs Power Automate, different ways of using Word templates by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages: Inserting Content Snippets in Design Studio by Nick Doelman
🦸🏻♀️ Extending D365 ERP Copilot with Copilot Studio by Ana Inés Urrutia
🦸🏻♀️ Create Beautiful Quote And Order Emails For Your Company by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Think outside the Bot - did Copilot just become smarter? by Sebastian Sieber
🛠️ A subtle change in authentication to Dataverse in Dataverse DevTool by Danish Naglekar
👩💻 Dataverse SQL – Custom API by Joe Gill
🦸🏻♀️ Create a dialogue with user inputs in a Model Driven App by Alexander Henkel
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
🚀 Streamline daily admin tasks with AI-powered insights, natural language queries, and automation using Microsoft 365 Admin Copilot. Quickly recap key updates, monitor service health, and track important changes—all in one place. No more digging through multiple pages—just ask Copilot for the answers you need, grounded in real-time data from your tenant. From finding users and managing licenses to generating visual insights and automating tasks with PowerShell, use Copilot to simplify complex admin workflows and save valuable time. For Copilot in the admin center to light up, all you need is one active Microsoft 365 Copilot license for any user in your tenant and from the Microsoft 365 admin center, you can get started right away.
Awkward Silence Podcast
🧭 Join us as we discuss the newly announced Microsoft AI Accelerator for Sales. We explore its features, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, pre-built agents, and Dynamics 365 integration. We discuss the potential benefits, such as improved efficiency and automated lead generation, alongside concerns regarding realistic use cases, licensing complexities, and security challenges. Tune in for an engaging conversation filled with insights on how AI is shaping the future of sales and what it means for businesses and integrators.
The Intrazone Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ The Intrazone is your bi-weekly conversation and interview podcast hosted by the SharePoint team. The show highlights usage, adoption, and how SharePoint works for you. You’ll hear from guest experts behind the scenes and out in the field. It's all about how SharePoint fits into your everyday work life – the goal being to more easily share and manage content, knowledge and applications, and to empower teamwork throughout your organization with the technology you already have.
📅 Events & Webinars
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
Enhanced enterprise automation observability
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by Tristan Dehove, Quentin Sele Barancy & Apostolis Papaioannou - you can learn about Power Automate observability capabilities in Automation Center and Power Platform Admin Center. Make sure to check out the blog, because this is a great update for monitoring your Power Automate cloud & desktop flows!
Introducing Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Copilot Studio: Simplified Integration with AI Apps and Agents
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Model Context Protocol (MCP) is all the hype now! And Copilot Studio is very quick in supporting this new protocol. With the MCP support, you can make maintenance easier than with using the old school connectors way. Zankar Desai shares all the details in this blog!
Announcing General Availability of Card Gallery in Power Pages
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Gitanjali Singh announces the General Availability (GA) of the Card Gallery in Power Pages. This brings new capabilities like multi-language support, link button and text hyperlink URLs to a webpage and new optional fields for the Card Component. Make sure to read the blog for all the details!
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