Power Platform Weekly - Issue #216
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the general availability of Git integration in Power Platform was announced. The Power BI April Feature Summary was presented.
The Power CAT Team launched the Power Platform and Copilot Studio Architecture Center, summarized in this announcement.
The same team also announced an upcoming Copilot Studio Enterprise Agent Challenge, registration is open!
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Tracking Telemetry in Power Platform Plugins
👩💻 This article by Stas Sultanov explains how to implement telemetry tracking for Power Platform plugins with Azure Application Insights using Azure Monitor.
Microsoft AI Accelerator for Sales and new M365 Sales Agents
🦸🏻♀️ Sharon Smith giver us a closer look at Microsoft's new AI Accelerator for Sales program and two new agents, and AI at Work's transformation of the business application landscape.
How to Detect that a PCF is Running Inside a Canvas App / Custom Page
👩💻 How can Diana Birkelbach know that her PCF is used inside a Canvas App or not? There are some unsupported ways (like trying to inspect the url of the app). But today she is talking about a supported way that she has found out.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Set regarding any table in Power Automate without complex conditions by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages Actions in Visual Studio Code by Nick Doelman
🦸🏻♀️ Activate a previous quote revision, that easy! by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Power Apps - Using The Advanced Tool Monitor by David Wyatt
🦸🏻♀️ How to Create Deep Links to D365 F&O Records with Dataverse Virtual Tables by David Rivard
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Knee-Deep in Tech Podcast
🚀 In this news episode, the trio uncovers some hidden PaaS costs in Databricks and breaks down a few subtle but impactful updates in Microsoft Fabric. The recent Oracle Cloud breach and how it was handled gets some attention. They also cover the latest improvements to Autopatch and LAPS, including reporting and capabilities bringing added flexibility. Rounding out, there’s a chance to have a discussion around MCP and how it relates to the evolution of AI Agents, as well as Microsoft Copilot in Azure hitting general availability.
MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast
👩💻 Ben and Scott explore how IT professionals and developers can leverage Microsoft 365 Copilot’s declarative agents and the Copilot Studio Agent Builder to enhance productivity and streamline workflows within their organizations. Declarative agents allow you to define specific tasks and workflows, enabling Copilot to assist users more effectively. With the Copilot Studio Agent Builder, creating these agents becomes a streamlined process, even for those with minimal coding experience. Listen and learn how to build, deploy, and manage these agents, licensing considerations, and best practices to maximize their impact in your organization.
Low Code Approach Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot and agent news is coming out all the time. How does one keep track? What's new? What's happening? Thomas Abel, Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft Copilot Studio joins Ken and Sean for a must-listen episode on all the news for agents and Microsoft Copilot Studio.
📅 Events & Webinars
DynamicsCon 2025
(📅 May 13-16, 2025)
Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 350 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking. This year, DynamicsCon is in Chicago!
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!
Nordic Summit 2025
(📅 September 19-20, 2025)
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 it will be held in Gothenborg, Sweden!
Power Platform Community Conference 2025
(📅 October 28-31, 2025)
Be inspired by Microsoft senior thought leaders, the product experts, and engineers behind the Power Platform. You’ll also learn from Microsoft MVPs who are dedicated to bridging the gap between humanity and technology. PPCC is the perfect place to connect with folks from around the world who are eager to share their insights and knowledge on how the Power Platform & Dynamics 365 can transform your business.
💙 Out of the Blue
Git Integration is Generally Available
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 This week, Casey Burke and Marcel Ferreira announced the general availability of Git integration in Power Platform. This is another step that makes Power Platform a more mature platform. In this blog, you can read up on a lot of the new updates since preview!
Power BI April 2025 Feature Summary
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog by Patrick LeBlanc, the Power BI updates of April 2025 are summed up. The new updates include auto-generated mobile report layouts, live editing of Direct Lake semantic models, and TMDL script diff previews. Additional improvements encompass AI-driven ad hoc calculations in read mode, expanded data connector support (Oracle, Vertica, Snowflake), and new visualizations like Drill Down Graph PRO and TMap 3.0.
Microsoft named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2025
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Kim Manis announced that Microsoft is named a leader again in the Forrester Wave report for Business Intelligence Platforms. In the blog, you can get the report to read more about why Microsoft is in the Leader part of the Forrester Wave.
Deep dive into Direct Lake on OneLake and creating Direct Lake semantic models in Power BI Desktop
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Zoe Douglas explains in this blog how Direct Lake enables Power BI users to query data stored in OneLake without needing an import or DirectQuery mode, offering faster performance by accessing Parquet files directly.
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