Power Platform Weekly - Issue #217
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the preview of Monitor (in Power Platform Admin Center) was announced. The latest updates in Copilot Studio for April 2025 were presented.
A hands-on lab and video for getting started with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in combination with Microsoft Copilot Studio were announced.
Join Amey Holden and Megan V. Walker for an interactive webinar where they’ll answer YOUR questions all about moving from Outbound Marketing to Real-Time Marketing in Customer Insights – Journeys! Read more: Sessions 5 and 6.
Congratulations Jeroen Scheper! 🎉One year blog anniversary: https://jscheper.com🎉
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
MCP Server to query Dataverse using SQL
👩💻 It feels like SQL has been around ever since electricity was invented. So, Natraj Yegnaraman thought that this has to be something that LLMs would know quite well. Naturally, he had to explore how to build an MCP server to query Dataverse using SQL.
Using Entra authentication in Power Apps PCFs and client scripts
👩💻 Jan Hajek looks into obtaining Entra ID tokens for calling APIs from your controls (or client scripts). This can be used for various scenarios - calling Microsoft Graph, your own API or even Azure Management one.
Form submission summaries for Customer Insights - Journeys marketing forms and events
🦸🏻♀️ Form submissions and event registrations capture important information that is often way harder to find than it should be. This post, by Amey Holden, will show you how to create a flow that creates a summary in both free text and JSON.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ AI Builder: Update Dataverse currency exchange rates by Nick Doelman
🦸🏻♀️ Enabling Real Time Alerts using Microsoft Graph in Power Platform – Part 2 by Mohamed Ashiq Faleel
🦸🏻♀️ Easily Find Custom Outbound Form And Email Templates by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ A Deep Dive into the Case Management Agent (preview) in D365 Customer Service by Dian Taylor
🛠️ Release of Plugin Trace Viewer 1.2025.5.2 by Jonas Rapp
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
The Azure & DevOps Podcast
👩💻 Adrienne Braganza Tacke is an accomplished author and software engineer with a passion for educating others about software development. Choosing a path distinct from the expected trajectory of nursing, she pursued a degree in management information systems at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Over the course of nearly eight years in the field, she has contributed her expertise across multiple industries, including healthcare and higher education. Currently, she serves as a software development engineer at DebtTrader, where she embraces the challenge of modernizing fintech workflows traditionally dependent on spreadsheets.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🧭 This episode features expert insights into Microsoft's evolving AI strategy, with a spotlight on Microsoft 365 Copilot's latest advancements, Copilot Studio innovations, and how AI-powered agents are reshaping digital workflows, marketing, and CRM.
The Copilot Connection Podcast
🚀 I didn’t have room to include this last week, but wanted to share this week: Zoe and Kevin discuss the latest announcements from Microsoft about Copilot Wave 2 Spring Release. We delve into the significance of the Work Trend Index, the new user interface and search experience, and the introduction of memory and notebooks features. Then we dig into the management and reporting of agents, the concept of the human-agent ratio (including some extreme reactions to some new phrases from Microsoft...) and the importance of leadership in leveraging AI capabilities. Finally, we cover some of the magical events coming up.
📅 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
What’s new in Copilot Studio: April 2025
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Every month there are a lot of new features that come to Copilot Studio. In this blog, Omar Aftab sums them up. Computer use, graph connectors, customer managed keys are just some of the improvements this month!
Microsoft Copilot Studio ❤️ MCP
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog by Power Platform Advocates April Dunnam and Daniel Laskewitz, a new lab about Microsoft Copilot Studio and Model Context Protocol (MCP) has been announced. With MCP taking over the AI world, this is a cool lab to check out.
Use Monitor to maximize production health (Preview)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Lance Delano announced the preview of Monitor in Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC). Now it’s available in both PPAC and the Power Apps Maker Portal. Monitor allows you a keep a bird’s eye view on key apps and provides suggestions on how to fix issues that may arise.
Use shareable Service Principal Name with Power Apps
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 It was a busy week for Lance Delano, because he also blogged on another new addition! You can now share SPN connections for SQL in Power Apps.
Introducing Power Platform and Copilot Studio Architecture Center
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Robert Standefer blogs about the Power Platform and Copilot Studio Architecture Center, which is a central hub for everything architecture-related within the Power Platform and Copilot Studio ecosystems. It provides comprehensive guidance and established best practices to help you build solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot Studio.
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