Power Platform Weekly - Issue #220
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week was packed with exciting announcements, it was Microsoft Build week! 🎉 Major innovations were introduced, shaping the future of tech. Don’t miss the Book of News and catch up on sessions on demand.
Announcements include:
Support for Multiple Agent architecture in Copilot Studio (Preview)
Computer use in Copilot Studio agents
Code Apps in Power Apps, bring your React apps into Power Apps
Copilot Tuning coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Agent Builder
Bring your own model into Copilot Studio and fine-tune (Preview)
Model Context Protocol (MCP) now Generally Available (GA)
New Copilot Studio publishing channels, SharePoint (GA) and WhatsApp
Dataverse Search now available in Copilot Studio (GA)
Plans in Power Apps now GA
Agent Feed in Power Apps in Public Preview
Find out more under the Out of the Blue section!
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Designing Adaptive Cards For Agents
🦸🏻♀️ Ready to enter the next level of your Copilot Studio game? Because using Adaptive Cards may be just it. Angeliki Patsiavou shows you how to improve your user experience.
Tactical Scheduling with Dynamics 365 Copilot Agent
🦸🏻♀️ A technician has called in sick, or a previous repair job is overrunning. In the past, this would cause a cascade of manual calls, reschedules, and frantic rearrangements. But with the introduction of the Scheduling Operations Agent in Dynamics 365 Field Service, companies can now solve these challenges in seconds. Mark Christie shows how.
Empowering the Future: Microsoft’s Vision for an Agent-Powered Digital Era with Power Platform
🧭 At Microsoft Build 2025, transformation was more than a buzzword—it charted a bold new course for the future of IT, applications, and services. Carsten Groth gives his take on this future.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Adventures with Power Automate: Power BI Connector, Scorecards and Goals by Matt Ruma
🦸🏻♀️ Deep Dive into the D365 Customer Service Knowledge Management Agent by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Getting Started with Power Platform Git Source Control by Nati Turtledove
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate - Why and How to Avoid Nesting by David Wyatt
🧭 Low Code Vibezzz: Can Power Platform Catch the Vibe Coding Wave? by Thomas Sandsør
🦸🏻♀️ One (event) journey to rule them all by Malin Martnes
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 What happened at Microsoft Build 2025? by Sebastian Sieber
🦸🏻♀️ Slow performance on lookup columns in your model-driven app by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Microsoft Build 2025: Highlights across Copilot Studio and Power Platform Rishona Elijah
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
🧭 Fine-tuning helps ensure that responses meet your quality expectations for specific repeatable tasks, without needing to be prompting expert. It's great for drafting complex legal agreements, writing technical documentation, authoring medical papers, and more - using detailed, often lengthy precedent files along with what you teach the model.
Using Copilot Studio, anyone can create and deploy these fine-tuned models to use with agents without data science or coding expertise. There, you can teach models using data labeling, ground them in your organization’s content - while keeping the information in-place and maintaining data security and access policies. The information contained in the task-specific models that you create stay private to your team and organization. Task-specific models and related information are only accessible to the people and departments you specify - and information is not merged into shared large language models or used for model training.
Jeremy Chapman, Director on the Microsoft 365 product team, shows how this simple, zero-code approach helps the agents you build write and reason like your experts—delivering high-quality, detailed responses.
Low Code Approach Podcast
🚀 Data is a key component to the agentic future of organizations and there is so much learn and understand in order for solution developers, admins, CIOs, CEOs, and CTOs, to have a successful deployment. Luckily, Nirav Shah, CVP of BAC (the org formerly known as Dataverse) joins the podcast to talk about how agents play a critical role in how organizations run, how customers can solve their business problems with Microsoft Copilot and agents, and what is an expert agent.
The Copilot Connection Podcast
🛠️ Zoe and Kevin discuss the latest updates and insights from the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem from Build as well as a slight detour to the Chelsea Flower Show. We cover topics like M365 Copilot tuning, notebooks, researcher and analyst agents, and SRE agents. We also explore the implications of AI Foundry and the natural language web, while wrapping up with a look at upcoming events and the importance of community engagement.
📅 Events & Webinars
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!
Baltic Summit 2024
(📅 September 12-13, 2025)
Baltic Summit is an extraordinary event that unites a vibrant community of Microsoft enthusiasts, focusing primarily on Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Business Applications. Since its inception in 2023, this conference has become a hub for professionals, experts, and learners who are passionate about driving digital transformation through these powerful tools.
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
Reimagining human-agent collaboration for a new era of app development with Microsoft Power Apps
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog by Ryan Cunningham, he announces how Power Apps is reimagining human-agent collaboration for app development with three major updates: Plans (now generally available) that provide developers with a team of specialized agents to transform business ideas into end-to-end solutions, including a new process mapping agent and the ability to integrate existing solutions, and generated pages for creating AI-tailored React code experiences through natural language descriptions. The blog also introduces the agent feed feature (public preview) that creates a new workspace for business users to collaborate with agents directly within apps.
Multi-agent orchestration, maker controls, and more: Microsoft Copilot Studio announcements at Microsoft Build 2025
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Lily Cheng announced a comprehensive set of Microsoft Copilot Studio enhancements at Microsoft Build 2025, featuring multi-agent orchestration capabilities that allow agents from different Microsoft platforms (Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365, Azure AI, and Fabric) to work together on complex business tasks, along with computer use functionality that enables agents to interact with desktop apps and websites like humans do.
Announcing new Microsoft Dataverse capabilities for multi-agent operations
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Nirav Shah wrote about the new Microsoft Dataverse capabilities for multi-agent operations announced at Microsoft Build 2025, which position Dataverse as the operational database and knowledge platform that powers enterprise-grade AI agents with three key pillars: data tools for human-agent team operations, knowledge tools for contextual information retrieval, and AI tools for complex reasoning and customizable actions.
Announcing managed security enhancements for Microsoft Copilot Studio
👩💻🚀 In this blog, by Erez Altus, Microsoft announces a comprehensive set of managed security enhancements for Microsoft Copilot Studio unveiled at Microsoft Build 2025, focusing on three key areas: proactive governance features that help admins control agent development and deployment, Secure by Default protections against attacks like cross-prompt injection and jailbreaks, and comprehensive visibility tools for monitoring and auditing agent security.
Digitize your citizen and customer service experiences with agentic AI business portals in Microsoft Power Pages
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Justin Graham wrote about Microsoft Power Pages' new agentic AI capabilities for business portals, featuring a security agent powered by Microsoft Sentinel that proactively detects threats and sends real-time alerts, plus developer productivity improvements including Copilot Studio agent integration, AI-generated code support, and enhanced multilingual capabilities.
Power BI May 2025 Feature Summary
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 The Power BI May 2025 feature summary introduces a standalone Copilot experience that lets users ask questions across any accessible reports and data, plus new AI preparation tools and Translytical task flows for automated report actions and data write-back. Patrick Leblanc ensured this feature summary was released even while Microsoft Build 2025 was ongoing, highlighting updates to visual calculations, enhanced List slicers, line chart customization, and improved Azure Maps functionality.
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