Power Platform Weekly - Issue #223
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Power Apps May 2025 Feature Update was announced. The Power BI June 2025 Feature Summary was presented. Long-Term Retention (LTR) in Dataverse was highlighted.
Adaptive Cards in your Copilot Studio agents, Project Sophia and related use cases explained, a new guide to take your Power Apps (Canvas) to the next level 🚀 all found in the articles section. There’s also a bonus video this week! 🎉
This week the European Power Platform Conference takes place in Vienna. Check out their LinkedIn page and follow the #EPPC25 conversations!
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Prompt Wars: The Adaptive Cards Strikes Back
🦸🏻♀️ Not everything looks good in Copilot Studio Agents with Prompts. Trust the power of Adaptive Cards! How do you do that? Bülent Altinsoy & Craig White will show you.
7 Research Agents powered by Project Sophia
🦸🏻♀️ Business Research Agents, aka BRA, aka as former Project Sophia has been in the market for some time. Ana Inés Urrutia gives a rundown of what business cases they solve.
Power Apps Canvas Next Level
🦸🏻♀️ Time to change the way you build your Canvas Apps. Low-code development can no longer be the Wild West. Nicolò Ferranti shares his white paper on how to take your Canvas App to the next level.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Introducing the Customer Intent Agent in Dynamics 365 – Part 2 by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Orphan Customer Profile lookups by Gustaf Westerlund
🦸🏻♀️ Remove the form fill toolbar from Customer Insights Journeys by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Improve Selling Power By Setting Up Sales Accelerator In Dynamics 365 by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Deprecation of smart email address validation for columns by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ Automating Local Document Retrieval and Email Drafting with Attachment by Using Copilot Studio Part 1 by Inogic
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate: AI-Powered Flows Explored by Mohamed El-Qassas
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
BIFocal Podcast
👩💻 John & Jason talk the Power BI May 2025 Feature Summary including a new fabric roadmap tool, Copilot & AI enhancements, Translytical task flows, TMDL view enhancements, and more.
365 Message Center Show Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ We have often wanted to reply to a reply in Teams channel conversations. Wish granted! But calling them threads when posts are already threaded? And what does following a thread mean? Also, Copilot Agents will be called into a call or meeting and attendees will be able to interact with them.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🤵🏻 This episode cuts through the noise with a no-nonsense look at the rise of AI agents—starting with Steve Mordue’s blunt take in A Mountain of Sh!tty Little Agents. We explore real-world innovation like voice-to-text in Power Apps using ChatGPT Whisper, dive into Project Sophia, and reflect on AI fatigue with Luise Freese. You’ll also learn how to connect to Dataverse with MCP, compare service accounts vs. service principals, and catch insights from the Power Hour Podcast. Plus, we dig into Copilot Studio’s Agent Flows, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and scaling ALM with Deployment Hub and Default Pipeline Rules. Rounding it out: timezone magic in Power Automate, building SPAs in Power Pages, and a beginner-friendly intro to Liquid. It’s a packed episode—join us and stay sharp in the ever-evolving Power Platform world! ⚡
📅 Events & Webinars
European Power Platform Conference 2025
(📅 June 16-19, 2025)
The 4th European Power Platform Conference (EPPC) will take place in Vienna, Austria. The European Power Platform Conference brings together the Microsoft Power Platform Community for 4 invaluable days of in-person learning, connections and inspiration.
Baltic Summit 2025
(📅 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 Gothenburg, Sweden!
South Coast Summit 2025
(📅 October 17-18, 2025)
South Coast Summit is back and focuses on all key pillars of the Microsoft ecosystem: Business Applications, Modern Work, Security & Compliance, through to Microsoft Azure. South Coast Summit follows a similar structure to other IT conferences and Microsoft events such as Microsoft Ignite and Future Decoded; with sessions delivered by subject matter experts from Microsoft, Microsoft MVPs, and Microsoft Partners. expert speakers, and a large exhibition of sponsors’ associated products and services.
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 Power Apps: May 2025 Feature Update
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Clay Wesener sums up the feature updates for May 2025 again. Read this blog when you want to know about the stuff that came out, both for a feature perspective as well as socials and Microsoft Learn.
Power BI June 2025 Feature Summary
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Patrick LeBlanc summarizes the feature updates for Power BI! If you have missed something, or if you just want to read up - this is the blog for you!
Now available: two new Copilot experiences
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Amanda Rivera announced in this blog that Microsoft has launched two new Power BI Copilot experiences. The first is "Chat with your Data," a full-screen interface that finds relevant data and creates visuals or summaries to answer business questions. The second enables Copilot functionality in embedded Power BI reports for websites and portals. Both features require specific settings to be enabled and Premium/Fabric capacity.
Long-Term Retention (LTR): Cost Effective Strategy for Managing Storage and Compliance
🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Ritesh Pandey explains Long-Term Retention (LTR) in Microsoft Dataverse and Dynamics 365 in this blog. It provides a cost-effective way to archive infrequently accessed, compliance‑bound data—offloading it into secure, read-only managed data lakes with up to 80–90 percent compression, reducing storage costs dramatically while keeping data immutable and audit-ready.
Announcing the AI-Powered Search and Summary Components in Power Pages Component Library
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Nagesh Bhat announced new AI‑powered components in Power Pages enable makers to quickly drag-and-drop advanced features: the Search component interprets natural-language prompts to provide inline summaries or redirect users to a tailored search results page, while the Summary component generates concise, branded content previews from any OData‑feed source to enhance user engagement.
What’s New in SQL Server 2025 Analysis Services
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Denyse Niwenshuti highlights new improvements to SQL Server 2025 Analysis Services. Performance updates for MDX queries, improved DirectQuery parallelism, and the latest Horizontal Fusion optimization are some of the updates. Learn more by reading the blog.
Open and edit any semantic model with Power BI tools
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog, by Rui Romano, you can learn that Power BI Desktop now supports opening and editing any semantic model in Microsoft Fabric, including those with complex features like table partitions and tabular data sources—previously only accessible via external tools—via both the Desktop and web modelling experiences, plus TMDL view for metadata-level edits.
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