Power Platform Weekly - Issue #247
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Power Platform Advocate🥑 team announced a new learning path, Agent Academy: Operative. Also see the dedicated blog post.
For anyone interested, the PPCC call for speakers is now open and closes on January 31. Read more here.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Power Platform Managed Identity: migrate from version 0 to version 1
👩💻 Yannick Reekmans shows how to migrate your version 0 implementation of Power Platform Managed Identity to version 1 of the specification, to be prepared for future deprecation of the version 0 format.
Vibe coding an XrmToolBox Tool part 2 - Now we vibing!
👩💻 In Matt Collins-Jones’s previous post, he wrote about how he tried to build a XrmToolBox tool with no C# or plugin experience by Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot and the results were, quite frankly, amazing.
Power Apps- Moving Away From Inline Code
🦸🏻♀️ David Wyatt gives his take on when to use User Defined Functions, and when to use User Defined Subroutines.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Disconnect From Sales Sequence Via Customer Insights Trigger by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Creating Dynamic Cascading Dropdowns with Related Entities in a Custom Page by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Show/Hide custom buttons with PowerFX when a lookup column has no value by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ FTRSA '26/27 - Information to know by EY Kalman
🦸🏻♀️ Quick Tip: Finding the Right Many-to-Many Relationship When Adding Subgrids by Linn Zaw Win
🦸🏻♀️ Bringing Third-Party Apps into D365HR by Ana Inés Urrutia
🦸🏻♀️ Power Apps Per-App License Retirement: What Teams Should Review by Sailaja Mantripragada
🦸🏻♀️ How-to avoid to many responses from Copilot Studio connected agents by Arild Aarnes
🦸🏻♀️ CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) – Facilitate mandatory and non-mandatory attributes – 4 by Raghu Chalasani
🦸🏻♀️ Announcing: Mastering Microsoft Copilot Studio in VS Code by Zsolt Zombik
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
The Citizen Developer Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ Join us for this insightful episode as we chat with Nick Doelman, a seasoned Power Platform Specialist and Microsoft MVP. With over 25 years of experience, Nick shares invaluable insights about the single most crucial focus area for Power Platform professionals today. This episode is a must-listen for anyone aspiring to excel in the Microsoft ecosystem, especially with the rise of AI and Copilot technologies.
Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast
🧭 In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding the scope beyond just Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and similar Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?
Microsoft Community Insights Podcast
👩💻We walk through a plan-first workflow that asks Copilot to survey the codebase, propose a step-by-step solution, and only then switch to agent mode to implement. That simple change lifts code quality, reduces rework, and keeps diffs aligned with architecture. We also dig into custom agents with scoped permissions and roles: a testing agent for unit coverage, a docs agent for READMEs, a refactor agent limited to certain directories. Prompt craft matters, but stable configuration, coding standards, and CI guardrails matter more. Think of it as turning best practices into reusable instructions that AI can follow every time.
📅 Events & Webinars
Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2026
(📅 January 29-30, 2026)
Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn is a two-day event dedicated to deepening your expertise in the Microsoft Cloud, with sessions on AI, data, infrastructure, and collaboration to accelerate innovation and growth. It is also a unique community gathering at Tallinn’s Creative Hub, combining world-class learning with networking in the heart of Estonia’s capital.
Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026
(📅 March 21-22, 2026)
Canadian Power Platform Summit 2026 is a two-day gathering of Power Platform enthusiasts, designed to elevate your skills through sessions ranging from beginner (100-level) to advanced (300-level), hands-on workshops, and expert-led insights.
Adriatics Tech Summit 2026
(📅 March 30 - April 2, 2026)
Experience 80+ exceptional sessions and tutorials featuring the world’s best experts, Microsoft executives, and MVPs gathering in Sarajevo for an unparalleled learning journey.
ColorCloud 2026
(📅 April 15-17, 2026)
The most colorful Microsoft Business Applications conference is coming back to Hamburg in April 2026 for its third edition! Like artists working with broad color palettes, ColorCloud covers all Business Applications from Microsoft with German and English content.
European BizApps Summit
(📅 May 5-7, 2026)
With 3000 attendees, the European BizApps Summit is the largest European conference focused on Power Platform, Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, and Business Applications in general.
DynamicsMinds 2026
(📅 May 25-27, 2026)
DynamicsMinds 2026 brings the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community together for three inspiring days of real‑world insights, learning, and connection. Join industry experts and peers to explore what’s next and elevate the way you build, automate, and innovate.
European Power Platform Conference 2026
(📅 June 29-July 2, 2026)
The European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen brings together the Power Platform community to learn, connect, and share real‑world experiences. Through expert-led sessions and customer stories, attendees will explore how to build impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot in a strong, collaborative community setting.
💙 Out of the Blue
Announcing Agent Academy: Operative
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog, April Dunnam announces the new Operative course in Agent Academy. After the beginner level Recruit course, the Operative course is aimed at beginners. The first badges are awarded already, so make sure to get yours too!
The Welcome Message That Never Was: Mocking Agent Greetings in WebChat
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Adi Leibowitz explains in this blog how to display a friendly welcome message in Copilot Studio WebChat without actually triggering the agent or consuming messages, avoiding unnecessary topic executions and skewed analytics. The post walks through a practical technique to “mock” the greeting so users see a welcome message while the agent stays idle until real interaction begins.
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