Power Platform Weekly - Issue #249
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Last week brought guidance on Copilot Studio agents and an overview of secure development practices for Power Platform:
The Custom Engine published new posts and a video. It’s a blog for the bookmarks!
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Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Create and View related records from a Custom page
🦸🏻♀️ Megan V. Walker describes how to build a custom page that lets users quickly create and view related records while preventing duplicates. She shows how to load existing records into a collection and validate new entries before adding them. The page then updates a gallery instantly so users can see changes as they happen.
Improve your lead data using the enhanced lead duplicate detection feature
🦸🏻♀️ Jeroen Scheper highlights how the enhanced lead duplicate detection feature helps improve data quality by going beyond traditional rule‑based checks. He explains that the new experience uses an AI model capable of more flexible, fuzzy matching to identify potential duplicates directly from list views.
Dataverse: Get best Threads and Rows Count
🚀👩💻 Temmy Wahyu Raharjo shows how challenging it can be to send data to Dataverse due to factors like hardware, network conditions, table behavior, and API limits. He demonstrates an approach that gradually increases rows and threads during processing. This method helps maximize throughput while staying within Dataverse’s constraints.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot Studio Search Multiline Text & File Dataverse Fields by Matthew Devaney
🦸🏻♀️ Create Hierarchy Overview Of Compliance Setup In Customer Insights - Journeys by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Extract information from expense receipts, invoices, Canvas app for submission- approval by Svara Consulting
🦸🏻♀️ What is Power BI and what is it used for? by Malin Martnes
🦸🏻♀️ Adventures with Power Automate: How to Handle AutoSave in Office Documents by Matt Ruma
🚀 Check your Power Platform solutions for secrets with Pester and PowerShell by Leo Visser
🦸🏻♀️ How to Fix Dynamics 365 Knowledge Article Workflow Timeout Error When Using Copilot Studio by Arash Aghajani
🦸🏻♀️ Power Automate Scheduled Flows won’t save if Excel Pagination is over 5,000 by Ellis Karim
🦸🏻♀️ Data Loss Prevention for Copilot Studio Agents by Craig White
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft 365 Business Boost Podcast
🧭 You can do so much with AI these days when it comes to building Power Apps, but is it TOO much? That was the discussion had on the latest episode of the M365 Business Boost show, joined by Howdang Rashid.
This was a great discussion because you can hear three thoughts about what the future might look like and what it means to you as a business owner and maker/developer.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ This episode comes to you live from Oslo at ACDC, capturing the energy, chaos, and lessons of a real-world hackathon. We break down the judge-versus-participant dynamic, the event’s theme and rules, and how a “dream home to Minecraft” idea took shape under pressure. Along the way, we hit very real challenges—from local success and cloud headaches to networking pivots and protocol pain—plus the importance of owning mistakes (hello, Dough Badge). We celebrate the moment the end-to-end build finally clicks, reflect on lessons you can take straight into client work, and zoom out to talk broader tech stacks and AI pair coding. We wrap with a Power Platform Toolbox announcement and a call to support the community tools that keep this ecosystem thriving. If you like honest takes from the trenches, this one’s for you. 🚀
The Copilot Connection Podcast
👩💻 This week, Kevin McDonnell and Garry Trinder explore the world of coding agents and how they could change software development. They run through what coding agents are along with the importance of context, memory, and specifications in using AI tools effectively. Also, they think about how you need to change habits and also touch on the challenges faced by junior developers in adapting to AI technologies, the role of personality in AI agents, and the future of work with AI. This isn't just the joy of agents though, this is about the need for security and ethical considerations when integrating AI into development processes, while also encouraging developers to embrace the potential of AI to enhance productivity and creativity.
📅 Events & Webinars
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
When to use MCP Server vs Power Platform Connectors
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 In this blog by Jay Padimiti, you can learn about the differences between using MCP servers and Power Platform Connectors. It’s a question that a lot of people have been asking over the last couple of months, so this is a very welcome blog!
Retrieve Meeting Transcripts in Copilot Studio & Block Focus Time
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Giorgio Ughini demonstrates how an autonomous agent built with Copilot Studio can analyze Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts and automatically block focus time in Outlook for open action items. The blog shows how agents can move beyond chat to run end-of-day workflows that identify tasks, estimate effort, and take calendar actions on the user’s behalf.
Modern Visual Tooltips in Power BI (Generally Available)
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Jacinda Eng explains that modern visual tooltips in Power BI are now generally available, making report interactions more intuitive and consistent across platforms. She highlights built-in drill actions, theme-based styling, and backward compatibility, helping users explore data faster while simplifying report creation.
The 6 pillars that will define agent readiness in 2026
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Nitasha Chopra explains that organizations are moving from experimenting with AI agents to operationalizing them for real business impact in 2026. She outlines six pillars of agent readiness, including empowering more people to build agents, enabling agents to own end-to-end workflows, and scaling agents with strong governance and control. Together, these pillars describe how enterprises can turn agent adoption into sustained, measurable value.
Breaking down the facts about secure development with Power Platform
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 Joe Unwin and Justin Tung explain that Microsoft Power Platform enables rapid innovation while maintaining strong enterprise security. They highlight built-in governance, access controls, and data protection that are integrated directly into the development lifecycle, allowing organizations to scale low-code solutions with confidence.
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