Power Platform Weekly - Issue #256
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
The 2026 Release Wave 1 plans are out, have a look in the Release Planner, and don’t miss the official blog post: 2026 release wave 1 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Copilot Studio offerings.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Secure Your MCP Server with Entra ID Authentication for Copilot Studio & Service Principal Authentication
🦸🏻♀️ Mohamed Ashiq Faleel gives a detailed description on how you can secure your MCP server in the context of a user or a service principal in Copilot Studio.
Everything You Need to Know About the Copilot Studio Kit
🦸🏻♀️ The Copilot Studio Kit is a free, open-source toolkit maintained by Microsoft’s Power CAT team. Nilüfer Doğan shows what we can use it for.
Power Pages SPA Learning By Doing - Keep it clean
👩💻 Riccardo Gregori shows how you can more easily work with Power Pages SPA. Where the documentation is lacking his practical experience shows the way forward.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Open D365 Records From Your Custom Page | Env Variables by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Email the documents stored in SharePoint directly from a custom page in D365 CRM by Svara Consulting
👩💻 Setting Your Environments Up for Code Apps by David Wyatt
2026 Release Wave 1 summaries:
🦸🏻♀️ Release wave 1 2026 Customer Insights – Data by Malin Martnes
🦸🏻♀️ Release wave 1 2026 Customer Insights – Journeys by Malin Martnes
🦸🏻♀️ What is coming To Dynamics 365 Customer Service in 2026 Release Wave 1 by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Best 10 Power Platform Features – 2026 release Wave 1 by Rami Mounla
🦸🏻♀️ Power Platform Release Wave 1 2026 by Albert-Jan Schot
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Power Platform Deep Dive Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ If you want to start building AI-powered solutions, the Microsoft Power Platform is becoming one of the easiest places to begin. Kayode and Annabel discuss how tools like Power Automate, Copilot Studio, and Dataverse make AI automation more accessible for developers and solution architects.
Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast
👩💻 In this week's episode, the team will look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, they're expanding our scope beyond Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and related Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?
The Copilot Connection Podcast
🧭 Microsoft helped us make an episode this week but dropping some big Copilot news! In this episode, Zoe and Kevin dig into some of the news related around Copilot Wave 3, talk about what the recent org changes at Microsoft will mean and also highlight some of the upcoming events going on.
📅 Events & Webinars
Adriatics Tech Summit
(📅 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
(📅 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.
Update Days Power Platform
(📅 April 27-28, 2026)
Curious about diving deeper into Power Platform? Encountering challenges while using it on advanced projects? You’re not alone. Join a conference that goes beyond the basics, offering practical insights into enterprise-level challenges like governance, professional development, and scalable solutions. Come learn from experts who work in the field every day, and connect with peers who, just like you, want to use Power Platform efficiently and strategically.
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.
DynamicsCon
(📅 May 12-16, 2026)
Join thousands of other Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics GP, and Power Platform users and professionals for more than 300 sessions, exhibitors, and endless community networking.
DynamicsMinds
(📅 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.
Build
(📅 June 2-3, 2026)
At Microsoft Build, you’ll go deep on real code, real systems, and real workflows with the teams building and scaling AI. Two days. Hands-on sessions. No fluff.
European Power Platform Conference
(📅 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
2026 release wave 1 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Copilot Studio offerings
🧭 Ryan Martin announced the 2026 release wave 1 plans for Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Copilot Studio slated for April through September 2026.
The Orchestrator’s Secrets: Chain-of-Thought & Transcript on Demand
👩💻 Remi Dyon wrote about two under-the-radar Copilot Studio tricks: surfacing the orchestrator’s chain-of-thought as it works and pulling the full conversation transcript into a variable on demand.
FabCon 2026
This week at FabCon 2026, there was loads of exciting news and announcements. Here are some of the highlights:
Power BI March 2026 Feature Summary
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Katie Murray announced the Power BI March 2026 feature summary, covering updates across Copilot, reporting, modeling, and data connectivity.
TMDL View on the Web (Preview)
👩💻 Sara Lammini Rodriguez wrote about TMDL View on the Web, a new code-first semantic modeling experience that lets developers view and edit semantic models directly in the browser.
Semantic Layers: The foundation of enterprise AI
🧭 Mohammad Ali wrote about how Power BI semantic models serve as the foundation for enterprise AI, with new capabilities making Power BI more open, powerful, and deeply integrated.
Deep Dive into Modern Visual Defaults and Customizing Theme Improvements (Preview)
🦸🏻♀️ Zoe Douglas wrote about the modern visual defaults aligned with Fluent 2 design, featuring style presets, uniform styling, and customizable themes in Power BI Desktop.
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