Power Platform Weekly - Issue #258
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the general availability of Agent Evaluation in Microsoft Copilot Studio was announced. New generally available capabilities for multi-agent Copilot Studio solutions were also introduced.
Dataverse Skills - an open-source plugin that teaches coding agents how to build and manage Dataverse solutions - was announced and a practical framework for adaptive governance was highlighted.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
From Scripts to Intent: How Dataverse Skills Redefines Enterprise Development & Getting Started with Dataverse Skills: Install, Configure, and Build Your First Agent-Driven Solution
🦸🏻♀️👩💻Zsolt Zombik presents the new Dataverse Skills. What impact they could have on our development flow and how to use them.
The Frontier Firm Has an HR Problem
🦸🏻♀️🧭 Ana Inés Urrutia presents the hardest problem for frontier firms, how to handle change management. If you feel the tech is not the struggle, then read this blog.
Dataverse: Avoiding Timezone Pitfalls When Integrating Dataverse Date and DateTime Fields
👩💻 Temmy Wahyu Raharjo shows how to handle datetimes in Dataverse, ensuring you pick the right settings every time.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Google ReCAPTCHA v3 and Cloudflare Turnstile for marketing and event forms in Dynamics 365 by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Triggering Copilot Studio Agents Autonomously using Microsoft Graph Change Notifications + Power Automate by Mohamed Ashiq Faleel
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages: A Governed Platform for Hosting by Nicholas Hayduk
🦸🏻♀️ How to Build a Cross-System Copilot Agent in Dynamics 365 Using MCP Server by Sam Kumar
🦸🏻♀️ Why Microsoft Support Asks for a HAR File …? by Pavan Mani Deep Y
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Power Platform Panic Room Podcast
🧭 In this first episode, Craig and Emma introduce the show’s concept and their plan for future episodes, delve into Craig’s favourite governance tools, and get into Emma’s biggest fears working in this tech space. They also discuss how they keep up with the latest news and some of the cool governance upgrades coming in the latest wave update.
Merge Conflict Podcast
👩💻 At MVP Summit, we dig into Agentic Workflows — write Markdown prompts that drive AI agents to run CI, open PRs, and automate cross‑repo tasks — and MAUI DevFlow, which lets agents interact with native UIs to click, screenshot and validate designs. Listen for practical takeaways on ditching brittle YAML/scripts and automating tedious maintenance and testing, plus the real caveats: security front‑matter, a compile/lock step, and token costs.
The Copilot Connection Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ This week, Zoe and Kevin dig into Copilot Cowork and Agent 365. Fresh from a week at the Microsoft campus in Seattle, Kevin shares his key takeaways from MVP Summit — including a surprising amount of cross-product collaboration and a hands-on experiment building a conference bingo app entirely using GitHub Copilot’s coding agent. Zoe and Kevin then dive into two of the biggest recent announcements: Copilot Cowork, now available in Frontier tenants, which takes Copilot from answering questions to actually taking action on your behalf, from organising your inbox to scheduling your week and creating reusable skills; and Agent 365, Microsoft’s control plane for agents, launching on 1 May, which brings observability, governance, and threat protection for all your agents in one place. They also cover the practical steps to enable Cowork in your tenant, the current data residency considerations for European organisations, and the open licensing questions still to be resolved before general availability.
📅 Events & Webinars
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
Dataverse Skills: your coding agent now speaks Dataverse
👩💻 Suyash Kshirsagar introduces an open-source plugin that gives coding agents like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code the ability to connect to, build on, and operate Dataverse through natural-language prompts, covering environment discovery, solution creation, and bulk data operations.
Public preview: Your business apps, now part of every conversation
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Claudio Romano explains how makers can now expose model-driven Power Apps in Microsoft 365 Copilot through a built-in MCP server, surfacing Grids and Forms automatically so users can view, create, and update business data without leaving the Copilot chat canvas.
New and improved: multi-agent orchestration, connected experiences, and faster prompt iteration
👩💻🦸🏻♀️🚀 Nitasha Chopra covers the April Copilot Studio update, including generally available multi-agent coordination across Microsoft Fabric, the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, and open A2A protocols, plus Anthropic Claude model support in the Prompt Tool and improved prompt authoring controls.
Building trustworthy AI: A practical framework for adaptive governance
🧭🚀 Ryan Jones presents a risk-based governance model for AI agents, showing how organizations can classify agent risk into graduated zones and enforce controls through managed environments in Power Platform rather than relying on manual review processes.
Server logic in Power Pages is now generally available
👩💻🦸🏻♀️ Nagesh Bhat announces the general availability of server logic in Power Pages, enabling developers and makers to run server-side business logic for more secure and performant web experiences.
Generative AI search and data summarization now available in Power Pages for U.S. government clouds
🚀🧭 Nagesh Bhat announces generative AI search and data summarization capabilities for Power Pages in U.S. government cloud environments, along with governance controls for AI features through the Copilot hub.
Dataflows: thank you for eight years of Gen1—and why Gen2 is the future
👩💻🚀 Miguel Llopis announces that Power BI Dataflows Gen1 is moving to Legacy status, with all future innovation landing in Gen2. The post details Gen2 improvements in destinations, performance, AI assistance, diagnostics, and cost, along with migration guidance.
Chat with Copilot inside a report on the Power BI mobile app (preview)
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️ Efrat Mininberg introduces the full conversational Copilot chat experience inside Power BI reports on the mobile app, allowing users to summarize, ask data questions, and explore insights directly from their phone or tablet.
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