Power Platform Weekly - Issue #262
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the general availability of real-time voice agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio was announced.
Congratulations to Mike Hartley on releasing a new documentation tool, PP-MD. 🎉 Try it out and share your feedback. See the announcement.
Copilotverse 2.0 is here, with weekly meetups every Friday. Join here, and see the announcement.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Dataverse Actions, Functions & Flows in Power Apps Code Apps: Complete Guide
👩💻 Zsolt Zombik has been building Power Apps code apps for a while now, and the question that kept coming up was always the same: how do I call actual server-side logic from here? With the microsoft/power-apps npm CLI hitting v1.1.1, that question finally has a clean answer.
AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: Why the Architecture Matters
🦸🏻♀️ Sailaja Mantripragada describes the key differences between a system built on AI agents and a system built with an agentic architecture.
ALM on Power Platform: ADO + GitHub, the best of both worlds
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Riccardo Gregori explores a hybrid setup where Azure DevOps handles planning and pipelines, while GitHub powers AI-driven development.
Other articles
👩💻 Power Pages: Escape Filters by Nicholas Hayduk
🦸🏻♀️ Access Event Registration Custom Questions & Answers In CIJ by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Find Contacts With Failed Form Submissions Via A Segment by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ What is coming to Dynamics 365 Sales in 2026 Release Wave 1 by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ The death of BizApps and the rise of the agentic Power Platform by Andreas Adner
🦸🏻♀️ Abracadabra, create me a F&O environment by Ted Ohlsson
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
👩💻 Build a shared semantic foundation for your enterprise data in Microsoft Fabric IQ. Generate a full business ontology from an existing Power BI semantic model, map entities and relationships, and embed real-time operational signals alongside business rules that live inside the ontology with the data and its meaning.
From there, trace cascading operational impacts across your business through the relationship graph, stand up Operations Agents in natural language with Teams-based actions, and connect the same ontology as a knowledge source in Copilot Studio or Azure AI Foundry.
Chafia Aouissi, Fabric IQ Principal PM Manager, shares how to model your business operations, embed intelligence in your data, and deploy agents that act on it.
Power Platform Podcast
🧭 Cat Schneider is super cool on any front, but also…the intro music.
In this episode of the Power Platform Podcast, Mark and Malin are joined by Microsoft MVP Cat Schneider—self-described chaos agent, community personality, and Power Platform enthusiast from Florida.
Weekend Power Platform Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ Most professionals fall into the trap of thinking their career is a straight line. Michelle Serna challenges this myth, sharing her unexpected journey from consultant to building a Business Central team. Meanwhile, Shawn Sissenwein's transition from managing cattle to technology highlights the diverse paths one can take. Their stories reveal how falling in love with different areas of technology can reshape your purpose and your path over time. In this episode, Michelle and Shawn dive into the power of community, demonstrating how authentic connections and sharing your journey can spark new opportunities.
📅 Events & Webinars
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.
Agent Academy Live
(📅 May 12, 2026)
A free, full-day virtual event hosted by April Dunnam and Dona Sarkar with deep dives from Microsoft engineers and community experts on building agents with Copilot and Copilot Studio. Sessions cover multi-agent design, ALM patterns, agent testing, MCP integrations, and more.
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
Introducing real-time voice agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio
🧭🚀 Nitasha Chopra announces the general availability of real-time voice agents in Copilot Studio, a new premium voice mode optimized for low-latency, interruptible speech-to-speech conversations that launches in Dynamics 365 Contact Center. The post covers how these agents handle high-volume B2C scenarios like billing, scheduling, and eligibility checks, with plans to extend to Teams Phone and additional channels.
Dataverse plugin is now on the Claude Marketplace
👩💻🚀 Suyash Kshirsagar walks through how the open-source Dataverse plugin for coding agents is now listed on the Claude plugins marketplace, reducing installation to a single command. The post covers the full setup orchestration behind the scenes, including toolchain checks, authentication, MCP server configuration, and the admin consent and environment allowlisting steps required to connect securely.
The new loop: How Power Pages builds software with AI
👩💻 Priyanshu Agrawal shares how the Power Pages engineering team has integrated AI coding agents into their development workflow, from design documents and custom agent skills like /tdd and /fix-a11y-bug to AI-assisted code reviews and automated quality gates. The post also covers what still doesn’t work well, including large monorepo navigation and agent tendencies to skip code reuse.
How to set context variables to Copilot Studio agents using WebChat
👩💻 Giorgio Ughini explains how to reliably pass context variables to Copilot Studio agents embedded via WebChat using a Redux middleware pattern that works on both Direct Line and the M365 Agents SDK. The post walks through why channelData and early event dispatch fail, and shows the correct approach of dispatching a custom event after the first incoming agent message.
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