Power Platform Weekly - Issue #263
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Last week the different roles Microsoft Dataverse plays in in agentic scenarios were highlighted.
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📰 Articles
Work Trend Index 2026: the Agency Gap is real, and HR owns the fix
🧭 Ana Inés Urrutia gives a detailed analysis based on the Microsoft Work Trend Index 2026. She says the bottleneck is never the technology. It’s always the system around it.
Why Computer Use in Copilot Studio is finally interesting for the enterprise
🦸🏻♀️ Arild Aarnes gives a brief description of Computer-Using Agents (CUA). Agents that can actually use a computer the way a person does. Move the mouse, click buttons, type into fields, read what is on the screen.
Power Apps Vibe Coded Experience [Preview]
🦸🏻♀️ Priyesh Wagh shows a quick but precise demo of vibe.powerapps.com.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Create Add To Google Link For Session Or Event Registrations by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Lead Scoring in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights: The 5Ws and How to Start by Martin P Lopez
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast
👩💻 The Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code - formerly the AI Toolkit - is Microsoft's answer to fragmented AI development workflows, bringing model selection, prompt iteration, agent building, evaluation, and production tracing into a single VS Code extension. In this episode, we walk through the full feature surface. Whether you're picking your first frontier model or shipping a hosted agent to Microsoft Foundry, this is the episode for you!
Code. Deploy. Go Live. Podcast
🧭 In this episode, Andrew and Julie sit down with Paolo Pialorsi at a Microsoft conference to explore Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility and the newly announced Work IQ platform. They dive into the three pillars of Copilot extensibility: declarative agents (which leverage Copilot's foundational models and orchestrator), custom engine agents (which give you full control over the model, orchestrator, and customization), and AI apps built with Work IQ that operate outside the Copilot UI. Paolo breaks down how Work IQ differs fundamentally from Microsoft Graph by adding context, memory, and business understanding on top of data, then shares practical guidance on choosing the right path for your scenario.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ This week’s episode covers a lot of ground in the AI-meets-low-code space — from Microsoft’s Public Preview of custom tools and rich UI for app-based conversations, to a community deep-dive comparing the various ways you can build Power Apps with AI today. There’s also an important community conversation about the impending sunset of the CoE Starter Kit, plus coverage of Power Pages, the Timeline control, and a look at Charles Lamanna’s Copilot Cowork announcement. Whether you’re building agents, managing governance, or just trying to keep up with the pace of change, this one’s worth your commute time.
📅 Events & Webinars
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
Dataverse is your agent data platform: here’s what’s new
👩💻🚀🧭 Julie Koesmarno highlights new Dataverse capabilities for agent-driven scenarios, including business skills in public preview, the Dataverse plugin now available on the Claude Marketplace, Microsoft 365 Copilot integration through an intelligent semantic layer, and 6× faster agentic search initialization.
Semantic model settings pane (Preview)
🚀👩💻 Kay Unkroth introduces a redesigned semantic model settings experience in Power BI that opens as an in-context side pane with collapsible sections and a search feature, replacing the full-page navigation that previously took users away from their workspace.
Execute DAX Queries REST API (Preview)
👩💻 Kay Unkroth announces a new public REST API for running DAX queries against Power BI semantic models that returns results in Apache Arrow IPC format, supporting native data-type fidelity, no fixed row limits, and multiple EVALUATE statements per request.
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