Power Platform Weekly - Issue #265
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Copilot Studio team shared a guide to managing real-time voice agents at scale. The Power BI team published its May 2026 feature summary.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Create An Event Invitation Process In Customer Insights
🦸🏻♀️ Sending invites to an event is easy, just send an email. But actually managing those invites is harder. Megan V. Walker shows us how we should do this with Customer Insights.
Test canvas in Copilot Studio
🦸🏻♀️ The testing canvas is your new best friend in Copilot Studio. It works both when your agent is in draft or published state and is always just a click away. Vivian Voss gives us the insights into how to use it.
Power Apps Code App: Pick Any Vite Framework
👩💻 Even though the default Code App template uses React, you are not forced to use it. Dennis Chi shows how you can write Code Apps in different front-end frameworks.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Conversation trace in Copilot Studio by Vivian Voss
🦸🏻♀️ What is Dynamics 365 and what is it used for? by Malin Martnes
🦸🏻♀️ Start A Power Automate Flow From Your Custom Page Easily by Megan V. Walker
🛠️ SQL 4 CDS 10.4 Released by Mark Carrington
🦸🏻♀️ 10 Things I Love About Copilot Studio Workflows by Matthew Devaney
🦸🏻♀️ How to Configure Reply-To for No-Reply Senders in Customer Insights Journeys by Martin P Lopez
🦸🏻♀️ One-Click User Permissions Cloning in D365: Security Roles, Field Security & Teams by Raghu Chalasani
👩💻 Power Pages SPA, local authentication, and the “Private” flag that blocks local development by Riccardo Gregori
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Community Voices Podcast
🧭 In this episode of Experts Live UK: Community Voices, Bruce Cullen and Geoff Ross are joined by Melissa Hale, Power Automate MVP and M365 consultant from Liverpool. Mel shares her remarkable journey from researching snake venom and parasites to landing a job in tech before finishing her bootcamp. She talks about her work co-founding Manchester AI Group, leading AI governance for charity Collaboration for Kids, and why she thinks being comfortable as the least experienced person in the room is the most powerful mindset you can have.
Along the way, Mel breaks down the Power Platform for Bruce, explains the difference between canvas apps and model-driven apps, and reveals something genuinely cool about choosing your own AI model when building Copilot agents in Copilot Studio.
Oh, and she does horseback archery.
Power Platform Deep Dive Podcast
👩💻 In this episode of Power Platform Deep Dive, we explore one of the biggest shifts happening in modern development. Why are low-code developers suddenly using pro-code tools like GitHub, VS Code, MCP servers, and AI coding agents?
As AI continues to change how software is built, the traditional boundaries between low-code and pro-code development are starting to feel less clear than ever.
Kayode and Annabel discuss the growing role of GitHub in Power Platform development, how AI coding agents are changing workflows, and why understanding the foundations behind tools like MCP servers, connectors, prompts, and ALM matters more than simply chasing hype.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🚀 There might have been some caffeine in the mix this week as well, cause someone's energy is running high 🫨 . Someone else has a nice tan 😎💪 (We know what you are thinking, and it's the other way around 😜)
Anywho - this episode is full of both community content and golden nuggets from Microsoft! We loved Agent Academy Live from the Microsoft Cloud Advocacy Team! Dona Sarkar 💃 and April Dunnam 👠 were great hosts in the studio, and we were inspired by Ryan Cunningham's 👩🚀 keynote. What's your moonshot? 🚀
📅 Events & Webinars
DynamicsMinds
(📅 May 25-27, 2026)
DynamicsMinds 2026 gathers the global Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community 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 serves as a meeting point for 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.
Nordic Summit
(📅 September 21-22, 2026)
Nordic Summit 2026 takes place at LEGOLAND Hotel and Conference in Billund, Denmark, with a strong focus on connecting the Nordic Microsoft community around Power Platform and Dynamics 365. As the largest in-person event in the Nordics for these technologies, it offers focused sessions, community connection, and practical insights for makers, consultants, and architects.
Directions for Enterprise
(📅 September 23-25, 2026)
Directions for Enterprise 2026 is a focal point for the global Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management partner ecosystem in Copenhagen, with focused strategic and technical content. Across three days, partners connect with Microsoft, SIs, ISVs, and industry leaders to explore Agentic ERP, real-world AI, and practical approaches for enterprise solution delivery.
Scottish Summit
(📅 October 2-3, 2026)
Scottish Summit 2026 heads to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh for two days centered on AI, Copilot, and practical learning across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Attendees connect with experts, MVPs, and peers through sessions and workshops designed to share real-world approaches and community-driven innovation.
Community Summit North America
(📅 October 11-15, 2026)
Community Summit North America 2026 gives the Microsoft AI and Business Applications community five days in Nashville for learning, training, and connection. With hundreds of sessions, academy workshops, and a broad partner ecosystem, attendees gain practical guidance across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Copilot.
Directions EMEA
(📅 October 27-29, 2026)
Directions EMEA 2026 hosts the Dynamics 365 Business Central community in Paris for three days of technical sessions, strategy, and ecosystem networking. Resellers, ISVs, Microsoft representatives, MVPs, developers, and consultants explore the latest innovations and practical approaches shaping Business Central across EMEA.
Power Platform Community Conference
(📅 October 27-29, 2026)
Power Platform Community Conference 2026 welcomes the global maker and solution builder community to Las Vegas for three days of practical learning and collaboration around AI apps and agents. Attendees explore sessions, workshops, and certifications across Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the full Microsoft Power Platform to build end-to-end solutions they can apply right away.
💙 Out of the Blue
The in-depth guide to managing real-time voice agents at scale
👩💻🚀🧭 The Microsoft Copilot Studio Team explains how to govern customer-facing real-time voice agents across build, release, runtime, and lifecycle stages. Readers get a practical framework covering escalation design, security controls, monitoring, and compliance readiness for production-scale deployments.
Wiring up a Snowflake-managed MCP server in Copilot Studio
👩💻🚀 Adi Leibowitz walks through how to connect a Snowflake-managed MCP server to a Copilot Studio agent using delegated OAuth with Microsoft Entra ID. Readers learn the required Cortex Agent prerequisites, the manual OAuth flow in Snowflake, and the setup details that avoid common integration failures.
Building a custom human-in-the-loop experience for Copilot Studio workflows
👩💻🚀🧭 Adi Leibowitz explains how to implement a custom human-in-the-loop approval pattern for Copilot Studio workflows through a custom connector. Readers see how to route workflow steps for human validation while keeping orchestration inside the agent experience.
Power BI tenant migration: Trade-offs, risks, and realities
🚀👩💻🧭 Winnie Li outlines practical considerations for Power BI tenant migration, including risk areas, dependency mapping, and sequencing decisions. Readers learn which trade-offs to evaluate before choosing migration approaches for enterprise-scale deployments.
Power BI May 2026 feature summary
👩💻🦸🏻♀️🚀 Katie Murray summarizes the May 2026 Power BI updates across Copilot and AI, reporting, modeling, data connectivity, and visual experiences. Readers get a concise view of what changed and where the release improves day-to-day analytics workflows.
New Power Query experience in Power BI Desktop (Preview)
👩💻🦸🏻♀️🚀 Sara Lammini Rodriguez and Miguel Escobar introduce a preview of the updated Power Query authoring experience in Power BI Desktop. Readers learn what is changing in the query editing flow and how the new experience can streamline data preparation.
Outbound access protection for semantic models (Preview)
🚀👩💻🧭 Kay Unkroth explains how outbound access protection can now be applied to semantic models to block external traffic by default and allow only trusted destinations. Readers learn how this preview strengthens workspace-level governance and network security for sensitive BI workloads.
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