Power Platform Weekly - Issue #266
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Copilot Studio May feature update was presented, and Mistral joined the list of available AI models.
It’s Microsoft Build week 🎉 Don’t forget to register!
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Inside Built-In and Custom Copilot UI Widgets powered by Power Apps
👩💻 Diana Birkelbach provides a complete walkthrough of MCP and Power Apps capabilities, explaining how to work with them and how far you can extend them.
Respond to Power Automate Approvals in Power Apps (Custom Page & Canvas App Guide)
🦸🏻♀️ Amey Holden shows how you can use a custom page or canvas app to respond to Power Automate approvals.
Handling Localization in PCF Components: A Practical Walkthrough
👩💻 Riccardo Gregori provides a step-by-step walkthrough of setting up .resx files and explains an issue that can arise when debugging your PCF locally.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Using the Variable Inspector in Copilot Studio by Vivian Voss
🦸🏻♀️ Understanding the Dynamics 365 Quality Evaluation Agent: A Complete Breakdown by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Building AI Agent Johan's Brain - The data layer by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ How to Set Up a Copilot Studio Agent Using Dataverse MCP Across Environments by Arild Aarnes
🦸🏻♀️ Exam AB-410: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate by EY Kalman
🦸🏻♀️🚀 The CoE toolkit is dead, Long Live Managed Environments! by EY Kalman
🦸🏻♀️ How To Create Copilot Custom UI Widgets In Power Apps by Matthew Devaney
🦸🏻♀️ AdxStudio Portals To Power Pages | A Journey Of Learning by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Create Your Own Event Overview Analytics Dashboard In CI-J by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Nordic Summit 2026: Join Us at LEGOLAND by Zsolt Zombik
👩💻 PCF’s default Fluent UI version is broken... and how to fix it by Riccardo Gregori
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Fabric Architecture Podcast
👩💻 Microsoft Fabric ships its own MLflow registry — but is it a replacement for Azure Machine Learning? Matthias and Fabia work through the four-layer registry model, PREDICT versus Model Endpoints, the Direct Lake prediction loop, and the architectural question that actually determines the answer: where do your predictions land?
Cloud Wars Live Podcast
🧭 In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I look at how Microsoft and EY are combining engineering and consulting expertise to scale AI transformation.
📅 Events & Webinars
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.
HELish Summit
(📅 September 17, 2026)
HELish Summit is a Microsoft technology focused conference offering ideas, insights, cases and lessons learned for every IT enthusiast. Whether you're a consultant or working in internal IT, communications or other technology role - there is something special for you!
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
Build Power Pages sites with AI through agentic coding tools, now generally available
👩💻🦸🏻♀️🚀 Neeraj Nandwana announces the general availability of the Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code, extending the conversational workflow to production with native ALM pipelines, security hardening, and expanded authentication setup. Readers learn which skills cover deployment, firewall and header configuration, vulnerability scanning, and multi-provider sign-in.
New and improved: Computer-using agents, a new workflows experience, and real-time voice
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀🧭 Nitasha Chopra rounds up the May 2026 Copilot Studio release, covering the general availability of computer-using agents, a redesigned workflows experience, and Work IQ extensibility. Readers get a single view of what shipped and where each capability fits into building and operating agents.
Mistral joins Copilot Studio’s growing lineup of model providers
👩💻🧭🚀 Ben Appleby explains how Mistral Medium 3.5 is now available in Copilot Studio, adding model choice with in-region data control, multilingual performance, and admin governance. Readers learn what the new provider offers and how it fits into model selection for production agents.
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