Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Custom Engine blog published a deep-dive post on the Copilot Agent Kit, focusing specifically on the Agent Review Tool.
The Copilot Agent Kit August update is here, with Agent Change Tracker, ready-to-deploy MCP Apps in the Agent Library, support for GitHub Copilot harness-based agents in the Agent Review Tool and Agent Debugger, and more.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
What Went Wrong For Copilot
🦸🏻♀️ David Wyatt gives his take on the way Microsoft integrated Copilot with Microsoft’s products, why he thinks it hasn’t gone as planned, and what could be done to improve it.
Tracing undocumented application users in Dataverse
🦸🏻♀️ Linn Zaw Win goes through his troubles figuring out what an application user in Dataverse was used for.
What does a Dynamics 365 Contact Center actually cost? I built a calculator to find out
🧭🛠️ Ask three people what a Dynamics 365 Contact Center costs and you get three answers and a shrug. Peter Ruiter made a calculator that goes beyond users times license cost.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Record creation in Dynamics 365 with Sales agent by Raghu Chalasani
🦸🏻♀️ 4 Learnings from Multi-Session Events in Customer Insights - Journeys by Martin P. Lopez
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Community Insights Podcast
👩💻 We talk with Navyasree Potluri from Microsoft about FabricIQ Integration.
Insights Unlocked Podcast
🚀 Discover how Greg Nudelman approaches UX for AI, AI product design, customer discovery, risk, and ROI to build AI products that deliver real value.
Unresolved Dependencies Podcast
🧭 HARNESSSSS - your new favorite buzzword in the agentic world we are trying to survive. But what is a harness? And what can GitHub Copilot do to save Copilot Studio?
Learn everything about the new Copilot Studio experience and what’s different from the Standard Harness. Do these changes make our licensing talk obsolete? What are the costs involved? And what is actually inside a Harness?
📅 Events & Webinars
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
Review before release: Using Agent Review Tool for Copilot Studio agents
👩💻🦸🏻♀️🚀 Ramakrishnan Raman demonstrates a pre-release workflow that uses review findings, the skill evaluator, and the agent map to surface overlapping skills, ambiguous tool references, and gaps in evaluation coverage. He explains why conversation testing in the Preview tab only exercises one path, and how configuration review complements it.
Power BI August 2026 feature summary
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Katie Murray walks through this month’s releases across reporting, modeling, connectivity, mobile, and embedded analytics, including generally available modern visual defaults, the date picker slicer, and matrix column expand and collapse. Preview items cover Direct Lake calculated columns and converting Direct Lake tables to import storage in web modeling.
The AI semantic layer you probably already have
🧭👩💻🚀 Bogdan Crivat argues that every published Power BI report already carries a semantic model encoding the metric definitions, relationships, and hierarchies an organization has agreed on. He explains why that accumulated business meaning is exactly the grounding a language model needs to answer a question such as “what was our churn last quarter” consistently.
Edit your Power BI projects anywhere and reload them instantly in Power BI Desktop (Preview)
👩💻 Sara Lammini Rodriguez shows how Power BI Desktop now detects PBIP file changes made by editors, scripts, or AI-assisted tools and offers an Apply external changes prompt instead of requiring a restart. A new Open in VS Code entry point launches the project folder as an active workspace.
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