Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week, Microsoft announced that the new Managed Environment rule Draw from tenant credit pool is now generally available. Check out Henry Jammes’ post for an overview, and don’t miss this week’s featured article by Em D’Arcy on how to use the new rule to help control Copilot Credit consumption.
Starting in September, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Dataverse roadmap content will move to the AI at Work roadmap. As part of this change, the release waves and Release Planner are being retired, so be sure to follow the AI at Work roadmap instead. Read the announcement for more details.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Using Environment Group Rules to Manage Cost Control for Copilot Credits
🦸🏻♀️ Em D’Arcy explains how Environment Group Rules can help administrators prevent developer environments from consuming tenant Copilot Credits and avoid unexpected charges.
Power Fx in Customer Insights Emails: A Practical Guide
🦸🏻♀️ Pauline Kolde explores the new Power Fx capabilities in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights email personalization, with practical examples for formatting and transforming dynamic content.
The Case That Knows What to Do Next: Using AI Builder Prebuilt Prompts with Dataverse Low-Code Plug-ins
🦸🏻♀️ Sam Kumar shows how AI Builder prompts and Dataverse low-code plug-ins can automatically summarize cases, detect sentiment, classify issues, and draft responses in Dynamics 365.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ D365 Hacks: Custom Lookups by Angeliki Patsiavou
🦸🏻♀️ Leveraging Compliance Hub from the Copilot Agent Kit to Automate Agent Governance by Em D'Arcy
🛠️ Moving Contact Center config between environments is still this painful. So I built a tool that skips CMT entirely by Peter Ruiter
🛠️ Theme Studio: my first Power Platform ToolBox tool by Riccardo Gregori
🦸🏻♀️ Agent Builder vs Copilot Studio: Which Should You Use? by Pavan Mani Deep Yaragani
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
.NET Rocks Podcast
🚀 Ready for a rant? Carl and Richard talk to Billy Hollis about the impact of artificial intelligence on software development. The conversation starts with a listener comment about going all-in on AI to speed up development radically, which raises the question of how much AI is the right amount. What’s safe and what is reckless? And how will that position change over time? Are the problems we’re having today just growing pains of the tools, or are they systemic to the technology? Lots to debate!
Mondays at Microsoft Podcast
🧭 In this episode of Mondays at Microsoft, Jonathan Jones and Josh Leporati explore how organizations are moving beyond AI experimentation and driving meaningful business transformation. We discuss Microsoft’s latest Frontier Transformation insight and how businesses are turning AI curiosity into lasting Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption.
MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast
👩💻 Welcome to Episode 435 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode, Ben and Scott take a lap around what’s new in Power BI, starting with the two MCP servers now in preview, one local and one remote, that can clean up your data model, write DAX for you, and turn a messy pile of tables into an actual usable semantic model. Ben shares how it helped him tame a 44 table QuickBooks Online mess, and why he had way better luck with it than with Copilot in Power BI.
From there they get into PBIP, the newer Power BI project file format that breaks a report into files you can actually put in Git and collaborate on like real developers, branches, rollbacks, and all. It has been in preview since 2023 and still lacks solid guidance from Microsoft on wiring up CI/CD, but Ben and Scott dig into why it is worth adopting anyway, even if you are working solo.
📅 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.
Baltic Summit
(📅 September 24-26, 2026)
Baltic Summit 2026 gathers the Microsoft Power Platform, AI, and Business Applications community at the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park in Gdynia, Poland. Three days of hands-on workshops, expert-led sessions, and real-world case studies give makers, developers, and business leaders practical guidance on automation and AI integration.
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
One always-on roadmap: Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Dataverse join the AI at Work roadmap
🧭🚀🦸🏻♀️ Richard Riley explains that the twice-yearly release wave plans are being replaced by a single continuously updated AI at Work roadmap starting September 2026. He covers what the change means for how organizations track upcoming features and plan their adoption cycles.
Where are your Copilot credits going? Build a tenant-wide view with the Power Platform API
🚀👩💻🧭 Petros Feleskouras walks through the Power Platform licensing endpoints that return tenant entitlement and daily per-agent Copilot Credit consumption, including the paging and dimension details that trip people up. He also shares a community solution of a daily flow, three Dataverse tables, and a Power Apps code app that keeps the history beyond the admin center’s reporting window.
SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – August 2026
👩💻 Vesa Juvonen covers the SPFx 1.24 Beta 3 release, the upcoming React 18 support in 1.24, and a new Copilot Components preview program open to customers and partners.
Direct Lake calculated columns (preview)
👩💻🦸🏻♀️ Vivienne Vereen introduces DAX calculated columns for Direct Lake on OneLake semantic models, closing a long-standing gap with Import and DirectQuery. She shows how to define them in web modeling or Power BI Desktop without switching storage mode or reshaping data upstream.
Upgrade Power BI Dataflows Gen1 to Fabric Dataflows Gen2 with the upgrade wizard (preview)
🚀👩💻 Eran Benayun presents a guided wizard that assesses each Dataflows Gen1 item before upgrading it to Fabric Dataflows Gen2 with CI/CD support. The post clarifies which properties carry over, what follow-up actions to expect, and that Gen1 stays supported in a legacy state while investment moves to Gen2.
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