Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week, a few of the latest Copilot Studio features were highlighted, including the GitHub Copilot harness, agent skills, and more.
The general availability of Canvas apps agentic coauthoring was also announced.
It was also great to see our fellow newsletter, Power Platform Developers Weekly, back from a break.
Have a great week, and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Building a Microsoft Release Radar with MCP in Copilot Studio and VS Code
🦸🏻♀️ Kristine Risberg shows how the Microsoft Release Communications MCP Server can bring current roadmap information directly into GitHub Copilot and Copilot Studio. A “Release Radar” is used as an example of how users could understand what’s changing, what’s coming, and when action or preparation may be required.
How To Send And Receive SMS Text Messages In Copilot Studio
🦸🏻♀️ Matthew Devaney shows how to connect a Copilot Studio agent to SMS so users can communicate with it from their mobile phone. Using Dynamics 365 Contact Center and Twilio, he builds a hotel concierge agent that can answer guests’ questions by text message.
Creating a Gen Page using Copilot CLI
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Carl de Souza created a series of posts highlighting Power Apps generative pages and how to build them using AI code-generation tools. This article explains how to use the Copilot CLI and the /genpage command to create a generative page. Also see the related posts on installing GitHub Copilot in VS Code and setting up the Copilot CLI.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ No Code, No PCF, the new column visuals explained by Jeroen Scheper
🛠️ Dynamics 365 Performance Probe Browser Extension by Peter Ruiter
🦸🏻♀️ Opening hours, live queues and callbacks your voice agent can actually speak by Peter Ruiter
🛠️ SQL 4 CDS 10.5 Released by Mark Carrington
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot Studio: Bypassing the Connector Consent Card in Agents by Arild Aarnes
👩💻 Power Pages: Bulk Edit Interface Using Custom Code by Nicholas Hayduk
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Fabric Architecture Podcast
👩💻 A Fabric workspace isn’t a folder — it’s a cut through OneLake carrying every access rule, capacity bill, and residency commitment. Fabia and Matthias trace the boundaries hiding inside one object, starting with the documented fact that Contributor overrides OneLake security and ending with why a cross-region move is a deletion disguised as a dropdown.
Everyday AI Podcast
🚀 Join us as we give you the 101 on AI Governance and the 5 AI Rules Every Company Needs to Follow.
AI Governance in Plain English: 5 AI Rules Every Company Needs to follow -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson
M365.FM Podcast
🧭 Does Microsoft 365 Copilot really make people more productive? In this episode of the M365 FM podcast, Mirko Peters speaks with Microsoft MVP Adrian Espes about what Copilot actually delivers in everyday work—not in a polished demo, but during a normal working day filled with meetings, emails, documents, Teams messages, deadlines, and constant interruptions. Adrian brings a practical perspective shaped by his experience in training, business analytics, modern workplace consulting, and Microsoft 365 adoption. Together, Mirko and Adrian look beyond the marketing and explore where Copilot is genuinely useful, where expectations are still unrealistic, and what organizations need to consider before rolling it out.
📅 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
Canvas authoring agent plugin is now generally available
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Tasha Scott introduces production-ready agent coauthoring for canvas apps, with MCP tools for creating screens, updating Power Fx formulas, and validating changes in a live session. She explains how makers can switch between agent-assisted and direct editing while retaining existing governance practices and control over token usage.
New and improved: GitHub Copilot harness, agent skills, and richer context
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Jason Moore covers the generally available GitHub Copilot harness and how skills, workflows, and MCP tools equip Copilot Studio agents for multistep business processes. He also outlines previews for Work IQ, memory, and environment-level telemetry, showing how teams can add organizational context and monitor agent execution.
SharePoint metadata filtering in Copilot Studio: From topic logic to agent decisions
👩💻🦸🏻♀️ Adi Leibowitz demonstrates how GitHub Copilot harness agents filter SharePoint documents by library metadata and scope knowledge searches to the matching files without hand-built topic routing. He explains when stricter guidance is useful and why metadata quality and existing SharePoint permissions still matter.
PPCC 2026: Bringing AI and your business processes together
🧭🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Ryan Cunningham previews the October 27-29 Power Platform Community Conference in Las Vegas, highlighting sessions on connecting Copilot, agents, apps, workflows, and data. He outlines learning opportunities around end-to-end process design, governance, security, and AI cost management to help attendees plan their agenda.
Power BI architecture choices for Azure Databricks: A storage-mode benchmark
👩💻🧭 Eiki Sui presents a white paper comparing two Direct Lake patterns, DirectQuery, and composite models with Import aggregations. The post explains how data volume, cache state, and query coverage affect report performance, giving architects evidence to guide testing with their own workloads.
Power BI sample reports, refreshed with modern visual defaults
🦸🏻♀️👩💻 Zoe Douglas walks through updated sample reports with clearer semantic models, newer visuals, and mobile-optimized layouts. She highlights reusable patterns such as calculation groups, report page tooltips, and the new card visual that report authors can apply to their own designs.
Available today: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra in Microsoft Copilot
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🚀 Bas Brekelmans introduces the rollout of GPT-6 Astra to Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio, explaining how Work IQ grounds delegated tasks in organizational content within existing permissions. He also covers admin controls for access and notes that availability varies by region and organization.
Available today: Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 in Microsoft Copilot
🤵🏻👩💻🦸🏻♀️ Bas Brekelmans writes about Claude Fable 5.1, a new model option for long-running tasks, financial analysis, and front-end visual coding in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio. The post explains how Work IQ supplies business context and where admins can manage access as the model rolls out to eligible users.
What’s new in Microsoft Copilot: August 2026
🤵🏻🚀 Daniel Vargas rounds up updates including Cowork effort and credit controls, Power BI grounding in Chat and Cowork, and reusable personal skills in SharePoint. He also covers upcoming dashboard data exports and other app-specific improvements, distinguishing released capabilities from previews and planned rollouts.
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