Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week, app building in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio was announced. For additional context, see Clay Wesener’s LinkedIn post.
The general availability of the Power Pages Standard Data Model to Enhanced Data Model migration utility in Power Platform CLI was also announced.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Tracking Field Completion in Dynamics 365, Revisited: Now with Native Column Visualization
🦸🏻♀️ Raghu Chalasani shows how he replaced a custom PCF progress bar with the new column visualization.
How to Speed Up SharePoint ‘Get Items’ in Power Automate
🦸🏻♀️ Ellis Karim shows why setting top count is important when calling Get Items for SharePoint in Power Automate.
How To Build Multi-Agent Workflows In Copilot Studio
🦸🏻♀️ In Copilot Studio you can use multi-agent workflows to accomplish a single task with the help of multiple agents. Matthew Devaney shows that by breaking a task down into separate agents with a narrower focus, you will get higher quality outputs, and more predictable results.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Putting Agent Feed to the Test: Human Oversight for Autonomous Agents in D365 by Kristine Risberg
🦸🏻♀️ Discovery before build: how to decide whether a Copilot Studio agent deserves investment by Hamish Sheild
🦸🏻♀️ Column Visualizations for Grids / Views (Preview) –Dataverse / Dynamics 365 by Nishant Rana
🦸🏻♀️ Adventures with Power Apps: Working with Attachments and Notes by Matt Ruma
🦸🏻♀️ Fixing the Dataverse MCP “Describe” Tool FileLoadException in Copilot Studio by Linn Zaw Win
🦸🏻♀️ Solution import error with environment variables in deployment settings file by Marius Agur
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding our scope beyond Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and related Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?
Mondays at Microsoft Podcast
🧭 In this episode Mondays at Microsoft, Heather Cook and Jonathan Jones explore one of the biggest cloud privacy stories of the year as the House advances historic reforms aimed at increasing transparency around government access to customer data. Tuwanda Perez Emmanuel joins discuss AI readiness, Copilot adoption, and how organizations can become Frontier Ready!
Power Platform Boost Podcast
👩💻 We discuss the future of Power Platform based on what we gather from this new merge of the release notes - and also test out the new Microsoft Release Communications MCP Server, which is great if you want to create your own roadmap agent.
We also highlight content from Richard Riley, Howdang Rashid, Lisa Crosbie, and Em D’Arcy around the word of the week: tokenomics. We also explore the new Project HydraFusion for GitHub Copilot, which enhances multi-model orchestration.
📅 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.
Microsoft Ignite
(📅 November 17-20, 2026)
Microsoft Ignite gathers business leaders, IT pros, developers, and partners in San Francisco to explore the latest AI, cloud, and platform roadmap. Attendees get hands-on learning, direct guidance from Microsoft experts, and practical examples they can apply to real projects.
Cloud Tech Tallinn
(📅 February 4-5, 2027)
Cloud Tech Tallinn brings cloud, AI, and Microsoft platform practitioners together in Estonia for two days of practical sessions, community discussion, and technical learning. It is a strong fit for architects, developers, and decision makers looking for real-world guidance and peer connections.
💙 Out of the Blue
Build apps in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Ryan Cunningham explains how natural-language app building in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio turns ideas into governed business solutions connected to enterprise data, workflows, and admin controls.
Measuring the value of Cowork: From AI interactions to completed work
🤵🏻🚀 Mike Walsh explains how Cowork usage can be measured by task outcomes and assisted hours rather than prompt counts, giving leaders a more realistic way to assess time saved and business impact.
Enhanced data model migration utility now generally available, with Dynamics 365 portal templates support
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Ritwik Ganni announces the general availability of the Power Platform CLI enhanced data model migration utility, extending support for Dynamics 365 portal templates and making it easier to move from the Standard Data Model to the Enhanced Data Model with more confidence.
Update: Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot
🧭🚀 Suhel Parekh explains that administrators can now exclude specific domains from public web grounding in Microsoft 365 Copilot, helping teams align search behavior with compliance and trusted-source policies.
Power BI Q&A retirement reminder: February 2027 timeline update
🚀👩💻🧭 mohammadali confirms the revised Power BI Q&A retirement timeline and explains what the February 2027 shutdown means for current report dependencies, migration planning, and governance decisions across BI teams.
Expanding model choice in Copilot with Grok
🤵🏻🚀 Microsoft introduces Grok model access in Copilot, giving organizations more model choice while keeping the trusted Copilot experience, admin controls, and safety review in place.
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