Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week, the Power Platform September 2026 feature update was presented.
The public preview of auto-generated Power Platform API command groups in Microsoft Power Platform CLI was also announced.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Are Code Apps the End of Model-Driven Apps? Not So Fast
🧭🦸🏻♀️👩💻Ever since Microsoft introduced Code Apps, Riccardo Gregori has been hearing the same question over and over again. “If AI can generate most of the application for me, and Code Apps give me unlimited flexibility, why would I ever choose a model-driven app?” Read the blog to learn why a model-driven app has more to offer than you might think.
Power Apps Code Apps: A Complete Guide to Building Apps with Pro Code and AI
👩💻 Carl de Souza gives us a step by step guide to building a code app.
Now you can build apps with Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio
🦸🏻♀️ If you’re part of the Microsoft Frontier program, you can now build apps with Copilot, Cowork, and soon also in Copilot Studio. Arild Aarnes gives an example of the usefulness.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ D365 Hacks: The Browser Strikes Back by Angeliki Patsiavou
🦸🏻♀️ How to configure governance in D365 Customer Service by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️ Invoke an HTTP request and External Guest Users in Power Apps by Pieter Veenstra
🦸🏻♀️ Stop Guessing Which Deals to Prioritize: Configuring Dynamics 365’s Sales Opportunity Agent by Raghu Chalasani
👩💻 Power Pages: Bulk Edit Interface Using Forms by Nicholas Hayduk
🦸🏻♀️ Free SSL/TLS certificates for Power Pages by Nick Doelman
🦸🏻♀️ Licensing the Flow Nobody Owns by Mariano Gomez Bent
🦸🏻♀️ Creating a Custom Agent in 5 Minutes by David Wyatt
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
The AI DevOps Podcast
👩💻 Today I’m joined by Robert C. Martin, known to most of the industry as Uncle Bob - a programmer since 1970, co-author of the Agile Manifesto, and the first chairman of the Agile Alliance. He’s the founder of Uncle Bob Consulting LLC and has written many of the field’s defining books, including Clean Code, Clean Architecture, Clean Agile, and his newest release, Functional Design. Lately he’s been deep into a project called swarm-forge, an open-source tool he built for coordinating teams of AI coding agents through disciplined, tmux-based workflows, and he’s been documenting his experiments running it on real projects on X. This is actually Robert’s fourth time on the show - we’ve previously talked about Agile and Extreme Programming, about clean code, and about being a software leader.
Figuring Out Fabric Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ Santhana Lakshmi Ponnurasan and I worked together at Truviz a few years back, but this is our first real conversation since she became a two-time competitor in the Power BI DataViz World Championship and a recent Microsoft MVP. We talk about building reports people actually use versus passion projects, and why she crosses things off a requirements list instead of checking them off. Lakshmi walks through competing on stage at the DataViz Championship in Atlanta and what got her past the fear of speaking with an accent. We close on the Fabric community, her daily habit of scrolling and commenting, and her favorite and least favorite parts of Fabric right now.
Call That Girl’s Business Podcast
🧭 This week, Lisa discusses her main marketing and stories from 2007 until now. She discusses how ChatGPT is helpful and might not be helpful for small technical support businesses.
📅 Events & Webinars
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
Power Platform CLI meets the Power Platform API
👩💻🚀 Lane Swenka explains how auto-generated Power Platform API command groups bring more than 200 consistent management commands to the Power Platform CLI. Developers and admins see how the shared API contract, existing PAC authentication, and monthly updates simplify scripting, pipelines, and agent-assisted operations.
What’s new in Power Platform: September 2026 feature update
🦸🏻♀️👩💻🚀 Tiffany Treacy rounds up September’s Power Platform releases, including Power Series labs, Fluent canvas app templates, model-driven app interface updates, and agent-assisted app building. Makers, developers, and admins get a concise view of new capabilities across Power Apps, Power Automate, and the wider platform.
Investing in a more reliable Microsoft Graph PowerShell experience
👩💻🚀 The Microsoft Graph team, Barry Gervin, and Gavin Barron explain the 12-month retirement period for Windows PowerShell 5.x support in Microsoft Graph PowerShell. They outline the v3 timeline and why teams should plan their move to PowerShell 7.x for continued fixes, validation, and new features.
From Redis pressure to a healthier service
👩💻🚀 Sanket Achari examines the engineering work behind migrating the shared Copilot Studio agent flows service to Azure Managed Redis. The case study covers reducing redundant cache operations, hardening clients, staging the regional rollout, recovering from a hidden connection limit, and lowering total Redis costs.
Brand Kit and skills in Copilot in PowerPoint
🤵🏻🚀 Derek Johnson demonstrates how Brand Kit gives Copilot approved templates, imagery, fonts, and layout guardrails while Skills package recurring presentation tasks into reusable workflows. Business users and brand administrators learn how to create consistent decks with less repetitive formatting and prompting.
Manage semantic model settings in context with the default settings pane (preview)
🚀👩💻 Kay Unkroth shows how the Power BI semantic model settings pane keeps workspaces visible while organizing refresh, data access, performance, and other options into searchable sections. The post also explains the gradual transition from the classic full-page settings experience.
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