Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week, the public preview of Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime was announced. Microsoft Copilot was also reimagined, with Home (Chat and Cowork), Code, and Autopilot being introduced.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Automating Power Pages Administration with PAC CLI
🦸🏻♀️ Oleksandr Olashyn discusses the PAC CLI update 2.12.x that introduced admin APIs for Power Pages.
How to Build a Real-Time Voice Agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio
🦸🏻♀️ Carl de Souza takes a look at how to create a real-time voice agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio. Voice agents have been around for some time, but real-time voice changes the experience considerably.
Deep Linking in Power Apps Code Apps: Yes, It *Is* Possible (With a Twist)
👩💻 Riccardo Gregori discovers that deep linking in Power Apps Code Apps is possible, just not through the url path, but through the query parameters.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot Studio Evals: A Practical Guide to Testing AI Agents by Carl de Souza
🦸🏻♀️ Your Dynamics files, your data center by Peter Ruiter
🛠️ Gemini and Polish UX Release 1.2026.9 by Jonas Rapp
🦸🏻♀️ Free Power Automate HTML Table Styler: Create Clean, Email-Ready Tables in Seconds by Ellis Karim
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
🧭 Build a specialist AI agent without writing a line of code. Describe what you want in one prompt, and Copilot Agent Builder generates the name, instructions, skills, and knowledge setup for you — grounded only in the SharePoint sites, files, and Copilot Connectors you choose.
Teach your agent a Skill to handle recurring work, like drafting weekly status emails from your own template, then test it in Preview before you publish. Share it with people or groups and set exact permissions, track real usage in the new Monitor tab, and push your best agents into your org’s Agent Store catalog.
Ned Friend, Group Product Manager for Copilot Agent Builder shares how to turn an agent into a tool your whole team can run, measure, and trust.
RunAs Radio Podcast
👩💻 Microsoft offers a surprising number of ways to build agents in Microsoft 365. Which one should you choose? Richard talks to Andrew Connell about the evolving Microsoft 365 Copilot landscape and the four major approaches to building agents. Starting with SharePoint Agents for document-focused scenarios, Andrew walks through Agent Builder inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, the increasingly popular Copilot Studio in the Power Platform ecosystem, and the often-overlooked Agents Toolkit for VS Code. Along the way, he discusses governance, licensing, publishing models, security concerns, and when Azure Foundry makes sense. The result is a practical guide to understanding Microsoft’s growing agent platform and choosing the right tool for your organization.
Power Platform Boost Podcast
🤵🏻 This time we come to you “live” - or at least together - from Nordic Summit 2026 in Billund, Denmark! We sat down at the end of the two-day conference for a short recap of what it was like for Ulrikke to be an organiser and for Nick to be a speaker at this community event.
One of the popular topics for this conference was the new way to build apps from Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio for those with tenants enrolled in the Frontier Program, as announced by Ryan Cunningham. At Nordic Summit, we saw Cooky and Matt Beard demo this in their session.
📅 Events & Webinars
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.
ESPC26
(📅 November 30-December 3, 2026)
ESPC26 brings the Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Azure, and Power Platform community to RAI Amsterdam for four days of expert-led sessions, practical learning, and networking. The event is designed for developers, IT professionals, makers, architects, and business leaders exploring collaboration, cloud, AI, and modern workplace technologies.
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
Introducing the new Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot
🤵🏻 👩💻 🚀 Jared Spataro introduces new Copilot capabilities for bringing Chat, Cowork, Office, Code, and Autopilot together in one experience. The announcement also covers Copilot Managed Runtime, Microsoft IQ integrations with Fabric, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform, a new plugin registry, and FinOps controls for AI spend.
Work IQ: Business and workplace intelligence in the flow of work
🤵🏻 👩💻 🚀 James Oleinik explains how Work IQ connects Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Microsoft 365 data so Copilot and agents can reason across business context. The post demonstrates reusable business skills, governed actions, Dataverse-backed semantic models, and admin controls for building coordinated experiences across sales, service, finance, and operations.
Build the future of agentic ERP with new Dynamics 365 capabilities
🧭 👩💻 🚀 Sameer Verma outlines Microsoft’s agentic ERP vision and the always-on roadmap for Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management. The announcement covers new AI agents, ERP connectors for Copilot and Copilot Cowork, automation across finance and operations, and controls for secure, governed AI-assisted work.
Build where you want, run with confidence: Microsoft hosts and manages code created by Copilot
👩💻 🚀 David Blyth introduces Copilot Managed Runtime and SDK in public preview, providing Microsoft-hosted execution, identity, governed data access, deployment, and lifecycle management for apps built with Copilot Cowork, Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, and third-party tools. IT teams get a centralized Microsoft 365 admin center inventory while makers and developers retain Git-backed workflows and familiar web technologies.
Modern List in Power Pages is now generally available
🦸🏻♀️ 👩💻 Nagesh Bhat announces that Modern List is now the default list experience for newly created Power Pages sites. The post shows how makers configure Dataverse views and actions, while developers extend lists with the Power Pages Client API, custom JavaScript, and row or cell events.
Join the Copilot Dev Camp Summit Fall Edition on September 30
👩💻 🦸🏻♀️ Paolo Pialorsi introduces the first quarterly Copilot Dev Camp Summit, a free online event for the Copilot Extensibility community. The announcement explains what developers and makers can explore across Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cowork, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft IQ, and their extensibility ecosystems.
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