Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week, Nathan Helgren shared news about the launch of new features that are part of Business Applications for Work IQ. Nathan also explained how your Dataverse data in Power Apps and Dynamics 365 can be queried directly from Copilot Chat.
Another blog post showed how the Work IQ Developer Tools (WIQD) can help you use existing work as the starting point for a Microsoft Copilot plugin.
We also got a glimpse of what’s coming to the Power Platform Community Conference. One article highlighted hybrid authoring in Power Apps and shared a few sessions to check out.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
How To Make Dialogs With Generative Pages
👩💻 Diana Birkelbach shows the latest way to solve dialogs. Open a focused dialog with Generative Pages, pass context in, return a selection, and deliver a much better model-driven app experience.
Build an App with the Copilot Managed Runtime CLI
🦸🏻♀️ Dennis Chi gives a technical guide to setup and publish an app. You install the Copilot Managed Runtime CLI, create an app, run it on your machine, connect it to a SharePoint list or Dataverse tables, push the code, preview the build, deploy it and share it.
Building a Multi-Agent Architecture with Microsoft Copilot Studio: A Walkthrough
🦸🏻♀️ Carl de Souza looks at how to build a multi-agent architecture using Microsoft Copilot Studio. Instead of creating one large agent that knows about every business process, we can create a primary agent that acts as the front door and then delegate work to smaller specialized agents.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ From Managed Environments to Managed Runtime: Is Microsoft Redefining Governance for the AI Era? by Carsten Groth
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot Agent Kit: The Agent Debugger by Em D’Arcy
🦸🏻♀️ Code Apps for Dataverse - Part 1 (Using VS Code and Claude Code) and Part 2 (Updating your Apps and Deployment) by Priyesh Wagh
🦸🏻♀️ Installing and Using Microsoft Dataverse Skills with AI Coding Agents by Carl de Souza
🦸🏻♀️ My favorite skills by Daniel Laskewitz
🦸🏻♀️ Using Secret Environment Variables in Dataverse by Jonas Rapp
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages: How to Avoid Accidentally Exposing Your Data by Nicholas Hayduk
🦸🏻♀️ Keep Expired Customer Insights - Journeys Segments Alive with Power Automate by Martin P. Lopez
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Mondays at Microsoft Podcast
🤵🏻 Start your week with the Microsoft news you actually need to know. Heather Cook and Jonathan Jones are joined by Microsoft MVP Sharda Kaur on her journey from Student Ambassador to MVP, and what she has learned building with Microsoft 365 and AI agents. Plus the biggest Copilot update yet with Home, Code and Autopilot, and Microsoft rebuilds the security operations center for the agentic era. Join us!
The AI DevOps Podcast
👩💻 Mark Michaelis, founder, CEO and Chief Technical Architect of IntelliTect in Spokane, Washington, and a Microsoft Regional Director and C# MVP for more than twenty-five years. Mark is the lead author of the Essential C# book series and the free companion site essentialcsharp.com, and he’s continued that work as a member of Microsoft’s design review teams for C#, Azure, and Azure DevOps, and as an adjunct professor at Eastern Washington University. He’s been on the conference circuit recently with talks like “Mastering the Agentic Coding Workflow” and “AI Axioms: Principles for Thriving in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” bringing his deep C# background to bear on how developers work with AI day to day. You can find him on GitHub as markmichaelis and connect with him on LinkedIn.
365 Message Center Show Podcast
🧭 A change to Microsoft 365 so big that Microsoft dropped the 365 and changed to Microsoft Copilot, in more places that one. The super-app is was announced, combining Chat, Cowork, Code, and Autopilot. Daniel and Darrell still managed to find some significant updates that didn’t involve Copilot this week. HTML support in SharePoint and changes to Planner meeting plans.
📅 Events & Webinars
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
Bring your plugin to Microsoft Copilot with Work IQ Developer Tools
👩💻 Seth T. Bacon, Sébastien Levert, and Rachit Kumar Malik show how to import an existing Agent Plugins-format plugin into Work IQ Developer Tools, or describe one in natural language through the GitHub Copilot CLI, to package skills and MCP servers for Microsoft Copilot.
SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – September 2026
👩💻 🚀 Vesa Juvonen confirms Copilot UX components reach general availability in October 2026, letting developers render charts, forms, and approvals directly inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, and shares what’s coming in SPFx 1.24 including React 18 support.
Your AI transformation starts with what you’ve already built
🤵🏻 🦸🏻♀️ 👩💻 Tiffany Treacy explains how hybrid authoring in Power Apps and Copilot Studio lets people extend applications they already use with AI instead of rebuilding from scratch. The post previews PPCC 2026 sessions on agentic authoring, Copilot Cowork, and expanded agent capabilities.
Simplify site governance with self-service ownership transfer in Power Pages
🦸🏻♀️ 🚀 Apurba Sinha Roy introduces self-service site ownership transfer, letting eligible owners and administrators hand off a Power Pages site to another tenant user. The feature logs who initiated each transfer and notifies the previous owner, new owner, and admins by email.
Power BI’s next chapter: The evolution of business intelligence
🦸🏻♀️ 👩💻 🧭 Mohammad Ali announces a new natural-language app building experience in Power BI Desktop, powered by apps in Fabric, that lets users turn a semantic model into a published application supporting inputs, write-back, and operational workflows. The post also previews semantic views shared at FabCon Barcelona.
Microsoft & Snowflake’s commitment to Apache Ossie
🧭 👩💻 Christian Wade details Microsoft’s collaboration with Snowflake on Apache Ossie, a vendor-neutral standard for exchanging semantic metadata, and outlines plans to help establish DAX as an Ossie-recognized query language.
Power BI September 2026 feature summary
👩💻 🚀 Katie Murray rounds up September’s Power BI updates, including agentic development through Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and the Power BI Authoring MCP server, plus the retirement of the legacy file picker for OneDrive and SharePoint saves starting in October.
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