Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week, the Copilot Studio September updates were presented. The general availability of Microsoft Power Pages in the Sweden Central and Italy North regions was announced. Memory in Copilot Studio was highlighted in the Custom Engine blog.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
The Next FinOps Challenge: Allocating Intelligence
🦸🏻♀️🧭 Carsten Groth shares a story from an executive meeting. How is a CFO supposed to allocate funds when all AI initiatives show documented promise? When all departments can be improved, where do you allocate intelligence?
Building Rich Model-Driven App Forms Embedded with Generative Pages
🦸🏻♀️ Carl de Souza shows how to embed a Generative Page directly inside a model-driven app form in Microsoft Power Apps.
Copilot Studio | Your MCP Server Now Needs a Key Vault
👩💻 If you have an MCP server manifest sitting on your disk right now, there is a good chance it is already out of date. And you have until October 31, 2026 to do something about it. Mariano Gomez Bent shows you what to do.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Adventures with Copilot Studio: Choosing the Right Model and Harness by Matt Ruma
🛠️ What is actually in your Power Platform estate, and what it would cost to fix by Peter Ruiter
👩💻 Supported isn’t the same as working - Astro in Power Pages by Oleksandr Olashyn
🦸🏻♀️ Escaping Quotes in HTML Links Inside a JSON Body in Power Automate / Flow by Ed Gonzales
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Mechanics Podcast
🤵🏻 Take a business process from prompt to production by building agents, workflows, and apps in one place with Copilot Studio. Describe the agent you need, generate its instructions and reusable skills, choose the model, connect MCP tools and specialist agents, then test quality at scale with Evaluations.
Trigger workflows from incoming email, classify submissions, hand work to your agents, and pause for human review on the decisions that need it. Track timing and paths for every step in the Activity tab. Then generate a full-stack app on your Dataverse data, so your team can filter, review, and approve every bid from one shared view.
Jack Rowbotham, Copilot Studio Senior Product Manager, shares how to automate a procurement process for bids from multiple vendors, using agents that reason, route, and recommend.
Microsoft Fabric Architecture Podcast
👩💻 Fabric domains look like security boundaries. They’re metadata. Every user in your tenant can see every domain name, the contributor role only matters in the hands of someone who is already a workspace admin, and the default domain keeps running when nobody’s watching. This episode opens up what a domain actually is — and the specific trap teams walk into when they treat a label as a wall.
Realities Remixed Podcast
🧭 AI may transform how work gets done, but leadership will determine whether that transformation succeeds. The future belongs to organizations that pair technological intelligence with human intelligence, creating environments where people can adapt, grow and thrive through change
This week, Dave and Rob are joined by Fiona Maher, Director at The Feminine Connection UK to explore why human sustainability is not a wellbeing initiative but a commercial imperative for organisations navigating constant change.
📅 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
New and improved: build apps, extend agents, and transform business processes in Microsoft Copilot Studio
🦸🏻♀️ 👩💻 🚀 Jason Moore outlines September's Copilot Studio updates for building apps, workflows, and agents together, including deterministic hooks, Foundry IQ knowledge, expanded evaluations, and pre-publish review. Makers and administrators can read how these capabilities help shape, assess, and govern end-to-end business solutions.
Memory in Copilot Studio: how agents carry knowledge across conversations
👩💻 🦸🏻♀️ Kaashyap Murali & Michal Sroka explain how agents use short-term and long-term memory to carry context between conversations, including how users can inspect or clear saved memories. The post also outlines memory evaluation for recall, stale information, and unsupported guesses.
Microsoft Power Pages is now available in Sweden Central and Italy North
🚀 👩💻 🧭 Apurba Sinha Roy announces general availability of Power Pages in the Sweden Central and Italy North regions. The expansion lets organizations host sites closer to their users while meeting regional data residency needs.
Pre-authenticated (tempauth) URLs are retiring: move to Microsoft Entra ID tokens before April 1, 2027
👩💻 🚀 The SharePoint team explains how the retirement of pre-authenticated URLs affects Microsoft Graph file operations beginning April 1, 2027. Developers learn which URL patterns to audit and how to replace embedded authorization with Microsoft Entra ID access tokens.
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