Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week, the community and the Power CAT team shared insights into hooks in Copilot Studio, building on the recent preview announcement. Read the community perspective in the Articles section and the Power CAT perspective in Out of the Blue.
We also spotted two announcements related to the Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code: localization support and SPA template support.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Copilot Studio | The Workflow That Runs Every Time
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot Studio agents built on the GitHub Copilot harness can now run one of your workflows before every tool call, and that workflow is allowed to say no. The feature is called hooks and arrived in preview at the end of September. Mariano Gomez shares his perspective on why hooks matter for makers and professional developers.
Migrate a Power Apps code app to Copilot Managed Runtime
🦸🏻♀️ Microsoft does not yet have a function to convert a Power Apps code app to Copilot Managed Runtime (Managed Apps), so for now, you need to migrate it manually. In this article, Dennis Chi shares his experience and explains the steps involved in the migration.
Managing Copilot Credit Consumption
🚀 David Wyatt explores how to monitor and manage Copilot Credit consumption across the Power Platform, highlighting the reporting tools available today and how they can help track usage and forecast costs.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ The day agent accounts stopped being a product feature by Carsten Groth
🦸🏻♀️ Rethinking AI Strategy: From Use Cases to Decision Systems by Carsten Groth
🦸🏻♀️ Be aware of the: Auto Update Every update setting by Ted Ohlsson
🦸🏻♀️ Lead Scoring Criteria: What Should Earn Points and Why? by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Website Tracking in Customer Insights - Journeys: Triggers, Segments and Limitations by Martin P. Lopez
🦸🏻♀️ Move Contact Center configuration between environments, from inside XrmToolBox by Peter Ruiter
🦸🏻♀️ Introducing new Power Pages site setting for Web API by Sam Kumar
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Knee-Deep in Tech Podcast
👩💻 Alexander took a moment at FabCon in Barcelona to discuss the changing landscape of reports and the supposed demise of Power BI with analytics experts Valerie Junk and Benito van Breugel.
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?
M365 Nuggets Podcast
🚀 Your company probably has more AI agents than you think. One customer believed they had a couple of hundred. They had 3,000.
In this episode of Guardians of M365 Governance, Joy, Christian and I discuss why AI readiness is never “done” and how to govern agents, not just content. Joy shows a live demo of Orchestry’s new agents dashboard (phase one), covering Copilot Studio, Agent Builder and SharePoint agents.
Awkward Silence Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ After a long break, Ed and Ashley return to discuss conference season, recapping Ashley’s trip to Community Summit in Nashville—highlighting community connections, keynote takeaways like Lovable as a front-end app builder connecting to Dataverse, and the heavy focus on agents across Microsoft. They preview the upcoming Power Platform Community Conference (PPCC) in Las Vegas, noting that session times are available in the Whova app (and via a PDF) rather than the website. Both share goals for PPCC: learning how agents and Copilot fit real business needs, getting practical guidance for non-developers (including a GitHub Copilot for non-developers session), and networking.
📅 Events & Webinars
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
Hooks in Copilot Studio: give your agent more than instructions
👩💻 🚀 Petros Feleskouras explains how event-driven hooks extend Copilot Studio agents with workflows that add context, transform data, and check actions before they run. Developers learn how hooks can complement an agent’s instructions with controlled behavior.
Create Power Pages sites in minutes with SPA templates
🦸🏻♀️ 👩💻 Neeraj Nandwana shows how the Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code can use a ready-made single-page application template with its /create-site skill. Builders can start from a template rather than generating every page and component from scratch.
Build AI-powered apps without creating a vector database
👩💻 🚀 Steve Pucelik explains how the Microsoft 365 Copilot Retrieval API for SharePoint Embedded can ground AI features in enterprise content. Developers learn how to use the API while keeping control of security, compliance, and governance in their SharePoint Embedded apps.
Building trust-aware controls for AI: differentiated handling of untrusted content
👩💻 🚀 Camille Birch describes controls that distinguish untrusted content from trusted instructions in AI workflows. The post explains how this can help mitigate indirect prompt injection, where malicious instructions are embedded in otherwise legitimate documents or messages.
Go multilingual with the Power Pages plugin
🦸🏻♀️ 👩💻 Neeraj Nandwana introduces the plugin’s /add-localization skill for creating multilingual Power Pages SPA sites. The post demonstrates localization across more than 43 languages, including right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.
Introducing Microsoft Copilot for legal
🤵🏻 🧭 Drena Kusari announces more than 20 purpose-built legal skills and new partner-built plugins for Microsoft Copilot. Legal professionals can use legal-specific capabilities and trusted sources for document work while retaining control of their decisions.
Databricks ADBC connector for Power BI and Microsoft Fabric is generally available
👩💻 🚀 Michaela Isaacs describes the generally available ADBC connector for Databricks in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Teams can opt into migration per connection, workspace, or tenant while existing connections continue to work unchanged.
Power BI October 2026 feature summary
🦸🏻♀️ 👩💻 🚀 Katie Murray rounds up October updates across Copilot and AI, reporting, and semantic models. The post covers capabilities such as custom visuals built with Fabric skills, a Gantt chart preview, and improvements to slicers, bookmarks, and semantic-model surge protection.
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