Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
The fifth annual Power Platform Community Conference (PPCC) was held last week. Check out the Power Platform blog recap. Dona Sarkar also posted a recap of the keynote, highlighting Business Apps in Work IQ. The Articles section includes more recaps.
The Dataverse plugin is now available in Copilot Cowork. Another announcement from last week was the preview of agentic authoring in Power Apps canvas apps using your GitHub account.
The Microsoft GitHub Copilot harness has been renamed to the Microsoft Copilot harness. The change was announced last week.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Code-first: a Pytest Harness for Agents
👩💻 Copilot Studio’s evaluation features are a good start, but professional teams reach their limits quickly. Claire Edgson shows how build something that runs each critical case ten times and lets you know what the result means.
M365 Agents Toolkit: Add A Custom API To An Agent
🦸🏻♀️ With the M365 Agents Toolkit you can add any API to your agents. You are no longer limited to the standard list of connectors in Agent Builder. Matthew Devaney shows us how.
Pira - Creating my own Jira in Code Apps
🦸🏻♀️ David Wyatt tried building less exciting solutions. But now he tries to push his boundaries with a replacement for Jira.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Power Platform Just Hit 80 Million Users: PPCC 2026 Keynote Highlights by Vlad Catrinescu
🦸🏻♀️ Everything Announced At PPCC 2026 by Howdang Rashid
🦸🏻♀️ Sync Text Message Replies STOP and START with Contact Point Consent in Customer Insights - Journeys by Amey Holden
🦸🏻♀️ Adventures with Copilot Studio: Better Instructions, Faster Agents, Fewer Credits! by Matt Ruma
🦸🏻♀️ Code app team setup: environments, data and app access, ALM and GIT branching by Dennis Chi
🦸🏻♀️ Travel Light: When Dataverse List Rows Stops at 250 by Ed Gonzales
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Fabric Architecture Podcast
🦸🏻♀️ A sensitivity label says Highly Confidential in the header, but inside Fabric it never decides who opens the item. This episode traces where labels actually control access and where the appearance of a lock is just a sign.
Microsoft Community Insights Podcast
🚀 Joel Oleson on Enterprise AI Governance, talks about thinking how it was hard to herd cats and govern SharePoint. Now imagine lobster ranching, except they aren’t in cages and they are all over the place! Climbing all over your enterprise data.
Let’s chat about the current and future state of agentic governance.
AI DevOps Podcast
👩💻 Henrik Kniberg is the co-founder and Chief Scientist of Abundly AI in Stockholm, where he leads development of a platform for building autonomous AI agents. Many of us know him from his agile work: he wrote "Scrum and XP from the Trenches," "Kanban and Scrum: Making the Most of Both," and "Lean from the Trenches," coached at Spotify and LEGO, and created the "Spotify Engineering Culture" videos and the well-known skateboard MVP drawing. More recently, his book and video "Generative AI in a Nutshell" have reached millions of people, with the book translated into 31 languages.
📅 Events & Webinars
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.
ColorCloud 2027
(📅 April 21-23, 2027)
ColorCloud 2027 brings the Microsoft Business Applications community to Hamburg, Germany, for one day of workshops and two days of sessions in German and English. Beginners and experienced practitioners explore Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Business Central, Azure, Power BI, Fabric, and Copilot Studio while learning, sharing ideas, and connecting with the community.
DynamicsMinds 2027
(📅 May 24-26, 2027)
DynamicsMinds 2027 brings the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community to Grand Hotel Bernardin in Portorož, Slovenia, for three days of sessions, panels, and networking. Developers, consultants, makers, and business leaders explore Finance and Operations, Business Central, Customer Engagement, and Power Platform while sharing practical experience with Microsoft experts and community speakers.
ECS 2027
(📅 May 31-June 2, 2027)
ECS 2027 brings Microsoft business and technology leaders, practitioners, and partners to Congress Center Düsseldorf for sessions and tutorials across AI, Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Fabric. The event combines technical learning with strategy discussions for decision makers, architects, developers, makers, and security professionals.
EPPC 2027
(📅 June 14-17, 2027)
European Power Platform Conference 2027 brings developers, makers, consultants, architects, and business leaders to the Convention Centre Dublin for four days of expert-led sessions, hands-on tutorials, and networking. Topics include Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Copilot Studio, Dynamics 365, AI, and governance, with practical guidance for building and adopting solutions.
💙 Out of the Blue
What’s new in Microsoft Copilot | October 2026
🤵🏻 🚀 Daniel Vargas rounds up updates across Copilot, Cowork, and Microsoft 365, including projects, Workspaces, Autopilot, and role-based plugins. The overview also covers app-specific improvements and admin capabilities for insights, retention, and data loss prevention.
Built by makers: Five years of Power Platform Community Conference
🦸🏻♀️ 🧭 Bryan Goode reflects on PPCC 2026 through customer examples and hands-on work connecting apps, automation, and agents. He outlines how natural-language authoring, persistent agents, and enterprise governance help makers improve complete business processes rather than isolated tasks.
From one prompt to a governed Dataverse app
🦸🏻♀️ 👩💻 🚀 Suyash Kshirsagar demonstrates how the Dataverse plugin in Copilot Cowork builds an event registration app with related tables, existing contacts, sample data, and waitlist logic. The walkthrough shows how user permissions, approval cards, and standard Dataverse lifecycle practices keep each change reviewable and governed.
The GitHub Copilot harness in Copilot Studio is now the Microsoft Copilot harness
🦸🏻♀️ 👩💻 🚀 The Microsoft Copilot Studio Team explains the renamed shared foundation for agent reasoning, tool use, and orchestration, with no changes to existing agents’ capabilities or billing. Internal evaluations and a customer support example illustrate differences in task performance, recovery from tool failures, and processing efficiency compared with the Standard harness.
Streamline creation and management of AI-ready apps with SharePoint Embedded
🚀 👩💻 Steve Pucelik walks through the new Apps experience in the SharePoint admin center for creating and managing SharePoint Embedded applications. Admins see how to configure ownership and billing, manage containers without PowerShell, and use archiving to reduce storage costs.
Copilot UX components are generally available
👩💻 Vesa Juvonen introduces interactive dashboards, forms, and business actions inside Copilot through SharePoint Framework 1.24. He explains how familiar web technologies support inline and full-screen experiences, while application code handles validation and human confirmation before consequential actions.
Invite agentic coauthors to collaborate directly in canvas studio
🦸🏻♀️ 🚀 Tasha Scott introduces the preview of agentic authoring inside canvas studio using a GitHub account. Makers see how to enable the tenant setting, review proposed plans, and delegate complex or repetitive edits while continuing to work with existing apps, connectors, and governance.
Frontier expands to more Microsoft 365 public previews
🚀 🧭 Per Farny explains how Frontier brings eligible previews for new Outlook for Windows, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams into one admin-controlled program starting in November. He clarifies how user and group enrollment differs from Standard and Deferred release preferences, helping organizations plan testing and rollout.
Custom APIs land in the Dataverse MCP Server
👩💻 Kent Weare explains how agents can invoke existing Dataverse business logic through typed Custom APIs exposed by the MCP Server. A support-case scenario shows why grouping related writes into a single server-side transaction avoids partial failures and compensation logic; Custom Actions are not currently supported.
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