Power Platform Weekly - Issue #206
Welcome to Power Platform Weekly!
Last week the Powerful Devs Conference was held. The recording is available on demand. If you missed it, this is your chance to catch up!
During the keynote the private preview of PCF Copilot APIs was announed (39:44 in the recorded video). Get agents into model-driven apps. Join here: https://aka.ms/pa-agent-api-preview.
The Power Platform advocate 🥑 team summarized in a blog how you can take the next steps building agents with Copilot Studio.
Have a great week and thanks for reading!
📰 Articles
Building Plugin Packages in CI/CD Automation
👩💻 For a while now there has been a gap in the Power Platform tooling related to plugin packages. However, getting plugin packages to participate in ALM has been bothersome when using source control as the source of truth in the Power Platform. Michael O. shares his thoughts on a solution.
3 Ways To Format Agent Messages in Copilot Studio
🦸🏻♀️ Have you been experimenting with Copilot Studio but want to diversify your messaging journey? Ever considered what ways you can format your agent’s output messages? Then look no further than this blog from Angeliki Patsiavou!
Process Mining Capability in Power Automate
🦸🏻♀️ Process mining is a research area and technology that helps businesses understand their actual processes, and how they operate, and identify opportunities for improvement, automation, and digitalization. Sam Kumar shows how to get started.
Other articles
🦸🏻♀️ Exit Customer Voice Survey Respondent From Journey When Using Other Regarding Records by Megan V. Walker
🦸🏻♀️ Setting up notes analysis, helpful or not? by Jeroen Scheper
🦸🏻♀️ 2025 Wave 1: D365 Customer Service and Contact Center by Dian Taylor
🦸🏻♀️🚀 Reduce log storage: Delete audit logs – Power Platform Admin Center by Nishant Rana
👩💻 Registering a plugin step on any entity and can’t filter by attribute? Pick some entity first by Alex Shlega
🦸🏻♀️ “Update a row” vs “Upsert a Row” in the Power Automate Dataverse connector by Alex Shlega
🦸🏻♀️ Power Pages Multistep forms Deep Dive (Part 2) by Wilmer Alcivar
👩💻 How to make Virtual PCFs work with FluentUI 9 Components were introduced after version 9.46.2 by Andrew Butenko
🦸🏻♀️ Copilot Studio Agents, The New Excel by David Wyatt
🚀 Dataverse Git integration (Preview) - How are solution components saved? by Riccardo Gregori
🦸🏻♀️ AI-era dating: Power Automate, AI Prompts & a bit of chaos by Ana Inés Urrutia
📺 Videos
🎙️ Podcasts
Low Code Approach Podcast
🤵🏻 In this exciting episode of the Low Code Approach, Sean, Ken, and Jocelyn are joined by special guests Patrick and Adam from Guy in a Cube. Together, they dive deep into all the latest and greatest news about Microsoft Fabric from Ignite and European FabricCon. Please tune in to hear Patrick and Adam share their insights and expertise on the newest features, updates, and innovations in Microsoft Fabric.
Dynamics Corner Podcast
👩💻 In this episode, we navigate the world of Dynamics and the journey from customer to partner, offering insights on shifting perspectives and maximizing efficiency through change management. We dive into effective ERP implementation communication, balancing functional and technical development, and unlocking powerful Business Central features. Plus, we explore the impact of telemetry, process mapping, and reskilling programs that open new career opportunities. Whether adapting to a new role or optimizing your Dynamics experience, this episode is packed with practical strategies to help you succeed. Tune in and take your expertise to the next level!
The Digestible Dynamics Podcast
🧭 In this conversation, Prasoon Sinha discusses the integration of Microsoft AI technologies in traffic engineering, emphasizing the importance of communication and the social impact of their projects. He highlights how AI and digital tools enhance project delivery, improve safety, and ultimately contribute to better quality of life for communities. The discussion also explores the future of AI in traffic engineering, focusing on augmenting human capabilities and leveraging global knowledge.
📅 Events & Webinars
Canadian Power Platform Summit 2025
(📅 March 21-22, 2025)
The 2025 edition of the Canadian Power Platform Summit is coming up soon! Lots of MVPs will travel to Vancouver before the MVP Summit to speak on their favorite topics, so it promises to be a great event!
ColorCloud Hamburg 2025
(📅 April 24, 2025)
ColorCloud is back in 2025! After the highly successful first edition, the new edition is happening in April 2025. Again, it will be a great event for everyone who likes Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure & Power BI.
European Collaboration Summit, European AI and Cloud Summit & European BizApps Summit 2025
(📅 May 26-28, 2025)
With 3000 attendees, the European Collaboration Summit, European AI and Cloud Summit & European BizApps Summit 2025 are uniting forces to become a big, shared conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. New this year is the European BizApps Summit with a focus on Power Platform, Fabric and Dataverse.
DynamicsMinds 2025
(📅 May 26-28, 2025)
An awesome Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Community Conference. Where brilliant minds meet, mingle & share.
European Power Platform Conference 2025
(📅 June 16-19, 2025)
The European Power Platform Conference 2025 promises to be another great conference! The speakers will be announced soon, but make sure to check out the site already for the early bird sale!
💙 Out of the Blue
Bells and whistles: Building with Microsoft Copilot Studio
🤵🏻🦸🏻♀️🧭👩💻🚀 In this blog, Gomolemo Mohapi and Daniel Laskewitz summarize a bunch of the episodes of the AI in Action Building with Microsoft Copilot Studio series they did. Make sure to look at these when you want to learn more about extending agents with Cloud Flows and providing a better user experience for end users.
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