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The #Memphis Microsoft Community Day schedule is live!
https://t.co/p9gtXAoQO9
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#ai #copilot #microsoft365 #microsoftteams #powerplatform https://t.co/4KEGGGGyZP— Daniel Glenn (@danielglenn)
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🟪 New Data Grid for Canvas Power Apps
Microsoft's new Data Grid modern control brings a fast spreadsheet view to Canvas Power Apps. Built on Fluent UI it supports virtual scrolling search sorting and multi select for large datasets.
💡 High performance virtual scrolling
🔍 Built in search sort and multi select
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Looks like this could be the end of Power Platform CoE Starter Kit updates. March 2026 update never arrived. We all knew this moment was coming eventually as Microsoft's priorities shifted away from low-code platform governance tooling and into all things AI instead.
Discussion: https://github.com/microsoft/coe-starter-kit/issues/10990
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How are the pro-dev folks in Microsoft's low-code space approaching the arrival of code-first Power Apps? What does it mean when a person like me with zero programming skills can deliver custom code demos at a Power Platform conference?
This is my trip report from Update Days Power Platform 2026 conference in Prague this week: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/vibe-check-on-the-state-of-low-code-at-udpp26
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🟦 Introduction to Copilot Studio Component Collections 🚀
Reuse topics actions and knowledge across Copilot agents to cut duplication.
Create collections from Library or agent settings then share them across agents.💡 Centralized maintenance and consistency
🔍 Reusable topics workflows and knowledge
⚖️ Exportable collections for cross environment sharingWatch the demo by David Warner from the community call.
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🟪 Getting Started with Power Apps Code Apps
Power Apps Code Apps bring a pro‑code workflow to the Power Platform. Build modern web apps locally and publish to Dataverse backed environments.
Giridhar Mungamuri demos a real app using VS Code React and CLI tooling. The session covers Dataverse SharePoint and publishing to managed environments. Code apps blend developer control with platform governance and connectors.
💡 Power Platform integration
🔍 Local dev with VS Code
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🟪 Power Apps MCP Install and Configure
Want to set up Power Apps MCP and start AI assisted app building? This step by step guide covers prerequisites installs and a first app walkthrough.
It walks through installing VS Code NodeJS Git DotNet SDK PowerShell and GitHub Copilot CLI. It shows how to install the Power Apps MCP and create a canvas app.
Timestamps let you jump to each step quickly. 💡💡 Quick local dev setup
🔍 AI assisted canvas editing
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🟪 Build Canvas Apps in VS Code with AI — New Power Apps Tool
Shane Young shows how to build and debug Canvas Apps in VS Code using AI 🚀💡 Rapid app prototyping in VS Code
🔍 AI assisted debugging for old apps
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For more info on the Dataverse storage entitlement increase for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Premium, check out my blog post on The Licensing Guide:
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🟪 Turn Model-Driven Power Apps into Copilot Agents in Minutes
Turn your model-driven Power Apps into interactive Copilot agents in minutes. 🔹🚀
No code changes required. Download the package upload to Teams and enable your app for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Grids and forms surface interactively so users query filter and edit without leaving their flow. Uses an auto configured MCP server and works across Word Excel and PowerPoint.
💡 Quick declarative agent setup
🔍 Interactive grids and forms in Copilot
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Are you using Power Platform Dataflows still? I was, too, but it's time to figure out an alternative instead of wishing they'd ever become governable, nor support proper ALM. Another dead feature in Microsoft's evergreen cloud: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/i-see-dead-features-dataflows
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🟪 A New Way to Build Canvas Apps 🚀 (Power Apps MCP Server)
Power Apps just got a productivity boost with the Canvas Apps Authoring MCP Server 🚀
It connects AI like GitHub Copilot and Claude to Power Apps Studio to generate YAML and sync live.The workflow reduces repetitive UI and formula work while keeping creators in control.
• Faster prototyping
• Less formula repetition💡 Faster app prototyping
🔍 YAML driven app edits
⚖️ Human supervised automationWould you use AI to speed Power Apps development or prefer building manually? 💡
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Here's a gift link to the newsletter issue I wrote some time ago about Microsoft's Fabric push and forgetting the recipe of what made Power BI successful in the first place:
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I've been telling people Power Platform Dataflows is a dead feature for 3 years at least. The Power BI blog now confirms that any non-Fabric Dataflow is in Legacy mode.
The Gen2 Fabric Dataflow doesn't even support Dataverse as a target.🙄 Not that the Power Apps portal would surface the new version anyway. So, it's not officially "legacy" - just dead.
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I have built a thing!🥳 Or actually, I have built a V2 of a thing that existed in a different format: https://releaseplans.net/
Instead of the earlier Power BI report, you can now browse Power Platform and Dynamics 365 release plan items in a modern web experience. Data is pulled from Microsoft's API once a day, just like before.
More info here: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/release-plans-the-way-they-should-be
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🟪 Building Vibe Code Apps with Copilot CLI
GitHub Copilot CLI now plugs into Power Pages to generate Power Apps sites from simple prompts 🚀 It scaffolds sites configures Web APIs and sets permissions automatically.
Supports TypeScript React code apps and Entra ID auth patterns.
Great for rapid prototypes and streamlining DevOps terminal workflows 💡💡 Rapid app scaffolding
🔍 Terminal first workflows
⚖️ Platform aware permissionsWant a quick demo or a step by step guide?
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🟦 Why and How to Use Adaptive Cards in Copilot Studio
Bring buttons forms and native styling to Copilot Studio to boost engagement 🚀
This quick guide explains why they matter and how to add them.💡 Interactive adaptive forms
🔍 Structured input capture
⚖️ Native cross platform UIWant a sample card or a walkthrough video link?
#COPILOTSTUDIO #ADAPTIVECARDS #POWERPLATFORM #CONVERSATIONALAI
▶︎https://www.hubsite365.com/en-ww/citizen-developer/?id=300a8379-cf20-f111-8342-00224882d634&topic=9f678e9a-8cd4-ec11-a7b5-6045bd92fe52&theater=true -
🟩 Dataverse grounding in Copilot Studio 🚀
Mission 8 in Agent Academy shows how to connect prompts to Dataverse tables and related columns. Use prompt grounding to pull up to 1000 records and inject business context into agent flows. Benefits include real time accuracy low code integration and scalable enterprise use.
💡 Real time accuracy
🔍 Context aware prompts
⚖️ Low code enterprise deploymentTry Mission 8 in Agent Academy and share your findings.
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🟦 Copilot Studio Assessment Agent Design
Watched Damien Bird's walkthrough of assessment agents in Copilot Studio.
Shows how to build assessors that score responses track usage and flag escalations 🚀.
Highlights governance tools analytics and Viva Insights integration for observability 💡.
Emphasizes testing piloting and monitoring before scale.💡 Natural language agent design
🔍 Unified analytics and usage insights
⚖️ Governance and Responsible AI controlsWhat assessment would you build next?
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🟪 Power Apps Modern Combo Box Update
Microsoft shipped a major Modern Controls update for Power Apps with a transformative Combo Box upgrade. It removes the 800 item limit and adds SearchText for server side filtering so large datasets work without hacks. Selection behavior is improved including clear on click and reliable form integration enabling multi select People Picker patterns.
💡 Thousands item support
🔍 Server side filtering via SearchText
⚖️ Clear on click selection behavior🔹 Try the updated control and share feedback or questions
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🟩 AI-Driven Documentation for Power Platform
See a demo of an internal tool that turns Power Platform solution ZIPs into readable docs. It parses apps flows and data models then generates diagrams summaries and dependency maps. Designed for audits handovers and faster onboarding. Built on LLMs and Power Platform integrations.
💡 Automated solution exports
🔍 Architecture diagrams and mappings
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🟦 Automating Smart Approval Cancellations
Orphaned approvals can stall flows and confuse teams. Mike Givens demos a Dataverse pattern to add timeouts reminders and automatic cleanup.
💡 Dataverse approval cleanup pattern
🔍 Approval row retrieval and update
⚖️ Timeouts reminders and automatic cleanup#PowerAutomate #Dataverse #PowerPlatform #MicrosoftCommunity
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Power Platform Feb 2026 Update:
New Copilot chat in model‑driven apps, MCP server preview, modern Card control, theme copy‑paste, governance improvements, and GA for code apps. #PowerPlatform #PowerApps #Copilot #LowCode #M365
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You can't make this s*** up:
Monday: Microsoft silently replaces the #PowerAutomate cloud flow designer with a "new" version. Everybody hates it, nothing fits on a screen anymore, performance is awful on bigger flows.
Wednesday: Microsoft reverts things back to the new designer that GA'd in Nov 2023 and still had issues compared to the classic one.
All because they're hell-bent on making flows a child feature of Copilot Studio as Agent Flows.
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We moved the logic of our FinModeler financial modeling app, built in #PowerApps, to use the new Dataverse SDK for Python.
It used to take ~10 minutes to generate the full Excel workbooks with dynamic formulas. Now, the same output takes a few seconds.🤯
Yeah, using Office Scripts and Excel as the engine originally was a bit crazy. But it was the #lowcode way for us #PowerPlatform folks. Now, with #Dataverse, #Python and some Azure Functions, we're on another level.💪
https://www.finmodeler.com/financial-models-in-memory-with-azure-functions-and-dataverse-sdk/
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I can't recall seeing Microsoft product teams mess up the Dataverse table settings this badly before. What they've managed to do with the latest Microsoft Planner update is a cautionary tale of how a small code change (by an AI agent?) can wreak havoc:
https://www.perspectives.plus/p/kill-switch-in-microsoft-planner
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🟪 The Death of Manual Docs: DevOps for Power Platform
Stop manual docs—automate documentation from Azure DevOps solutions into Markdown, diagrams, and Word as part of CI/CD pipelines. This demo shows Power Platform Build Tools and community extensions producing living, version-controlled docs tied to solution metadata. Benefits include fewer errors, faster releases, and stronger governance across DEV→TEST→PROD.
💡 Auto-generate docs from solution metadata
🔍 Integrates with Azure DevOps pipelines and build tools
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🟩 Dataverse Quick Document Templates
Stop copying data into Word. Generate polished documents from Dataverse records with no Power Automate and no custom code. The walkthrough covers schema aware templates field mapping repeating sections and promoting templates org wide. Learn how to move templates between environments in a few clicks with XrmToolBox. 💡
💡 Schema aware Word templates
🔍 Repeating sections for related records
⚖️ Migrate templates across environments with XrmToolBoxTry the demo or start with the free community plan 🚀
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🟪 Power Platform Code Interpreter: Python in Prompts
Power Platform now runs Python inside prompts—transform CSVs into structured Excel reports and charts within Power Automate flows, no custom code required. 💡
💡 🚀 Enable Code Interpreter in Copilot Studio to run Python on CSV/Excel/PDF inputs.
🔍 Automate file processing, generate charts, and update Dataverse inside agent flows.
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Register now #Knoxville #communitydays is happening soon!!!
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#microsoft365 #tennessee #sharepoint #powerplatform #microsoftpurview #lin https://t.co/yZjfcCMrRT— Daniel Glenn (@danielglenn)
Jan 21, 2026 -
🟩 Stop Clicking Export — Dataverse + Azure DevOps
Ready to ditch manual "Export Solution"? I watched a concise tutorial that shows how Azure DevOps pipelines enable traceable, automated Power Apps deployments. 🚀
💡 Automate deployments with clean commits—no XML chaos
🔍 Sync work items and statuses between ADO and Dataverse
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🟩 Stop Clicking Export — Dataverse + Azure DevOps
Ready to ditch manual "Export Solution"? I watched a concise tutorial that shows how Azure DevOps pipelines enable traceable, automated Power Apps deployments. 🚀
💡 Automate deployments with clean commits—no XML chaos
🔍 Sync work items and statuses between ADO and Dataverse
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🟩 Stop Clicking Export — Dataverse + Azure DevOps
Ready to ditch manual "Export Solution"? I watched a concise tutorial that shows how Azure DevOps pipelines enable traceable, automated Power Apps deployments. 🚀
💡 Automate deployments with clean commits—no XML chaos
🔍 Sync work items and statuses between ADO and Dataverse
⚖️ Improve visibility, reporting, and compliance -
More details and speculation on what the Power Apps licensing changes mean for customers:
https://licensing.guide/what-should-power-apps-per-app-customers-do-now/Keep an eye on the Code Apps and Managed Environments licensing requirements in particular. #PowerApps #PowerPlatform #licensing
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2 weeks into 2026, Microsoft finally made a blog post about the Power Apps per app licenses end of sale.
I chose not to believe what the post said and decided to record a live video of me trying to purchase a real Power Apps license on Jan 15th:
https://youtu.be/pHuQdGbeSsMCompare that to what MS says here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/power-app-per-app-end-of-sale -
Did you know there's an XrmToolBox plugin that gives you a real-time monitor for the Power Platform solution import process, as well as import job details after completion? Well, I didn't, until I saw _n.SolutionManager in the Recently Updated list of Plugin Catalog:
https://xrm.jukkan.com/store/plugin/Greg.Xrm.SolutionManager
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I've got issues with the PPAC Know Issues UI. So, I decided to solve it via client-side scripting + Claude Code.
Enhance your Power Platform Admin Center experience with this Tampermonkey script, available in my GitHub repo:
https://github.com/jukkan/power-bookmarklets#PowerPlatform #Tampermonkey #PowerApps #PowerAutomate #Dynamics365
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...And the award for the first Power Platform community tool update of 2026 in XrmToolBox Plugin Catalog goes to:
Plugin Trace Viewer by Jonas Rapp!!!🏆👏🎉
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🟦 Copilot Studio: Generate & Download Word Docs
Copilot Studio now creates downloadable, formatted Word docs from natural-language prompts—speeding report creation and iteration. 🔹
💡 Time-saver: auto-drafts from prompts and data
🔍 Context-aware: SharePoint grounding and directory data
⚖️ Enterprise-ready: download, scale, and security controlsWatch Damien Bird's walkthrough to see a demo and try it in your tenant—what would you automate first?
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One more Microsoft licensing change for 2025!🥳 This time, the use of Dataverse MCP Server for agentic scenarios outside Copilot Studio gets new license requirements. Developers especially are gonna love this: https://licensing.guide/dataverse-mcp-server-licensing-requirements/
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🟦 Copilot Studio Pricing COMPLETE Breakdown
A new video walks through why Copilot Studio can cost far more than the headline $30/user, featuring licensing pro Michael Morrison. Key takeaways: 🔹• Credits meter actions and premium features; 🚀• PAYGO ≈ $0.01/credit vs 25k-pack ≈ $200/mo; • Model real usage to avoid surprises.
💡 • Prepaid packs vs PAYGO tradeoffs
🔍 • Credits consumed by responses, grounding, flows
⚖️ • Small per-action costs scale fastWatch the video and grab the free guide — how would you estimate monthly credits?
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A modern site to browse and discover community tools for the Power Platform and Dynamics 365: XrmToolBox Plugin Catalog.
https://jukkaniiranen.com/2025/12/find-the-right-tool-in-xrmtoolbox/
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🟦 AI-powered Adaptive Card web part (SPFx) 🚀
Hugo Bernier demos building AI-assisted, template-driven Adaptive Cards with a streamlined property pane for SPFx.💡 Template-driven cards + Adaptive Expressions and custom functions minimize code and speed iteration.
🔍 Multi-pane, AI-assisted property pane offers in-context guidance and real-time previews.
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🟦 AI Agents in Dynamics 365 — more than chatbots
Microsoft is rolling out AI Agents across Sales, Customer Service, Finance and Supply Chain — autonomous systems that act, not just respond. In a new video, Dani Kahil demos where these agents fit in the Copilot ecosystem and covers licensing.
💡 Sales agents qualify leads, research prospects, and can autonomously handle simple closes.
🔍 Customer Service agents review cases at scale and automate routing and quality evaluation.
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Dataverse "Virtual Tables" are underrated.
Why replicate data from SQL into Dataverse if you don't have to? Virtual tables let you CRUD data sitting in SQL without moving it. Less storage cost, real-time access. Work smarter.
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Anyone who builds or administers Power Platform or Dynamics 365 CRM solutions should be using XrmToolBox. The community tools are essentially for filling the gaps that Microsoft has left in the products, especially for power user scenarios.
"How can we make #XrmToolBox more approachable?" I thought, and then decided to try and build a modern catalog for the 380+ plugins. Now it's live:
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My dedicated website for all things Microsoft licensing (Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Copilot) has now been launched. Introducing: The Licensing Guide.
https://jukkaniiranen.com/2025/12/spirit-of-the-licensing-guide/
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Flexible Dataverse capacity for apps and agents - Microsoft Power Platform introduces flexible Dataverse capacity for apps & agents, empowering businesses with scalable data solutions. #Microsoft #PowerPlatform #Dataverse #AI #Cloud #Innovation
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Fix OData filter errors in Power Automate! Apostrophes in SharePoint and Dataverse queries (e.g. O'Reilly) can break your flow. Learn how to fix this and keep your flows running. #PowerAutomate #PowerPlatform #OData #TechTips #Automation #SharePoint #Dataverse
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🟦 Set Up Evaluations in Microsoft Copilot Studio
Want reliable Copilot agents? Build test sets, run automated evaluations, and measure pass rates to improve accuracy and relevance 🚀💡 Define test sets: import, generate, or add cases.
🔍 Pick methods: exact, partial, similarity, or quality.
⚖️ Run evaluations: simulate chats, score responses, set thresholds.Ready to boost agent quality? Watch the guide or DM for a step-by-step walkthrough.
#CopilotStudio #AItesting #PowerPlatform #ConversationalAI