Power Platform Dev Weekly #249
Key updates from the Update Days conference, new feature releases, and guides on Power Automate, Copilot Studio, and Dataverse
Welcome to the Power Platform Developers Weekly!
The Update Days: Power Platform conference wrapped up with incredible energy, bringing together developers from around the world for two days of deep technical insights, hands-on learning, and community-driven discussions. With an outstanding lineup of speakers and enthusiastic attendees, the event truly lived up to its reputation as the conference for developers, by developers.
From governance strategies and fusion development to custom controls, automation, and advanced integrations, every session was packed with valuable takeaways. The buzzing hallway conversations, live demos, and after-hours networking made this conference an unforgettable experience for everyone involved.
Missed out this time? You can still purchase professionally recorded sessions and catch up on all the insights and make sure to mark your calendar for next year! The next Update Days: Power Platform will take place on 12-13 February 2026, once again at the fantastic Stages Hotel in Prague. Don't miss your chance to be part of this thriving developer community!
This week, today is Powerful Devs a one day conference followed by a 2-week Hack together. Hosted by the Power Platform Developer in residence, Scott Durow, with a key note from Leon Welicki and sessions from Magnus Sørensen, Feline Parein, Victor Dantas, Rami Mounla, Daniel Laskewitz, April Dunnam amongst others, it is shaping up to be a great day and 2 weeks of hacking fun. Oh, and
is presenting too!Microsoft feature releases and announcements
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— PP Dev Weekly Team
🥇 Cover Story
Microsoft Releases Custom Power Fx Functions Feature for Power Automate
by Pieter Veenstra
Microsoft has introduced custom Power Fx functions in Power Automate, enabling users to create reusable code within their workflows. This feature enhances efficiency by allowing the definition and invocation of custom functions directly in Power Automate.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Customizing Business Process Flows: Stage Validation Using JavaScript
by Nishant Rana
The article demonstrates how to implement custom stage validation in Dynamics 365/Model-driven Apps Business Process Flows using JavaScript to enforce specific business rules.
Reduce log storage: Delete audit logs – Power Platform Admin Center
by Nishant Rana
Nishant provides a step-by-step guide on deleting audit logs in the Power Platform Admin Center to free up storage space.
🤖 Copilot
Get started with Copilot Studio
Trigger your Topics in Copilot Studio
Create your Copilot agent and add it to Microsoft Teams
by Pieter Veenstra
In his Copilot blog series, Pieter guides readers through getting started with Copilot Studio, triggering topics within it, and creating a Copilot agent to integrate into Microsoft Teams. 3 articles that hit the spot in one week!
Allowing Image Input and Analysis in Microsoft Copilot Studio
by Inogic
The article explains how to enable image input and analysis in Microsoft Copilot Studio, enhancing agent interactions by allowing users to upload and analyze images.
😎 Power Automate
Power Automate Run A Query Against A Power BI Dataset
by Matthew Devaney
Matthew demonstrates how to execute a query against a Power BI dataset using Power Automate, enabling efficient data retrieval for reporting purposes.
⛅ Around Azure
Secretless cross tenant access – Logic Apps + Dataverse
by Natraj Yegnaraman
This guide outlines how to set up secretless cross-tenant access between Logic Apps and Dataverse by leveraging managed identities and federated credentials, enabling secure interactions without the need for client secrets.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Solution failed to export while transferring D365 Marketing Assets
by Jeevarajan Kumar
When transferring Dynamics 365 Marketing assets, exporting solutions may fail due to special characters like "#" in image filenames; Jeeva blogged about how you can resolve the issue.
👩💻 Dev to the Core
Retrieving Dynamics 365 Data Using SQL in Plugin: TDS Endpoint
by Inogic
This blog post demonstrates how to retrieve Dynamics 365 data within a plugin using the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) endpoint, enabling SQL-like queries for efficient data access.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Dataverse Git integration (Preview) series - Riccardo Gregori
Open Entity Form Dynamically from Web Resource - Mahender Pal
Using Custom Value Rule with Promise - Mahender Pal
Low-Code Plug-ins for Dataverse - Mahender Pal
Which Deployment Pipeline Is Best For Your Project? - Chris Harper
Options to Revert to an Earlier Solution Version - Chris Harper
How to open a Dataverse record on mobile from a canvas app - Hardit Bhatia
TLDR: A Quick Update on Microsoft’s 2025 Release Wave 1 - Inogic
🎥 Videos
🔊 Podcasts
In this podcast episode, Ulrikke and Nick talked about customizing Copilot chat in apps using Copilot Studio, the battleship game in PowerApps, managing Power Automate flows, and insights from community contributions like AI poems and tips on Dataverse activity tables. They also discussed highlights from the Cloud Technology Townhall in Tallinn, including sessions on Copilot use cases and overcoming information overload.
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