Power Platform Dev Weekly #274

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Aug 20, 2025

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🥇 Cover Story

How To Build A Copilot Studio Agent With Generative Orchestration

by Matthew Devaney

Matthew demonstrates how to build a "Find Meeting Times" Copilot Studio Agent utilizing generative orchestration to manage multi-turn dialog, dynamically select tools and topics, and coordinate state using variables—all without relying on hardcoded responses.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

How to Call External Scripts using PowerApps Component Framework Events: Part 1
by Inogic
The blog shows how developers can now define and raise custom events in PCF to seamlessly invoke external scripts in Model-Driven Apps, overcoming previous limitations of form interaction.

Run Power FX expressions through PowerApps Component Framework Events: Part 2
by Inogic
You can learn how PCF controls can trigger Power Fx expressions in Canvas Apps, enabling richer interactivity and seamless integration between custom components and app logic.

🌎 Power Pages

Power Pages: Stop using the default maintenance mode page!
by Nick Doelman
Nick walks through how to create and host a custom static maintenance-mode page in Azure Storage—then configure your Power Pages site to use it instead of the default—providing visitors with clear, branded messaging during backend work.

🤖 Copilot

Adventures with Copilot Studio: My First Autonomous Agent
by Matt Ruma
Matt shares his journey building his first autonomous “Workshop Agent” using Copilot Studio to monitor incoming workshop request emails, saves attachments to OneDrive, summarizes submissions, sends acknowledgment responses, archives the email, and adapts dynamically to automate content-editor workflows.

Copilot Studio: ServiceNow Connect Knowledge Base + Incidents
by Matthew Devaney
Matthew demonstrates how to connect a Copilot Studio Agent to ServiceNow by integrating both the Knowledge Base and Incidents table—empowering the agent to answer IT support queries and retrieve user-specific ticket information.

😎 Power Automate

When Do We Use the ActivityParty.AddressUsed Property for Emails in Power Automate
by Nishant Rana
Find out how you can use the ActivityParty.AddressUsed property in Power Automate when you need to send an email to a non-primary or external address—such as an alternate contact email or an unresolved recipient not stored in Dataverse.

🎮 Other Interesting Articles

How to – Find Every Cloud Flow That References a Specific Column / Field- Nishant Rana

Power Platform Pipelines - Deploy with SPNs with different Connections than deployer - Matt Collins-Jones

📢 Call for Speakers

A look at CFS closing soon

Canadian Power Platform Summit - Closes 2025-08-31

Shift+Enter - Closes 2025-08-24

🎥 Videos

🔊 Podcasts

In this podcast episode, Ulrikke Akerbæk and Nick Doelman guide listeners through community news, updates on Copilot and GPT-5 innovations, Power Platform tools like Agent Flows, Generative Pages, Plan Designer, Power Pages real-world examples, Project Sophia, and more, all wrapped in their signature lively commentary.