Power Platform Dev Weekly #276

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Sep 17, 2025

Welcome to the Power Platform Developers Weekly! Summer is over and it’s straight back to the tech!

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🥇 Cover Story

Making Your App Smarter with userSettings: Context-Aware UI in Dynamics 365

by Kailah Ramachandran

Kailash does a great job highlighting in highlighting how to use the usersettings to make your apps dynamic to the user profile.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Clearing Dirty Fields in Forms to Avoid Unnecessary Save Prompts (Dynamics 365 / Dataverse)
by Nishant Rana
In Dynamics 365 forms, we often run into situations where a record looks unsaved even though the user hasn’t made any manual changes. This usually happens when fields are updated in the background by scripts. How do you deal with the “You have unsaved changes” popup. Read to know more.

🌎 Power Pages

Power Pages – how not to cache signed in user data
by Alex Shlega
The post explains how caching in Power Pages can cause unexpected behavior when accessing the user object in Liquid code. To avoid issues, it recommends using server-side techniques like disabling output caching or restructuring logic to ensure the user object is reliably available

🤖 Copilot

Copilot Studio Enterprise Knowledge Sources – Real-time Connector vs. Graph Connector
by Suparna Banerjee
The article compares Copilot Studio’s Realtime connector and Graph connector, highlighting that the Realtime connector is ideal for dynamic, user-specific data access, while the Graph connector suits broader organizational data integration

Azure AI Foundry Model In Copilot Studio Custom Prompts
by Matthew Devaney
The article explains how developers can integrate custom models from Azure AI Foundry—like Llama, Grok, or Deepseek—into Copilot Studio, expanding beyond default OpenAI models. It walks through setting up the model in Azure, retrieving its details, and configuring it within Copilot Studio’s prompt designer.

😎 Power Automate

How to make your Excel connector retry in Power Automate
by Pieter Veenstra
The article explains how Power Automate handles retries when using the Excel connector, especially in scenarios where multiple flows may update the same Excel file simultaneously.