Power Platform Dev Weekly #290
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Microsoft feature releases and announcements
Safeguard, Restore, and Manage Deleted Records in Microsoft Dataverse
Prevent accidental exposure of non-production Power Pages sites with new admin governance controls
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🥇 Cover Story
Copilot Cowork Is Coming: Here’s How to Get Your Tenant Ready on Day 1
by Josh Cook
The hardest part about playing with the latest tech is actually getting your hands on it - documentation is often sparse or wrong and it’s very difficult to get anywhere. Here, Josh helps us out and gives us some lovely initial checks to really get the most of the brand new technology and gives us advise to make the most out of it.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
How Power Platform Pay-as-you-go plan works
by Dawid Ziółkowski
Let’s say it together - we all love Microsoft licensing! But in all serious, Dawid comes in and does a great job of breaking down PAYG and how to get the most from it.
How to patch images from Power Apps to Dataverse
by Hardit Bhatia
Photos and images in Dataverse haven’t ever been straight forward - Hardit found out the hard way and has now turned it into a blog post so he can share his findings with you!
🏋️♂️ Canvas Apps
Open D365 Records From Your Custom Page Using Environment Variables
by Megan V Walker
Super effective, yet so simple when explained like this. UX like this isn’t often seen and it’s nice of Megan to take the time to share her process and building here.
How to patch images from Power Apps to D365 F&SCM
by Hardit Bhatia
Hardit shows a great use of a canvas app integration with F&O (Editor shudders) for pictures.
🤖 Copilot & Code Apps
Copilot Studio ALM – Know Before You Go
by Suparna Banerjee
A blog about ALM will always make Dev Weekly and this is no different. Thanks for Suparna for sharing her findings on how to ensure Copilot Studio offerings are properly handled for ALM
Extract Website Data With Computer Use In Copilot Studio
by Matthew Devaney
Computer Use is getting around more and more and here Matthew takes some time to show how he’s used to actually navigate to websites and extract information
👩💻 Dev to the Core
Setting Your Environments Up for Code Apps
by David Wyatt
David brings us on the journey of first setting up Code Apps, all the way through to sharing this repo for the one completed during the post. A great read, especially if you’ve never stepped into the world of Code Apps!
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Microsoft’s New AI Certifications for 2026: Full List, Retirements, and Replacement Paths - Arun Potti
How to estimate the cost of a Copilot Studio agent before you build it - Arild Aarnes
🎥 Videos
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