Power Platform Dev Weekly #292
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Microsoft feature releases and announcements
Build your server-side logic with AI: new Power Pages Agentic Code skills
Custom tools and rich UI for app-based conversations are now in Public Preview
More Secure SharePoint Integration in Power Pages with Site‑Scoped Permissions
Build Power Pages sites with AI using agentic coding tools (preview)
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🥇 Cover Story
Copilot Studio: Build Email Agents To Automate Replies
by Matthew Devaney
You can build an agent in Copilot Studio automatically reply to email messages sent to your Outlook inbox. It chooses which tools to call and searches its knowledge to get information for the response. Then it writes a formatted message to the original sender based on the agent’s instructions. Read to know more…
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
The Choice Column Conundrum:A Data Migrator’s Essential Tip
by Bala Madhusoodhanan
Bala shows us now to handle choice columns during data migration or integration.
Adding Custom Pages To A Model Driven App Navigation
by Megan Walker
Megan shows a step by step on how you can add a Custom Page directly to the navigation of one of your model driven apps.
🤖 Copilot & Code Apps
Power Apps- Comparing Different Ways to Create Apps With AI
by David Wyatt
An interesting post from David on how to create the below apps with AI
Generative Pages
Vibe.powerapps.com
CodeApp using GitHub Copilot
CodeApp JS (using GitHub Copilot with custom Agent UI)
🌎 Power Pages
by Nicholas Hayduk
If you give your Power Pages code to an AI tool for analysis, there is a good chance that it might tell you that you have unescaped Liquid code. In this post, I’ll cover what that means, whether it is as bad as the tool might say, and what your options are to fix it.
by Oleksandr Olashyn
Oleksandr talks about how server Logic is the new default for the Power Pages backend. It offers a great combination of capabilities to create secure and high-performance endpoints, internal implementations of which shouldn’t be exposed to the client.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
Using AI to develop side projects? - Alex Shlega
Adventures with Power Platform: Deploying the Power Platform Communication Site Template - Matt Ruma
What is coming to Dynamics 365 Sales in 2026 Release Wave 1 - Dian Taylor
Fix: “Rows with localizable attributes can only be created…” in Product Creation - Mahender Pal
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