Power Platform Dev Weekly #297
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Microsoft feature releases and announcements
Dataverse Is Your Agent Data Platform: Here’s What’s New in July 2026
Native Dataverse Authorization (Public Preview) for Stronger Security in Power Pages
Deep dive into Power BI reporting with the new date picker slicer option (Preview)
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🥇 Cover Story
MCP with Entra auth + Copilot & Cowork
by Andreas Adner
This, is a deep dive developer focused blog post that we don’t see very often. In the modern day of when MCP servers are becoming the norm, Andreas talks about making a new MCP server with Entra Auth. Authentication and MCP don’t easily come hand in hand, but Andreas makes it seem less daunting. Loved reading this post this week, thanks Andreas.
💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse
Ditch the Power Apps maker portal!
by Nick Doelman
Controversial post by Nick - I do agree with it in principle, but we need to be careful it doesn’t come at the cost the core skills we learned in a pre-LLM world. Give it a read, share your opinions with us and/or Nick!
Power Platform Admin V2 - Create Rule Set Explained
by Matt Collins-Jones
Not going to live, didn’t even know what a rule set was before this post - so very useful to me! This feels like one of those posts where Matt found out some stuff, wrote his findings and in a few months will search for something, only to come across his own blog post. We’ve all been there…
😎 Power Automate
How To Get A Docusign Signature In Power Automate
by Matthew Devaney
Docusign is pretty much a household name now - so knowing how to use it in an advanced way like Power Automate can only be a benefit to you. Written with the usual quality that Matthew provides!
Power Automate Cloud Flow Failing with 403 Forbidden on a Dataverse Action
by Linn Zaw Win
Much like MCJ’s earlier post - this is a great self help post that should be front and centre. Finding an obscure 403 error, a useless message and picking it all apart until it’s completely explained and fix!
🤖 Copilot & Agents
Multi-Agent Orchestration with Copilot Studio
by Holger Imbery
Shout out to Holger for this behemoth of a series. It’s quite impressive in it’s level of detail and whilst Copilot Studio changes every week, this is a good view of it’s current offerings. It’s a big read though - bring a fresh hot drink.
GPT-5.6 Is Missing in Copilot Cowork? Turn On This Admin Setting
by Josh Cook
Whilst we won’t get into the in’s and out’s of approving sub-processors here - this is a useful post by Josh to remind people of all the admin settings and remind you to turn them on (or off!)
Navigating the New Copilot Studio: A “Good, Bad, and Nitty-Gritty” First Look
by Bala Madhusoodhanan
The new Copilot Studio drops Topics entirely, bets big on a Claude-powered orchestrator with persistent memory and dynamic skills — it's exciting, but unmistakably v1.0. If you're building agents today, Bala's "Good, Bad, and Nitty-Gritty" breakdown is a must-read before you decide whether to leap or wait.
👍 Everything else in Power Platform
Retrieve All One-to-Many Relationships and Cascade Delete Behavior for a Dataverse Table Using C#
by Nishant Rana
Reading and writing Dataverse data through C# with all the code provided? It’s been some time since we’ve seen that!
This is the useful code post that reminds people how to actually write code and what it does.
🎮 Other Interesting Articles
The All New Copilot Studio by David Wyatt
Automation vs. Agentic AI: choosing the right approach by Netwise
🎥 Videos
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