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Dataverse auditing step by step: track who changed an account phone number

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:04:00 GMT

A phone number changes on an account and somebody asks who edited it. The current record shows the latest value, but that does not explain the change. This…

Microsoft Copilot harness: prove the benefit before moving your agent

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:54:00 GMT

Microsoft's 28 October announcement puts the agent runtime back in the architecture conversation. The GitHub Copilot harness in Copilot Studio is becoming…

Dataverse integrations: make retries safe with alternate keys and upsert

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:25:00 GMT

An integration sends a customer to Dataverse, the request times out, and the sender retries. Did the first request fail, or did it succeed before the…

Dataverse data archiving: design the retrieval before the retention policy

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:35:00 GMT

Most archiving projects I see start with a capacity warning. The better starting point is a person: an auditor or a support officer who needs a five-year-old…

Copilot Studio is moving from agent builder to an operating model for AI work

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:59:00 GMT

Copilot Studio started as a place to build chat experiences. Microsoft now positions it as a place to build apps, workflows and agents together, then…

Power Pages is becoming an AI-native web platform—but security remains the boundary

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:42:00 GMT

AI can now help build a Power Pages site from end to end, and AI clients can talk to a running site through MCP. Both are useful. Both also make one thing…

Copilot Studio credits are becoming an architecture decision

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:14:00 GMT

It is tempting to leave Copilot Credits to whoever handles licensing. I think that is a mistake now. How an agent grounds answers, reasons, calls tools and…

Power Platform is moving from release waves to an always-on delivery model

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:52:00 GMT

For years, many teams planned Power Platform around two release waves a year: read the summary, pick a few features, go quiet for six months. That rhythm is…

Power Pages is becoming a more complete enterprise web platform

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:21:00 GMT

Building a Power Pages site has never been the hard part. Running it well for the next three years is. The September 2026 updates are interesting because so…

Dataverse is becoming an agent data platform: why the entry points matter

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:29:00 GMT

There are now several ways into the same Dataverse data: MCP for agents, the Python SDK for scripts, the Power Platform CLI for administration, and plugins…

Power Platform moves to the AI at Work roadmap: what teams should change

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMT

From September 2026, roadmap content for Power Platform, Dataverse and Dynamics 365 moves into the AI at Work roadmap, and Release Planner goes away. Here is…

Rollback, support and continuous improvement: the final ALM stage

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:08:00 GMT

The first deployment is the start of a solution's life, not the end of the project. Sooner or later a release will go wrong. The teams that handle it well…

Security roles and ALM: deploy the boundary with the feature

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:07:00 GMT

A feature that arrives without its security boundary is not finished. Either users cannot reach it, or — worse — they can reach more than they should…

ALM for Copilot Studio and AI components

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:07:00 GMT

With most components, a clean import is a reasonable sign that the change arrived. With an agent, it tells you almost nothing about quality. The same agent…

ALM for Power Automate flows: ownership, triggers and connection health

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:06:00 GMT

Flows often carry the real behaviour of a solution: the notification, the approval, the update to another system. They are also the component most likely to…

Data deployment is not solution deployment

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:06:00 GMT

Solutions move metadata and components. They do not move your business data, and they should not try to. Yet many releases depend on records being present: a…

Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions for Power Platform ALM

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:05:00 GMT

External CI/CD is powerful, and it is also a product in its own right. Before choosing Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for Power Platform, I ask one question…

Power Platform pipelines: when the platform should own deployment orchestration

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:43:00 GMT

For a lot of teams, the most useful deployment tool is the one already built into the platform. Power Platform pipelines give makers and administrators a…

Validation gates: catch Power Platform deployment defects before users do

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:42:00 GMT

A successful import proves one thing: the platform accepted the package. It says nothing about security findings, missing configuration or whether the main…

Source control for Power Platform: make changes reviewable

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:49:00 GMT

People sometimes tell me source control does not suit low-code because "the exported files are ugly". They are not wrong about the files. But source control…

Connection references: remove credentials from the deployment conversation

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:33:00 GMT

A solution can import successfully and still not work, because a flow is bound to a connection that does not exist in the target, has expired, or belongs to…

Environment variables make Power Platform solutions portable

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:42:00 GMT

A solution should not need to be edited for every environment it lands in. If someone has to open a flow in production and change a URL by hand, the solution…

Solution layers: the Power Platform deployment behaviour teams must understand

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:24:00 GMT

"The deployment worked, but the app did not change." If you have heard that sentence, you have probably met solution layers. They explain a surprising number…

Solutions are the unit of Power Platform deployment

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:13:00 GMT

If environments are the road, solutions are the vehicle. Everything you want to move — tables, apps, flows, agents — travels inside one. The question is not…

Power Platform environments: design the road before you build

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:11:00 GMT

An environment is not a folder for apps. It is a boundary for data, makers, connections and security. Get the boundaries right early and most of the later…

ALM in Power Platform: deployments are a product capability

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:11:00 GMT

Most Power Platform teams I meet can build. Fewer can tell me, with confidence, how a change gets from a maker's environment to production and what happens…

Power Pages Web API hardening: why explicit fields are the new baseline

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:36:00 GMT

Microsoft has deprecated the * wildcard in the Webapi//fields site setting. Requests to tables configured with the wildcard will fail until you…

Microsoft Entra Agent ID gives Power Platform agents an accountable identity

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:12:00 GMT

When an agent updates a supplier record, who did it? For a long time the honest answer was "the integration account", which tells you almost nothing…

Power Apps model-driven app skills bring complete app building to AI coding agents

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:07:00 GMT

Microsoft's Power Platform Skills repository now has a preview /app-builder skill for model-driven apps. From a plain-language brief, an AI coding agent can…

Dataverse MCP turns governed business data into an agent-ready interface

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:10:00 GMT

This is the hands-on one. Dataverse can act as an MCP server for Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude and other…