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Power Platform CLI ❤️ Power Platform API
Historically, Power Platform administrators and developers have automated management tasks through a mix of tools. A capability might exist in the admin center, use a different name in PowerShell, have a custom shape in a connector, or not yet be available in the command line. Each tool could be valuable, but moving between them often meant relearning commands, payloads, authentication patterns, and coverage. Last year, we shared how Power Platform is moving from a UX-first model to an API-first ecosystem. Today, we're bringing one of the clearest results of that strategy directly to the terminal: auto-generated...
From Redis pressure to a healthier service
Lessons from an Azure Managed Redis migration for Copilot Studio agent flows: cache efficiency, client reliability, staged rollout, and lower costs.
A deep dive into Power Pages Enhanced Authorization
Dataverse Native Authorization Model for Power Pages How mapped identities, security roles, and record filters move external-user authorization closer to the data. We’re introducing a major update to the Power Pages security model: authorization for external users is now enforced natively in Dataverse. Customers can opt in to this feature as they transition to the new model. This architecture moves Power Pages authorization closer to the data by translating Power Pages concepts into Dataverse-native security constructs. Instead of relying on Power Pages at runtime to reconstruct authorization for every request...
Meet the Agent Academy Hackathon Winners
From May 12 to June 2, 2026, builders from around the world put their Agent Academy learning to the test by designing, building, and shipping real, working AI agents with Copilot Studio. After two weeks of judging, we’re thrilled to announce the Agent Academy Hackathon winners. 🏆 The Winners Recruit Track The Recruit track is geared toward exploring the fundamentals of agent building and is optimized for first-time agent builders. 🥇 First place: Performance Development Assistant Built by @Ateina What they built After a performance review, employees often know what to improve but have no clear path forward ...
Dataverse Plugin Is Now on the Claude Marketplace
Dataverse gives developers a powerful platform for building enterprise applications — but getting from zero to a connected, working environment has always involved multiple tools, authentication flows, and configuration steps. The Dataverse plugin was built to accelerate that journey by letting AI coding agents handle the setup orchestration for you. Three weeks ago we introduced the Dataverse plugin for coding agents. It's an open-source plugin that lets AI coding agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot build and manage Microsoft Dataverse solutions through natural language. Since then, the Dataverse plugin ...
The New Loop: How Power Pages Builds Software with AI
Introduction When I started writing software professionally in 2015, the tech landscape looked completely different. Tools and frameworks kept evolving since then, but the process of building software barely moved for a decade. That changed in the last couple of months. Here's what has changed in how the Power Pages team builds and ships software and what hasn't. Development in the age of AI Before the arrival of coding agents like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code etc., software development was role-focused where the job of a product manager, designer, the engineer and tester was clearly defined. In fact, you can s...
Agent Academy Spring Drop: Special Ops, Cowork Collective, and a Whole New Look
We've shipped a big round of updates to Agent Academy. Two new sections, a completely redone site experience, and more missions on the way. Here's what's changed. Quick recap for anyone new Agent Academy is a free, open-source curriculum for learning how to build agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio. Since launching in August 2025, it has crossed one million views, which tells us the community is hungry for guided, hands-on content around building and using agents. Agent Academy features three ranks of full courses covering building agents with Copilot Studio: Recruit covers the fundamentals of Copilot Studio,...
Dataverse Skills: Your Coding Agent Now Speaks Dataverse
Building enterprise solutions is shifting from writing code to directing AI agents. Instead of stitching together APIs, CLIs, and scripts, developers are increasingly describing intent and letting agents execute. For enterprise platforms like Dataverse, this creates a new requirement: they must be operable by agents, not just by humans. Today we’re releasing Dataverse Skills — an open-source plugin for coding agents like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code that gives them deep, practical knowledge of how to build and manage Dataverse solutions end to end. What used to require juggling tools and documentation can now ...
Announcing Agent Academy: Operative
Earlier this year, we launched Agent Academy: Recruit, a foundational learning path designed to help makers and developers get started with building agents in Copilot Studio. The response exceeded our expectations. Since launch, thousands of learners have worked through the Recruit curriculum, and through the Global AI Community we’ve issued 500+ badges to people who finished the path. More importantly, we’ve seen teams use Recruit as a shared baseline for learning how agents work, how to build them responsibly, and how to deploy them into real environments. As people completed Recruit, the feedback was consist...