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The power platform tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft Power Platform administration, security, and feature updates as discussed in recent community threads. Topics include CVE-2026-59118, an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Power Apps with no customer patch yet, and the general availability of the Data Grid control for canvas apps. Discussions also cover Dataverse Prompt Columns, Copilot Studio agent sharing and Express mode, and the 2026 Wave 2 deployment schedule. Practical guidance for IT teams includes testing flows before regional updates and monitoring the Power Platform admin center for security changes. Enterprise adoption is illustrated through a customer story on Dynamics 365 Contact Center.
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    CVE-2026-59118 Power Apps EoP Has No Customer Patch Yet

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-59118, an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Power Apps, but the advisory currently gives Power Platform administrators no build number, CVSS score, exploitability assessment, workaround, affected-feature list, or customer-installable patch to verify. The...
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    Power Apps Data Grid Reaches GA, Replaces Table Control

    Microsoft’s July/August 2026 Power Platform update makes the Data Grid modern control generally available for Power Apps canvas apps, adds a new way to pool Power Automate Process capacity, and brings Power Automate flow authoring into GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code. The most consequential...
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    Copilot Studio Agents Before July Still Use App Registrations

    Microsoft’s public preview of Dataverse agent users gives AI agents a distinct security principal inside a Power Platform environment, so an agent can be assigned Dataverse roles and its work can be separated from that of employees and conventional app integrations. The practical benefit is...
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    Microsoft Dataverse Prompt Columns Reach GA for Persistent AI Fields

    Microsoft Dataverse Prompt Columns are now generally available, moving generative AI outputs from one-off chat responses into persistent table fields that Power Apps, Power Automate, analytics tools, and Copilot agents can reuse. The July 29 announcement on the Microsoft Power Platform blog...
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    Copilot Studio Run-Only Agent Sharing Previews August 2026

    Microsoft is preparing to remove one of the most consequential barriers to enterprise adoption of autonomous agents in Copilot Studio: the inability to distribute those agents broadly without also giving recipients maker-level access. A new run-only sharing model, scheduled for preview in August...
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    Power Platform Wave 2: Test Flows Before September 18 Deployment

    Microsoft Power Platform 2026 Wave 2 does not go live everywhere on September 18. That date begins the September 18–21 First Release deployment weekend; North American Dataverse environments follow on October 16–19, giving many IT teams a valuable window to test Microsoft 365-connected...
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    Copilot Studio Express Mode Hits General Availability in November 2026

    Microsoft is developing an opt-in Express mode for Copilot Studio flows called by agents or apps. Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 566999 is marked In development for the web platform in the Worldwide Standard Multi-Tenant cloud, with Preview listed for November 2025 and General Availability listed for...
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    Sirva’s AI-First Relocation Service on Dynamics 365 Contact Center

    On July 7, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story describing how Sirva, a U.S.-based global mobility services company, moved its post-merger relocation operations onto Dynamics 365 Contact Center, Copilot Studio, Power Apps, Power Automate, Azure Communication Services, and Power BI. The...
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    Medicana Builds a Power Platform Patient Experience Platform With 90% Faster Reporting

    On July 3, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story describing how Türkiye’s Medicana Health Group built a custom Patient Experience Platform on Microsoft Power Platform with partner Parlon Solutions. The headline number is attractive: reporting time cut by as much as 90 percent, case...
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    Microsoft EPPC 2026: Copilot Studio Converges With Power Platform, Not Replaces It

    Microsoft used the opening keynote of the European Power Platform Conference 2026 in Copenhagen on June 29 to tell makers and partners that Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Work IQ, and Power Platform are converging rather than replacing the apps, flows, and Dataverse systems customers...
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    Dynamics 365 Field Service Mobile Updates (June 19, 2026): Faster, Smarter Taps

    Microsoft published new Dynamics 365 Field Service mobile updates on June 19, 2026, detailing opt-in controls for richer mobile grids, redesigned booking status selection, mobile-first notes, and faster lookup behavior across iOS, Android, and Windows. The headline is not that Field Service has...
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    Copilot Studio Prompt Injection Risk: Maker Credentials, Tools, and Connector Blast Radius

    Most Copilot Studio agents in production today can read internal business content, invoke tools, run workflows, and authenticate to connected services through either end-user credentials or the maker’s stored credentials, creating a June 2026 enterprise risk in which prompt injection can turn a...
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    June 2026 Power Platform Update: Agent Learning, Connector Governance, Inventory

    Microsoft’s June 2026 Power Platform update, published June 11, adds closed-loop learning for Power Apps MCP-connected agents, a release-planner code app sample, desktop-flow version comparison, a preview action to launch Power Apps from desktop flows, and broader connector governance and...
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    Banco Popular AURA: Governed low-code AI for continuous bank risk supervision

    On June 9, 2026, Microsoft said Banco Popular Dominicano had used Copilot Studio and Power Platform to build AURA, a governed multi-agent risk-management system that expanded operational-risk coverage to 100 percent and increased analytical capacity sevenfold across the Dominican bank. The...
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    EPWP Smart Track: Power Platform Workforce System Goes Live in Eastern Cape

    NKUSI IT Siyasebenza announced on June 2, 2026, that EPWP Smart Track, a Microsoft Power Platform-based workforce management system, is now in production with South Africa’s Eastern Cape Department of Transport for more than 30,000 Expanded Public Works Programme participants across six...
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    Copilot Studio May 2026 Update: From Chatbots to Governed Enterprise AI Agents

    Microsoft Copilot Studio’s recent updates, culminating in Microsoft’s May 2026 wave of Copilot and Power Platform changes, recast the product from a low-code chatbot designer into a governed enterprise agent platform for building, orchestrating, testing, and operating AI agents across Microsoft...
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    How HSBC Secures Low-Code With Power Platform, Dataverse, CMK, and Customer Lockbox

    On May 27, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story describing how HSBC uses Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Dataverse, virtual network support, customer-managed keys, and Customer Lockbox to secure low-code innovation across regulated banking workloads in more than 50 markets. The...
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    Copilot Studio Computer-Use Agents Go GA: Enterprise Automation for Windows Workflows

    Microsoft made Copilot Studio’s computer-use agents generally available across commercial Power Platform geographies on May 13, 2026, turning a formerly preview-grade AI automation feature into a production service for enterprises that need agents to operate graphical applications without APIs...
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    TMC Acquires PowerApps911: AI-Powered Power Platform Training Meets Enterprise Governance

    Technology Management Concepts announced in May 2026 that it has acquired PowerApps911, folding a specialist Microsoft Power Platform consulting and training firm into TMC’s broader Microsoft business applications practice. The deal is not just another channel roll-up. It is a bet that the next...
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    May 2026 Power Platform Update: Typed Power Fx, MCP Copilot, Gen Pages & Grid

    Microsoft’s May 2026 Power Platform update, published May 14, makes Power Fx user-defined types generally available, expands Copilot-connected app experiences, adds context-aware generative pages, introduces AI-assisted InfoPath migration, and advances several modern Power Apps controls from...