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The power platform tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft Power Platform news and updates, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Copilot Studio, and Power Pages. Discussions focus on new features like Liquid templates invoking server logic, Dataverse grounding for Copilot agents, and the general availability of the Data Grid control. Security topics include CVE-2026-59118, an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Power Apps with no customer patch yet. Enterprise governance is a recurring theme, as seen in coverage of State Farm's production builds and run-only agent sharing. The tag also explores AI integration, such as Dataverse prompt columns and agent security principals, providing practical insights for administrators and developers.
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    AI Agents vs Power Automate: When Copilot Studio Is Worth the Cost and Governance Overhead

    Petri contributor Amy Babinchak's argument is simple. Before you build an AI agent, ask where the uncertainty in the process actually sits. Her answer is that a lot of "agent" projects are really scheduled tasks or ordinary automation wearing a trench coat. Here is the framework, followed by the...
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    Microsoft Copilot Studio September 2026 Update: Apps, Hooks, Foundry IQ and Governance

    Microsoft's September 2026 Copilot Studio update came out on October 7. It's a bundle of changes, and they're at different stages. App building is in preview, hooks are in preview, the Foundry IQ integration is generally available, evaluations got broader, the Review panel reached general...
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    M365 Con 27: Free Online Microsoft 365, Copilot, Azure and Security Conference

    M365 Con 27 is a free, online, community-run Microsoft conference. It is not the big in-person Las Vegas event, and the two are easy to confuse. This one is aimed at admins, developers and data people who want a cheap, role-specific way to catch up on Microsoft 365, Copilot, Power Platform...
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    Dynamics 365 LCS to Power Platform Migration Preview: Sandbox Requirements and One-Way Risks

    Microsoft’s self-service migration feature gives existing Dynamics 365 finance and operations customers a route from Lifecycle Services (LCS) to the Power Platform admin center—but this is a sandbox-first transition, not a production green light. Microsoft Learn identifies the feature as public...
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    Copilot Studio Self-Learning Agents: Microsoft Plans Workflow Recommendations to Cut AI Costs

    Microsoft is planning a Copilot Studio feature that looks back at an agent's completed runs and tells the maker what to change. The main target is wasted work: when an agent keeps using the same tools in the same order, the feature will suggest replacing that sequence with a fixed workflow...
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    M. by jaam Launches AI Work Orchestration for Azure and Copilot, but Admin Details Are Missing

    London-based jaam automation launched M. by jaam on September 29, 2026. The company calls it an "Agentic Work Management" platform that coordinates work between employees, business applications and AI agents. For WindowsForum readers, the main point is Microsoft compatibility. jaam says M. works...
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    Transfer Power Pages Site Ownership: Admin Roles, Access Checks and Audit Trail

    A Power Pages site can outlast the team that built it. When its original owner changes roles or leaves, the site may still be serving customers while its ownership record points to the wrong person. Microsoft has introduced a self-service ownership transfer to make that handoff possible within...
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    Copilot Studio Maker Guidelines: Preview Setup, Limits and 2026 Rollout

    Governance in Copilot Studio has a communication problem. Admins can block connectors, restrict channels and gate publishing, but the maker who hits one of those walls usually gets a generic "Contact your admin" prompt. Microsoft's roadmap now lists a feature built to fix that. Microsoft Power...
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    Copilot Work IQ Public Preview Adds Dynamics 365, Power Platform Data

    Microsoft says Work IQ, the context layer behind Copilot and agents, can now use business data and workflows from Dynamics 365 and Power Platform in addition to Microsoft 365 workplace signals. A public preview begins September 30, 2026, with rollout continuing through October. Dynamics 365...
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    Power Pages Modern List GA: New-Site Default, Client API Preview

    Microsoft has made Modern List in Power Pages generally available. Modern List is a Fluent UI-based list component for showing Dataverse records on Power Pages websites, and it is now the default list for newly created sites. Existing classic lists stay as they are until a maker converts them...
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    Scottish Government Plans Copilot and Power Platform Rollout

    The Scottish Government plans to make Microsoft’s “Copilot Premium” and Power Platform available across its organisation during 2026 as part of Serving Scotland, its five-year programme for a smaller, more focused civil service. The programme links AI adoption to staff training, workflow...
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    Power Apps App-Builder GA Claim Conflicts With Preview Docs

    Microsoft’s September 2026 Power Platform feature update delivers useful changes for people building and administering Power Apps and Power Automate, but the release has one documentation problem IT teams should resolve before treating its flagship app-generation feature as production-ready...
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    Dynamics 365 Release Planner Retires November 15, 2026

    Microsoft is replacing the familiar twice-yearly Dynamics 365 and Power Platform release-wave announcements with an always-on public roadmap beginning this month, and the operational change is larger than Forvis Mazars’ advisory post suggests. New Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Dataverse...
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    Copilot Studio App-First Agent Creation Due in October

    Microsoft Copilot Studio is scheduled to gain an app- and intent-first agent creation experience in October 2026, changing the order in which makers configure new agents. Rather than beginning with a blank agent and then attaching its capabilities, Microsoft says makers will start by choosing...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Employee Self-Service Agent Launches

    Microsoft has changed Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 487836 for the Employee Self-Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot to Launched, marking the feature as available after a long and uneven rollout. For IT teams, the practical news is less a new end-user button than a more formalized deployment...
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    Power Apps Agentic Coauthoring Reaches General Availability

    Microsoft has made agent-assisted canvas-app coauthoring generally available in Power Apps, marking a distinct step beyond ordinary collaborative editing. The announcement concerns a Canvas Apps plugin and Canvas Authoring MCP-based workflow that lets compatible coding agents participate in...
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    Power Pages Liquid Templates Can Now Invoke Server Logic

    Power Pages developers can now invoke Server Logic directly from Liquid templates, moving custom JavaScript-backed business operations into the same server-rendered path that produces a page. Microsoft announced the capability on August 11, 2026, positioning it as an extension to Liquid’s...
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    Copilot Studio Dataverse Grounding Is Already Generally Available

    Microsoft has put a September 2026 general-availability target on Microsoft Dataverse integration in Copilot Studio under Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 568929, with a preview listed for August. The practical effect is straightforward: makers will be able to use Dataverse business tables as a native...
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    State Farm Copilot Studio: 41 Production Builds, Not 3,000 Agents

    State Farm says it has moved 41 Copilot Studio and Power Platform solutions through risk assessment into production, but the more revealing number in Microsoft’s new customer story is not the advertised “more than 3,000 agents.” It is the gap between those 3,000 agent identities and the 41...
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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...