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The Power Platform Boost Podcast is your timely update of what's new and what is happening in the community of Microsoft business applications. Join hosts Ulrikke Akerbæk and Nick Doelman for a lively discussion of all things Power Platform!Like what you hear? Buy us a beer: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Powerplatboost

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November 4, 2026Episode 9843 min

Taste of the 90's (#98)

In this episode, we start by celebrating Nick's silver medal in Costa Rica, and Ulrikke shares news and updates from the 5th and last Power Platform Community Conference in Las Vegas last week. Charles Lamanna, Ryan Cunningham, and Leon Welicki led the keynote, sharing the investments they have made in the core platform and tying up loose ends. This brings us nicely to the last loose end that they are deprecating: the unmanaged developer environment. Make sure to get your solution out of these environments by December - they will be deleted by January 2027. This ties into the broader story of Microsoft moving towards a pay-as-you-go and for-all-that-you-use policy - and away from free development in all parts of their ecosystem. There are news and updates as well as deprecations - fortunately - and this week we saw how Andreas Adner used the new Power Platform CLI with Claude Code Mods to create a real-time admin tool. We also talked about Kent Weare's blog post on how Custom API's in Dataverse MCP Server unlock transactional operations with your coding agents, and Julia Casper announced that Hydra Fusion is now renamed to GitHub Copilot Fusion and will surface as a model choice in your GitHub Copilot soon. Show notes PPCC Built by makers: Five years of Power Platform Community Conference by Bryan Goode Everything Announced At PPCC 2026 by Howdang Rashid Maker Con: Power Platform Community Conference 2027 | Chicago News Create a developer environment with the Power Apps Developer Plan Deprecation of unmanaged developer environments and the Power Apps Developer Plan Power Platform administration with Claude Code Mods! by Andreas Adner Power Platform CLI ❤️ Power Platform API by Lane Swenka Mods overview OneWave-AI/claude-code-mods: Ten open-source mods for Claude Code: live panes, bands, status lines and tool-call guards. Burn meter, launch codes, session wrapped, boss fight, code pet and more by OneWave AI Custom APIs just landed in the Dataverse MCP Server, Agents just got smarter by Kent Weare The GitHub Copilot harness in Copilot Studio is now the Microsoft Copilot harness by the Microsoft Copilot Studio team Announcement: GitHub Copilot Fusion! by Julia Casper Route and orchestrate models with GitHub Copilot Fusion Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode of Power Platform BOOST! Thank you for buying us a coffee: buymeacoffee.com Podcast home page: https://powerplatformboost.com Email: hello@powerplatformboost.com Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerplatboost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerplatformboost/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerplatboost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090444536122 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@powerplatboost

October 21, 2026Episode 971 hr 1 min

I see dead features! 💀 (#97)

Welcome to the Power Platform Deprecation Podcast! :D We see dead features everywhere these last few weeks, so tune in to learn what's going away, what stays, and how we feel about it. Not all of these deprecations are properly announced by Microsoft yet, but we do see a clear trend in where this is going. Nick and Ulrikke also go down multiple rabbit holes left, right, and center, so buckle up for a long one this time. We provide our insights into what it feels like to be a developer these days, whether we might see Agents go on strike or HR for agents in the near future, and whether we think Power Apps have a future. Tune in for news and updates from community champions like Jason Moore, Andreas Adner, Rob Howard, Charles Sexton, Josh Giles, Remy van Duijkeren, Reza Dorrani, Neeraj Nandwana, and Gokul Narayanan. Ulrikke, hope to see some of you in Las Vegas for PPCC 2026 next week, and we wish Nick all the best at the North American Bench Press Championship in Costa Rica! Show notes News Retirement of Vibe.PowerApps.com and App Builder (require access to the Microsoft Message Center) Deprecation of Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments Delegate shared business processes to agents that are more persistent and proactive with Microsoft Copilot Studio by Jason Moore Business Applications in Work IQ (preview) Dataverse Ask API by Andreas Adner Introducing the plugin registry - one place to discover and govern plugins for Microsoft Copilot by Rob Howard Copilot Managed Runtime vs Power Apps Code Apps: What Changes? by Charles Sexton and Josh Giles Are developers becoming product people? by Remy van Duijkeren Filter-based security in Microsoft Dataverse (preview) Power Apps FINALLY Gets Modern Attachments | SharePoint Patch, Forms & More by Reza Dorrani Create Power Pages sites in minutes with SPA templates by Neeraj Nandwana A deep dive into Power Pages Enhanced Authorization | Power Platform Developer Blog by Gokul Narayanan DynamicsSuite Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode of Power Platform BOOST! Thank you for buying us a coffee: buymeacoffee.com Podcast home page: https://powerplatformboost.com Email: hello@powerplatformboost.com Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerplatboost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerplatformboost/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerplatboost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090444536122 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@powerplatboost

October 7, 2026Episode 9643 min

Managed Apps (#96)

In this episode, we cover two big announcements: Microsoft Copilot Apps on Managed Runtime - or Managed Apps, as we will continue to call them (rebels unite!) AND Microsoft's superapp: the new "Copilot OS for all form factors" with Home, Code, and Autopilot! In other news, we also share content from Charles Sexton, Lisa Crosbie, Danish Naglekar, Michael Megel, and Michel Mendes covering topics like Power Platform Toolbox, Generative Pages, and GitHub Spec Kit. Also, check out the recording of Scott Durow on the Community Call where he presented the new Operative Next Gen course in Agent Academy for the new Copilot Studio Harness! Nick shared his experience as a speaker and attendee at Scottish Summit, and Andy Kemp shared a gentle reminder in the form of a blog post about what it can feel like to find your place at community events like this. Puh! That's a lot to cover in one episode - so buckle up for the ride! Show notes Managed Apps Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime microsoft/managed-apps News Microsoft AI-first Development Weekly: deployment checks by Charles Sexton Microsoft Just Changed Copilot. Here's What You Need to Know by Lisa Crosbie Introducing the new Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot Power Platform ToolBox for VS Code by Danish Naglekar Power Platform Dev Weekly #300 by Anwesha Sharma and Mark Carrington Never Stop Learning by Michael Megel github/spec-kit Generative pages are no longer coupled to Dataverse by Michel Mendes Create a generative page in model-driven apps Operative - New Copilot Studio Experience | Agent Academy Hands-on with Copilot Agent Academy on the Community Call with Scott Durow Finding My Place: Reflections After Scottish Summit by Andy Kemp Podcast Office 365 Distilled by Marijn and Steve Unresolved Dependencies by Joe Griffin and Sebastian Sieber Events Power Platform Community Conference (Las Vegas | October 27-29): https://powerplatformconf.com/ Anything You Can Code, I Can Code Better: Code Apps vs Power Pages SPA (Ulrikke Akerbæk and Scott Durow, PPCC | Las Vegas): https://powerplatformconf.com/sessions/Anything-You-Can-Code%2C-I-Can-Code-Better%3A-Code-Apps-vs-Power-Pages-SPA ESPC Microsoft 365 and AI 2026 (Amsterdam | November 30th - December 3rd): https://espc.tech/conference/espc-2026/ Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode of Power Platform BOOST! Thank you for buying us a coffee: buymeacoffee.com Podcast home page: https://powerplatformboost.com Email: hello@powerplatformboost.com Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerplatboost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerplatformboost/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerplatboost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090444536122 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@powerplatboost

September 23, 2026Episode 9528 min

Nordic Summit (#95)

Episode 95: Nordic Summit 2026 This time we come to you "live" - or at least together - from Nordic Summit 2026 in Billund, Denmark! We sat down at the end of the two-day conference for a short recap of what it was like for Ulrikke to be an organiser and for Nick to be a speaker at this community event. One of the popular topics for this conference was the new way to build apps from Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio for those with tenants enrolled in the Frontier Program, as announced by Ryan Cunningham. At Nordic Summit, we saw Cooky and Matt Beard demo this in their session, and we have links to the announcements in the show notes. Also - if you are in the process of migrating from any CRM system into the Dynamics 356 CE platform, have a look at the Dynamics 365 Activate accelerator announced by Jeff Teper. We also highlighted some content around Power Pages from Tino Rabe and Ritwik Ganni, and had a good old banter about SSL/TLS Certificates for Power Pages - which you can now get directly from Microsoft instead of having to rely on a third party - we learned from Ritwik Ganni. Make sure to check out your local area for community events! Europe is on fire at the moment, and we are positive you will find a place to learn, teach, discuss, and network somewhere near you. Have a wonderful rest of your week and take care. Show notes Nordic Summit Nordic Summit News Build apps in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio by Ryan Cunningham The Render-Mutate-Refresh Pattern: Liquid + Server Logic in Power Pages by Tino Rabe Accelerate your move to agentic business applications with Dynamics 365 Activate by Jeff Teper Microsoft-Managed SSL/TLS Certificates for Custom Domains Now Available in Power Pages by Ritwik Ganni Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode of Power Platform BOOST! Thank you for buying us a coffee: buymeacoffee.com Podcast home page: https://powerplatformboost.com Email: hello@powerplatformboost.com Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerplatboost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerplatformboost/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerplatboost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090444536122 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@powerplatboost

September 9, 2026Episode 9435 min

Tokenomics (#94)

Soo.. Someone got their knickers in a twist about the new AI at Work roadmap! :D We also discuss the future of Power Platform based on what we gather from this new merge of the release notes - and also test out the new Microsoft Release Communications MCP Server, which is great if you want to create your own roadmap agent. We also highlight content from Richard Riley, Howdang Rashid, Lisa Crosbie, and Em D'Arcy around the word of the week: tokenomics. We also explore the new Project HydraFusion for GitHub Copilot, which enhances multi-model orchestration. Show notes News One always-on roadmap: Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Dataverse join the AI at Work roadmap by Richard Riley Get Started with the Microsoft Release Communications MCP Server More Power Platform hacks I wish I knew before by Howdang Rashid Akkodis Live: AI & Tokenomics by Lisa Crosbie Using Environment Group Rules to Manage Cost Control for Copilot Credits by Em D'Arcy Connect Dataverse Git integration to GitHub Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode of Power Platform BOOST! Thank you for buying us a coffee: buymeacoffee.com Podcast home page: https://powerplatformboost.com Email: hello@powerplatformboost.com Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerplatboost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerplatformboost/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerplatboost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090444536122 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@powerplatboost

August 26, 2026Episode 9339 min

BOOST as a service (#93)

In this episode, we share some tips and tricks we use when working with coding agents to keep them up to date and our project work coding-agent-agnostic. The Power CAT team has released an update to the Copilot Agent Kit - an essential tool for anyone working with Copilot Studio. Training and keeping certifications up to date is also important, and we can now get help from Vivian Voss's new Free Microsoft Certification Trainer website. It's also important to keep on top of the changes to security setup for Power Pages, and we highlighted some other new features as well. Thank you to the amazing people behind the content we highlighted this week: Anouck Fierens, Vivian Voss, Tino Rabe, Nagesh Bhat, the Power Platform Podcast by Mark Christie and Malin Martnes, with guest Scott Durow. Hope you all are having a great week and that you stay safe and take care. Show notes News Copilot Studio Kit by the Power CAT team Copilot Agent Kit August 2026 Update 1 – Agent Review Tool Setup Fix by the Power CAT team Copilot Studio or Microsoft Foundry? Stop Comparing Feature Lists by Anouck Fierens Credential Quest — Free Microsoft Certification Trainer by Vivian Voss Web API field configuration: Wildcard value (*) support removed after September 14, 2026 Security Audit by Tino Rabe Extend Liquid with Server Logic in Power Pages by Nagesh Bhat Podcast Lasers, Lemmings and Green Hair by the Power Platform Podcast (Mark Christie and Malin, with guest Scott Durow) Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode of Power Platform BOOST! Thank you for buying us a coffee: buymeacoffee.com Podcast home page: https://powerplatformboost.com Email: hello@powerplatformboost.com Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerplatboost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerplatformboost/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerplatboost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090444536122 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@powerplatboost

August 12, 2026Episode 9244 min

AI Cowboys (#92)

Yiiiihaa!! This time we spent a fair bit of time talking about the mental model around the new announcements for Copilot Studio, and that it's now based on the GitHub Copilot Harness, and what that means. Our amazing friends at the Cloud Advocacy team released a new module for this new harness already! Shout out to Elaiza Benitez, Daniel Laskewitz, Scott Durow, Jack Rowbotham, Dona Sarkar and April Dunnam. Combine this course with the extensive list of recorded webinars by the CAT Team, that cover everything that you can possibly come across when working with Copilot Studio! We also need covered community content around how to make a podcast recording from the daily digest from all the newsletters you subscribe to but don't have time to read, by Remi Dyon. We wanted to shout out to the newsletter crews that keep us in the loop every week: Power Platform Weekly, curated by Carina M. Claesson, Daniel Laskewitz, Ed Gonzales, and Magnus Gether Sørensen; Power Platform Dev Weekly, from Danish Naglekar and Anwesha Sharma; the Copilot Studio Newsletter on LinkedIn, curated by Bülent Altinsoy; Charles Sexton's series of Code Apps updates; and How to AI, Ruben Hassid's newsletter on Claude and AI tools Show notes News Introducing a new harness for Copilot Studio Recruit - GitHub Copilot Harness | Agent Academy by the Advocacy Team; Elaiza Benitez, Daniel Laskewitz, Scott Durow, Jack Rowbotham, Dona Sarkar and April Dunnam Microsoft CAT AI Webinars Turn Your Daily Digest Into a Podcast You'll Actually Listen To | The Custom Engine by Remi Dyon What's new in Power Platform: July/August 2026 feature update Microsoft executive modifies Doom to play it inside Paint - Neowin by Mark Russinovich Newsletters to follow Power Platform Weekly Power Platform Dev Weekly Copilot Studio Newsletter by Bülent Altinsoy How to AI by Ruben Hassid Charles Sexton on LinkedIn — for Code Apps and generative pages news Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode of Power Platform BOOST! Thank you for buying us a coffee: buymeacoffee.com Podcast home page: https://powerplatformboost.com Email: hello@powerplatformboost.com Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerplatboost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerplatformboost/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerplatboost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090444536122 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@powerplatboost

July 31, 2026Episode 9140 min

AI Slop and Click Bait (#91)

News Why not Vibe-code your own CRM? by Steve Mordue Native mobile apps in Power Platform by Jan Chlebek DataPilot – Your cockpit for Dataverse by Samuel Simon Can Claude Code Become Your Power Pages Development Assistant? by Payam Yazdkhasti Skills Gallery for AI Agents by Adi Leibowitz, Henry Jammes and the Power CAT team NEW Power Automate Flow Agent MCP Server | Full Tutorial by Reza Dorrani Microsoft Learn Resources for Scaling AI Agents by Manuela Pichler Share Copilot Studio agents with end users by Carsten Groth Ditch the Power Apps maker portal! by Nick Doelman The all-code Power Platform by Jukka Niiranen DOOM in Power Platform by Joe Griffin Unresolved Dependencies by Joe Griffin and Sebastian Sieber Code Apps, Vibe Apps, and Power Platform Skills Weekly by Charles Sexton Demo in the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community Calls Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode of Power Platform BOOST! Thank you for buying us a coffee: buymeacoffee.com Podcast home page: https://powerplatformboost.com Email: hello@powerplatformboost.com Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerplatboost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerplatformboost/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerplatboost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090444536122 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@powerplatboost

July 15, 2026Episode 9050 min

Thrills, Chills, and Skills! (#90)

It's in the middle of the summer for both of us; Nick just had a serendipitous experience 🏆️ at the local grocery store, and Ulrikke just came back from an Interrail trip 🚅 through Europe with the kids! If you want to hear about our summer experiences, tune in to this cutout: 🏖️Boost Extra! Summer Vibe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=draieQra5tA 😎 If you are looking for something more tech-related to fill your ears with while on holiday, EPPC just published the keynotes from last week's event on ▶️ YouTube! We highly recommend you tune in to watch the keynotes by Ryan Cunningham, Nirav Shah, Leon Welicki, and the rest of the Microsoft team! 🤩 It was refreshing to watch the only non-Microsoft keynote speaker, Chris O'Brien. He talked about what's discussed in the boardrooms and how to align your career to stay relevant. We also picked up LinkedIn posts from Steve Mordue, Jukka Niiranen, and Scott Hanselman this week as they touched on the same nerve as Chris did in his keynote, echoing some of the fears - but also proposing solutions for all of us working in this fast-paced⚡️AI era. Also, Vesa Juvonen, the Copilot Studio CAT team, Nagesh Bhat, Michel Mendes, Luciano Spiguel, and Kunal Sethi gave us technical deep dives and interesting📣 announcements around M365, SharePoint, Copilot Studio, and Power Pages this week 😀 Hope you are having a great summer (or winter) wherever you are, that you take care to manage the heat 😅 for yourself and your loved ones, and that you stay safe. Catch you next time 🌴 EPPC26 Keynotes Building What's Next for Work by Ryan Cunningham Agents Everywhere - Nirav Shah, Microsoft by Nirav Shah The Power of the Platform by Leon Welicki From Boardroom to Build Room on Microsoft by Chris O'Brien News I cannot wait for the cost of AI to go way up by Steve Mordue Copilot Studio is no longer part of Power Platform by Jukka Niiranen Time Under Tension by Scott Hanselman SharePoint Copilot Apps Now in Public Preview: From Intent to Action in Microsoft 365 Copilot by Vesa Juvonen Power Platform Skills including Power Automate and Mobile Apps Skills New Orchestrator, New Rules? CAT's Got You by the Copilot Studio CAT team Native Dataverse Authorization (Public Preview) for Stronger Security in Power Pages by Nagesh Bhat New "Custom access" type in Power Pages table permissions by Michel Mendes D365ContextExporter by Luciano Spiguel Power Platform CoE Starter Kit Update: 4-Week Action Roadmap by Kunal Sethi Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode of Power Platform BOOST! Thank you for buying us a coffee: buymeacoffee.com Podcast home page: https://powerplatformboost.com Email: hello@powerplatformboost.com Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerplatboost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerplatformboost/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerplatboost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090444536122 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@powerplatboost

July 1, 2026Episode 8929 min

EPPC26 - Long days & short nights (#89)

European Power Platform Conference 2025 European Power Platform Conference Copilot Studio Agent Academy News Meet the new Copilot Studio: rebuilt for more complex, multi-step work Playwright MCP Copilot Studio sample agents by Henry Jammes Microsoft Copilot Studio CLI NEW Workflows Feature In Copilot Studio (20-Min Full Demo) by Matthew Devaney How To Build Your First Agent in the NEW Copilot Studio (STEP BY STEP) by Howdang Rashid Microsoft Rebuilt Copilot Studio — Here's Everything New 🚀 by Reza Dorrani Meet the Agent Academy Hackathon Winners by April Dunnam Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode of Power Platform BOOST! Thank you for buying us a coffee: buymeacoffee.com Podcast home page: https://powerplatformboost.com Email: hello@powerplatformboost.com Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerplatboost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerplatformboost/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerplatboost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090444536122 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@powerplatboost