Power Pages Now Supports AI-Assisted Creation and Editing of Non-SPA Sites

Microsoft is expanding AI-assisted development in Power Pages with new preview support for creating and editing traditional websites using agentic coding tools. Through the Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code, developers can now customise existing sites and build new ones using web templates and Liquid without having to rewrite them as single-page applications (SPAs).

Here's what you need to know:

• Discover New AI-Powered Development Capabilities

  Power Pages now supports creating and editing websites built with web templates and Liquid through the Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code. This allows developers to build pages, update content, customise templates, and refine styling without rewriting existing sites as SPAs.

• Build Your Website from a Supported Template

  Start with a supported Microsoft-provided Non-SPA template and describe the website you want to create. The plugin guides you through the setup, downloads the site using PAC CLI, and prepares its files for further customisation.

• Update Pages, Templates, and Website Content

  Use /edit-site in GitHub Copilot CLI or Claude Code to update an existing Power Pages website downloaded through PAC CLI. Describe your requested changes, review the proposed customisation plan, and let the plugin update the relevant pages, templates, and files.

• Publish Your Changes with Confidence

  Once you're happy with your local changes, run /deploy-site and approve the upload to your target environment. The plugin verifies the website details before deployment, allowing you to review the published site in your browser and Power Pages design studio.

• Get More Flexibility in Power Pages Development

  Add new pages, improve navigation, and refresh your website's branding without converting it into an SPA. Choose between an SPA framework or Power Pages web templates and Liquid based on your project's requirements.

• Prepare Your Tools and Start Building

  Install the required development tools and the Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI or Claude Code, ensuring you have version 3.0.0 or later. Sign in to your target Power Platform environment, confirm the enhanced data model setting with your administrator, and use /create-site or /edit-site to begin.

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Power BI Now Supports Cross-Workspace Semantic Model Connections Through OAP Exceptions

Microsoft has introduced an improvement to Power BI that gives organisations greater flexibility when working with semantic models across different workspaces. With support for OAP (Outbound Access Protection) exception policies, Power BI reports can now connect to semantic models in separate workspaces while maintaining controlled data access and security.

Here's what you need to know:

• What Is Workspace Outbound Access Protection (OAP)?

  Workspace Outbound Access Protection (OAP) helps organisations control where data from a Microsoft Fabric workspace can flow. Previously, reports in OAP-protected workspaces could only query semantic models within the same workspace, but this update introduces approved cross-workspace connections through administrator-defined exception policies.

• Allow Cross-Workspace Connections Through Exception Policies

  OAP blocks outbound report-to-model connections by default, but workspace administrators can now create exception policies to allow reports to connect to approved semantic models in other workspaces. This allows organisations to centralise shared semantic models while giving business teams the flexibility to manage reports in separate workspaces.

• See the Improvement in Action

  Without an applicable exception policy, Power BI blocks reports from connecting to semantic models in other OAP-protected workspaces. Once an administrator creates an exception policy for the destination workspace, the same report can load successfully and display its visuals.

• How to Configure an Exception Policy

  Workspace administrators can configure an exception policy through the workspace settings under Outbound networking by adding a new cloud connection rule. Select Power BI Semantic Model as the Connection Kind, specify the approved destination workspace, then save the data connection rules.

• Getting Started

  Work with your workspace administrator to confirm that OAP is enabled and that your report workspace meets the necessary prerequisites. Create an exception policy for every approved semantic model destination, keeping in mind that policy changes may take approximately 15 minutes to propagate.

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Microsoft Advances AI Agent Development with October 2026 Copilot Studio Updates

Microsoft is introducing a new set of capabilities in Microsoft Copilot Studio to help organisations build more capable, connected, and proactive AI agents. The October 2026 updates bring improvements to agent development, customer conversations, multi-agent collaboration, workflow automation, and cost management, giving businesses more ways to put AI agents to work.

Here's what you need to know:

• Develop and Manage Agents from Your Favourite Tools

  The new MCP server lets developers access Copilot Studio through tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and OpenAI's Codex. Makers can create agents, configure workflows, run tests, publish updates, and troubleshoot issues using natural-language instructions.

• Put AI Agents in Charge of Ongoing Business Processes

  Agent accounts allow users to delegate tasks to AI agents through Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Office files. With business process memory, approved credentials, and event-based triggers, agents can manage ongoing responsibilities without waiting for constant human prompts.

• Create Smarter Voice and Chat Experiences for Customers

  The new customer conversation harness provides a dedicated environment for building customer-facing agents across voice and chat. Its multi-agent architecture, specialised sub-agents, and human escalation paths help organisations deliver efficient and scalable customer experiences.

• Connect Specialised Agents to Work Together

  New A2A support allows Copilot Studio agents to communicate and collaborate with specialised agents built using other compatible frameworks. Agents can discover capabilities and delegate tasks to one another, bringing different AI solutions together without rebuilding everything on one platform.

• Track Agent Consumption and Keep Costs Under Control

  New cost management capabilities help makers track Copilot Credits during development and identify consumption across workflow runs and nodes. Administrators can also monitor usage, spending trends, and remaining credit capacity through the Microsoft 365 admin centre.

See the full list of Copilot Studio October 2026 updates.

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Scale Outbound Sales with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Development Agent

Microsoft has shared enterprise setup best practices for its Sales Development Agent, an autonomous AI teammate designed to help organisations scale outbound sales operations without increasing headcount. The latest guidance highlights how businesses can deploy, configure, and manage the agent while maintaining security, governance, and control over customer interactions.

Here's what you need to know:

• How Does Sales Development Agent Work?

  Sales Development Agent researches accounts, executes personalised multi-touch outreach, qualifies prospect responses, and transfers warm leads to human sellers. Operating within a controlled and auditable framework, it helps sales teams expand their outreach while maintaining visibility and control over agent activities.

• The Three Core Pillars Behind Sales Development Agent

  Sales Development Agent is built around governed collaboration, trusted business data, and standards-based CRM connectivity. These three pillars help organisations customise agent behaviour, maintain data security, and integrate prospecting activities into existing sales operations.

• Key Capabilities

  Sales Development Agent combines autonomous outreach, multilingual communication, and contextual lead qualification to streamline prospect engagement. It also provides CRM integration, compliance controls, enterprise analytics, and extensibility to support different business requirements.

• Key Business Benefits

  With autonomous prospecting and governed CRM connectivity, organisations can expand their sales operations without proportionally increasing headcount. Built-in security, performance monitoring, and flexible deployment options also help maintain control as outreach activities scale.

• Getting Started: Deployment, Security and Governance

  Sales Development Agent operates autonomously within administrator-defined permissions, security policies, and communication guidelines. Organisations can control who deploys agents, what data they access, how they engage prospects, and how their activities are monitored.

• How Should Organisations Roll Out Sales Development Agent?

  A structured rollout helps organisations establish the right permissions, safeguards, and configurations before introducing autonomous prospecting. Starting with a limited deployment and gradually expanding integrations allows teams to evaluate performance and refine agent behaviour before scaling.

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Microsoft Showcases the Future of Power Platform at Its Fifth Annual Community Conference

Microsoft is celebrating five years of the Power Platform Community Conference (PPCC), highlighting how its growing community of makers is shaping the future of business applications and AI-powered solutions. The 2026 event brought together thousands of attendees to explore new innovations, share ideas, and discover how Power Platform, Copilot, and AI agents can improve the way organisations work.

Here are some key takeaways from the conference:

• Begin with the Process

  Every meaningful innovation begins with someone who recognises a problem and sees an opportunity to improve it. By combining apps, automation, and AI agents, makers are simplifying processes and delivering measurable business results across industries.

• Innovation Takes Centre Stage

  AI is expanding the possibilities for makers, allowing more people to build solutions and improve how work gets done. By bringing apps, automation, and agents together, teams can address individual challenges while improving entire business processes.

• Turning Ideas into Business Solutions

  PPCC showcased how makers can use Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform to turn ideas into practical business solutions. With connected capabilities across these tools and Dynamics 365, organisations can bring their data, apps, agents, and workflows together.

• Theme 1: Design Experiences Around Real Work

  Makers can use natural language and AI-assisted tools to build applications that address specific business needs. These capabilities also allow developers to extend solutions using familiar tools without having to start from scratch.

• Theme 2: Keep Business Processes Moving

  Copilot Studio's agent accounts and business process memory help AI agents manage shared workflows, respond to triggers, and retain relevant context. This allows work to continue across multiple interactions while keeping people in control of important decisions and approvals.

• Theme 3: Build and Scale with Confidence

  New capabilities across Copilot Studio, Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime, and Microsoft Agent 365 give organisations greater visibility and control over their apps and agents. Together, they support better governance, security, and cost management as organisations scale their AI-powered business processes.

• A Community Built on Collaboration

  PPCC brought makers together through workshops, networking activities, expert discussions, and interactive experiences. These opportunities encouraged attendees to exchange knowledge, build connections, and learn from the wider Power Platform community.

• Turning Conference Insights into What's Next

  Although PPCC has ended, makers can continue learning, connecting, and exploring new possibilities through upcoming events, training, and community resources. The next step is applying these insights to real business challenges and creating meaningful improvements for their organisations.

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Microsoft Expands AI Agent Capabilities with Dynamics 365 Sales MCP Server

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Dynamics 365 CX MCP Server – Sales, bringing CRM capabilities into supported AI agents and seller experiences. This update allows organisations to access trusted sales data, business logic, and actions across different AI-powered tools without being restricted to a single CRM interface.

Here's what you need to know:

• Move from a CRM Destination to a System of Action

  Traditionally, CRM has been where sales teams go to find information, update records, and manage processes. With AI agents, sellers can simply express what they want to accomplish while agents retrieve relevant context, reason through information, and take actions on their behalf—all while Dynamics 365 Sales maintains the customer data, business logic, and security controls.

• Access 59 Tools for Core Sales Activities

  The MCP Server includes 59 tools at general availability, providing reusable building blocks for essential seller workflows. AI agents can combine these tools to complete complex tasks, such as retrieving opportunities, recalculating prices, creating quotes, and converting them into orders, while following existing Dataverse permissions.

• Bring Sales Capabilities Across AI Experiences

  The server provides a shared capability layer for Microsoft experiences such as Cowork and Sales Agent, as well as compatible customer-built agents and other MCP-enabled AI tools. This means organisations can create focused sales experiences without rebuilding CRM integrations for every application.

• Keep Security and Governance in Place

  Connections are managed through the Microsoft-hosted Agent 365 Tooling Gateway, which handles authentication to your Dataverse environment. Existing Dataverse roles and permissions continue to govern access, helping organisations extend sales capabilities to AI experiences while maintaining established security and governance controls.

• Start Using Dynamics 365 CX MCP Server – Sales

  Now generally available, the server offers several ways to bring AI into everyday sales activities. Build an agent in Copilot Studio to prepare sellers for customer calls, create skills for deal reviews and lead triage, or bring Dynamics 365 Sales data and actions into tools your teams already use, including GitHub Copilot CLI, Visual Studio Code, Cowork, and other MCP-compatible clients.

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Copilot Cowork Simplifies Dataverse App Development with the New Plugin

Microsoft has brought the Dataverse plugin to Copilot Cowork, making it easier to build business applications using natural language prompts. The new capability brings data modelling, business logic, security, and app development into a more unified workflow while keeping governance and user approvals in place.

Here's what you need to know:

• Build Dataverse Apps from a Single Prompt

  Describe the app you need in plain language, and Copilot Cowork can create the Dataverse tables, relationships and sample records for you. It also reuses existing Dataverse data and incorporates your business requirements into the app.

• Keep Governance and Security in Place

  The Dataverse plugin works within your existing security permissions and requires your approval before making changes. All operations take place in your own environment, keeping your established security roles and governance practices in place.

• Go from Data Model to Published App

  Once the data structure is ready, Copilot Cowork builds the app interface, connects the Dataverse tables and applies a theme. It also runs several checks before publishing the app through Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime (preview).

• Enforce Business Rules Automatically

  Copilot Cowork can apply the business rules you describe, such as limiting event registrations and automatically placing additional participants on a waitlist. Every registration and update is saved directly in Dataverse, keeping your business data in one place.

• Get Started with the Dataverse Plugin

  Connect the Microsoft Dataverse plugin to your environment through Copilot Cowork's Customize settings. Describe the app you want to build, review each approval request and let Cowork handle the development process.

• Bring Dataverse to More AI Development Tools

  Dataverse is expanding beyond Copilot Cowork to other AI-powered development platforms, including GitHub Copilot, Claude, Codex, ChatGPT and Cursor. This makes it easier to use Dataverse as a trusted business-data foundation across different tools while maintaining consistent skills and governance controls.

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Prepare for Your Next Microsoft Certification with Visual Studio Subscriptions

Microsoft is highlighting how Visual Studio Subscriptions can help developers prepare for their next Microsoft certification. Eligible subscribers can access learning resources from Cloud Academy and Pluralsight, helping them build technical skills and gain practical experience as they work towards their certification goals.

Here's what you need to know:

• Build Your AI Development Skills

  Preparing for the Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer certification through the AI-103 exam can help you learn to develop generative AI applications, integrate AI services, and create intelligent agents and workflows. Pluralsight offers AI-103-aligned learning resources to help you explore these concepts and prepare for your certification goals.

• Strengthen Your Azure Administration Skills

  Preparing for the AZ-104 exam can help you develop practical knowledge of Azure virtual networks, storage, compute resources, and identity management. Cloud Academy and Pluralsight offer AZ-104 training to help you explore relevant administration concepts and build the skills needed to manage Azure environments.

• Develop Your Cloud Architecture Expertise

  Preparing for the AZ-305 exam can help you strengthen your ability to design Azure solutions covering infrastructure, security, data storage, and business continuity. Cloud Academy and Pluralsight provide AZ-305-aligned learning resources to help you study cloud architecture concepts and work towards the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.

  Note: You must earn the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification to qualify for the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.

• Put Your Learning into Practice

  Cloud Academy and Pluralsight offer technical courses, guided labs, and hands-on learning experiences to help you apply your knowledge and develop practical skills. If your Visual Studio Subscription includes Azure monthly credits, you can also explore eligible Azure services, test configurations, and practise in a development environment.

• Start Preparing for Your Next Certification

  Your Visual Studio Subscription can be a valuable starting point for building technical expertise, pursuing professional certifications, and advancing your career. Visit the Visual Studio Subscriptions portal to activate your eligible Cloud Academy and Pluralsight benefits and explore learning resources aligned with your certification goals.

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Explore What’s New in the Visual Studio October 2026 Update

Microsoft has announced its October update for Visual Studio, introducing improvements designed to make everyday development tasks smoother and more efficient. The update focuses on helping developers review code changes, manage merge conflicts, and keep coding with fewer interruptions.

Here's what you need to know:

• Compare Your Current Code with Earlier Commits

  Need to see how your code has changed since an earlier commit? Compare it directly with your working tree to review committed changes and ongoing edits in one view.

• Resolve Multiple Merge Conflicts at Once

  Resolving conflicts file by file can slow down your workflow, especially when you already know which version to keep. Visual Studio now lets you apply the same resolution to multiple conflicted files in one action.

• Explore the New GitHub Copilot Chat Experience

  Looking for a smoother AI-assisted coding experience? The updated Copilot Chat experience supports more capable agent workflows, longer-running sessions, and more consistent behaviour across Copilot tools.

• Pick Up Where You Left Off with Hot Exit

  Closing Visual Studio no longer means losing track of unfinished work. Hot Exit restores unsaved documents, existing edits, and your tab and window layout when you reopen the IDE.

• Rearrange Document Tabs with Keyboard Shortcuts

  Keep your workspace organised without reaching for the mouse. Use Ctrl+Shift+PgUp and Ctrl+Shift+PgDn to move document tabs and supported tool windows.

• Customise Fonts and Colours More Easily

  Finding the right editor settings is easier with category-based navigation, integrated search, and inline previews. You can also manage your customisations through settings.json, making them easier to inspect, edit, share, or revert.

• Make the Most of Visual Studio

  From more efficient Git workflows to a more personalised coding environment, these updates give developers new ways to manage their code and stay productive. Explore the latest features and see which improvements fit your development workflow.

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Continue Your Investigation Without Losing Unsaved Notes in Visual Studio

Microsoft is making it easier for developers to pick up where they left off during bug investigations in Visual Studio 2026. The latest version introduces improvements that help preserve unfinished notes between sessions, so developers can return to their investigation without losing track of important details.

Here's what you need to know:

• Create a Standalone Markdown Note

  Press Ctrl + N, select Markdown File, then choose Open to start writing without adding the file to your project. You can organise your investigation notes using headings, lists, and code blocks, then preview your Markdown as you work.

• Pick Up Where You Left Off

  Enable Hot Exit by going to Tools > Options > All Settings > Projects and Solutions > General and selecting Reopen unsaved documents on solution load or empty environment. Once enabled, Hot Exit restores your open documents and unsaved edits when you reopen Visual Studio, letting you continue your notes without saving them immediately.

• Get More from Hot Exit

  Hot Exit also preserves changes to previously saved files, your tab and window layout, and undo functionality for saved files. You can even continue using Ctrl + Z on saved files after restoring your session.

• Keep Temporary Notes Separate from Your Project

  Standalone Markdown files are useful for recording debugging steps, tracking possible causes, or listing what to investigate next. When you're ready to keep or share your findings, save the note and add it to your repository if needed.

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