Microsoft Build 2025 showcased significant updates for agent makers, introducing features like Copilot Tuning for customised agents without coding, a dynamic Agent Feed for easy monitoring, and enhancements to Power Apps, including generative pages.
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Use AI prompts in Copilot Studio to read receipts
Microsoft Copilot Studio makes it easy integrate AI-powered document and image processing into your agents. By combining file upload capabilities with AI Builder's AI Prompts, you can extract information in your desired format from documents like receipts.
Power Automate: Trigger approvals from Microsoft Lists
Microsoft Lists provides a simple, customisable way to structure data, and is useful for managing tasks, tracking assess, planning events and more. One of its powerful features is how easily it integrates with Power Automate, allowing you to build workflows depending on values in your list. We’ll walk through how to trigger an approval process from a Microsoft List using Power Automate, and if approved, we’ll update a choice column to reflect the outcome.
Prompt Coach: Prebuilt agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Prompt Coach is a prebuilt agent designed to enhance your Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat experience. Whether you're new to prompt engineering or looking to refine your skills, Prompt Coach can help you create well-structured, impactful prompts to use within conversational AI tools.
Further Resources for learning Power Platform (2024 updated)
Links to helpful resources to continue or launch your Power Platform journey
Microsoft Build 2024: 5 new Power Platform features
Microsoft Build conference has been packed with a number of exciting announcements, particularly around AI and Copilot. Here are top 5 of my favourite upcoming features that have been announced across Power Platform: Agent Capabilities in Copilot Studio, Team Copilot, AI Flows, AI Recorder, Custom Copilots from SharePoint.
Highlights from Power Platform Wave 1 2024 release plan
It's that time of the year again- Microsoft has come out with their Wave 1 2024 plan, giving us a list of features planned for release between April to September 2024. These are some of my highlights from the release plan across Power Platform.
Learn more about Project “Sophia” : AI-powered business research canvas
Project “Sophia” was revealed last week at Microsoft Ignite. With Project Sophia, you can create exploratory journeys and get AI-generated charts and insights from your business data without any manual work.
Power Virtual Agents is now part of Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft Copilot Studio, a conversational AI platform, was revealed at Microsoft Ignite this month. "Power Virtual Agents" is now retired, and has become part of this new product.
Quickly turn your Excel spreadsheets into Dataverse tables and Power Apps
Did you know that you can transform your Excel spreadsheets into fully functional, responsive canvas apps in just a few steps? In Power Apps, you can simply upload your spreadsheet, your data will be turned into a Dataverse table, and your app will be created.
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