Fresh shifts, product changes, and external signals that may become tomorrow's blocker.
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Power Apps search galleries often work on small test sets then fail at scale. Non-delegable formulas against SharePoint only use the local row limit, so records can be missing while the UI still looks fine. Choose Filter, Search, or LookUp by result type and connector support…
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Microsoft places Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Dataverse on a single AI at Work roadmap so makers can track upcoming AI work in one place. Features still ship on product timelines; the change is discovery and planning, not delivery.
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Copilot returns only SharePoint content a user can already open. Widespread oversharing—Everyone grants, broken inheritance, old groups—lets list-backed Power Apps and AI surface sensitive material far faster than manual folder search.
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Microsoft removes seeded AI Builder credits from Power Apps licences on 1 November 2026. Form processing and object detection still run but draw Copilot Credits, so quiet pilots can become real monthly cost without an audit.
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Microsoft deprecates preview Copilot chat in non-Dynamics model-driven Power Apps from January 2026 and steers makers to Microsoft 365 Copilot. The pane stays GA in Dynamics 365. Plain Power Apps tenants should not treat the old chat as durable.
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Microsoft retires the standalone Power Automate mobile app on 31 August 2026. Cloud flows keep running, but mobile approvals, push alerts, and home-screen widgets need Teams, browser, or Power Apps paths so managers still see requests.
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Fluent UI v8 hero controls in Teams canvas apps and model-driven custom pages are deprecated. Microsoft documents an upgrade path to Fluent 2 modern controls; some colour and theming settings need a manual check after conversion.
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Dataverse bulk deletion job definitions can be added to solutions and moved between environments. Run details surface failures, and permanent deletion remains a one-time irreversible option. Treating cleanup rules as ALM artifacts reduces inconsistent retention across sandboxes…
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Microsoft ends seeded AI Builder credits on 1 November 2026. AI Builder features remain but burn Copilot Credits with no automatic conversion. Production apps and flows risk mid-run blocks once free capacity disappears.
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Power Apps makers hit data loss prevention blocks only after designing around SharePoint, Dataverse, or custom connectors. Tenant and environment DLP evaluate the full connector set; the most restrictive grouping wins, forcing late redesigns unless makers validate the mix with…
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Power Apps standardises modern control property names, makes DisplayMode.View truly read-only, fixes modern form reset behaviour, and grows the icon library to about 180. Fluent hero controls in custom pages and Teams apps are deprecated.
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Microsoft listed the Dataverse semantic model as a Power Platform preview. It uses scoped tables, metadata, and a shared glossary so Copilot maps internal terms and acronyms to the right fields, reducing repeated vocabulary setup across agents while staying sandbox-limited.
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Power Apps Access Denied errors span the shared app, connections, data source, flows, and record permissions. An app can open while users still cannot load or update data. Makers should treat failures as an access-chain test and grant minimum rights per layer.
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Prebuilt Power Apps canvas screens ship responsive containers, modern controls and common layouts that connect to SharePoint. They reduce blank-canvas alignment work, but builders still must wire data and verify behaviour across phone and desktop widths.
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Microsoft’s 2026 release plan lists online mode for Dataverse-connected canvas apps as August public preview and September GA. Admins or makers enable it; dates may shift. Relevant for Dataverse canvas apps, not SharePoint-list apps, as a watch item before wider rollout.
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Microsoft made the modern canvas-app data grid generally available. It adds built-in search, sorting, selection, resizing and accessible dense-list behaviour without forcing migration from older table or gallery controls for list-heavy screens.
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A Power Apps mobile build captures travel receipts, extracts key details with AI, adds a review step and sends approved records to Accounting. AI output is treated as a draft before the finance handoff.
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A practitioner test shows a Dataverse business skill finding a support case and logging a call consistently through an agent, with concrete preview prerequisites and failure checks for makers.
