Adventures in AI, Apps, and Agents That Mostly Behave
I’ve been experimenting with the Dataverse MCP Server in Copilot Studio, and discovered something pretty interesting! 🤔 With a few changes to my agent’s instructions, I went from 7 seconds to 3 seconds and cut estimated Copilot Credit consumption nearly in half. Not bad for a few additional instructions! 🎲
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I have a Dataverse table for capturing board games with attachments enabled.📎 I wanted to create a Canvas App that displayed the board games and any notes and attachments that were available. Pretty straight forward. ✔️ When it came to editing a board game, I wanted to display a list of the notes and if…
If you recently tried to deploy the SharePoint template for the Power Platform Communication Site you certainly ran into some errors! 😤 Couple of things I had to do to fix the script. 🛠️ First, make sure you create an app registration for interactive login, see Register an Entra ID Application to use with PnP…
I wanted to share a fantastic infographic created by Ragnar Pitla and Tina van Heerden on when to choose a Connected Agent or Child Agent. The original post can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ragnarpitla_copilotstudio-multiagent-dynamics365-activity-7431727834206887936-n-Qn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAABL96gBbvUghIO-lMxMDBk1EKbNiiclLxc. Based on their excellent work, here is a list of questions that can help you select between a Connected Agent and a…
I wanted to create my own Power BI 📊 report from the data collected by the Copilot Studio Kit. To start with I just wanted a list of agents, and that data was stored in the Agent Details table in Dataverse. I hopped over to My workspace in Power BI, and clicked New Item. 🛠️…
The analytics story with Copilot Studio, let’s say, is a bit challenging, with the information spread across various tools, such as, the Power Platform Admin Center, Agent 365, Teams Admin Center, Purview, Copilot Studio Kit, etc. 📈 With that being said, the purpose of this article is to help navigate 🧭 where to find the…
How can I see a complete list of agents?🤔 Power Platform Admin Center In the Power Platform Admin Center, click Manage and then click Copilot Studio, this will show agents created in Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft 365 Admin Center In the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, click Agents and All agents. This will…
I created a custom engine Agent with Copilot Studio, which I successfully deployed to the Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot channel.🥳 I configured the Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot channel to Show to everyone in my org. This meant I had to Submit it for admin approval, where it would need to be approved in…
⚔️Problem Users are updating an Excel spreadsheet that contains a list of Invoices. When users are completed with their changes, the changes will be sent to a third-party system using either Azure Data Factory or Fabric Pipelines. This will be accomplished by creating a Power Automate flow that will monitor updates in the Excel spreadsheet….
