Highlights on What’s New for Microsoft Power

Platform and Community

Heather Cook
Principal Manager, Community Evangelism & Events
Business Applications & Platforms, Microsoft

Femke Cornelissen
Technical Evangelist, Wortell
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Your Speakers
Femke Cornelissen Heather Cook
Technical Evangelist, Wortell Principal PM Manager, Microsoft
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Agenda
Microsoft Ignite resources
AI history/responsible AI
Highlights on Power Platform
Copilot Studio and resources
Crafting prompts
Release Planner demo
Highlights on Community
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On-demand sessions

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Power BI AI Builder
Natural language Power Apps
Azure OpenAI
to DAX Quick Image & Figma to
model with
Create app
templates

Power Apps
Copilot for
makers and apps
Responsible AI
Copilot is delivered via Microsoft Cloud with Responsible AI
as a core principle: data is not shared to OpenAI.

Your data is YOURS. No one sees or handles

it without your express permission.

Your use of Copilot remains private. Nothing you do

is used to update the model.

Customer data is not used to train Large Language Models.

User Engagement with Copilots is not used

to improve models across tenants.
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Edge copilot
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GitHub copilot
Copilot for pull requests Fabric
Copilot chat
Copilot for docs Word
Copilot for CLI Windows Copilot
Copilot voice Excel
Power Platform copilot
Power Automate AI Builder Windows Store (& AI Hub)
PowerPoint
Power Automate Process Mining
Outlook
Copilot Studio Power Pages copilot
Teams
Power Apps copilot (canvas and model-driven) Whiteboard (Teams)

Copilot for Sales SharePoint

Copilot for Service
D365 Customer Insights and D365 Marketing OneNote
D365 Business central
D365 Supply chain Loop
D365 Finance
D365 Project Operations Designer
Business Chat
Copilot for Security
Copilot for Microsoft 365
DAX expressions
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You can find the learning path on Microsoft Learn or

directly at https://aka.ms/CopilotSolutions.

To take advantage of all the AI powered Copilot

capabilities in the Power Platform, you will need to
have a Power Platform environment that is suited
specifically for the use of Copilot.

Be sure to go watch April Dunnam’s video Power

Platform Copilot Environment Setup which walks
you through how to get properly setup.
 Check out Copilot

In order to test out Copilots you need to have the

following:

• Microsoft 365 E3, E5 or business premium licenses

• Power Platform Premium licenses

To test and check out:

• Microsoft Developer Trial (90 days, renews with

usage)

• Power Platform Trial (30 days, usually three times)

 Dive into the world of Copilot

Explore real world use cases

Tutorials of Copilot in M365 &

Power Platform

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Copilot for
model-driven
apps
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What is Power Apps Copilot

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Build an app faster with Copilot

Upload existing data, design or just by Keep working with Copilot to polish Explain the outcome you want, how to
giving Copilot a description and an app every aspect of your app, including filter sort or search for example, and
will be made for you. data, UI, formulas and more. Copilot writes the code for you.
Demo
Process Mining
General
Availability
Understand business processes in
your organization
Power Automate
AI copilot
Describe what you want to automate
in a sentence, and an AI-based
copilot will build it in seconds
(built on GPT-3 + Codex)
What is a prompt?
Prompt is a question or a
command you give your AI to
guide the response
Crafting prompts
Be specific
Provide context
Iterate

Practice, practice practice

Power Platform
Prompts Library
Instead of starting from scratch Power
Platform Prompt Samples library, housed
on Github! Blog from April Dunnam.

This repository is dedicated to showcasing

a variety of prompts that can be used to
power up your experiences in the Power
Platform using GPT models. So, get ready
to unleash your creativity and take your
Power Platform projects to new heights!

https://aka.ms/powerplatformprompts
Demo
 Fundamentals of crafting prompts
in Power Automate

Design the Be declarative Plan to verify,

flow first test, and edit
Design the flow first

Starting from a blank slate is

tough. Our examples are
there for inspiration, but the
best results come from a very
specific prompt.
Design the flow first
 Think about the exact sequence
of steps that needs to happen.
Drawing it out can help!

 Figure out if your flow has any

variables, conditions, and/or
branches

 Write a narrative using if/then

statements for conditional
branching.
Design the flow first

“Create an approval flow for intake requests and notify the requestor of the
result.”

VERSUS

“When I receive a response to my Intake Request form, start and wait for a
new approval. If approved, notify the requestor saying so. Likewise if the
approval is denied.”
Be declarative
The model works best if it doesn’t
need to guess what tools you want
to use.

Example:
“Notification” is unclear,
“email” is not.

For now, specific values work

better than vague pointers: A
specific email address is better
than “head of marketing.”
The three R's in creating impactful prompts

Rephrase

Reframe

Retry
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Two great resources for getting started with

Copilot Studio

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aka.ms/CopilotStudioImplementationReview
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PowerAutomateBlog
PowerPagesBlog
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Platform

Release Wave Planner

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