// hands-on notes

The Workbench

Hands-on with AI, Copilot Studio, and the Power Platform, by Mariano Gomez, Former Microsoft MVP (2008-2024).

September 21, 2026

Copilot Studio | The Agent Your Flow Can't Call

There is a particular kind of bad afternoon in this business. You have built the thing, it works, you demo it, everyone is happy. Then ...

September 17, 2026

Anyone who has built anything nontrivial on Microsoft Dataverse knows the tax. You want to stand up a small data model, load a few thou...

September 14, 2026

If you have done any serious application lifecycle management work in Power Platform, you know the pattern: you move flow ownership off...

September 10, 2026

Every Monday I read what moved in the Microsoft Learn documentation over the previous week, mostly because I got tired of finding out a...

September 07, 2026

There is a question I have been asked in one form or another by every administrator who has ever inherited a tenant full of Copilot Stu...

September 04, 2026

Every one of us who has stood up a model-driven app from nothing has lived the same first afternoon. You know the business process cold...

August 31, 2026

Let me start with the announcement, because some of you came for the tool and not the story, and that is perfectly fine. Today I am rele...