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MicrosoftLow Code

Power Pages Server Logic can now call cloud flows

Microsoft says Server Logic in Power Pages can now invoke Power Automate cloud flows, which puts an externally facing form in front of 1,400 connectors.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 20, 2026 5 min read

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MicrosoftLow Code

Power Platform agents can now author security roles

Microsoft's app-builder skill reached GA covering security roles and business rules. What that changes for Power Platform review, ALM and connectors.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 19, 2026 5 min read

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MicrosoftArchitecture

Copilot Studio's Redis numbers and the 72% cost caveat

Microsoft published real traffic and server load figures behind Copilot Studio agent flows. The load drop matters more than the 72% cost headline.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 18, 2026 5 min read

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MicrosoftAutomation

Cloud flow or plugin for Dataverse business logic

A plugin can stop a bad save and a cloud flow cannot. That difference, plus who maintains it, settles most calls.

Elliot ParkSeptember 27, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftAutomation

Power Automate or Logic Apps is an ownership question

The two products share most of their design. The real choice is who owns the thing in two years, which budget pays, and who gets paged at 2am.

Noah ValeSeptember 21, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftServiceNowAutomation

The automation that should have stayed a checklist

Automation pays off on work that is high volume, stable and unambiguous. Anything else buys a permanent maintenance bill for a task nobody struggled with.

Noah ValeSeptember 20, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftDevOps / ALM

The ownership debt hiding in your Power Automate flows

Power Automate flows belong to whoever built them, and that single fact quietly creates most of the ownership debt in a mature Power Platform tenant.

Noah ValeSeptember 18, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftAI & Agents

Designing the human review step for Copilot Studio agents

Name the decision a person keeps, show the reviewer the source and the proposed change, give the queue an owner, and write the answer back to the record.

Amani ReedSeptember 8, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftAdministration

Release Radar: a better way to read change notes

A release note is sixty decisions someone else already made. Three questions and a one-line record find the four that need an owner and a date.

Priya NwosuAugust 26, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftAutomation

Where Power Automate owners lose the thread after a failed run

A green run history hides the cleanup that follows a bad Power Automate run. Name the recovery owner and measure time to a resolved outcome.

Priya NwosuAugust 18, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftOracleArchitecture

Architecture Clinic: the queue cannot own the exception

A queue between Power Automate and Oracle Fusion guarantees delivery. Someone still has to decide what a duplicate, stale request, or rejected record means.

Amani ReedAugust 6, 2026 6 min read

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WorkdayMicrosoftHCM

When a Workday change completes and nobody owns the fix

A Power Automate flow can report success on a Workday employee event while the team that gets the ticket cannot see what arrived or how to correct it.

Amani ReedJune 27, 2026 6 min read

Related guides

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MicrosoftAutomation

Power Automate flows that fail instead of half-succeeding

A flow that stops is visible in run history. A flow that half-finishes leaves two systems disagreeing, so design the handlers, retries and owner first.

Elliot ParkSeptember 26, 2026 7 min read

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MicrosoftServiceNowAdministration

The first thirty minutes of a Power Automate incident

When a shared Power Automate flow fails, find the work that stopped, name one lead, and write the ServiceNow record before anyone resubmits a run.

Priya NwosuJuly 3, 2026 6 min read