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Discover Power Platform tools, utilities, and solutions to help you build and govern better.

Tools

Better Govern Agents with the Copilot Studio Monitor

Copilot Studio is evolving fast, but governance and visibility capabilities haven’t kept up. The Copilot Studio Monitor fills critical visibility gaps by sur...

Valentin Mazhar

• Nov 20, 2025

Tools

Export and Update Tenant Settings with PowerShell

Configuring the Power Platform tenant settings properly is one of the simplest (and most overlooked) ways to strengthen governance and security. Yet, many or...

Valentin Mazhar

• Oct 14, 2025

Tools

Streamline CoE Kit Upgrades with Reusable Pipelines

I shared my thoughts on the CoE Starter Kit a while ago. Long story short: it’s a great foundation, a toolkit to build on and adapt to your organization’s ne...

Valentin Mazhar

• Oct 9, 2025

In-depth guides and tutorials covering Power Platform governance, administration, and best practices.

Guides

Monitor Copilot Studio Agents at Runtime: Purview, Transcripts, and Application Insights

This article is part of the Copilot Studio Governance series. The master article covers the full governance landscape; this post focuses on the runtime monit...

Valentin Mazhar

• Mar 27, 2026

Guides

Sharing and Deploying Copilot Studio Agents

Sharing and deploying agents in Copilot Studio is one of the most frequently misunderstood topics in the platform. The official documentation covers the esse...

Valentin Mazhar

• Mar 15, 2026

Guides

Understanding Copilot Studio Licensing

'Chat Sessions', 'Messages' and then 'Copilot Credits', Copilot Studio licensing has gone through a few iterations already. Let's summarize the different opt...

Valentin Mazhar

• Mar 12, 2026

Thoughts, opinions, and lessons learned from working with the Power Platform.

Reflections

The Best Operational Model to Govern the Power Platform

I feel quite passionate about this topic, partly because the absolute 'Best Operational Model to Govern the Power Platform' does not exist. It is likely to e...

Valentin Mazhar

• Nov 12, 2023

Reflections

The Power Apps Consent Popup: A Necessary Evil?

Have you ever seen the Power Apps consent popup below when you open a Canvas App for the first time?

Valentin Mazhar

• Sep 22, 2023

Reflections

Thoughts on the CoE Starter Kit

The Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit is a kit provided by Microsoft. It consists in a set of solutions to support admins and CoEs to govern the platfor...

Valentin Mazhar

• Jun 18, 2023