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    Copilot Studio | Debugging Agents with the ‘Save Snapshot’

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    October 8, 2025

    Let’s say you’re testing an agent and encounter an exception. You want to troubleshoot the issue and understand which topic/tool caused the issue. Did you know you can capture the conversation content and diagnostic data, and save it as a file? This allows you to analyze the information and troubleshoot…

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  • Copilot Studio, CRM

    Copilot Studio | Detecting User’s Sentiment in chat

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    October 7, 2025

    Microsoft Copilot Studio offers tools to build intelligent Agents. Imagine a user completes a support chat and says, “That was super helpful, thanks!”—you’d want your agent to recognize this positive sentiment and respond appropriately. In this beginner blog post, we’ll explore how to detect user sentiment and respond based on…

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  • ai, CRM

    Microsoft Agent Framework | Introduction

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    October 4, 2025

    In one of my previous articles, Getting Started with Semantic Kernel, I’ve touch based on Semantic Kernel ,an open-source development kit that helps you easily build AI agents and integrate the latest AI models. Similarly, Microsoft has AutoGen, an open-source programming framework for building AI agents. Now, Microsoft has combined both…

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  • Dataverse

    Dataverse | Query data Using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

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    September 28, 2025

    Did you know that you can connect to your Dataverse environment using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and query data with SQL? Use Case: Let’s say you’re migrating around 2 million ‘Account’ records into your Dataverse environment using SSIS. While your SSIS package is running, you may want to track…

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  • CRM, SQL

    SSIS in SQL Server | Stop a Running Package

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    September 24, 2025

    In this post, I’ll show you how to stop a running SSIS package in SQL Server. Let’s say you have deployed SSIS packages to SQL Server and executed one of the packages. The package will start, and its status will show as Running. But what if you want to terminate…

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  • Power Platform

    Power Platform Pipelines | Delegated Deployment with a Service Principal

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    September 22, 2025

    If you are a beginner, I recommend starting with the basics of Pipelines. In my earlier article, Configure and run ‘Pipelines in Power Platform’ , I explained how a maker can deploy a solution from DEV to TEST. In this article, we’ll explore Delegated deployments using a Service Principal.  With…

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  • ai, CRM

    OpenAI “Prompt Optimizer” Tool | Write Better Prompts Faster

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    September 8, 2025

    Writing good prompts can be tricky, but OpenAI just made it easier with their Prompt Optimizer tool. This tool takes your draft prompts and suggests improvements to make them clearer, more effective, and tailored for better AI responses. It’s a great way to save time and get more out of…

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  • Power Platform

    Power Platform | Masking rules (Preview)

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    August 29, 2025

    Let’s say you are storing sensitive information such as credit card numbers, SSNs, or users’ email addresses, and you want to protect this information during customer interactions to prevent data leaks. Masking Rules help by replacing sensitive data with masked strings. Masking Rules use regular expressions to identify specific patterns, for example…

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  • PowerApps

    Getting Started: Build Your First Power Apps Code App

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    August 27, 2025

    In my previous article, I have explained about the Power Apps Code Apps , a new way for developers to bring Power Apps capabilities into web apps built in a code-first IDE. In this article, we’ll learn how to build a Code App and publish it to a Power Platform…

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  • Misc

    COPILOT function in Excel

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    August 20, 2025

    COPILOT function in Excel allows you to enter a natural language prompt in your spreadsheet, reference cell values as needed, and watch Copilot instantly generate AI-powered results.  How to use: To use we enter this code into any cell: =COPILOT(prompt_part1, [context1], [prompt_part2], [context2], …) The COPILOT function syntax has the following…

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