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The Workbench

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

August 11, 2026

Same Agent, Two Architectures: When MCP Wins (and When It Doesn't)

I know, I know. It has been almost five years since my last post, and in that time the masthead changed, the name changed, and frankly, the ...

August 12, 2021

In this video, learn to enable Power Apps Application Monitoring with Azure Application Insights. The following topics are covered in this ...

August 03, 2021

Learn about Power Platform extension for Visual Studio Code and how this toolset is improving both the code first developer experience and s...

August 02, 2021

I revisit an old video I did couple years ago showing how to pass collections from Power Automate to Power Apps. This time around, I show h...

November 10, 2020

AI Builder Form Processing Multi-layout Form Processing has been one of the most requested features and is now available in preview for you ...

October 20, 2020

Welcome to the final episode of Power Platform Application Lifecycle Management. In parts 1 and 2 you saw how to prepare your environments, ...

September 22, 2020

In the previous installment, you saw how to work through a set of prerequisites to get you going in your Power Platform Application Lifecycl...