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Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 23h

After a few tries, in 2018, that became a reality: I moved, started working, and made Dublin my home. ❤️

Grateful for all the people and memories along the way. 🍀

(This is one of my first photos in Dublin back in 2018)

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Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 23h

🇮🇪 Yesterday (18/10/2015) marked 10 years since I landed in Dublin for a short holiday: to visit friends and practice English.

I fell in love with the city and couldn't stop thinking about living here.

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Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 4d

🚀 #PowerPages just got a major developer boost!

You can now open VS Code Desktop directly from #VSCode for the Web, automatically downloading your site’s source code and setting up a ready-to-code workspace🦾

🔗Check out the announcement: buff.ly/pRgFVy6 #PowerPlatform

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Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 6d

🎉 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎉

I’m giving one lucky winner a free ticket to the workshop: Building Enterprise AI Agents with the legend @chuntingford.bsky.social 🚀

🔗Check out how to participate in my LinkedIn post:
www.linkedin.com/posts/michel...

#giveaway #microsoftai #copilotstudio #aiagents #lowcode | Michel Mendes

🎉 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎉 I’m giving one lucky winner a free ticket to the most anticipated workshop of the year: Building Enterprise AI Agents with the legend Chris Huntingford! 🚀 This is a live, hands-on...

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Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 7d

👨‍💻Filtering Power Pages lists by values on related entities using FetchXML filters (and a bit of JavaScript)
buff.ly/tbWqjsM #PowerPages #PowerPlatform

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Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 Reminder for #PowerAutomate HTTP and Webhook Trigger Change

⚙Microsoft has upgraded the infrastructure behind these triggers, and as part of this change, flows have been moved to new URLs.

🔗Check the remediation steps and more details here: buff.ly/w7qjzk6

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 11d

🚀 FREE #Azure & #AI Event at the Microsoft Offices in Dublin!

An exclusive one-day, in-person event at One Microsoft Court, Dublin, on October 28th: a day full of insights, demos, and learning sessions led by Microsoft experts and industry leaders🔥🔥🔥🔥

🔗 Register here: buff.ly/o6BGToS

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 12d

⚠Retirement Reminder: SPFx Isolated Web Parts will retire and stop working on April 2nd, 2026

🔗This article brings a PowerShell script to scan for domain-isolated WebParts usage in your tenant and recommended actions going forward:

buff.ly/eOjF1EJ #Microsoft365 #SharePoint #SPFx

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 13d

Another year delivering a session on the Irish Power Platform summit!🤘🦾🚀

Thanks to everyone who attended my session last week🙏

And kudos to the organisers, it was a great event overall! Nice to see the Irish #PowerPlatform Community growing!🇮🇪 #MVPBuzz #PowerPages

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Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 16d

👨‍💻Power Pages: Use a custom Rich Text Files table to store images (and avoid exposing the full msdyn_richtextfiles table)

🔗Check out how: buff.ly/3Xlsbfp #PowerPages #PowerApps #PowerPlatform

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 19d

To enable the new knowledge Agent in SharePoint, you will need a bit of PowerShell🙃

🔗Check out the full tutorial on Microsoft Learn:
buff.ly/JXRtRYg #SharePoint #Microsoft365 #AI

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 20d

🆕Knowledge Agent in #SharePoint (Preview)

A massive upgrade to how your organization prepares, structures, and activates content for Copilot:
▶Auto-tag and classify files with intelligent metadata
▶Enable Copilot and agents to reason over content for better answers
& much more: buff.ly/4QV7rL6

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 23d

📚Optimize and extend Copilot for Microsoft 365: Learn the best practices for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and key extension methods

🔗Check out the Microsoft Learn Module: buff.ly/AvJbgVq

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · 29d

🤖🤝🧑 AI joins the team (literally)

#Microsoft365 #Copilot introduces collaborative agents that work alongside your teams in #MicrosoftTeams, #SharePoint, and #VivaEngage. 👨💻🤖

🔗 buff.ly/myPq7zq

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Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · Sep 20

👨‍💻Blogged: How to use the Web Application Firewall (WAF) in Power Pages to block traffic from specific countries
🔗 buff.ly/g9lzPZu #PowerPages #PowerPlatform #WAF

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · Sep 17

⏱️ Scheduled Prompts in Microsoft 365 Copilot let users automate recurring prompts in Teams, Outlook, and Office chat

👨‍💻Users can set up to 10 recurring prompts

🔗Check out more details: buff.ly/fFYzYN5 #Microsoft365 #Copilot

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Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · Sep 16

📚Learn how you can enhance Microsoft Copilot Studio agents by integrating other technologies

🔗Check it out: buff.ly/m9Au4ue #CopilotStudio #PowerPlatform

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · Sep 13

💡We cannot do this using standard actions but it's straightforward enough using Azure DevOps Rest API.

Are there other scenarios you used the DevOps Rest API with Power Automate to help? #PowerAutomate #AzureDevops

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · Sep 13

Did you know you can leverage the Azure DevOps Rest API in Power Automate to run actions that are not available in Power Automate?🚀

In the example below, I wanted to detect what is the current iteration for a project and obtain its data to send in some automated messages👇

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Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · Sep 12

👨‍💻Blogged: Dataverse Image fields not copying in full resolution using the XRMToolBox DataTransporter? Power Automate to the rescue!

🔗 buff.ly/3ZKV4CW #Dataverse #PowerAutomate

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · Sep 11

👨‍💻Getting started with SharePoint Framework (SPFx):

📚This training module will help you get familiar with SharePoint Framework and to set up your Development environment: buff.ly/3Bw6ouP #SharePoint #SPFx #Microsoft365Dev

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · Sep 10

🚨 #PowerAutomate HTTP & Teams Webhook Trigger changes

From August 2025, flows using logic . azure . com URLs will switch to a new endpoint. By November 30, 2025, the old URLs will no longer be functional.

🔗Check out the recommendations/actions needed when using the new URLs: buff.ly/u0kDgZQ

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Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · Sep 10

🚀 Thinking about joining the #PowerPlatform Community Conference 2025 in Las Vegas?

Here’s a $100 discount code to help with your registration 💸:

🔑 Code: MVPMENDES

🔗 Register here: buff.ly/SzvDWt7
#PPCC2025 #MicrosoftCommunity #LowCode #PowerApps #PowerAutomate

Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨 #PowerAutomate HTTP & Teams Webhook Trigger changes

From August 2025, flows using logic . azure . com URLs will switch to a new endpoint. By Nov 30, 2025, the old URLs will no longer be functional.
🔗Check out the recommendations/actions needed: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubl...

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Michel Mendes @michelcarlo.bsky.social · Sep 5

👨‍💻One of my most popular blog posts: How to build a SharePoint glossary page using view formatting and connected list WebParts: buff.ly/4gANaCU #SharePoint #MicrosoftLists #Microsoft365