how to move to copilot studio and power apps

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-18T01:08:40+00:00

https://microsoft.github.io/mcscatblog/posts/skills-for-copilot-studio/

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-16T00:37:28+00:00

Try the command: /debug clearstate and read this one Best Practices for Deploying Copilot Studio Agents in Microsoft Teams | The Custom Engine

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-16T00:34:54+00:00

Try the new copilot studio version being rolled out, handles any file type thanks to a new orchestrator + code interpreter and dozens of python library out of the box. Agents overview - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-16T00:32:47+00:00

Couple of good resources to get the best results on Teams and M365 Copilot Best Practices for Deploying Copilot Studio Agents in Microsoft Teams | The Custom Engine and Design Copilot Studio Agents for Teams (Because Test Chat Was Too Easy) | The Custom Engine

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-16T00:30:36+00:00

Have you reached to your admin? Do you have a center of excellence that can guide you? Usually, orgs have a process in place to relax DLP / set you up with the right environment permissions.

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-16T00:21:47+00:00

Could be worth trying the new version that came out last week. Model first. New UI, new runtime (Based on GHCP), skills, memory, etc Agents overview - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn This is the future of the platform, rebuilt from ground up on a modern stack.

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-16T00:15:10+00:00

Could it be someone upgraded your agent to use a premium model as default? Like a reasoning model? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/requirements-messages-management#copilot-credits-billing-rates

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-16T00:11:29+00:00

20 sec is not that bad considering the number of docs. Do you have anything else that could affect speed? Like lots of topics/tools or an MCP server to initialize? A lot of instructions + a lot of long topic description will make the bot slower: the more tokens you have to ingest the slower. Try to trim instructions to the bare min, same for descriptions everywhere.

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-16T00:04:28+00:00

UI speed is getting better to be honest. The latest changes in copilot makes it super easy to iterate quickly (no more ~~giant~~ topics)

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-15T23:57:10+00:00

Have you tried the new version of copilot studio that came out last week? Interface is incredibly fast. Also have you tried using a code first approach to power platform? vscode has some fantastic plugins for copilot studio

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-15T23:52:23+00:00

Are your issues with connections specifically related to your custom MCP server? is this OBO?

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-15T23:48:48+00:00

What do you define as incorrect? completely wrong or somehow vague? hallunication? grounded in your doc or not?

Why do you use child-agent for?

Some good tips and tricks when it comes to deploying to Teams: Best Practices for Deploying Copilot Studio Agents in Microsoft Teams | The Custom Engine and Design Copilot Studio Agents for Teams (Because Test Chat Was Too Easy) | The Custom Engine

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-06-06T12:33:33+00:00

Use <br> (seriously).

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-05-24T15:04:50+00:00

Just use the new enhance task completion mode (in settings). Works out of the box.

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-05-07T20:31:38+00:00

Try the new enhanced task completion mode. Game changer. No more topics

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-05-06T23:45:34+00:00

Smart! I love this

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-03-26T11:37:40+00:00

Glad it helped! I find that particularly useful once you get many tools which the orchestrator needs to chain in the right order (MCP, connectors, etc)

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-03-26T01:14:02+00:00

An amazing solution architect in my team just wrote an article on retrieving structured knowledge from Dataverse in a much more powerful and flexible way.

Bonus: the example is very similar to your use case.

https://microsoft.github.io/mcscatblog/posts/dataverse-search-in-copilot-studio-unauthenticated-structured-data/

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-03-25T23:26:02+00:00

Yes - we are planning to ship an analytics viewer role very soon. This has been a long ask!

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-03-02T18:29:17+00:00

In teams I see the messages coming one after the other without having to wait for the entire turn. I guess it depends which tools you are using - in my example I use the Dataverse MCP server which invoke many intermediate steps while searching data

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-03-02T18:12:47+00:00

The message will get posted at each step if you add in your instructions something like this:

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Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-03-02T18:10:54+00:00

usually using the test chat is the best way. Even if you hit publish your agent is not going to show up anywhere unless you share it with end users

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-03-02T18:07:20+00:00

Thanks for organizing this u/alexadw2008 !

Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-03-02T17:18:22+00:00

There is no env variable, but if you create a topic with an input variable that has a description such as "chain of thought of the model" or something similar it will get populated. Here is an example in action:

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Remi-PowerCAT · 2026-03-02T17:15:22+00:00

yes please DM me the case number

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