Microsoft's 10 November Power Platform update for October and November 2026 adds public previews across Power Apps, Power Automate and administration, with changes for app makers, automation teams and tenant admins. The changes are concentrated in canvas app controls, Dataverse-backed app experiences, desktop flow authoring and monitoring.
There is no broad licensing change in the feature list. Canvas app authoring through a GitHub account is billed via GitHub, and tenant admins must turn on the setting in Power Platform admin center before makers use it.
Power Apps changes
Power Apps receives a public preview of the modern attachments control. It gives makers a Fluent file experience that can sit inside forms or run as a standalone control on a canvas app, rather than being limited to classic form scenarios. The control supports multi-file selection, image thumbnails, file validation and drag-and-drop on the web.
Makers can configure file count, file size, accepted file types, multiple-file behaviour, styling and file events. The preview supports SharePoint list attachments and Dataverse attachment scenarios. Mobile users select files through the device picker.
The wider set of modern canvas controls now includes avatar group, persona, metrics card, card gallery and modern attachments. Microsoft is targeting navigation, breadcrumb, facet, accordion and carousel controls by the end of 2026, alongside work toward general availability for attachments.
The modern data grid gains two incremental browsing options. Makers can load more records automatically as users scroll, or show numbered pages with a configurable page size. Existing apps keep their current behaviour unless pagination is enabled, because the pagination property defaults to none.
Search can run against loaded records or use the maker's data-source filtering formula. Sorting can be delegated when the connected source supports it. This matters for apps that handle larger result sets and should not load all records up front.
SharePoint custom forms also get a new starting point. The updated template uses a responsive, multi-column layout rather than the earlier single-column form. The same modern template is available across app-from-data flows in Power Apps, including apps created directly from a SharePoint list through Integrate, Power Apps, Create an app.
For secured Dataverse data, canvas apps can now use the Dataverse.Unmask Power Fx function in preview. Makers can add an explicit reveal action for a secured column while keeping the default view masked. Dataverse still enforces table, record and column permissions, including the read unmasked permission, and the function returns only a single column value.
Dataverse and Work IQ previews
Business apps in Work IQ are now in public preview. Users can find and work with data from Power Apps model-driven apps through natural-language conversations without opening the app. The experience uses existing app views, forms and Dataverse data, respects user permissions, and requires users to review and confirm changes before they are submitted.
AI row summary is coming to the modern data grid in canvas apps. Users can generate a summary for an eligible Dataverse row from the grid, without opening the record. Makers must connect the grid to a Dataverse table that already has row summary configured and set ShowAIRowSummary to true; the feature is opt-in and off by default.
Generative pages can now call Dataverse custom APIs in public preview. This lets a page trigger server-side operations such as approving an order, recalculating a price or validating a transaction while keeping the business logic in Dataverse. Global and table-bound actions and functions are supported, and calls run in the context of the signed-in user under Dataverse security.
Generative pages also gain automatic telemetry export to Azure Application Insights. Once an administrator configures Application Insights data export for the environment in Power Platform admin center, Power Apps reports supported telemetry for published generative pages. The feature covers page-load performance, unhandled errors, data operations and navigation without requiring makers to add telemetry calls or include a connection string in the page.
The GitHub integration for canvas apps adds agentic authoring in Power Apps Studio. Makers sign in with a GitHub account and can use an agent alongside the canvas app while keeping existing apps, data sources and connectors. The tenant setting must be enabled in Power Platform admin center.
Power Automate desktop updates
Power Automate for desktop now supports reusable desktop flow templates. Makers can create a template from a new automation or save an existing desktop flow as a separate template, then edit, test, debug and publish it. New flows created from a published template are independent copies, so later template updates apply only to future flows.
Scheduled triggers for desktop flows are in public preview. Makers can run desktop flows on a recurring schedule without creating a separate cloud flow. The scheduling experience includes the desktop flow, execution connection, attended or unattended run mode, start date, time, recurrence and time zone.
Flowchart mode is also in public preview for Power Automate for desktop. It represents actions as nodes and execution paths as connecting edges, with visual handling for branches, loops and larger automations. During debugging, executed nodes and traversed paths are highlighted, and the errors pane can take makers to the node that needs attention.
Admin and monitoring changes
The Power Platform admin plugin in Cowork is now available in preview. Admins can ask natural-language questions and receive tenant-grounded information across environments, ownership, policy impact and governance posture. The feature is intended to reduce switching between admin tools when investigating governance issues.
Power Platform monitor alerts can now be routed to connector-backed destinations. The Power Platform for admins v2 connector adds a trigger for fired alerts, so teams can send high-severity alerts to a Microsoft Teams channel or create Azure DevOps work items from lower-severity alerts within a flow.
Monitor metrics can also be exported through an API. The export gives admins a way to retain metrics beyond the 30-day retention window in Power Platform monitor and use the data in their own storage and dashboards. The data is exported in OpenTelemetry format for use with tools such as Azure Data Explorer, Splunk and Datadog.
Rollout considerations
Many of the changes are public previews, not general availability releases. The row summary preview begins rollout from 12 October 2026 and is gradual. Scheduled triggers for desktop flows are also being gradually rolled out across regions.
The practical work for admins is to decide which previews should be exposed to makers, which environments are suitable for pilots, and how new AI and monitoring features fit existing governance policies. Makers will need to update apps to use functions such as Dataverse.Unmask or to enable features such as row summary.
For teams deciding whether Work IQ, Dataverse custom APIs and desktop flow scheduling are ready for governed use, ECS's BizApps topic covers Power Platform, Copilot Studio and Dynamics 365 work in that operational context. Sessions and workshops give attendees access to practitioner experience on rollout, ALM, licensing and administration choices around these platforms. Bring the app patterns, automation constraints and tenant governance questions that are difficult to settle from documentation alone.
This article was written by the ECS editorial team with the assistance of Amal Agent, run.events' AI assistant, which supported the research, drafting and proofreading.