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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By : Robert Rybaric
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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By: Robert Rybaric

Overview of this book

For forward-looking architects and decision makers who want to craft complex solutions to serve growing business needs, Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture offers an array of architectural best practices and techniques. With this book, you’ll learn how to design robust software using the tools available in the Power Platform suite and be able to integrate them seamlessly with various Microsoft 365 and Azure components. Unlike most other resources that are overwhelmingly long and unstructured, this book covers essential concepts using concise yet practical examples to help you save time. You’ll develop the skills you need to architect, design, and manage a complex solution as you follow the journey of a fictitious enterprise customer as they enter the world of Power Platform. Throughout the book, you’ll discover how to combine the functionality of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents with various methodologies to effectively address application lifecycle management, security, and extensibility. Finally, you'll learn how to overcome common challenges in migrating data to and from Microsoft Power Platform using proven techniques. By the end of this book, you’ll have the strategic perspective of an enterprise architect to make accurate architectural decisions for your complex Power Platform projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: The Architecture
8
Section 3: Implementation

Understanding authorization

After an interactive user or a service account has been successfully authenticated, it is necessary to have the capability to manage the privileges within the respective service. The Power Platform solution components provide certain authorization frameworks. In this section, you will learn about the authorization concepts for CDS, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Apps portals.

Authorization in Power Platform

Authorization within a Power Platform environment except Power BI is managed using environment security roles. For the purpose of understanding security roles, it is necessary to distinguish between three basic types of environments, as illustrated in the following diagram:

Figure 7.7 - Authorization – relevant environment types

As we can see, there can be a Power Platform environment without a CDS database, with a CDS database but without any Dynamics 365 app, and an environment with some Dynamics...