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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned a lot about the Power Platform security, authentication, and authorization, the different types of identities, and the integration options available within an on-premises Active Directory. You have seen, what are the possibilities for authentication of external users. Further you have analyzed the various authorization concepts in the Power Platform components and learned about compliance, privacy, and data protection.

With this knowledge, you should be able to define a security architecture for your own Power Platform solution, choose the best Active Directory integration, and benefit from the various AAD security options. Furthermore, you should be able to configure the authorization of all Power Platform components you plan to use and leverage for security best practices.

In the next chapter, we will focus on the extensibility options of the Power Platform solution components.