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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

Contoso Inc. Power Platform integration design

The project team for Contoso Inc. is happy as they now fully understand the integration capabilities of a Power Platform solution. They are now designing the integration solution to seamlessly integrate their solution into their complex IT landscape. As usual, they have made a series of design decisions to make the most of Power Platform and to stay compliant with their policies.

Let's have a look at the decisions they made.

Integration with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure

Since the entirety of Contoso Inc. is already running a centralized Microsoft 365 tenant, they are happy to be able to integrate all their Microsoft 365 cloud services with Power Platform. They have specifically made the following decisions:

  • A standard, server-side synchronization with Exchange Online in the tenant will be configured.
  • An integration with SharePoint with the use of the third-party permission replication solution will be established...