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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

Chapter 3: Understanding Microsoft's Power Platform Architecture

In this chapter, we will dive deeper into the Power Platform architecture. Understanding this, as well as the required technology, environments, clients, and administration and monitoring, is key to enabling an architect and Power Platform implementation team to set up the foundation of a Power Platform solution. Following the recommendations and best practices at hand can lead to robust, reliable, and highly performant solution design and the best end user experience possible.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding the Power Platform architecture
  • Understanding the Power Platform clients
  • Learning Power Platform administration and monitoring
  • Presenting architectural best practices
  • Contoso Inc. Power Platform architecture

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned many details about the Power Platform architecture, as well as environments...