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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

Presenting custom development tools

In this section, you will learn about the most important Microsoft and community tools that are used for custom development within Power Platform solutions. This toolset primarily focuses on IT pro developers.

Learning about Visual Studio

Visual Studio is the traditional major development tool from Microsoft and is used for all custom development work across all Microsoft and many non-Microsoft technologies. Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that supports not just writing code, but also compiling, building, debugging, and packaging it into solution packages. Visual Studio is available for Windows and Mac PCs. Visual Studio offers several versions, of which Visual Studio Community is free of charge.

For the Power Platform solutions, Visual Studio is used for creating many different custom development artifacts – preferably those that are heavily dependent on the Microsoft .NET framework, such as the following...