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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By : Srikumar Nair
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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By: Srikumar Nair

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dataverse for Teams is a built-in, low-code data platform for Teams and enables everyone to easily build and deploy apps, flows, and intelligent chatbots using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents (PVA) embedded in Microsoft Teams. Without learning any coding language, you will be able to build apps with step-by-step explanations for setting up Teams, creating tables to store data, and leverage the data for your digital solutions. With the techniques covered in the book, you’ll be able to develop your first app with Dataverse for Teams within an hour! You’ll then learn how to automate repetitive tasks or build alerts using Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents. As you get to grips with building these digital solutions, you’ll also be able to understand when to consider upgrading from Dataverse for Teams to Dataverse, along with its advanced features. Finally, you’ll explore features for administration and governance and understand the licensing requirements of Microsoft Dataverse for Teams and PowerApps. Having acquired the skills to build and deploy an enterprise-grade digital solution, by the end of the book, you will have become a qualified citizen developer and be ready to lead a digital revolution in your organization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
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Section 2: Deep Dive into Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
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Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management
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Section 4: Enterprise Readiness and Licensing

Reasons for Upgrading to Microsoft Dataverse

In this section, we will be looking at the scenarios for which an upgrade to a standard Dataverse environment might be needed. There are three reasons why you would consider upgrading a Dataverse for Teams environment into a standard Dataverse environment. These are Capacity, Capabilities, and Control. Let's look at each of these categories and their corresponding details.

Capacity

There are some capacity restrictions while using Dataverse for Teams environments. These restrictions are mainly around the following parameters:

  • Number of environments that you are allowed to create within a tenant
  • Amount of storage allowed per environment and per tenant (sum of all storage across all environments)
  • Number of API requests that a user can make within a 24-hour duration

There are pre-defined values for each of the preceding limits based on the Office family of licenses, and Microsoft has defined them here:

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