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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)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
6
Section 2: Deep Dive into Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
10
Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management
13
Section 4: Enterprise Readiness and Licensing

Upgrade Process

In this section, we will walk through the upgrade process, and this process needs to be triggered from the Power Platform admin center (PPAC). Follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Environments page on PPAC. Here, you will see the different types of environments that are present in this tenant, as seen in the following figure:

    Figure 9.2 – List of different types of environments in PPAC

    In the preceding figure, you can see that Dataverse for Teams environments are referred to as Microsoft Teams type environments.

  2. Select this environment and click the Upgrade option on the top menu, as seen in the preceding figure. Clicking this Upgrade option will open the upgrade wizard, as seen in the following screenshot:

    Figure 9.3 – Launch screen of the upgrade wizard

    This launch screen lists the benefits of upgrading, which we discussed in an earlier section – Reasons for upgrading to Microsoft Dataverse.

  3. Click the Next button on this launch screen...