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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

Configuring different roles in Dataverse for Teams

In this section, we will see the different types of access that users of Dataverse for Teams can be provided. These types of access depend on privileges (the ability to read, write, update, delete, share, and so on) provided to each individual user within the system. Such privileges are grouped together and are known as roles.

Understanding standard roles

Let's look at all the out-of-the-box roles provided by Dataverse for Teams.

Owner

A team owner role can be compared to that of an administrator. A person assigned an owner role can add/remove new members/guests and change a bunch of team settings, such as controlling member permissions at a very granular layer, creating additional channels under a team, setting the visibility of channels to members, viewing usage of teams and channels, and a lot more. Usually, the person creating a team is by default added as the owner of the team; however, once another owner is...