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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By : Robert Rybaric
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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By: Robert Rybaric

Overview of this book

This book is for enterprise architects and decision makers who design solutions for complex business requirements. It teaches you how to use architectural best practices and methodologies to optimize an enterprise-grade solution. You'll gain an understanding of the tools available in the Power Platform suite and how to integrate them seamlessly with various Microsoft 365 and Azure components to create a tailor-made solution. Progressing through the book, you'll discover how to address application lifecycle management, security, extensibility, and data migration. This includes Power BI, which often requires a separate approach to the rest of the Power Platform. This book provides you with practical, essential, and concise information. It follows a complete, end-to-end example in every chapter, with diagrams that illustrate the intricacies of Microsoft cloud structure. It has been created by an experienced enterprise architect who actively creates solutions using Microsoft technology. 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. Unlike many other overwhelmingly long and unstructured resources, this book covers essential concepts using one concise yet practical example that is revisited throughout the book. 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 Microsoft Power PI, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power Virtual Agents with various methodologies to effectively address application lifecycle management, security, and extensibility. You'll also learn how to overcome common challenges in migrating data to and from Microsoft Power Platform using proven techniques. By the end of this Microsoft book, you’ll have the strategic perspective of an enterprise architect, enabling you to make accurate architectural decisions for your complex Power Platform projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section I: The Basics
4
Section II: The Architecture
8
Section III: The Implementation
15
Other Books You May Enjoy
16
Index
Appendix

To get the most out of this book

This book is dedicated to Microsoft Power Platform, so a permanent or temporary (trial) license of the Power Platform cloud components is required. Further, there is a number of tools necessary to perform configuration, customization, and custom development on the Power Platform. Those tools are described in detail in Chapter 4, Power Platform Customization and Development Tools and Techniques.

Download the example code files

The code bundle for the book is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microsoft-Power-Platform-Enterprise-Architecture-2E. We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://packt.link/CTyMi.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. For example: “The authentication process is using the URL, clientId, clientsecret, and the ID of the AAD tenant to perform the authentication process.”

A block of code is set as follows:

string url = "https://contoso.crm.dynamics.com";
string clientId = "51f81489-12ee-4a9e-aaae-a2591f45987d";
string clientsecret = "<yourclientsecret>";
string tenantid = "<yourtenantid>";

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

string url = "https://contoso.crm.dynamics.com";
string clientId = "51f81489-12ee-4a9e-aaae-a2591f45987d";
string clientsecret = "<yourclientsecret>";
string tenantid = "<yourtenantid>";

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

Get-AdminPowerAppEnvironment *Contoso*

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. For example: “Model-driven apps integration with Application Insights needs to be implemented with code.”

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.