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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

Chapter 8: Microsoft Power Platform Extensibility

In this chapter, you will learn about the customization and extensibility options available for Power Platform components. As discussed in Chapter 4, Tools and Techniques, the configuration and customization can be usually performed by a citizen developer, while for custom development an IT pro developer is required. Power Platform components are designed to make it possible for you to build advanced solutions with configuration and customization only. However, certain requirements might dictate that we use custom development. It is important to understand the extensibility options of the Power Platform components in order to make the right decisions when designing a solution. The preferred way is to always use configuration and customization in the first place, before considering custom development, and to use best practices for Power Platform extensibility.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

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