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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

Understanding the Power Platform architecture

Power Platform is one of the three Microsoft cloud offerings and is part of the overall Microsoft cloud infrastructure. In this section, we will focus on explaining the Microsoft cloud infrastructure, the structure of a customer cloud ecosystem, the Power Platform technology and environments, as well as their main components. This is key to understanding the architectural principles of the Power Platform and making proper decisions about the overall architecture of your solution. First, we will describe the Microsoft cloud infrastructure to better understand the key concepts.

Learning about the Microsoft cloud infrastructure

The Microsoft cloud products and solutions of all three clouds are operated out of Microsoft data centers, which are grouped into regions and geographies. Each region contains two or more data centers for failover safety and high availability. Microsoft has more than 50 cloud regions worldwide. For Microsoft Azure...