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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 clients

Power Platform is an ecosystem consisting of several application types, and those application types offer several possible technical client types for desktop as well as for mobile workers. In this section, we will provide an overview of the various client types and the typical usage scenarios. This will allow you to design the best possible client configuration for various user groups of your Power Platform solution.

There are basically two types of clients; namely, desktop and mobile clients. We'll learn about them in the following sections.

Learning about desktop clients

The Power Platform desktop clients are used on PCs, primarily running the Microsoft Windows operating system (OS), but some of the clients are also available for PCs with non-Microsoft OSes. In the following sections, you will learn about the possible desktop clients.

Browser client

The browser client is the most generic and easy to use client, within which...