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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

Presenting architectural best practices

Creating a robust optimized enterprise architecture using Microsoft Power Platform is not easy and requires a lot of deep technical understanding and practical experience. In this section, you will become familiar with some of the best practices that are useful for setting up the Power Platform ecosystem.

Introducing single tenants or multiple tenants

As explained earlier in this chapter, an Azure Active Directory tenant is the highest node in the customer's cloud ecosystem. Usually, a new customer purchases a Microsoft cloud service and obtains their tenant as part of their cloud subscription. When purchasing other Microsoft cloud services, they are added to the tenant, which is created with the first purchase. But there are situations where a single tenant is not sufficient for a customer, and they need additional tenants. This is specifically the case when they plan to implement certain on-premises active directory integrations...