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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

Introducing solutions management

Solutions management in the Power Platform is a natural evolution of the former customization file (XML file) approach, which was used in early versions of Dynamics CRM for transporting a customization from one Dynamics CRM instance into another.

Solution management requires a CDS database to be created in the Power Platform environment. In environments without the CDS, this capability is not available.

In the next sections, you will learn a lot of details about the Power Platform solution's management capability.

Getting an overview of solutions

In the Power Platform, the solution is the key vehicle for supporting ALM. From the ALM point of view, the solution package is a container for distributing solutions between environments.

Technically, a solution package is a ZIP file consisting of a structure of folders and files, containing all solution artifacts.

In the past, the solution package contained only the solution components...