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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By : Srikumar Nair
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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

By: Srikumar Nair

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dataverse for Teams is a built-in, low-code data platform for Teams and enables everyone to easily build and deploy apps, flows, and intelligent chatbots using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents (PVA) embedded in Microsoft Teams. Without learning any coding language, you will be able to build apps with step-by-step explanations for setting up Teams, creating tables to store data, and leverage the data for your digital solutions. With the techniques covered in the book, you’ll be able to develop your first app with Dataverse for Teams within an hour! You’ll then learn how to automate repetitive tasks or build alerts using Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents. As you get to grips with building these digital solutions, you’ll also be able to understand when to consider upgrading from Dataverse for Teams to Dataverse, along with its advanced features. Finally, you’ll explore features for administration and governance and understand the licensing requirements of Microsoft Dataverse for Teams and PowerApps. Having acquired the skills to build and deploy an enterprise-grade digital solution, by the end of the book, you will have become a qualified citizen developer and be ready to lead a digital revolution in your organization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
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Section 2: Deep Dive into Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
10
Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management
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Section 4: Enterprise Readiness and Licensing

Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management

While building apps for production use, it is important to leverage the life cycle management practices required for creation, migration, maintenance, decommissioning, and more. Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents bots, and Power Automate flows can be packaged as a single deployable unit, or solution. Besides the versions of the applications, the data and other metadata that is stored in the environment (along with Dataverse) might need to be migrated from time to time, especially when dev/test environments have to be separated from the production version/environment. Similarly, these environments also need provisioning, backup, restore, and decommissioning, which is all supported by Dataverse for Teams. This section also covers scenarios where an upgrade from Dataverse for Teams to Dataverse would be needed and provides step-by-step instructions for this upgrade.

This section comprises the following chapters: