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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
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Section 3: Application and Environment Life Cycle Management
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Section 4: Enterprise Readiness and Licensing

Power Platform Admin Center

In this section, we will see various aspects of the Power Platform administration experience that are provided in the PPAC. You will be able to use the admin center by navigating to https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/. There are a few subsections on the PPAC and in this section, we will take a quick tour of each of these subsections. Let's start with the first one, which is a list of environments, and also the landing page for PPAC.

On the Environments page, you will be able to see all the different types of environments that we saw in the preceding section. As seen in the following screenshot, it will have additional details for each of these environments, such as State, Region, Created on, and Created by. As the name suggests, State represents the current life cycle state of the environment. Some of the common states that you will come across are Provisioning, Ready, Disabled, and Deleted.

The Provisioning state is shown just after you...