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Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect's Handbook

By : Hugo Herrera
4.5 (2)
Book Image

Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect's Handbook

4.5 (2)
By: Hugo Herrera

Overview of this book

If you’ve been looking for a way to unlock the potential of Microsoft Power Platform and take your career as a solution architect to the next level, then look no further—this practical guide covers it all. Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect’s Handbook will equip you with everything you need to build flexible and cost-effective end-to-end solutions. Its comprehensive coverage ranges from best practices surrounding fit-gap analysis, leading design processes, and navigating existing systems to application lifecycle management with Microsoft Azure DevOps, security compliance monitoring, and third-party API integration. The book takes a hands-on approach by guiding you through a fictional case study throughout the book, allowing you to apply what you learn as you learn it. At the end of the handbook, you’ll discover a set of mock tests for you to embed your progress and prepare for PL-600 Microsoft certification. Whether you want to learn how to work with Power Platform or want to take your skills from the intermediate to advanced level, this book will help you achieve that and ensure that you’re able to add value to your organization as an expert solution architect.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction
4
Part 2: Requirements Analysis, Solution Envisioning, and the Implementation Roadmap
10
Part 3: Architecting the Power Platform Solution
15
Part 4: The Build – Implementing Solid Power Platform Solutions
20
Part 5: Power Platform Solution Architect Certification Prep

Designing integrations between Power Platform and Microsoft 365

Power Platform and Microsoft 365 go hand in hand, and seamless integrations between the two services are available as standard. Solution architects leverage these Microsoft 365 components, presenting users with a rich feature set with relatively low implementation effort.

The following Microsoft 365 integrations are considered during the analysis, design, and implementation phases.

Designing for Exchange integration

Power Platform applications benefit from Exchange integration as standard, allowing inbound and outbound email communications and appointments, tasks, and contacts to be synchronized between Dataverse and user Exchange accounts. An overview of the server-side sync architecture between Power Platform and Exchange is shown in the following diagram:

Figure 10.3 – Architecture overview for the Exchange server-side sync integration

Defining the components that make up a Power...