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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 with on-premise and cloud-based customer systems 

When a Power Platform implementation needs to be integrated with an external system, one of the key questions is how the connection to/from that external system will be routed. Thankfully, Azure and Power Platform include components that facilitate connections to cloud and on-premise systems. This section will discuss the main options available for such scenarios.

Options for connecting on-premise systems and Power Platform

Connecting an on-premise system or interface with a cloud-based solution such as Power Platform means identifying the best possible connectivity route while complying with the organization’s security policies and technical constraints. The following options leverage Microsoft’s Dataverse and Azure and API management capabilities to connect a Power Platform solution to on-premise services.

Option 1 – push/pull from the Dataverse API

An on-premise application...