Introduction

  • 3 minutes

Power Platform environments host business-critical data and processes that organizations depend on every day. When disruptions occur, whether from accidental deletions, security incidents, or infrastructure failures, administrators need proven recovery capabilities and protective controls already in place.

Scenario

Zava's Power Platform estate now supports core business operations: expense processing, customer onboarding workflows, and compliance reporting. The CTO raises concerns after a competitor suffers a publicized data breach, and the compliance team identifies several gaps in Zava's resilience posture:

  • A developer accidentally deleted a production table last month. Recovery took three days because the team didn't know how Dataverse backup restoration worked.
  • Regulated customer data requires encryption with keys the organization controls - not just platform-managed encryption.
  • The security team wants to restrict Dataverse access to corporate network ranges only, blocking access from unauthorized locations.
  • Auditors ask: "If a Microsoft engineer needed to access your production data for troubleshooting, would you be notified and have approval authority?"
  • Business intelligence teams need continuous access to Dataverse data for analytics without impacting production performance.

To close these gaps, Zava's platform team implements a comprehensive availability and data protection strategy. It covers backup and recovery, customer-managed encryption, network restrictions, access controls, and data export.

What you learn

In this module, you learn how to configure backup and disaster recovery for Power Platform environments, protect data with customer-managed encryption keys and network controls, manage cross-tenant access policies, and configure continuous data export for analytics.

By the end of this module, you'll be able to configure environment backup and restore operations, enable customer-managed encryption keys, implement IP firewall rules and Customer Lockbox, and set up Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse.