Explore Microsoft Power Platform deployment foundation concepts
The Microsoft Power Platform is a high-productivity application development platform from Microsoft. Not only is the platform used by Microsoft to build their own first party Customer Engagement applications such as Dynamics 365 Sales, Service, Field Service, and Marketing. Organizations across the world are using the Power Platform to build entire solutions that help their organization meet the ever-changing challenges in today’s world. Additionally, more organizations are empowering individual users and teams to build personal or team productivity applications that help provide value to their jobs or simplify the way that they work.
The Microsoft Power Platform includes a core set of tools that organizations can use to build these solutions. These solutions include Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. By using the common infrastructure of the Microsoft Dataverse and over 700 pre-built connectors, solutions built on the Power Platform can connect to multiple data sources, and when needed can also include Azure cloud services to scale from individual productivity to enterprise mission critical line-of-business applications.
The evolution of an organization adopting Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse starts with the administrator. There are several items to consider as an administrator of the Microsoft Power Platform. As an administrator of Microsoft Power Platform, you begin your journey asking how you can protect your organization's data.
What data is accessible through these services?
Are there best practices that we should be following?
What is the Power Apps security model and how should I control access to data?
Once you determine how to proceed with data access, you'll then want to know how you can monitor and manage what users are doing with these services. When you've figured out control and visibility, the next part of your journey takes you to deployment. Individual users and teams can deploy apps on their own, but how do you centrally deploy solutions for your entire organization? And how do you orchestrate updates and identify and fix issues?
Throughout the remainder of this module, we'll examine several elements related to deploying and administering the Power Platform.