1 – Becoming a solution architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

• Existing product and platform skills
• Expectations of a solution architect
• Solution architect role during project phases
• Pillars of a great architecture

2 – Discover customer needs as a Solution Architect for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

• Initial customer discovery
• Customer discovery meetings
• Customer communication strategy

3 – Propose a solution as a Solution Architect for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365

• Identify solution components
• Develop and validate a demo
• Identify potential third-party components
• Recognize strengths and weaknesses in a solution

4 – Work with requirements for Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365

• Lead requirement capture sessions
• Identify functional requirements
• Identify non-functional requirements
• Confirm and finalize requirements

5 – Perform fit gap analysis

• Determine feasibility of requirements
• Refine requirements from proof of concept insights
• Categorize business requirements and perform gap fit analysis
• Evaluate Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform apps

6 – Solution Architect series: Implement project governance for Power Platform and Dynamics 365

• Project governance
• Solution architect’s role in project governance
• Techniques for keeping a project on track
• Work as a team

7 – Solution Architect series: Power Platform architecture

• Environments
• Environment data location
• Work with data
• Custom logic
• Platform limits
• High availability and disaster recovery considerations

8 – Solution architect series: Model data for Power Platform solutions

• Common Data Model
• Data modeling
• Choose a data store
• Data modeling for Dataverse
• Best practices for Dataverse
• Architecture of Fabrikam data model and devices
• Report data and handle primary visitors
• Handle visitors, waivers, and photos
• Example data model solution

9 – Solution Architect series: Evaluate Power Platform analytics and AI

• Power Platform reporting capabilities
• Power BI overview
• Data requirements
• Power BI and Power Platform
• Dataflows
• AI

10 – Solution Architect series: Explore Power Apps architecture

• Common app patterns
• App composition
• Components
• Optimize canvas apps
• Microsoft Teams and Power Apps
• Portal apps

11 – Solution Architect series: Plan application lifecycle management for Power Platform

• Key considerations for ALM
• Solutions
• Configuration and reference data
• Release process
• ALM with Azure DevOps

12 – Explore Power Automate architecture

• Triggers
• Common actions
• Error handling
• Best practice
• Business process flows

13 – Solution architect series: Model security for Power Platform solutions

• Environment security
• Data loss prevention
• Access to Dataverse
• Security in apps

14 – Solution Architect series: Implement integrations with Power Platform

• Integration challenges
• Inbound data integration
• Outbound data integration

15 – Solution architect series: Explore Microsoft Copilot Studio

• Chatbot building options
• Chatbot concepts
• Best practices
• Integrate chatbots
• Microsoft Copilot Studio in Teams

16 – Solution architect series: Explore robotic process automation

• Power Automate for desktop
• Record and edit tasks
• Run desktop flows
• Process advisor

17 – Solution Architect series: Testing and go-live

• Plan for go-live
• Data migration
• Plan for go-live