Power Platform guides
Microsoft's low-code platform family — Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, and Copilot Studio. See the glossary entry →
19 guides touch on power platform.
- AI Builder document processing
How AI Builder extracts structured data from PDFs and images at scale, and where it fits with newer Copilot patterns.
- Building a Microsoft 365 Center of Excellence
How to structure a CoE programme for Microsoft 365 — roles, deliverables, and the operating model.
- Building a Microsoft 365 strategy
A framework for setting Microsoft 365 strategy — vision, principles, roadmap, and operating model.
- Copilot agents and Agent Store governance
What a Copilot agent is, how the Agent Store distributes them, the tenant controls for who can build, share, and install, and where governance falls short.
- Dataverse explained
Dataverse is Microsoft's relational database for the Power Platform. Here's what it does and when you actually need it.
- Microsoft 365 admin role design
How to design admin role assignments for least-privilege Microsoft 365 administration at scale.
- Microsoft 365 administrator roles
The Entra ID admin roles that gate Microsoft 365 administration — and how to assign them with least privilege.
- Microsoft 365 cost optimisation
Reducing Microsoft 365 spend without breaking outcomes — licence right-sizing, reclamation, and SKU optimisation.
- Microsoft 365 dev/test tenant strategy
Why and how to maintain a separate dev/test Microsoft 365 tenant for safe testing of changes.
- Microsoft 365 for non-profits
How non-profit Microsoft 365 grants and plans work — eligibility, plans, and operating considerations.
- Microsoft Planner premium vs Project for the web
How Project for the web became premium Planner: what a premium plan adds, Planner and Project Plan 1/3/5 licensing, and where Project Online still fits.
- Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) Toolkit
Microsoft's free toolkit of apps and flows for governing Power Platform at scale.
- Power Platform custom connectors
How to build custom connectors for Power Automate and Power Apps — wrapping any REST API as a Power Platform connector.
- Power Platform DLP policies
How Power Platform DLP policies govern which connectors apps and flows can combine — for data protection at the platform layer.
- Power Platform environments and governance
Environments are the unit of isolation in Power Platform. Designing them well prevents most governance problems.
- Power Platform licensing explained
The Power Platform licensing model — what's free, what's premium, and how to plan for it.
- Running a Microsoft 365 champions network
How to design, recruit, operate, and sustain a champions network that drives Microsoft 365 adoption.
- What is Power Apps?
What Power Apps is: each app type and what it's for, where Dataverse fits, what's really included with Microsoft 365, and when not to use it.
- What is Power Automate?
What Power Automate is: cloud flows, desktop flows and RPA, what Microsoft 365 includes for free, and the governance that keeps it from becoming shadow IT.