Learning Plan Resources for Power Platform Administration and Center of Excellence

With detailed administration strategy in place, organizations can enable business groups to focus on solving business problems efficiently while complying with IT and business compliance standards. The following content will take you through some of the important security and administartion capabilities and best practices within Power Platform

Keeping Up

Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform deploys two release waves per year to all customers and partners. Release wave 1 covers features releasing from April through September. Release wave 2 covers features releasing from October through March.

• Dynamics 365 and Power Platform release plans
• Power Apps with Copilot

Administration fundamentals

• Use administration options for Dataverse
• Get started with security roles in Dataverse
• Administer Microsoft Power Platform subscriptions
• Administer Power Platform - Documentation
• Building a Center of Excellence Practice Webinar (On-demand)

Center of Excellence resources

A Center of Excellence (CoE) in an organization drives innovation and improvement and brings together like-minded people with similar business goals to share knowledge and success, while at the same time providing standards, consistency, and governance to the organization.

The Microsoft Power Platform CoE Starter Kit is a collection of components and tools that are designed to help you get started with developing a strategy for adopting and supporting Microsoft Power Platform, with a focus on Power Apps and Power Automate.

• Center of Excellence (CoE) overview
• Download Center of Excellence (CoE) starter kit
• CoE starter kit video series
• Establishing a Center of Excellence (CoE)

Administration Advanced resources

• Establish Environment Strategy in Power Platform
• Admin in a day (This lab covers security, administration and ALM aspects)

• Administering a Power Apps enterprise environment – Blog

  Download whitepaper

• Strategies for improving app discoverability in your enterprise – part 1

  part 2

  part 3

• Advanced techniques for automating administration of Power Apps – Defense in Depth strategy
• Application lifecycle management (ALM) with Microsoft Power Platform
• Data loss prevention in Power Platform

Technical Resources

• Power CAT Team (YouTube videos)
• Power Platform Community