Continuing from our previous post on Solution Architecture in PowerApps, we’re going to move forward into the Component Solution model. It should be noted that these names are not written down anywhere and are merely created by me. I’ve used the Component Solution model many times over with great success as it works with small … Read More
Month: February 2025
Using Azure Key Vault with Azure APIM
On of the great things in Azure APIM is that you can use Named Values to store configuration values for your policies in a central location. You can store these as plain text (not bad), Secrets (better), or have them managed separately in an Azure Key Vault (the best). I say the best for AZ … Read More
Managing Distributed PowerApps Development Teams
That title is quite a mouthful, and I did try to collapse it into a few succinct statements but couldn’t make it work. But this is a question I see all the time and like anything, there are a few ways to handle it. The Problem You have a number of developers working on multiple … Read More
Filtering Data with APIM and Dataverse
In our previous post on setting up Dynamics/Dataverse to connect with Azure APIM, we looked at how to get data from Dynamics through APIM. That’s great, but what we’re trying to simplify for your users is how to filter data through a well-defined API. Going back to our Contact example, I’m going to create a … Read More
Getting Started with Azure API Management with PowerApps
Using Azure’s API Management Gateway (APIM) is a great way to offer access to your Dataverse/Dynamics/PowerApps environment and simplify access through a simplified programming interface. There is a great blog post on how to set up your Azure APIM environment to connect to Dynamics available here. The article is a great Getting Started, in my … Read More
Updating your App Registration Connection References for Power Automate
A few days ago, I had someone message asking me to update the secret key the App Registrations for our Power Automate Flows. At first glance I thought – “No problem” – I’ll go to the Flow, and update the connections. But even though I could add an app registration for a flow from the … Read More
PowerApps Solution Architecture: The All-In-One Solution
After many years of building apps on the Dynamics/PowerApps platform, I still get asked about how to architect PowerApps solutions. How do I group components? What’s the best solution for pipelines? What solution model works best for big or small teams? How do we future-proof ourselves so we never have to change our solution ever … Read More
Adding Azure Key Vault Environment Variables to your Solution
When I was doing some early learning on Environment Variables, I came upon the inclusion of Azure Key Vaults within Environment Variables and wanted to dig into this more. If you haven’t seen this functionality, when you go and create a new Environment Variable in your solution you can select the source as an Azure … Read More