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Microsoft Power Platform Solutions Architect's Handbook

Second Edition · 2025

Struggling to architect secure, scalable Power Platform solutions that keep up with AI and enterprise demands? This is your expert guide to building intelligent, future-ready applications with Microsoft's low-code platform. The updated second edition brings you the latest on Copilot, Azure OpenAI, AI Builder, and Power Platform AI patterns.

Through a hands-on enterprise case study, you'll work through every stage of solution architecture — from requirements analysis and envisioning to secure data modelling, integration, governance, and DevOps implementation. Real-world challenges are covered throughout: licensing constraints, ALM pipeline design, multi-cloud integration, and establishing a Center of Excellence. A refreshed PL-600 certification prep chapter with current questions and exam tips will help you gear up for the exam with confidence.

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Microsoft Power Platform Solutions Architect's Handbook, second edition cover

Architect future-ready solutions by extending Power Platform with Azure, AI, and Copilot

Master modern solution architecture with this expert guide that integrates Dataverse with cutting-edge AI solutions, while covering DevOps, data modelling, and PL-600 certification preparation.

Leverage Azure, OpenAI, Copilot, and modern architecture patterns to build intelligent, high-impact business solutions.
Apply enterprise-grade architecture with the latest ALM, DevOps, and Center of Excellence practices.
Fast-track your success in the PL-600 certification exam with revised questions and expert insights.

Inside the book

The architecture cycle, end to end

A hands-on enterprise case study carries you through every stage, in the order a real programme meets them.

What industry leaders think

Endorsements from the Microsoft MVP community

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Keith Atherton

Microsoft MVP · Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)

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Unlike most Power Platform books that either go too high-level or dive too deep into one niche, this one strikes the perfect balance — broad yet detailed, technical yet architectural. The ongoing case study makes it feel cohesive, and the author’s field experience shows in every example and warning. It also tackles often-overlooked topics like governance and integration challenges instead of pretending everything always works perfectly, which makes it feel honest and incredibly useful.

About the reviewer

LinkedIn Learning Instructor · Speaker · Podcaster

🇬🇧United Kingdom·Microsoft MVP

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Stefano Demiliani

Microsoft MVP · MCT Regional Lead for Italy

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I particularly appreciated the detailed treatment of ‘Power Platform Fit Gap Analysis’ and the comprehensive data modeling strategies using Dataverse. The book includes numerous diagrams, code snippets, and real-world examples that make complex concepts accessible. Microsoft Power Platform Solutions Architect’s Handbook, Second Edition is an essential resource for anyone architecting serious Power Platform solutions in the AI era. It bridges the gap between Power Platform’s low-code capabilities and enterprise-grade requirements, providing both strategic guidance and practical implementation details.

About the reviewer

CTO · EID | Lodestar Group & NAV-lab Group

🇮🇹Italy·Microsoft MVP

About the author

Hugo Herrera is a Microsoft AI Business Solutions Architect with over fifteen years of experience delivering Dynamics 365 and Power Platform programmes for Microsoft and Fortune 500 enterprises worldwide. His work was nominated as a finalist for Best Use of AI at the UK Customer Experience Awards 2024 for an Azure OpenAI and Dynamics 365 system delivered at SSEN Transmission. He writes and teaches on Microsoft solution architecture and agentic AI.