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Published inSep 2023
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Matthew Weston
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Matthew Weston

Matthew is a Microsoft 365 & SharePoint specialist from the Midlands in the United Kingdom. He has spent several years working in various Consultancy roles. Matthew is the Managing Director of Vantage 365, which fuels his love of working on projects surrounding Microsoft 365, especially those that involve SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Apps, and Power Automate. This could be helping businesses find solutions for their problems or offering training to help people use these technologies better. Matthew leads the Black Country Power Apps & Power Automate user group, and the Office 365 & SharePoint User Group in the West Midlands. Matt is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in the field of Business Applications.
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Elisa Bárcena Martín
Elisa Bárcena Martín
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Elisa Bárcena Martín

Elisa Bárcena Martín is currently a project leader at LogiRAIL, having previously worked as a business apps specialist at Intelequia and a project analyst at GlaxoSmithKline. As a Power Platform enthusiast with more than 3 years of experience with the Power Platform, she has steadily grown from her initial role as a developer into her project leader position. She is a scientist and teacher by vocation, loving process optimization and believing in continuous improvement and learning.
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Utilizing Azure resources

Azure allows you to create resources that you can call to provide additional processing resources, store data, or manage areas of your tenancy, such as AAD. Much like Power Automate, Azure can provide additional processing power to your Power Apps through a number of Platform as a Service (PAAS), Software as a Service (SAAS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) offerings. There are a large number of connectors available to leverage Azure, some standard and others premium, which allow you to extend the functionality you have available to you within Power Apps.

There's also a growing number of connectors in preview, and therefore can be used for testing, which means that Microsoft is increasing the number of Azure resources that you have directly available within your Power App. The most common resources that are employed alongside Power Apps are as follows:

  • Azure Active Directory (AAD)
  • Azure Automation
  • Azure Functions

We will begin by looking at the identity...

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Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801070645

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Matthew Weston

Matthew is a Microsoft 365 & SharePoint specialist from the Midlands in the United Kingdom. He has spent several years working in various Consultancy roles. Matthew is the Managing Director of Vantage 365, which fuels his love of working on projects surrounding Microsoft 365, especially those that involve SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Apps, and Power Automate. This could be helping businesses find solutions for their problems or offering training to help people use these technologies better. Matthew leads the Black Country Power Apps & Power Automate user group, and the Office 365 & SharePoint User Group in the West Midlands. Matt is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in the field of Business Applications.
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Elisa Bárcena Martín

Elisa Bárcena Martín is currently a project leader at LogiRAIL, having previously worked as a business apps specialist at Intelequia and a project analyst at GlaxoSmithKline. As a Power Platform enthusiast with more than 3 years of experience with the Power Platform, she has steadily grown from her initial role as a developer into her project leader position. She is a scientist and teacher by vocation, loving process optimization and believing in continuous improvement and learning.
Read more about Elisa Bárcena Martín