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Power AutomateExpert
Cost Management at Scale: Per-Flow vs Per-User Licensing, AI Builder Credits, and Chargeback
Enterprise Power Automate deployments generate complex, compounding licensing costs that few teams manage proactively. This deep-dive lesson covers the real mechanics of per-flow and per-user licensing, AI Builder credit governance, and how to build a full chargeback system that gives business units ownership over their automation costs.
29 min read
Power AutomateExpert
Capacity, API Request Limits, and Entitlements in Power Platform: A Complete Guide for Enterprise Architects
Power Platform's capacity model is more complex than it looks — and misunderstanding it is the most common cause of silent production failures. This deep-dive covers every layer of the entitlement system, from per-user and per-flow limits to Dataverse service protection, with concrete modeling techniques and design patterns for scale.
26 min read
Power AutomateExpert
On-Premises Data Gateway Clusters: High Availability and Load Balancing for Enterprise Flows
A single gateway machine is a single point of failure waiting to happen. This deep-dive lesson teaches you how to design, deploy, and operate On-Premises Data Gateway clusters for true high availability, from the Azure Service Bus relay architecture through load balancing algorithms, rolling upgrades, and production monitoring patterns.
32 min read
Power AutomatePractitioner
Fronting Power Automate HTTP Endpoints with Azure API Management
Raw Power Automate trigger URLs are a security and operational liability in production. Learn how to place Azure API Management in front of your flows to get stable URLs, OAuth authentication, rate limiting, request validation, and unified observability — without changing a line of flow logic.
25 min read
Power AutomatePractitioner
Integrating Power Automate with Azure Functions for Compute-Heavy Workloads
Power Automate is a powerful orchestrator, but it's not a compute engine. Learn how to design, build, and operate a production integration between Power Automate and Azure Functions — covering authentication, async patterns, idempotency, and environment promotion.
25 min read
Power AutomatePractitioner
Designing Idempotent Flows: Preventing Duplicate Processing Under At-Least-Once Delivery
At-least-once delivery guarantees your messages get processed — but not that they get processed only once. Learn how to design Power Automate flows that handle retries, duplicate triggers, and redelivered messages safely using idempotency keys, Dataverse deduplication tables, and atomic claim patterns.
21 min read
Power AutomatePractitioner
Deploying Power Platform Solutions with GitHub Actions
Stop manually exporting and importing solutions between environments. This lesson walks you through building a complete, production-ready CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions that handles authentication, environment-specific configuration, managed solution imports, and post-deployment validation — giving you repeatable, auditable Power Platform deployments.
25 min read
Power AutomatePractitioner
Building CI/CD for Power Automate with Azure DevOps and the Power Platform Build Tools
Manual solution imports are the enemy of reliable automation. This lesson walks you through building a complete, production-grade CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps that exports, unpacks, validates, and promotes Power Automate solutions across environments — with approvals, connection reference handling, and no manual steps.
23 min read
Power AutomateFoundation
Testing Power Automate Flows Before Release: Test Environments and Regression Checks
Production failures in Power Automate are almost always preventable. Learn how to set up a proper test environment, design meaningful test cases that go beyond "it ran successfully," and run regression checks that catch breaking changes before your users do.
19 min read
Power AutomateFoundation
Service Principals and Application Users for Unattended Power Automate Deployments
Flows tied to personal accounts break when people leave, passwords expire, or MFA blocks an overnight run. This lesson teaches you how to create Azure AD service principals and Power Platform application users so your automation runs 24/7 without depending on any individual employee.
17 min read
Power AutomateFoundation
Managed Environments in Power Platform: Sharing Limits, Weekly Digests, and Maker Governance
Most Power Platform environments grow into a governance nightmare without structure. This lesson teaches you how to enable Managed Environments and use sharing limits, weekly digest emails, and maker onboarding to build a governance layer that runs itself. Learn why these three features work as a system — not just as individual switches.
19 min read
Power AutomateFoundation
The Power Platform Admin Center for Flow Owners: Environments, Capacity, and Tenant Settings
When your flows start failing mysteriously or getting throttled at scale, the answers live in the Power Platform Admin Center — not the flow designer. Learn how environments, capacity limits, and tenant policies actually work, and how to use that knowledge to diagnose and prevent production problems.
17 min read