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Category: Cloud Architecture & Administration

Solution architect reviewing a data recovery and system administration dashboard on a large monitor in a modern office

Dataverse’s Recycle Bin Restore Reached GA. Your Business Logic Isn’t Included.

A bulk delete job runs at 2 a.m. against the wrong view filter. By the time anyone in operations notices, eleven thousand account records are gone, and the only recovery
Compliance analyst reviewing a Dataverse audit log dashboard with some sensitive fields redacted before reaching Microsoft Purview

Dataverse Audit Logs to Purview Now Redact Sensitive Fields. Your Incident Response Runbook Still Points There.

A security engineer investigating a compliance escalation pulls up Microsoft Purview’s unified audit log and searches for changes to a customer’s tax identification field in a Dynamics 365 Finance environment.
An IT governance leader reviewing a connector security and data classification dashboard in a modern office

Power Platform Connector Certification Just Got Faster. Your DLP Policy Still Has a Gap It Doesn’t Close.

An IT Director at a mid-size manufacturer recently found herself trying to explain, in a security review, why the company had eleven custom connectors feeding Copilot Studio agents and Power
An IT administrator reviewing an agent identity and access governance dashboard on a large office monitor

Power Platform Agent Authentication Governance Reaches GA: What to Audit First

A CISO at a mid-market manufacturer asked her Power Platform admin a simple question last month: how many Copilot Studio agents does the organization actually have running, and how many
An IT solutions architect presenting a software deployment pipeline diagram on a large office monitor

The Dataverse Git Integration GitHub Preview Needs a Key Vault, Not Just a Login

A Power Platform ALM engineer at a mid-market manufacturer spent a Tuesday afternoon trying to move a client’s Dataverse Git integration off Azure DevOps and onto GitHub, where the rest
IT director reviewing a Dataverse storage capacity dashboard showing database, file, and log usage

Dataverse Capacity Got Bigger This Year. Your Storage Governance Still Needs to Catch Up

An IT director we spoke with recently pulled up the Power Platform admin center in January expecting the same tired warning banner about Dataverse capacity that had been sitting there
IT director and finance leader reviewing a software licensing compliance dashboard together in an office

Power Platform License Enforcement Has a Deadline: February 2027

A Power Platform administrator at a mid-size manufacturer got an odd notice in her Microsoft 365 message center in March. It referenced managed environments, a governance feature she associated with
IT governance administrator reviewing a Power Platform connector policy dashboard on a widescreen monitor

Advanced Connector Policies Are GA. Here’s What Still Needs Classic DLP.

An admin at a 400-environment tenant spent a Tuesday afternoon tracing why a maker in a finance sandbox could connect a flow to a third-party file-sharing connector that should have
Solution architect reviewing an entity-relationship diagram of Dataverse tables on a wall-mounted monitor in a modern office

Standard vs Custom Dataverse Tables: The Schema Decision That Compounds

A solution architect reviewing a Dataverse environment for a mid-market industrial services client recently found three separate custom tables, each carrying a different prefix from three different implementation phases, all
IT operations team reviewing data processing and capacity dashboards in a modern operations center

Configuring Parallel Archive Processing in Dataverse Long-Term Retention

A solution architect running Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations across forty legal entities kicks off an archive job for General Ledger transactions on a Friday afternoon, then checks back a