Resources
A curated set of references I actually use when building on the Microsoft stack — documentation, tooling, and communities worth bookmarking.
Power Platform Development
Start here if you’re new: the Power Platform docs hub links every product, and Power Fx is the language that ties them together.
Documentation
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Power Platform Docs | The hub for all Power Platform products |
| Power Apps | Canvas and model-driven app documentation |
| Power Automate | Cloud flows, desktop flows, and process mining |
| Power Pages | External-facing sites backed by Dataverse |
| Power BI | Reporting, semantic models, and DAX |
| Copilot Studio | Building conversational agents and custom copilots |
| Dynamics 365 | Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, and more |
| Power Fx Overview | The low-code formula language across the platform |
Architecture & Governance
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Power Platform Architecture Center | Reference architectures and design guidance |
| ALM Guide | Solutions, environments, and deployment pipelines |
| CoE Starter Kit | Governance and monitoring at tenant scale |
| Adoption Methodology | Rolling out the platform across an organization |
| Release Plans | What’s shipping in the next wave |
Developer Tooling
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Dataverse Developer Guide | Web API, plug-ins, and server-side extensibility |
| Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) | Building custom controls with TypeScript |
| Power Platform CLI | pac — solution management, PCF, and code apps |
| XrmToolBox | Indispensable community tool suite for Dataverse |
| PCF Gallery | Open-source code components you can drop into apps |
| PnP Power Apps Samples | Community-maintained sample apps and patterns |
Learning & Community
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Power Platform Training | Free Microsoft Learn paths and modules |
| Power Platform Community | Forums where most odd problems have already been asked |
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Graph is the single most useful thing to learn here — it’s the API behind Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and OneDrive.
Documentation & APIs
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 Docs | Product and service documentation |
| Microsoft Graph | One API for mail, files, calendar, users, and Teams |
| Graph Explorer | Try Graph calls in the browser against real data |
| Microsoft Graph PowerShell | Scripting M365 administration |
| Microsoft Entra ID | Identity, app registrations, and permissions |
Development
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| SharePoint Development | Site design, lists, and extensibility |
| SharePoint Framework (SPFx) | Client-side web parts and extensions |
| Teams Developer Platform | Tabs, bots, message extensions, and apps |
| M365 Copilot Extensibility | Declarative agents, plugins, and connectors |
| PnP Community | Patterns and practices, samples, and provisioning tooling |
Administration
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| M365 Admin Documentation | Tenant, user, and licensing administration |
| Exchange Online PowerShell | Mailbox and mail-flow automation |
| Microsoft 365 Community | Community calls, blogs, and learning content |
| Adoption Resources | Change management and user-enablement material |
Azure & AI
For anything agent-related, Azure AI Foundry is now the front door — it replaces juggling separate OpenAI, Search, and orchestration portals.
AI Services
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure AI Foundry | Unified platform for building and deploying AI apps |
| AI Foundry Portal | Where you actually build, test, and deploy models |
| Azure OpenAI | GPT models with enterprise data-handling guarantees |
| Azure AI Agent Service | Managed agents with tools and threads |
| Azure AI Services | Vision, speech, language, and translation APIs |
| Azure AI Search | Vector and hybrid search — the retrieval half of RAG |
| Document Intelligence | Extracting structured data from PDFs and forms |
| Semantic Kernel | SDK for orchestrating models, plugins, and memory |
| AI Foundry SDK | Building against Foundry from code |
Platform & Architecture
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Architecture Center | Reference architectures and design patterns |
| Well-Architected Framework | Reliability, security, cost, operations, performance |
| Cloud Adoption Framework | Landing zones and governance for the cloud estate |
| Azure Functions | Serverless compute — my usual home for custom back ends |
| Pricing Calculator | Estimate before you build, not after |
| Azure Samples | Thousands of reference implementations on GitHub |
Learning
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure AI Training | Microsoft Learn paths for AI on Azure |
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