Architecture

Introduction For over a decade, the “Alert Me” feature in SharePoint served a simple purpose: it told you when something changed. It worked well for a long time, until the way we work became more complex. As organizations grew and collaboration moved faster, these simple alerts became a bottleneck. They were personal, invisible to IT teams, often noisy, and impossible to manage at scale. Replacing them isn’t just about picking a new tool. It is an architectural evolution. We are moving away from isolated file alerts and toward a centralized notification system built on Power Automate. ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), it is easy to assume that if two platforms claim support for the same protocol, they should just work together. In practice, many developers are discovering otherwise when attempting to connect Microsoft Copilot Studio directly to GitHub’s hosted MCP endpoint. This particularly affects architects attempting to reuse GitHub‑hosted MCP tooling from Copilot Studio custom actions. Despite supplying a valid Personal Access Token (PAT) and correct headers, the integration fails with a deceptively simple error: Content-Type must be 'application/json' ...

In the enterprise, the phrase “low‑code” often triggers resistance from Finance, Risk, and Information Security teams—and for good reason. The real question isn’t whether Power Apps can handle financial workloads. It’s this: How do we give the business speed without turning a System of Engagement into an uncontrolled System of Record? As a Principal Solutions Architect, I’ve consistently seen that the difference between a successful rollout and an audit finding comes down to one thing: governance architecture, not tooling. ...

Tired of internal names like field_1? Learn the professional architect’s method to maintain clean SharePoint schemas using Excel Desktop and SOAP-based APIs.

The “91MB Payload” Problem: A Legacy Bottleneck In high-fidelity Power Apps, particularly for visual-heavy projects like Pabba Jewellers, image quality is non-negotiable. However, we recently hit a critical performance wall: a “91MB Payload” issue that was causing “Aw, Snap!” memory crashes on mobile devices and jittery gallery scrolling. Why Standard Controls Fail at Scale The root cause lies in the architectural limitation of the standard Power Apps Image control. Because it relies on a basic <img> tag, it triggers a “dumb” download: ...

The “Mexican Standoff” of Managed Solutions In enterprise-scale Power Platform environments, we aim for a modular architecture. We split our logic into multiple solutions—perhaps one for “Finance” and another for “HR.” However, without a strict dependency strategy, you will eventually hit a Solution Deadlock. This usually happens during a Staged Upgrade. You try to deploy an update to Solution A, but it fails because Solution B (already in Production) holds a dependency on a component that Solution A is trying to modify or remove. When you try to update Solution B first, you hit the same wall. ...

Moving from reactive admin tasks to a proactive ‘Zoned Governance’ strategy for the AI-driven enterprise.