Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform

Most people arrive at Power Platform through one door. Someone showed them a canvas app, or they were handed a flow to keep running, and the rest of the platform stayed a rumour. This day joins it up. You leave able to look at a business problem and say, with reasons, which part of the platform solves it and what it would take.

The PL-900 material is on Microsoft Learn, free, and if you are disciplined you can work through it. What a course gives you is a day where nothing else can interrupt, a trainer who can answer the question the documentation does not, and someone honest about which bits the exam actually cares about. It also gives you a person to ask three weeks later, when you are trying to explain to your own board why Dataverse is worth paying for.

And if you would rather build something than understand the landscape, say so. PL-7001: Create and Manage Canvas Apps puts you at the keyboard for most of the day building a canvas app. PL-900: Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform is the wider view. Plenty of people want both, and there is a sensible order to take them in.

Six modules and four guided labs, in one day. Microsoft rebuilt this course in July 2026, bringing it back to a single day and redesigning the labs as guided simulations, so nobody spends the morning fighting a tenant that will not provision. You spend the day learning the platform rather than waiting for it.

Teaching accounts for roughly four hours of the day. The labs account for two.

Microsoft redesigned the PL-900 labs in July 2026 as guided simulations rather than exercises in a live tenant. That was a deliberate decision and a good one for a fundamentals course. Standing up a trial environment for every delegate ate an hour of a one-day class and generated most of the problems, and on a course whose purpose is understanding the platform rather than shipping something, that hour is better spent learning. You still work through the four labs step by step and see exactly what the real interface does.

If what you want is your hands on a real tenant building a real thing, that is a different course and we would rather point you at it than sell you this one. Ask us about PL-7001: Create and Manage Canvas Apps or PL-7002: Create and Manage Automated Processes.

Online

Live over Microsoft Teams with a real trainer and full class interaction. £229 per person.

In person

See the In Person course dates for locations and associated costs.

Onsite / closed

At your site, your data, just your team. Best value for groups. Ask for a quote.

Self-paced (Launching soon)

On-demand modules to learn at your own pace, coming soon.

Almost every organisation running Microsoft 365 already owns a substantial slice of Power Platform. Very few use much of it. The gap is rarely a licensing problem. It is that nobody in the building can say with confidence what the platform does, so every idea either dies in a meeting or turns into a purchase order for something you already have.

That gap has a shape you will recognise. A department buys a small SaaS tool for a job Power Apps would have done. An analyst builds something clever in a personal environment and nobody governs it, until they leave. IT blocks a connector because nobody wrote a data loss prevention policy anyone understands. And now agents are arriving in the same way apps did five years ago, with the same risk of everybody building them and nobody overseeing them.

One day and a couple of hundred pounds gets one person to the point where they can tell the difference between a good Power Platform idea and an expensive one. That is a cheap way to stop the next unnecessary purchase, and it is why fundamentals courses tend to pay for themselves faster than the ambitious ones.