When designing a public-facing Microsoft Power Pages website, three security controls frequently appear: CAPTCHA, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Azure DDoS Protection. Although all three help address malicious traffic, they operate at different layers, have different scopes, and cannot replace one another.
Microsoft Entra External ID Solution
A practical guide to user authentication, Power Pages identity association, authorization, and sign-in email changes.
Power Pages Identity and Account Change Design
A Power Pages solution can use Microsoft Entra External ID to authenticate portal users.
Microsoft Power Pages then associates the authenticated identity with a
Dataverse Contact record. This article explains how those identities are
connected, how email changes should work, and what is required to support
Google, Facebook, BC Services Card, or another third-party identity provider.
Calling Server-Side Dataverse Logic from Power Pages Using a Custom Table Bridge
Author: Forrest Zhang
Power Pages is a good option for building external-facing Dataverse applications, but sometimes the portal needs to run server-side business logic that should not live in JavaScript.
For example, the portal may need to check related records, apply duplicate-detection rules, update a status, or return a calculated result.
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