Understanding the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 clients

Power Platform is an ecosystem consisting of several application types, and those application types offer several possible technical client types for desktop as well as for mobile workers. In this section, we will provide an overview of the various client types and the typical usage scenarios. This will allow you to design the best possible client configuration for various user groups of your Power Platform solution.

There are basically two types of clients: namely, desktop and mobile clients. We’ll learn about them in the following sections.

Learning about desktop clients

The Power Platform desktop clients are used on PCs, primarily running the Microsoft Windows operating system (OS), but some of the clients are also available for PCs with non-Microsoft OS. In the following sections, you will learn about possible desktop clients.

Browser client

The browser client is the most generic and easy-to-use...