Power Platform Governance During Microsoft Migrations

Legacy forms and workflows often become visible during Microsoft 365 and SharePoint migrations. If those dependencies are rebuilt quickly without governance, the organization can replace one legacy problem with another.

Governance decisions to make early

• Environment strategy for development, testing, and production
• DLP policies and connector boundaries
• Ownership model for apps, flows, connections, and service accounts
• ALM expectations for solutions, variables, connection references, and deployments
• Monitoring, alerting, failure handling, and runbook ownership

Migration-specific risks

• InfoPath forms that depend on outdated data connections
• Nintex workflows tied to lists that are moving to SharePoint Online
• SharePoint Designer workflows that no one owns
• Power Automate flows created by individual users without support coverage

Good migration planning treats Power Platform as a governed modernization path, not an unmanaged rebuild factory.