How to Protect Your Power Platform Solutions

Dec 14, 2025

In this conversation, Florian Krönert, a software engineer and open-source advocate, shares insights on protecting intellectual property in the Power Platform. He discusses practical offline licensing methods using JSON Web Tokens and highlights the significance of open-source tools for trust and transparency. Florian also explores the evolving role of AI in development, emphasizing its potential as a coding partner. Listeners will gain valuable strategies for adopting AI responsibly and navigating the differences between consulting and in-house tech roles.

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ANECDOTE

From Boilerplate To Open-Source Tools

Florian built several open-source tools for Dataverse, starting with a Web API wrapper and a custom templating language he created from scratch.
He used these projects to learn fast, share with the community, and solve repetitive platform problems for customers.

ADVICE

Frame AI Tasks As Templating Problems

When designing AI-driven transformations, model the task as templating: define input and output templates and train with few-shot examples.
Reuse existing templating tools (like XM templating) to produce deterministic, reproducible training data for LLMs.

INSIGHT

Administrators Retain Final Control

Dataverse always gives environment administrators ultimate control, so perfect protection against tampering is impossible.
In practice, tampering risks breaking production systems, which deters most administrators from altering protection logic.

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👉 Full Show Notes
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Discover how open-source thinking, practical licensing solutions, and AI-powered development are reshaping the way business and tech professionals build, protect, and scale technology on the Power Platform. Gain actionable insights on responsible AI adoption, developer productivity, and building trust through transparency. Check out this episode of AI Unfiltered Show with Florian Krönert.

🎙️What you’ll learn

How to protect intellectual property in Dataverse and Power Platform
Practical approaches to offline licensing using JSON Web Tokens
Strategies for using AI as a coding partner, not a replacement
The value of open-source tools for trust and transparency
Key differences between consulting and in-house tech roles

✅ Highlights

“If you have an administrator who decides to mess with your logic to override your assemblies, there’s nothing to do against that.”
“Licenses are JSON web tokens which are signed by you digitally so that they can be stored offline, validated offline, and will work as seamlessly as possible.”
“I wanted to have a trust relationship with everyone who incorporates my solution.”
“You just install the NPM package. You insert some data that you can generate on the Yanis Guard portal.”
“I like it a lot for telling it ideas that I want to implement and how I want to implement it.”
“What turned out the best for me personally was to use AI like as a partner programming peer.”
“If I’m not able to really reliably reproduce what AI wrote for me, then I better not use it as much as I did before.”
“You are very nearer to your end users. The feedback is very direct and you really see where the pain points are for the end users of your product and your platform.”
“If you want to grind your way up fast, I can only recommend doing so. You can never learn as much in so little time as when doing it in big companies that have so many customers in parallel.”

🧰 Mentioned

Microsoft Power Platform: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform
Dataverse: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/dataverse
JSON Web Token (JWT): https://www.jwt.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/
React: https://react.dev/
Fluent UI: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fluentui

✅Keywords
power platform, dataverse, licensing, open source, ai, json web token, developer productivity, trust, npm, react, chatgpt, consulting

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