RSFP started during the recovery of a damaged Power Platform environment.

I needed answers to some basic questions:

• What actually exists in this environment?

• How does it differ from another environment?

• What changed between two points in time?

• Which objects and relationships depend on each other?

• Can I trace a difference back to the evidence that produced it?

The standard platform tools could answer parts of that. I needed something repeatable, queryable and independent of the current portal view.

So I built RSFP.

It extracts Power Platform metadata, records point-in-time observations, versions changes, resolves relationships and loads the result into a model that can be compared and analysed.

The project has grown far beyond a schema dump. It now processes millions of versioned objects and relationships across environments, with C# handling extraction and transformation and SQL supporting deeper analysis.

The current work is focused on:

• comparing environments and snapshots

• resolving relationships between discovered objects

• tracing data back to the ingestion run that observed it

• separating current objects from their version history

• building a model that can eventually support more than Dataverse alone

The working name is Rufus System Forensics Protocol.

The principle is simpler:

Trust, but verify.