Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate

Enhance your organization's productivity by automating repetitive tasks and simplifying business workflows using Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow)

Key Features

• Create basic and advanced workflows for automating Twitter posts, sending emails, push notifications, and much more
• Manage user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage using flow controls
• Create flows that integrate with services both inside and outside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem

Book Description

Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Flow) is a workflow automation tool built into Microsoft 365 to help businesses and users to automate repetitive tasks or trigger business processes without user intervention.

If you are new to Microsoft Power Automate, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction to help you to get up to speed with automating business processes in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to configure automation workflows for business processes between hundreds of Microsoft and third-party applications. Once you understand how to use connectors, triggers, and actions to automate business processes, you'll get to grips with managing user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage using efficient flow controls. This Power Automate book explains key concepts and takes you through creating your own flows step by step.

By the end of the book, you'll have learned how to use Microsoft Power Automate to replace repetitive tasks with business workflow automation technology.

What you will learn

• Get to grips with the building blocks of Power Automate, its services, and core capabilities
• Explore connectors in Power Automate to automate email workflows
• Discover how to create a flow for copying files between two cloud services
• Understand the business process, connectors, and actions for creating approval flows
• Use flows to save responses submitted to a database through Microsoft Forms
• Find out how to integrate Power Automate with Microsoft Teams

Who this book is for

The book is for technologists, system administrators, and Power users with little or no Microsoft Power Automate experience. Familiarity with basic Microsoft 365 services is expected.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Power Automate
2. Getting Started with Power Automate
3. Working with Email
4. Copying files
5. Creating Button Flows
6. Generating Push Notifications
7. Working with Team Flows
8. Working with Conditions
9. Getting Started with Approvals
10. Working with Multiple Approvals
11. Posting Approvals to Teams
12. Using a Database
13. Working with Microsoft Forms
14. Accepting User Input
15. Exporting, Importing, and Distributing Flows
16. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Flows

Aaron Guilmette, a Microsoft Teams technical specialist at Microsoft, provides guidance and assistance to customers adopting the Microsoft 365 platform. He primarily focuses on collaborative technologies, including Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Teams. He also works with identity and scripting solutions.

He has been involved with technology since 1998 and has provided consulting services for customers in the commercial, educational, and government sectors internationally. Aaron has also worked on technical certification exams and instructional design for Microsoft and other organizations.