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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate - Second Edition

By : Aaron Guilmette
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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate - Second Edition

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By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

MS Power Automate is a workflow automation tool built into MS 365 to help businesses automate repetitive tasks or trigger business processes without user intervention. It is a low-code tool that is part of the Microsoft applications framework, the Power Platform. If you are new to Power Automate, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction and a smooth transition from beginner to advanced topics to help you get up to speed with business process automation. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to configure automation workflows for business processes between hundreds of applications, using examples within Microsoft and including third-party apps like Dropbox and Twitter. Once you understand how to use connectors, triggers, and actions to automate business processes, you’ll learn how to manage user input, documents, and approvals, as well as interact with databases. This edition also introduces new Power Automate features such as using robotic process automation (RPA) to automate legacy applications, interacting with the Microsoft Graph API, and working with artificial intelligence models to do sentiment analysis. By the end of this digital transformation book, you’ll have mastered the basics of using Power Automate to replace repetitive tasks with automation technology.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index

Automating Azure AD

Up until this point, we’ve focused on using Power Automate as a workflow engine from a user’s perspective. We’ve focused on processing email, SharePoint lists and documents, files and folders, and approval workflows.

Shifting gears away from purely business application automation, we’re going to look at Power Automate’s capabilities when it comes to working directly with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD or AAD) administration. Azure AD is the identity storage used for applications and services across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. When it comes to reporting or group management there are a number of routine operational tasks that hold potential for automation. From an administrative perspective, they can be important tasks that come at a high labor cost if you need to continuously task switch between a ticketing system and one or more administrative interfaces.

While Azure AD does have a lot of native group management and...