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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain, Scott Brewster
Book Image

Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain, Scott Brewster

Overview of this book

Microsoft 365 offers tools for content management, communication, process automation, and report creation. Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook maximizes workplace collaboration and productivity using SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Delve, M365 Search, Copilot, Power Platform, Viva, Planner, and Microsoft Forms. You will find thoroughly updated recipes for SharePoint Online, covering sites, lists, libraries, pages, web parts, and learn SharePoint Framework (SPFx) basics for building solutions. You will explore many Microsoft Teams recipes to prepare it to be your organization’s central collaboration hub. You will be able to unlock Power Platform potential with recipes for Power Apps to enable low-code/no-code app development and learn to automate tasks with Power Automate and Power Automate Desktop. The book teaches you data visualization with Power BI, and chatbot creation with Power Virtual Agents (Copilot Studio). Finally, you will also learn about the cutting-edge Copilot and Gen AI functionality in Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. By the end, you will be equipped with skills to effectively use Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, and the Power Platform. Whether it's enhancing career prospects or improving business operations, this book is a perfect companion on your journey through the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Triggering a desktop flow from the cloud

In this last recipe, we’ll use the desktop flow we created previously and trigger it from a scheduled cloud flow so our desktop flow runs every week.

Getting Ready

You’ll need an existing Power Automate Desktop flow, an on-premises data gateway on the machine hosting the flow, and appropriate licensing (as desktop flows are a Premium connector in cloud flows). For this particular flow, the machine the desktop flow will run on must be powered on and signed in to or the run will fail. With that in mind, remember that some desktop flows may be better as unattended (and running on an always-on virtual desktop) as opposed to any individual person’s machine.

Also, as mentioned earlier in this chapter, Dataverse is a prerequisite and it may have been set up for you during your first run. And since each Power Automate environment can have its own database, you may need to configure additional environments as needed to best-support...