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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

Technical requirements

Since we’re going to be working with Azure AD to retrieve user data, you’ll need an account that has global administrator access to configure your Azure AD and Microsoft 365 environments. If you’re following along using a trial tenant that you created, you should already have all of the required permissions. However, if you’re working on this in a production tenant where you don’t have the required rights, you’ll need to work with administrators who can configure the appropriate delegated permissions in the Configuring prerequisites section.

In addition to required permissions, you’ll need to walk through a procedure to configure MFA in your tenant. Configuring MFA is outside the scope of this book. However, if you are interested in learning more about it or configuring it, you can visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-mfa-getstarted.

While MFA doesn...