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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

Learning about connectors and actions

In this chapter, we’re going to build on knowledge gained in other chapters, such as working with conditions, dynamic content tokens, and sending emails. We’re going to then layer on several new concepts surrounding Azure AD, including the HTTP, Parse JSON, and Create CSV table actions.

HTTP action

While working with Azure AD can typically be done using the standard Azure AD connector objects (such as the Azure AD connector and the Office 365 Groups connector), the property that stores MFA registration information is not exposed through those connectors.

In order to retrieve this data, we’ll need to look to another source: the Microsoft Graph API (commonly referred to as just the Graph API). The Microsoft Graph API is a REST-based API that allows you to interact with data stored in Azure AD. Since the data we’re looking for is stored in Azure AD, the Graph API is the natural choice for working with this...