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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

Summary

Being able to work with Azure AD opens up a lot of administration and reporting tasks to automation. Using Power Automate to help process reporting data or other administrative tasks can potentially free up precious time to work on other high-value tasks.

In this chapter, you learned how to start working with Azure AD directly. You learned how to interact with the Microsoft Graph API to retrieve data about MFA information, parse and filter it, and then add the output as a CSV attachment to an email. You were introduced to several new actions (including HTTP, Parse JSON, and Create CSV table) and used them to retrieve and format data in a way that could be easily interpreted by a person.

In the next chapter, we’re going to start working with robotic process automation.

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