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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Hybrid Administration

By : Aaron Guilmette
Book Image

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Hybrid Administration

By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

SharePoint Server is an on-premises collaboration and business productivity platform. It serves as a content management and web services platform, enabling users to create, publish, and discover content and applications and integrate with business systems. This SharePoint book offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the SharePoint Server 2019 interface to help you configure and deploy confidently from the start. With the help of clear and succinct explanations and expert tips, this book covers SharePoint Server and SharePoint Hybrid configuration as well as the process for migrating to Microsoft SharePoint Online. As the book takes you through strategies and techniques for configuring and managing SharePoint on-premises and hybrid scenarios, you’ll get to grips with the concepts essential for SharePoint deployments, such as authentication, Business Connectivity Services, and the data gateway. You’ll also explore migration methods and strategies. By the end of this book, you'll have learned the fundamentals of deploying SharePoint Server 2019 and be able to use this reference guide for your administration tasks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Connecting Power Automate to SharePoint Server

Now that Power Automate is connected (via the data gateway) to the on-premises SharePoint Server, its environment can be used in any part of a Power Automate workflow.

In this example, we'll use Power Automate to send an email when a new item gets added to an on-premises SharePoint list. To work with this example, you'll need a SharePoint list (you can also use a document library, but will have to update the flow accordingly). You can use these steps to configure a simple flow to work with on-premises SharePoint Server data:

  1. Navigate to the Power Automate web portal (https://flow.microsoft.com) and select + Create:
  1. Select Automated flow:
  1. Add a descriptive name for the flow, and then select the When an item is created SharePoint trigger. Click Create:
  1. In the Site Address field, select the name of the site that contains the list. If the list does not populate (which is likely in this scenario), you'll need to enter...