Azure App Registrations are essential components of modern application architecture, facilitating secure communication between apps and services. However, the keys associated with these registrations – be it client secrets or key certificates – come with an expiration date. Failing to renew these keys in a...
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Service Health and Message Centre via Power Automate
In this blog post, we’ll explain how to use Power Automate to monitor your Microsoft 365 service health and admin message center. With this method, you’ll have more control and customization options for your organization’s services. We’ll start by creating an Azure app registration and...
Continue reading...Add user to Distribution List
It’s still the case that you cannot directly add a user to an Exchange Distribution List via Power Automate as can be seen here Working with groups in Microsoft Graph – Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Learn (distribution groups cannot be managed by Graph API)...
Continue reading...Efficiently Filter a JSON object in Power Automate
Here is an interesting sample JSON object {}, that contains a JSON array [] with 3 objects. The final solution will have 3000 objects. The aim is to retrieve two key values from the object whilst checking another nested array for a common string ‘ACABA’....
Continue reading...Disable Microsoft Forms via Power Automate
It is technically possible to disable a Microsoft Form from Power Automate. Why would you want to do this? Maybe it’s time limited – ok sure you can specify an end date via the existing UI. But what if that date or time was to...
Continue reading...Update Event and Hide Attendees
It would appear that the standard actions for Events in Power Automate will send your attendees an email each time a new attendee is added or updated. In addition to this, attendees are visible to all. Using the Graph API and the Update Event call...
Continue reading...Restore deleted Flows as an Admin
As an admin, you will only know too well, that if a user deletes a flow, you will need to raise a call with Microsoft to restore that flow to Power Automate. Until May 2022 that is, when the Restore-AdminFlow cmdlet was released. There are...
Continue reading...Create an Interactive Power Virtual Agent
Making your Power Virtual Agent more interactive is achievable using Power Automate. When the bot asks the end user a question, it can accept input (entities), pass these to Power Automate and then in return tailor a response, based on the outcome of your flow....
Continue reading...Create a draft Email in Outlook
Learn how easy it is to create a draft email in your Outlook Draft folder using Power Automate. Rather than send the email direct from Power Automate, let me show you a simple way to create a draft email. You can review, edit and send...
Continue reading...Error Handling – Power Automate
You have multiple flows, they run multiple times a day and then one starts failing. Power Automate will eventually notify you that your flow has failed a few times recently and that you should take a look but how about a proactive approach to error...
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