Outlook

If you’ve ever used the standard Outlook Events connector in Power Automate, you’ll know the frustration — every time you add a new attendee, everyone on the invite gets notified, and all attendees can see each other. In this post, I’ll show you how to use the Graph API and the Update Event call to add attendees without notifying others and hide all attendees from each other. Related: Event Registration with Microsoft Forms I’ve previously blogged about managing events using Microsoft Forms. Put simply, enable users to register for a specific event using Microsoft Forms and Power Automate. But unfortunately this resulted in all attendees receiving an update when someone new completed the form. If you combine this blog with my solution above or watch my video on my ...

Sometimes you don’t want Power Automate to send an email directly — you want to review it first. In this post, I’ll show you how easy it is to create a draft email in your Outlook Drafts folder using Power Automate and the Graph API. You can review, edit and send this email directly from your Outlook Mailbox. As well as a video to demonstrate how this is possible, I will further extend the concept below and show you how you can include attachments as part of your draft email. ...

Need a quick way to let people register for your events and automatically send them a calendar invite? In this post, I’ll show you how to combine Microsoft Forms with Power Automate and Outlook to build a simple attendee registration system — no premium connectors required. Update Sept 2022 - looking to automatically disable your form or maybe trying to prevent attendees from receiving duplicate emails and anonomise attendees? Check out those links and see how it is done. ...

If you regularly receive emails with attachments that need filing into specific SharePoint folders or sites, this one’s for you. In this post, I’ll show you how to use Power Automate to automatically save email attachments to a custom folder or SharePoint site based on the subject line or file name. This use case was originally inspired by Xerox Docucentres, which enable end-users to email themselves a scanned document — but it applies equally to any routine email with attachments. This can be achieved relatively easily and would save you a lot of routine administration time. ...

Need to send personalised emails with unique attachments — like monthly invoices — to a list of customers? In this post, I’ll show you how to build a mail merge with attachments in Power Automate, pulling customer data from Excel and attaching the right file for each recipient automatically. If you have a requirement for creating invoices in an automated fashion please take a look at some of my other ideas here: ...

Still getting emails from colleagues when they could just message you on Teams? I built a simple Power Automate flow that lets you flag an email in Outlook and instantly transfer the conversation to a Teams chat — no more messy reply-all threads. How It Works The simplest way for me, to transfer the conversation from Outlook and trigger a flow, was to use “When an email is flagged” trigger. Therefore I can simply flag an email in Outlook and take the conversation onto Teams. ...