Use “shared mailbox” in Power Automate to send emails.

Often I get this question if a "shared mailbox" can be used in Power Automate to send emails and below concurs: What are the advantages and disadvantages?Do we need a Microsoft 365 license? Is it secure to use a shared mailbox? Do we need an account and password in the Power Automate flow? In this…

Behaviour of a Power Automate Flow after “Import” with “recurrence” – trigger

I get following question very often "what's the behaviour of a flow that has been imported as a new flow or have been updated, with a recurrence - trigger". A scheduled cloud flow, with trigger "Recurrence", more information. Listed up some test scenarios and created a very simple flow "Hello World", that is sending an…

Trigger a Power Automate Flow from PowerShell script

Lately I was wondering how I can connect from a PowerShell script to a MS flow? Is this possible and how I can transfer variable(s) information from the script towards the Flow and use these values. In the simple blog example I will transfer variable values towards a MS Flow. What is needed? TypeNameInfoLicensingPowerShell Invoke-WebRequest…

Timesheet check for Project Service Automation (PSA – Microsoft Dynamics 365)

Losing a lot of time by checking everyone's timesheet if the work week has been completely registered in the PSA timesheet portal. In Belgium, most of the employees have 40 hours working week. In this MS Flow, a check will be performed every Friday evening around 8 PM.  Set time schedule Defining some variables that…

Environments and Data Protection – How-to!

Intro Power Platform of Microsoft (Power Apps, Microsoft Flow and Power BI) are tools that will help you, with your digital transformation 4.0. Microsoft Power Platform In the coming years, we will look at digital transformation 4.0 to optimize are business processes, production environments, healthcare, ... Currently I hear a lot of customers that are…

Buttons, Excel, Approvals and notifications

Intro Buttons, Excel, Approvals and notification in Power Automate. Tracking a starting and end point into Excel, by triggering a button. This is a flow that I will talk about today! The solution will have two Flow's that could be triggered by a button. The values will be added to an excel file that is…

Automated copy task from one Plan in MS Planner, to another.

Intro Getting into planner for managing the work of your teams, but you are lost in the total overview! Centralize the planning of your teams by creating them in an automated way toward a plan that will contain all teams. Need more information about Microsoft Planner: LINK Take the chaos out of teamwork and get…

From Forms to Power BI and the glue is Power Automate.

Intro In the coming days I have a meeting with technical people about PowerShell and would like to start with a survey to get an idea of the knowledge about PowerShell of the people in the room. Putting hands in the air is old school ... No? “Work Less, Do More” How-To? Creating a Microsoft…

Data Operations – Compose: Format Date and Time

Intro What is the definition of Compose action with Microsoft Flow? Use the Data Operations - Compose action to save yourself from entering identical data multiple times when you’re designing a flow. What does this mean in practice? You can shape the data that has been generated by an above action, by using an expression…

Flagging email creates TO-DO item

I would like to share this Microsoft Flow template with you all. I was used of creating manually to-do items (from an email out of MS Outlook) in a list on the Microsoft To-Do application. But this was really monkey work (Copy/Paste monkey work). “Work Less, Do More” So, I have created my own Microsoft…