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In celebration of the Microsoft Power Platform Conference 2023, my publisher Packt has graciously agreed to a 20% discount.
Starting October 1 (and running through October 5), use code 20WORKFLOW at checkout on Amazon to save 20% off the book!… [ Continue reading ]
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I’m super excited to announce that the second edition of Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate has been released! It’s available immediately.
This book features a ton of updates (product, connector, action and parameter names). We’ve changed the way some features work, so I wanted to capture those changes (the old ways still work, but it’s best to be up-to-date).… [ Continue reading ]
A few days ago, I was working on a small project for a health care provider where they wanted to leverage some sort of calendar with training tasks and checklists.
The organization makes heavy use of Microsoft Teams, so I immediately thought of Microsoft Planner for organizing, coordinating, and managing the onboarding tasks for the trainers and new employees. … [ Continue reading ]
I’m super excited to announce another forthcoming title: Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate, Second Edition!
I’ve updated the second edition to reflect our new terminology and UI enhancements as well as introduced working with Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Microsoft Graph via the HTTP connector, and a sample of AI Builder sentiment analysis.… [ Continue reading ]
Just a quick post–
Packt has just announced that my newest book, Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate, will be offered at a promotional / sale price from April 3 to April 17! You can order it here: https://packt.live/3m3Is5y
In case you’re not familiar with it, it’s targeted toward those with little to no experience with the Power Automate platform. … [ Continue reading ]
Finally–we’re to the good stuff!
In the first part of this series, we talked about setting the stage with the requirements, and then went on to create the basic staging and production sites, update the retention policies to exclude the staging site, and configure the taxonomy.… [ Continue reading ]
In my previous post on building a video portal with approvals, we started the necessary steps to build an internal video portal for SharePoint online. ICYMI, the things we covered:
We’re going to continue on in this post with the site customization.… [ Continue reading ]
A few weeks ago, a customer asked me for some recommendations around building and curating a video portal for SharePoint Online content. Normally, we’d look at a Microsoft Stream-based solution, but given the upcoming changes to Stream and the customer’s requirements around content retention and approvals, I thought that maybe another avenue was more appropriate.… [ Continue reading ]
Happy New Year, everyone!
I’m super excited to be part of of my publisher’s #NewYearNewSkills initiative. If you’ve been curious about how to get software to help you do less of the less important stuff so you can do more of the more important stuff but weren’t sure where to start, my book “Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate” is a great place to start! … [ Continue reading ]
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I’m working on a project that needs geocoding and decided to see what Power Automate actions are available to me. Sure, I could construct an HTTP REST call to a service, but maybe there’s any easier way?
Enter the Bing Maps connector.… [ Continue reading ]
What a crazy year it has been! This week, I sent off the final drafts for my fifth book published this calendar year.
This hefty book (600+ pages) covers installation and configuration of the SharePoint server platform. Some of the highlights include:
You can quickly pre-order it on Amazon now!… [ Continue reading ]
We all end up doing a lot of work that we don’t need to do. That’s not to say that it doesn’t need to be done–it might be a critical operation that needs to be performed, but does it need to be done by you?… [ Continue reading ]
If you’re wondering (or even if you’re not) why I’ve been quiet on my blog lately, it’s because I’ve been furiously working trying to finish up a new book: Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate.
This is a 100-level book is targeted to users new to Microsoft Power Automate and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.… [ Continue reading ]
