Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate – Second Edition!

Hola!

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 ]

Announcing: Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate, Second Edition

I’m super excited to announce another forthcoming title: Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate, Second Edition!

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 ]

Spring Promo for Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate

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 ]

Building a SharePoint Video Portal – Site Customization

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:

  • Business problem
  • Creating production and staging sites
  • Excluding the staging site from the retention policies
  • Configuring the SharePoint taxonomy and term sets

We’re going to continue on in this post with the site customization.… [ Continue reading ]

Building a SharePoint Video Portal

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 ]

New Year, New Skills

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 ]

Available for Pre-Order: SharePoint Server Admin Book!

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:

  • Designing for performance
  • MinRole and custom server role deployments
  • Business Connectivity Services walk-throughs
  • Detailed deployment of the Power Platform On-Premises Data Gateway
  • Using Power Automate with a Data Gateway to interact with SharePoint Server
  • Walkthroughs of all the options in the Hybrid Picker / Hybrid Wizard
  • Examples of using migration tools to get to SharePoint Online

You can quickly pre-order it on Amazon now!… [ Continue reading ]