Microsoft Power Automate Essentials
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Overview
Power Automate is a core part of Microsoft 365 and provides a platform to create workflows to manage business processes through the connection of Microsoft 365 and other services.
Target Audience:
Individuals who want to develop skills in automating workflows within their organisation. It's particularly useful for those involved in IT, operations, or business processes that require the automation of repetitive tasks. This course introduces Power Automate, part of the Microsoft Power Platform, and focuses on cloud flow automation using Office 365 data sources.
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Office 365 Users: People familiar with Office 365 who are looking to automate processes across different apps and services within the Microsoft ecosystem.
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Business Analysts: Professionals responsible for improving business operations and processes will benefit from automating routine tasks.
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IT Administrators and Support Teams: Teams tasked with managing workflows or optimising operational tasks.
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Junior Developers: Those beginning their journey with Microsoft technologies and interested in low-code/no-code tools.
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Project Managers and Team Leads: Anyone looking to streamline tasks across teams, like automating approval workflows.
Prerequisites
Important - This course has MFA Requirements. Please read this link and download the MFA app, prior to attending.
This course requires delegates to meet the following prerequisites:
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A basic understanding of Windows 10 or later versions
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Experience using a web browser
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A general knowledge of using Office 365
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Some basic knowledge of programming and HTML is useful but not essential
Please Note: If you attend a course and do not meet the prerequisites you may be asked to leave.
Delegates will learn how to
- Understand what Power Automate cloud flows are and how they work
- Build Power Automate cloud flows from templates or using Artificial Intelligence.
- Build Power Automate cloud flows from scratch (blank).
- Understand how to work with many features Power Automate offers
- Learn how to manage your Power Automate flows
Outline
Module 1 – An introduction to Power Automate
- What is Power Automate?
- Accessing Power Automate
- Power Automate architecture
Module 2 – Create Power Automate flows from templates and using Copilot
- Find and use a template
- Configuring the flow
- Running the flow
- Creating a Power Automate by using Copilot
- Formatting output using HTML
Module 3 – Creating flows from blank
- Data connections
- Triggers
- Actions
- Controls
- The Compose actions
- Expressions
- Action names, notes and comments
- Date formatting
- Using Instant triggers
- Sharing flows
Module 4 – Flow controls
- Conditions
- Apply to Each
- Switch
Module 5 – Approvals
- The approvals data connector
- Responding to approvals
- Approval dynamic content
- Formatting approvals with Markdown
Module 6 – Advanced flow techniques
- Working with variables
- Do Until
- Scope
- Moving actions
- Copy and pasting actions
- Inserting actions into a flow
- Parallel branches
- The Terminate action
Module 7
- Longer hands-on exercises to reinforce learning
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Special Notices
Please note: Due to the dynamic nature of updates to Office 365 functionality by Microsoft, elements of the syllabus of this course can be subject to change without notice.
This course is one of the unique Microsoft Office 365 QA authored Mastering courses.
Other technical courses within the QA authored curriculum for Office 365 include:
- Technical Overview
- Core Technical Administration
- Adoption and Governance
- Exchange Online and Exchange Hybrid
- Sharepoint Online
- Microsoft 365 Teams
- Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft PowerApps
- Mastering Power Automate – 3 days
- Mastering Power Apps – 3 days
- Mastering Power Platform Dataverse and Model-Driven Apps - 3 days
- Modern Desktop and Mobile Device Administration with Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft 365 Purview, Compliance and Security
- Building Microsoft Teams Applications
Instructors will demonstrate features throughout the event. Optional Lab exercises are available for students to complete within a delegate created free trial tenancy available for 60 days.
Related courses
Microsoft 365 learning pathways
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