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Microsoft Flow + RPA = PowerAutomate

During the keynote at Ignite 2019, Satya Nadella announced that Microsoft Flow is gaining Robotic Process Automation (RPA) capabilities. From now on, Flow will have the following types of Flows: Automated Flows Business Process Flows (BPF) Instant Flows UI Flows (NEW!) Power Automate Next to that, he announced that Microsoft

Add a PowerApp as a Teams App to Microsoft Teams

I recently stumbled onto a pretty cool undocumented way to add a PowerApp as a Teams App to Microsoft Teams. Imagine the left rail in your Teams app. Probably there's Activity, Chat, Teams, Calendar and maybe Calls... It's possible to add a Teams app that will give you the ability

Responsive components in PowerApps

Microsoft has released Components as an experimental feature in PowerApps and of course, this has made me very excited. This makes me really happy 😍 I was looking forward to this. @PowerApps Components are available in first release environments! #PowerApps pic.twitter.com/ORDmKV0QDJ — Daniel Laskewitz #FlowProShow (@laskewitz) January 8,

Set default timezone for SharePoint sites in the new SharePoint Admin Center

For a while now, there is a team working on the new SharePoint Admin center. They are adding more and more features into the SharePoint Admin Center, like creating hub sites, assigning sites to hub sites, manage Office Group connected sites and a lot more. One of the new improvements

First look at PowerApps components

Last Tuesday I discovered an interesting option in the app settings of a PowerApp in my preview environment. I was able to enable PowerApps components in my app! This makes me really happy 😍 I was looking forward to this. @PowerApps Components are available in first release environments! #PowerApps pic.twitter.

The magic of PowerApps Push Notification parameters

Every day I learn something new about PowerApps. Yesterday it was Components; today I am learning everything there is about the PowerApps Notification connector in Flow. PowerApps Notification connector What is the PowerApps Notification connector? As the name says, it offers you a way to send push notifications to users

PowerApps quick tip: Bypass consent popups

When you're working a lot with PowerApps, you probably encountered consent popups. These popups show up when you have connected a data source to your PowerApp and open your app for the first time. These consent popups show up for everyone that has access to the app. While this is

PowerApps quick tip: Change the owner through PowerShell

Currently, if you have a PowerApp and you want to switch it from one owner to the other, it's not possible to do that from the UI. There is a pretty simple solution for it though. PowerApps <3 PowerShell Make sure to download the PowerApps PowerShell module from here.

Getting started with the Excel add-in for Microsoft Flow

A couple of weeks back, the Microsoft Flow team announced the Excel add-in for Microsoft Flow. This add-in will give you the ability to build and run Flows from Excel. I think it's incredible how many people still keep Excel workbooks up-to-date while there are a lot of other options

Top 3 PowerApps & Flow features from the October release notes

Twice a year, the release notes of the semi-annual release get published by the different teams of the Microsoft Business Application Group. That means Dynamics 365, Power BI, PowerApps & Flow receive new goodies! For the complete release notes, go here! The fantastic April Dunnam (Seriously, follow her on Twitter!

Microsoft Flow

How to use a timeout for your Microsoft Flow approvals

Yesterday, Melissa Hubbard posted a great intro to Microsoft Flow approvals in her Flow Approval Fundamentals blog post. Make sure to check her blog post before reading this one. Her blog post is focussed on the basics and I will be highlighting a bit more of an advanced feature: timeouts

SharePoint Online

Ask questions through a PowerApp embedded on a SharePoint page

At a lot of companies, I see a lot of employees struggle with what the possibilities are of the Modern SharePoint. They know there is a lot possible, but they don't know where to start. Luckily there's a lot of good documentation, but a lot of employees don't want to

How to keep up with Microsoft Flow?

When you are working with Microsoft Flow a lot, you probably want to know what's new on the platform from time to time. There are several ways to get the latest and greatest of Microsoft Flow. And - yes - there are even ways to get some insights into whats

Microsoft Flow & the Spring 2018 Update

Microsoft published the spring '18 release notes for Dynamics365. Go here to see them. These release notes also include a lot of new features for Microsoft Flow. I would like to highlight some of them in this blog post: Request for sign-off flow built into SharePoint With this feature, you

The Microsoft Flow management connector

Today, I will post a short blog about the Flow Management connector. It has been a while since the Microsoft Flow team released the Flow Management connector, but it hasn't get the attention it deserves! It has 19 (!!) actions, like: Creating Flows and Connections Deleting Flows Getting Flows and connectors

Dynamics 365 Saturday Slides

Last Saturday I did a session at Dynamics 365 Saturday Amsterdam! It was a great event at the KPMG HQ in Amstelveen. I uploaded my slides to SlideShare. Check them here:

Speaking at D365 Saturday Amsterdam

I will be speaking at Dynamics365 Saturday Amsterdam on the 3rd of February. During this event I will present a 50 minute session, which is called 'Unleash the power of Microsoft Flow'. If you want to join the event, make sure to register via this link. Hope to see you

Flow Tips

Flow tip: Cognitive Services connectors & regions

When working with the Cognitive Services connectors, I noticed that there is a setting available in the Cognitive Services connectors that could easily be skipped during the setup of the connector and than afterwards lead to problems. When you don't use the West US region, this is important for you:

Monitor social media with Microsoft Flow and the Azure Text Analytics API

A lot of marketing & communication departments use expensive tools to monitor their brands. These tools are handy, but they are pretty expensive, so a lot of companies would be eager to replace these tools with something cheaper. How could you replace such a tool? Microsoft Flow is the answer

Get an alert when one of your users creates a Flow

The Microsoft Flow team just released audit events for Flow. These events are available through the Security & Compliance Center. Now you can use for instance audit log search to find some of the following events in your Office 365 environment: This is really handy for IT Admins who really

Collab365 Global Conference Slides

Today, I did a session during the Collab365 Global Conference about Microsoft Flow. You can find the slides from this session below: If you want to see the video, you can click here!

Join me at my session at Collab365 Global Conference 2017

Have you heard about the virtual Collab365 Global Conference 2017 that’s streaming online November 1st – 2nd? Join me and 120 other speakers from around the world who will be bringing you the very latest content around SharePoint, Office 365, Flow, PowerApps, Azure, OneDrive for Business and of course the

New Flow Button inputs available in Flow Mobile

This week an Android update for the Microsoft Flow app showed that the team has been working on extra inputs for Flow Buttons. The input types they added this week are File and Email inputs. Really cool to see the Microsoft Flow team move in this direction, because there are

Microsoft Flow

Physical buttons & Microsoft Flow: Push the button!

No, this is not a fresh new remix of The Chemical Brothers, but we're talking serious business here. Physical buttons The Microsoft Flow team announced that it is possible to connect Microsoft Flow to the real world with physical buttons a while back! The first thought I had was: "

Microsoft Flow

Recurrence in Flow

Recurrence is one of the most used start actions for a lot of workflows. That is why it is really cool that Microsoft Flow has a trigger for that. Options Frequency: It has a frequency setting. You can choose between day, minute, hour or second. Interval: This is the amount