Become Master in Microsoft Power Automate for Cloud

Discover robotic process automation (RPA) and how AI-powered software bots automate high-volume, repetitive tasks across applications, delivering speed, accuracy, and cost savings with tools like Microsoft Power Automate.

Explore the RPA lifecycle stages—planning, discovery, design with BDD and TDD, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance—and see how bots use UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, and Power Automate.

Explore attended and unattended automation, two deployment models in robotic process automation, differentiated by user interaction, for cloud workflows in Power Automate, with attended focusing on front office tasks.

Learn how Microsoft Power Automate, a cloud based automation platform and RPA tool, connects apps to automate tasks. Discover triggering events, actions, and AI-powered automation for streamlined workflows.

Explore cloud flows and desktop flows to automate tasks across apps with templates, ai powered automation, Copilot integration, and connectors, plus approvals, security, governance, and collaboration.

Sign up for a free Power Automate plan or sign in with a Microsoft 365, Personal Microsoft account, or work account, and learn how to troubleshoot sign-in issues.

Explore core features of Power Automate for cloud, including create flows (automated, instant, scheduled) and templates. Discover approvals, process mining, AI models, connectors, and admin center for end-to-end automation.

Explore how environments in Power Automate for cloud organize, secure, and manage workflows, including creating environments in the Admin Center and switching between default, trial, sandbox, production, and developer types.

Learn how cloud-based Power Automate creates automated flows that connect apps, triggered by events, schedules, or manual actions, using triggers, actions, conditions, loops, variables, connectors, scopes, and parallel branches.

Explore the three Power Automate flow types, cloud, desktop, and business process flows, and their subtypes (automated, instant, scheduled) to automate tasks across apps and services.

Identify and configure triggers in Power Automate to start cloud flows. Learn three trigger types—automated, instant, and scheduled—and how they activate flows based on events, user actions, or time.

Create a cloud flow with prebuilt templates in Power Automate, using the save Outlook.com email attachments to your OneDrive template, and learn trigger, action, and connectors.

Learn to build an automated cloud flow from scratch in Power Automate, triggering on new emails with attachments and saving them to OneDrive using Outlook and OneDrive connectors.

Create a scheduled cloud flow in Power Automate to send daily reminder emails via Outlook, using recurrence on weekdays at 10 a.m. to prompt Azure DevOps updates.

Explore how connections in Power Automate enable cloud flows to securely interact with services like SharePoint, Outlook, and OneDrive, including creating, managing, authenticating, and re-authenticating connections.

Learn to view run history in cloud flows, monitor duration and outcomes, customize columns, download csv logs, and filter by status to debug and optimize automations.

Create instant cloud flows with a manual trigger in Power Automate, and define user inputs including text, yes/no, file, email, number, and date to build dynamic automation that sends emails.

Master dynamic content in Power Automate by using outputs from triggers and earlier steps to drive emails, form responses, and SharePoint updates in automated cloud flows.

Master expressions in Power Automate by using Power Fx formulas to transform data, perform calculations, and implement conditional logic across strings, numbers, dates, JSON, and arrays.

Master practical expressions in Power Automate by building an automated cloud flow that uses concat, string and date time functions, uppercase and int conversions to email Microsoft Forms responses.

Explore flow checker, a diagnostic tool that performs static analysis on flows to ensure validity and reliability before running, always active in flow designer and highlighting errors and warnings.

Explore how to share cloud flows within your organization, using three methods—co-owners for collaboration, run-only users for usage, and templates for copies—while noting the premium account prerequisite.

Master desktop flows in Power Automate for desktop to automate tasks on Windows and legacy systems with low-code drag-and-drop actions and cloud-flow integration.

Identify hardware and software requirements to install Power Automate Desktop, including processor, RAM, storage, dotnet framework 4.7.2 or later, Windows OS, and supported browsers.

Explore the key features of Power Automate Desktop, including a drag-and-drop visual designer, 400 built-in actions, recorders, and cross-system automation across desktop, web, and legacy apps.

Take a look at Power Automate Desktop, exploring the flow designer, actions span, workspace, and panels for variables, UI elements, and images, and learn to save, run, and debug flows.

Sign in to Power Automate Desktop with a work or school account to explore environments, test cases, asset library, flow checker, Copilot integration, and premium license features.

Explore the differences between Power Automate (cloud) and Power Automate Desktop, covering environment, UI, automation type, triggers, connectors, and RPA capabilities.

Build your first desktop flow in Power Automate for Desktop to read unread emails from Outlook using Outlook actions. Store results in variables and close Outlook to finish desktop automation.

Trigger a Power Automate for desktop flow from a cloud flow using run flow build with Power Automate for desktop. Learn the prerequisites, authentication, and run modes for desktop flows.

Learn how to exchange data between cloud and desktop flows using input and output variables, including names, data types, defaults, external name, and optional or sensitive settings.

Learn how to create and use output variables in Power Automate to exchange data between cloud and desktop flows, including naming, external names, data types, and setting values.

Explore how to store and manipulate data in Power Automate flows using variables, covering boolean, integer, float, string, arrays, and objects, with practical initialize, set, increment, and append actions.

Learn to initialize variables in Power Automate cloud flows using various data types - integer, float, string, boolean, date/time, array, and object - test flows, and inspect raw outputs.

Learn to use set variable action in Power Automate to update existing variables after initializing them, including integers and strings, with practical examples in a cloud flow.

Learn how to initialize a counter and use increment variable and decrement variable actions to adjust an integer or float, including a do until loop that reaches 100.

Master the append to string variable action to dynamically build strings in Power Automate flows, including appending strings, integers, date and time expressions, and semicolon-terminated email lists.

Master append to array variable action in Power Automate for cloud by initializing an array, appending items, and merging employee emails and new joiners with apply to each.

Explore control actions in Power Automate, including condition, apply to each, switch, do until, scope, and terminate, to manage logic, looping, and branching in automated workflows.

Learn to use condition action in Microsoft Power Automate to route emails based on true or false logic, using subject contains approved or denied triggers to send corresponding messages.

Use the apply to each action in Power Automate to iterate an array of employee emails and send personalized login details (username and password) to each recipient.

Explore the do until action in power automate, a loop that executes until a condition becomes true, demonstrated by incrementing a number to print even values up to 100.

Learn to use the terminate action in Power Automate to stop a flow and set its final status (succeeded, failed, or canceled) based on approve or reject outcomes.

Learn to use trigger conditions in automated cloud flows with Power Automate, filtering Outlook triggers by subject, from, attachments, and importance to prevent unnecessary runs and boost efficiency.

Use parallel branches in Power Automate to run actions concurrently and boost performance. Build a cloud flow with forms, Excel Online, and Outlook that triggers, adds rows, and sends emails.

Configure run after in cloud flows to trigger actions after success, failure, timeout, or skip, enabling robust error handling and workflow resilience.

Learn data operation actions in Power Automate, including compose, join, create CSV and HTML tables, filter array, select, and parse JSON to transform and format data.

Learn how to use the compose action in Power Automate to store static values, simplify expressions, and debug flows, with examples of string concatenation and JSON formatting from Excel data.

Master the select action to transform array shapes by selecting fields, renaming keys, or creating a new data structure; apply two examples: extract fields and add a status column.

Master the filter array action in Power Automate for cloud by building a subset of contacts from an Excel table, using is equal to and is not equal to conditions.

Learn to use the parse json action in a cloud Power Automate flow to convert json data into a structured format via a generated schema.

Create a formatted HTML table from Excel data using the create HTML table action in Power Automate, then style with CSS and email the results.

Learn to create a CSV table from an Excel data source in a Power Automate flow, mapping city, email, and name, and attach the CSV file to an email.