
Explore workflow automation, desktop automation, and cloud automation with Microsoft Power Automate as the world is being automated.
Explore Microsoft Power Automate basics by understanding templates, connectors, data, monitor cloud flow activity, and desktop machines, then build tactical workflows in upcoming sessions.
Create and customize cloud, desktop, and business process flows using templates and pre-built examples to automate tasks, approvals, notifications, and reminders across apps like SharePoint, Planner, and Outlook.
Explore Microsoft Power Automate connectors, from Office 365 and OneDrive to SharePoint and Outlook, and learn about all, standard, and premium connector types.
Explore workflows and cloud monitor, illustrating automated and scheduled flows that send daily Outlook reminders and save attachments from Outlook.com to Dropbox, with run history insights.
Choose to start from a template connector or design your own workflow, integrate OneDrive for business and Outlook.com, and configure a birthday message in Microsoft Teams.
Demonstrate a Power Automate flow that auto invites the team to a birthday celebration, aligning start times with time zones (examples include Argentina).
Create an instant cloud flow in Power Automate to automate a shopping call workflow, using a manual trigger, adding actions for email and mobile notifications with dynamic content.
Design a promotional email delay event flow in Microsoft Power Automate Essentials using a Gmail trigger for new promotions, a recurrence, and a delayed notification.
Explore Microsoft Power Automate desktop flows in variables and loops, including truncating values, generating random numbers, and converting a data table column into a list.
Master desktop automation in Power Automate by configuring environment variables, set default printers, play system sounds, take screenshots, and run scripts or commands such as JavaScript and PowerShell.
learn how to automate desktop files and folders with Microsoft Power Automate, including running scripts, checking file existence, moving and renaming folders, and basic CSV-driven conditions.
Learn to automate browser and excel tasks with Power Automate, including UI automation for data extraction and form filling, web data retrieval, and launching Excel to read cells.
Automate exchange and outlook tasks, including connecting to an exchange server, launching outlook, retrieving mail messages, and automating mouse, keyboard, clipboard, ocr, and pdf image extraction workflows.
Automate cloud tasks in Microsoft Power Automate by connecting AWS, Azure, Google Cognitive, IBM Cognitive, and Microsoft Cognitive services via APIs, enabling vision and text detection flows.
Microsoft acquired Softomotive last year and has been working on integrating it with their ecosystem ever since. The result is Power Automate Desktop, but what is it?
Have you ever used IFTTT or Zapier before? If you have, then you already know what to expect from Power Automate Desktop. These are automation tools that connect web and mobile apps to create complex workflows consisting of tasks that execute when certain preset conditions are met. Power Automate Desktop is Microsoft's take for Windows and the larger Microsoft ecosystem and incorporates many third-party apps and services.
Power Automate is an add-on service that extends Microsoft 365 applications. Use Power Automate to automate time-consuming tasks and create workflows between familiar applications and services including Microsoft 365 applications like Microsoft Teams, web services like OneDrive, and third-party applications like Twitter.
Power Automate Desktop is now available at no additional cost, allowing Windows 10 users to harness the power of low-code robotic process automation (RPA).
Think of Power Automate Desktop as an advanced version of Macros that comes with a drag and drop interface, making it easier to create workflows consisting of multiple actions, each leading to the next one. This makes it easy to automate repetitive tasks that do not need your attention or time, allowing you to focus on more complex issues requiring human intervention and attention.
Users can create complicated and long workflows involving multiple apps and actions and test them to ensure that the workflow is not broken. Though the UI is easy to navigate, creating longer workflows in Power Automate Desktop may take some time. We expect experts and other users to share their workflows on social media channels soon to benefit others.
Windows users can automate several tasks now. Extract images from PDF files, copy/delete/move files once work is finished, use conditions, open a set of webpages automatically when a trigger is confirmed, and so on.