Considerations for automating content processing with AI Prompts

Back in May, Microsoft published an article on how to Generative AI Prompts to automate content processing. It's quite impressive to see how the much the Create text with GPT using a prompt is evolving and with the new AI Hub prompt designer, creating and testing such prompts is easy. However, there are some things … Continue reading Considerations for automating content processing with AI Prompts

Implementing Paging for SharePoint in Power Automate

One of the many benefits of using Microsoft Power Automate is the ability to process large amounts of data in batches. By automating such tasks, you reduce the risk and effort associated with performing them manually and can focus on more impactful tasks. Many connectors in Power Automate are set up to process large amounts, … Continue reading Implementing Paging for SharePoint in Power Automate

Personal Case Study: Managing Type 1 Diabetes using the Power Platform and AI

If you follow my other blogs or presentations, you will notice that I like to share information on how technology can be used to improve business processes to and optimize how people work using the Microsoft Power Platform and related technologies. I have written an article for Microsoft where I discuss how I used the … Continue reading Personal Case Study: Managing Type 1 Diabetes using the Power Platform and AI

Your Journey into the Power Platform

If you have been working in Office 365 over the past few years, you have undoubtedly come across or heard about the Power Platform. There are endless possibilities on how it can help your work. I wanted to share with you options on how to start your personal journey, as a citizen developer, based on … Continue reading Your Journey into the Power Platform

Preserving Deleted Files in SharePoint Online Using Power Automate

The SharePoint Recycle Bin lets users recover files they may have inadvertently deleted. SharePoint Online allows users 93 days during which they can go to the recycle bin to recover the files and have them placed back in their original location. However, at times, users may need a longer grace period. While SharePoint on-premises provides … Continue reading Preserving Deleted Files in SharePoint Online Using Power Automate

Managing Approvals in Multiple Systems

Power Automate has a great approval mechanism that can be accessed from within the Power Automate portal, Power Automate Mobile app, Microsoft Teams, and you favourite email client. However, there are times when you may want to provide approvals in another system while keeping the Power Automate approvals up-to-date. Consider the scenario where you have … Continue reading Managing Approvals in Multiple Systems

Using Environment Variables as Lists

When working with the Power Platform, one recommended practice is to use solutions for packaging all the components — Power Apps, flows, Dataverse entities and option sets, and more. Solutions make it easy to move these components between environments. This is important for application lifecycle management. Environment variables are part of solutions that are used to identify … Continue reading Using Environment Variables as Lists

I’m running a little late…

These are infamous words spoken by many of us as we run from meeting to meeting or between locations. While we can’t use Power Automate to stop the clock, there are some great components that, when put together, can help us notify others of our arrival. In this article, I’m discussing a flow I built … Continue reading I’m running a little late…

Reduce Virtual Meeting Fatigue using Power Automate

In a recent research Microsoft study on the impacts that back-to-back virtual meetings have on our brains, the message was very clear. According to Michael Bohan, Sr. director of Human Factors Engineering at Microsoft, Our research shows breaks are important, not just to make us less exhausted by the end of the day, but to actually … Continue reading Reduce Virtual Meeting Fatigue using Power Automate

Create Modern SharePoint Sites with Template Homepages using Power Automate

Have you ever wanted to easily automate the creation of Modern SharePoint sites without the needs of development or complex configurations? Well, you can. Power Automate with the help of the SharePoint connector enables users with the proper permissions to create and configure SharePoint sites and even apply SharePoint designs and scripts to them. However, … Continue reading Create Modern SharePoint Sites with Template Homepages using Power Automate