Creating Custom Document Sets using Power Automate

Document Sets are great at organizing your related documents in SharePoint. Coupled with the ability to automatically add documents upon creation, prepending the name with the Document Set name and applying other other metadata make them a great candidate for many business scenarios. However, there are scenarios where the out of the box fall short: … Continue reading Creating Custom Document Sets using Power Automate

Keeping your Azure AD Security Groups and Office 365 Groups in Sync with the Power Platform

One of the challenges that Office 365 admins face is managing group membership in various services. For example, when working with SharePoint Online, the recommended practice is to leverage Azure AD security groups. This way, when the group membership changes, all the admin needs to do is update the Azure AD group and the change … Continue reading Keeping your Azure AD Security Groups and Office 365 Groups in Sync with the Power Platform

Create your own Power Automate JSON Editor using Power Apps and Power Automate

Since it’s inception, Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) has been positioned as being a no code/low code Citizen Developer workflow development platform. It’s awesome to see how far along it has come in such a short time and how much it has been adopted in the Office 365 community. As someone who has been working with the … Continue reading Create your own Power Automate JSON Editor using Power Apps and Power Automate

Segregating Organizational Admin Responsibilities in Office 365

Today, Office 365 offers a variety of admin roles that can be used to manage your tenant — 45 to be exact. These roles align with the general recommended practice of providing users and admins alike the least amount of access they require to complete their work. However, with that, there is still a problem … Continue reading Segregating Organizational Admin Responsibilities in Office 365

Accessing the latest Standard Operating Procedures when your Network is Down

A Standard Operating Procedure (SOP’s) is a set of step-by-step instructions compiled by an organization to help workers carry out complex routine operations. Sometimes, these SOP’s describe emergency procedures for dealing with fire, gas leaks, hazardous material spills, or other disasters. Recently, I worked with a client in the oil and gas industry who had … Continue reading Accessing the latest Standard Operating Procedures when your Network is Down

Extend a warm welcome to your new Team member

Microsoft just released a new Power Automate template that can help welcome new Team members and notify existing members when someone leaves a Team. At first it may seem redundant as Teams already provides built-in functionality to notify users of such changes. But there are two main differences: The built-in notifications only appear in the General channel … Continue reading Extend a warm welcome to your new Team member

Employee Check-in Simplified using Power Automate

Company employees who move between offices are often faced with a tedious process of having to check-in at the security desk to get a temporary pass. This process can be time consuming and is further exacerbated when the person who needs to approve the check-in is not available. Luckily, we can use flow to make … Continue reading Employee Check-in Simplified using Power Automate

Building Enterprise-wide Multilingual Power Apps

Supporting multiple languages for corporations is a reality. It may be an organization operating in multilingual countries, such as Canada, Belgium, Italy, or others, or having a workforce that that is distributed across the globe. One common challenge in building solutions to support multilingualism is the creation and maintenance of such solutions as they evolve … Continue reading Building Enterprise-wide Multilingual Power Apps

Employee Check-in Simplified using Power Automate