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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate

Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate - Third Edition

By : Aaron Guilmette
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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate

Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate

By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

Whether you're automating a daily task or implementing automation at scale, this third edition gives you everything you need to succeed. This practical guide makes automation accessible, helping you streamline operations using low-code cloud flows, desktop RPA, and AI tools built into Microsoft Power Automate. You’ll begin by building foundational skills through easy-to-follow tutorials that show how to automate actions across Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Slack, and more. From there, you'll level up to integrating approvals, databases, and Forms, handle complex scenarios such as sequential and parallel approvals, and manage shared flows. The book explores Power Automate’s robotic process automation capabilities, teaching you how to automate legacy applications, web interfaces, and Access databases. With expanded coverage of AI Builder, sentiment analysis, Copilot, and document summarization using generative AI, you'll gain hands-on experience creating intelligent, responsive workflows that drive efficiency. Written by a Microsoft 365 expert, this third edition adds 8 new chapters along with guidance on governance, compliance, and enterprise deployment, making it a complete guide for anyone looking to get started or scale automation with Power Automate. *Email sign-up and proof of purchase required
Table of Contents (35 chapters)
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Part 1: The Basics
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Part 2: Advanced Operations and Flows
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Part 3: Robotic Process Automation, AI Models, Copilot, and Beyond
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Part 4: Administration
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Index

Introducing AI Models and Generative AI

Throughout the examples in this book, you’ve used conditions to determine which branch of a flow should execute. You’ve used conditions such as the following:

  • Is the purchase request value more or less than $1,000?
  • Does the user have more or fewer than 100 X/Twitter followers?
  • Is the approval response equal to Approved?

Those types of evaluations are useful when you’re working with hard data—numbers, Boolean values, or exact string matches. But what happens when you’re trying to make decisions with less straightforward data?

That’s where AI models can become useful. AI models use artificial intelligence to make determinations about a variety of different content and data types. For example, it may be very easy for a human to read a business card and determine what value is the individual’s name and what value is the individual’s job title, regardless...

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