I've had a few questions and other posts about sending emails. There are a few ways to skin the cat and Microsoft has made a few changes in their Office 365 Outlook Send Email actions, they removed some older ones as well. Let's take a look at what we have now. We're down to three:... Continue Reading →
Sending a beautifully formatted email from Power Automate (Flow)
updated March 10, 2020 I recently shared a winning use case for Office 365. Within this use case, I am using a flow in Power Automate to send beautifully formatted emails to our users. Something like: Okay, maybe it's not that beautiful, but it is colorful, has an image, and pops in comparison to black... Continue Reading →
Using Microsoft Forms Likert questions in Flow
The Likert question type is a great option in Forms, which gives users a matrix of sorts, to provide a valuable answer. Check out this example I use for our user group's feedback survey: Some fun facts about the Likert scale on Wikipedia. Using Microsoft Flow, I'd like to perform some automation when this survey... Continue Reading →
Create your personal list mailer with Microsoft Flow
I had a need and all I needed was more Flow! In a communications site in SharePoint Online, I have a list of contacts for my committee, something like: This list is great, it lets everyone see who's who across the committees. Now I want to email them, sometimes just the Liaisons, sometimes just the... Continue Reading →
Sending SharePoint emails through the cloud
It's true! It's possible to send your SharePoint emails through the cloud, or even to your internal email server using authentication or a different port. The trick is to use a local IIS SMTP service to relay the email for you. You can configure the SMTP service to relay email to a specific host and... Continue Reading →