This is post was originally posted at Slalom Technology. I’m addicted to automation, across all aspects of life. Is this a bad thing? I like to be efficient, remove the tedious work from my list and let a robot do it instead. Is this so bad? A little history… I’ve been a developer for about 20 years.... Continue Reading →
[WATCH] Why Microsoft Flow and PowerApps Rock! video and slides from Bos365
I had the wonderful opportunity to share my thoughts on why Microsoft Flow and PowerApps rock at the Boston Office 365 User Group. The session was amazingly well attended, with over 30 people in the room and over 15 online! I was pumped! We walked through several real life demos, and I shared valuable tips... Continue Reading →
Posting to Teams with Power Automate (Flow): Incoming Webhook verses Teams – Post Message
Teams has incoming webhooks, and Flow has post message to Teams. How do these compare? Let's look at the two options and discuss the options.
Microsoft Teams, Forms and Flow on the go!
This is the final post in this mini series where we looked at the simplicity and easy of integrating within the Office 365 stack. Create a Form and have the data save directly in Excel Add the Form to Microsoft Teams Notify the Team a submission was made How does this look like on the... Continue Reading →
Integrating Forms into Teams, bringing it home with Microsoft Flow
This post is the third post in this mini series as we look at how easy the Office 365 stack integrates. In this series, we will: Create a Form and have the data save directly in Excel Add the Form to Microsoft Teams Notify the Team a submission was made (this post) How does this... Continue Reading →
Use Microsoft Flow to remind the Team of due dates from Planner
This Flow I feel like should be unnecessary, but alas it is. The simple idea is to have tasks which are due tomorrow post to your team to help keep people up to date. Planner does offer email notifications which can do the same, they work great, BUT our users disable notifications because they are... Continue Reading →
Update your Team with events from your Outlook Group Calendar using Microsoft Flow
As of this writing, there is no clean integration between an Outlook Group and Teams, other than the membership. The calendar, for instance, doesn't reflect anywhere in Teams. Using the calendar is advantageous for the team, and I wanted to share new events with the team, to allow for awareness and conversations around our meetings.... Continue Reading →
Automate retweets with Microsoft Flow
This was an interesting use case. I manage the Boston Office 365 User Group's twitter feed, @Bos365. As we look to promote our non-profit events and content through Twitter, I sometimes just want to tweet the same thing a couple of times. Twitter is instant, and your tweets can get buried pretty quick, I wanted... 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 →
