CHAPTER 11Extending Microsoft SharePoint Premium with Power Automate

When implementing automation for your business processes in the Microsoft ecosystem, the go-to service is Power Automate, formerly Flow. Power Automate is a cloud-based service that allows users to create automated workflows and integrate various applications and services. The beauty of Power Automate is that it offers many prebuilt connectors that will enable you to integrate with typical applications such as Excel, OneDrive, and SharePoint. For example, when you think about Microsoft SharePoint Premium and its powerful document AI features, one of the first conclusions you may come to is that it would be great if you could perform SharePoint Premium actions automatically or in bulk, against larger repositories and many documents. This is where Power Automate comes in.

What's in This Chapter

  • At a high level, what is Power Automate?
  • How does Power Automate work?
  • How can Power Automate work with Microsoft Syntex?
  • Several real-world examples of Power Automate solutions using Microsoft SharePoint Premium.

The Microsoft SharePoint Premium platform is primarily focused on electronic documents. By now, you're aware that Microsoft SharePoint Premium can help you with content assembly—gathering, organizing, and preparing various pieces of content, such as text and images, to create a more significant amount of content, such as a document. Another strength of the SharePoint Premium platform is the ability to perform ...

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