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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate - Third Edition
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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate - Third Edition

by Aaron Guilmette
December 2025
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
10h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with Email

Over the years, many business processes have been developed that use email as a storage, tracking, or processing mechanism. These processes have relied upon a combination of manual activities, third-party plugins, Component Object Model (COM) add-ins, and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) scripting. As each version of email software changes, the technology and methods have had to change.

Instead of using discrete or custom code modules, Power Automate uses open REST-based APIs to interact with data for web services. As you learned in Chapter 1, Introducing Microsoft Power Automate, connectors are used to attach to data sources and endpoints (to either receive, retrieve, store, or send data).

Deeper dive

Connectors are ...

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ISBN: 9781836649632