Slides from my presentation on the available automation options available in Microsoft 365. From the desktop apps right through to things like PowerShell.

1. Microsoft 365
Automation
October 2019
@directorcia
http://about.me/ciaops

3. Why software is eating the
world
- Marc Andressen
https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/

4. Too Hard
Not skilled
Can’t Learn No time
I’m busy

5. Business opportunity

6. Software is a skill not a talent

9. DEMO

12. DEMO

13. Microsoft Flow helps you work smarter by automating
workflows across your apps and services
Get notifications Synchronize files Collect data Automate approvals

14. DEMO

15. Get started quickly
with over a
hundred useful
templates

16. Authenticate to your O365 account.
Build email Subject and Body
Choose to include properties
from previous step (Dropbox
file) to improve relevance
Specify Send To email address
and additional properties
(optional): From, CC, BCC and
ImportanceConnected to
johnsharp@contoso.com
Authenticate to your Dropbox account.
Select folder to monitor
PowerApps

17. Automate advanced scenarios with multiple steps,
branching conditions, and more

18. Integrate the systems
you’re already using…
even custom APIs.

19. Build modern business apps fast
Compose analytics, user experiences, and automation
using an integrated set of services from Microsoft
More efficient developers
Seamlessly extend capabilities for power users and
leverage powerful Azure platform services
Empowered power users
People who understand their business needs best can
now build apps quickly without writing code
Connected data across apps
Whether built on the Common Data Model or integrated
with existing systems, get more value from your data
App Services
Service Fabric
Azure Functions
…
Logic Apps
API Management
BizTalk
…
SQL Server BI
Data analytics
Internet of Things (IoT)
…

20. Extensibility

21. Flow
Logic apps
Managed APIs
or Custom APIs
Uses the Public REST
APIs for management
Calls into at runtime

22. Operational data store
Common Data Model
and custom entities
Real time
sync
Data
API

25. DEMO

28. DEMO

30. DEMO

31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2aIVYxim-A

32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2aIVYxim-A

33. Now accessible through Microsoft Graph
450B
monthly
authentications
Enterprise
security for
90% of
Fortune 500
930M
threats
detected on
devices every
month
1.2B
devices scanned
each month
400B
emails
analyzed
security alerts
from an
ecosystem of
connected
solutions

34. DEMO

36. • Lots of ways to easily connect to many data sources
• Lots of ways to easy automate business processes
• Combine Flow with PowerApps to deliver quick solutions
• Flow can be utilised with on premises resources
• PowerShell works across all Microsoft products and services
• Tools are continually improving
• All this enables ‘citizen developers’

37. • List of connectors - https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/services/
• Azure logic apps - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/logic-apps/
• Microsoft Flow Community - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-
Community/ct-p/FlowCommunity
• Guided Learning - https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/guided-learning/
• Templates - https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/
• Get started with Microsoft Flow - https://flow.microsoft.com/en-
us/documentation/getting-started/
• On premises gateway - https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=820931
• Video gallery - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Webinars-and-Video-Gallery/bd-
p/Webinars_Videos_Gallery
Resources

39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDqN7MNsRw

40. CIAOPS Resources
• Blog – http://blog.ciaops.com
• Free SharePoint Training via email – http://bit.ly/cia-gs-spo
• Free PowerShell scripts – http://github.com/directorcia
• Free Office 365, Azure video tutorials – http://www.youtube.com/directorciaops
• Free documents, presentations, eBooks – http://slideshare.net/directorcia
• Office 365, Azure, Cloud podcast – http://ciaops.podbean.com
• Office 365, Azure online training courses – http://www.ciaopsacademy.com
• Patron Community – http://www.ciaopspatron.com
Twitter
@directorcia
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ciaops
Email
director@ciaops.com
Skype for Business
admin@ciaops365.com