1. Take your first steps with Power Automate for desktop
Learn how to get started with the Microsoft Power Automate for desktop console and flow designer. The console helps you create and handle flows, while the flow designer is the development environment of the platform.
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2. Power Automate for desktop development essentials
Learn how Power Automate for desktop handles common development concepts and tasks, such as actions, variables, conditionals, and loops.
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3. Build your first Power Automate for desktop flow
This module introduces the basics of Power Automate for desktop flows and explains how to build the first flow to help automate a repetitive task.
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4. Define input and output parameters in Power Automate
This module defines input and output parameters for desktop flows, which will allow your flows to be more comprehensive and useful.
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5. Integrate desktop flows with Outlook connector in Power Automate for desktop
This module will show how to build on an existing gateway to integrate Microsoft Outlook with a desktop UI flow.
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6. Connect a cloud flow to desktop flows in Power Automate for desktop
Gateways allow desktop flows to connect to other services and use robotic process automation (RPA) to its fullest potential. This module explains how to use those gateways as a foundation for integrating other technology with cloud flows.
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7. Use AI Builder to process invoice forms in Power Automate
This module explains how to integrate AI builder into an existing API-based flow to facilitate a robust automated process.
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8. Use the Teams connector in Power Automate
A fully automated process joins many concepts and capabilities in Power Automate. This module shows how to bring those concepts together to build a robust automation that involves multiple programs.
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9. Run a Power Automate for desktop flow in unattended mode
When building robotic process automation (RPA), you can't always monitor the flow. This module demonstrates the solution for this issue by explaining how to run your UI and API flows unattended.
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10. Optimize your business process with process advisor
With the process advisor capability in Power Automate, you can record existing business processes and analyze them to increase efficacy by tracking completion times and mapping various actions that are involved. The first step to automating a solution is knowing the process, and process advisor helps simplify that task.
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11. Handle variables in Power Automate for desktop
In flow development, you may need to reuse information in various actions. Variables act like storage bins that save valuable information for later use when a flow is running.
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12. Automate repetitive tasks using loops in Power Automate for desktop
Loops are used to automate repetitive tasks by executing a block of actions multiple times.
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13. Adjust process behavior using conditional actions with Power Automate for desktop
Conditional actions allow you to modify flow actions at runtime, based on information available in the environment.
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14. Configure flow control in Power Automate for desktop
The ability to alter the order in which actions and functions are implemented is called flow control. Power Automate for desktop enables flow control through the flow control actions.
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15. Generate Power Automate for desktop flows by recording
The recorder can be used to automatically generate blocks of actions, based on the user's interaction with the workstation.
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16. Configure exception and error handling in Power Automate for desktop
Exception handling is a mechanism that allows Power Automate for desktop to handle and recover from unexpected circumstances and issues that might occur during a flow run.
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17. Control file and folder handling in Power Automate for desktop
Manipulating files and folders is a fundamental part of most business processes. Power Automate for desktop provides the files and folders actions to help accomplish this task.
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18. Web automation in Power Automate for desktop
Web applications are critical components of most organizations. Power Automate for desktop supports the automation of all major browsers through its browser automation actions.
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19. Use Power Automate for desktop to interact with windows and applications
UI interfaces and their components are identified through UI elements, which can be captured and used in UI/Windows-related actions.
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20. Excel automation in Power Automate for desktop
Power Automate for desktop provides an extensive variety of Microsoft Excel actions to help you read and manipulate Excel files.
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21. Automating email handling in Power Automate for desktop
Using email services is common in business procedures and critical for most organizations. Power Automate for desktop provides various actions that enable email handling for webmail services, Microsoft Outlook, and Exchange servers.
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22. Automate system, workstation, and services actions in Power Automate for desktop
Power Automate for desktop supports the automation of miscellaneous tasks, which are fundamental to the Microsoft Windows operating system, through the system, workstation, and services actions.
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23. Communicate using message boxes in Power Automate for desktop flows
Message boxes can be used to interact with a user to either request input, or to provide output.
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24. Text manipulation in Power Automate for desktop
Power Automate for desktop provides actions to help you manipulate text and datetime values. These text and datetime actions help you adopt a standardized data format in your flows.
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25. Simulate mouse and keyboard actions by using Power Automate for desktop
Learn how to create flows that simulate mouse movement and clicks, as well as typing and key presses. This module also describes how to select and locate a specific image or area on the screen with the mouse.
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26. Combine Power Automate desktop and cloud flows
This module describes how to combine a Power Automate desktop flow with a Power Automate cloud flow. It demonstrates how to call an existing Power Automate desktop flow from a cloud flow to enhance its functionality and save time when designing large, complex flows.
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27. Database handling in Power Automate for desktop
Databases are vital components of every organization, and efficient data handling is necessary for their effective operation. Power Automate for desktop provides organizations with the ability to automate databases through the database actions.
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28. Active Directory handling in Power Automate for desktop
Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is a directory service that enables administrators to manage permissions and access to network resources. Power Automate for desktop provides Active Directory actions to automate all related tasks.
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29. Scripting in Power Automate for desktop
Power Automate for desktop enables you to automate complex scenarios using scripts in VBScript, JavaScript, PowerShell, and Python.
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30. OCR technologies in Power Automate for desktop
Power Automate for desktop enables users to read, extract, and manage data within an assortment of files through OCR actions.
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31. Get started with custom connectors in Power Automate
Connectors help make it easier for app and flow makers to connect to other apps, data, and devices in the cloud. Learn how to configure and use custom connectors with Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Power Automate, and Microsoft Azure Logic Apps.
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32. Configure custom connectors with authenticated APIs in Power Automate
Custom connectors can provide access to custom or third-party APIs that are accessible via public endpoints. In this module, learn how to configure custom connectors with authenticated APIs in Microsoft Power Automate.
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33. Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform security and governance
Do you want to learn about how to help secure and govern Microsoft Power Platform apps like Power Automate and Power Apps? This module focuses on introducing Microsoft Power Platform environments and their role in creating Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies by using examples and use cases. A brief introduction and overview of tools will also be discussed, including Microsoft Power Platform and Power Automate Admin experiences and Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence (COE) toolkit.
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