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Welcome, Microsoft 365 Copilot

Thursday, March 16, 2023 6:00 PM Toni Pohl
Today Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 Copilot at a LinkedIn Live event. Microsoft describes the service as an "AI-powered tool that boosts productivity and creativity in the Microsoft 365 world". Microsoft 365 Copilot integrates with popular Microsoft apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, but also with Power Apps, Power Automate and the Microsoft Graph API. The new business chat feature streamlines work across data and apps in Microsoft Teams. See some first impressions and features here.
AI | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Tools | Office | English
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Pay your CoE with Azure - for special use cases only

Monday, October 10, 2022 6:00 AM Toni Pohl
The Center of Excellence (CoE), also known as the Microsoft Power Platform CoE Starter Kit, is a toolkit to gain insights into the use of the Microsoft Power Platform in an Microsoft 365 organization. While the installation has recently become a bit technically easier, a corresponding Power Platform license is also required for operation. Well, not every company owns or acquires the required license. We show how these license requirements can be solved with Azure temporary - for special use cases - and what are the benefits and the disadvantages of the PAYG billing.
Cloud | English | Microsoft | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Power Platform | PowerApps | Governance | Tools
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How to restore a flow from a backup to another environment

Tuesday, September 13, 2022 10:00 AM Toni Pohl
In the previous article, we showed and described two flows to backup and restore a flow. This works well when the flow's connections are still in the same environment. But what about restoring a flow in a different environment? This is a typical use case for "moving" flows from a source environment to a target environment, such as from the development environment to the productive or department environment. In this article we show how this works with the restore flow.
Developer | English | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Power Platform | Serverless | SharePoint | Tools | Flow
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How to backup and restore a flow with another flow

Monday, August 29, 2022 5:00 AM Toni Pohl
Did you know that you can backup and restore a flow (or multiple flows) with another flow in Power Automate? This is very helpful for backing up and restoring important flows in the company. Well, I knew the mechanism. Now I've tested it myself and found that this process is undocumented and I've only found examples that didn't work. Reason enough to develop the process to work and describe it with all workarounds. Here is the guide for real world application.
Cloud | English | Flow | Governance | Microsoft365 | Office365 | Power Platform | Serverless | SharePoint | Tools
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Copy a SharePoint list with PnP PowerShell

Friday, April 22, 2022 9:00 PM Toni Pohl
In the Microsoft 365 world, sometimes you want to copy a custom list in SharePoint Online to another SharePoint site in the same or in a different M365 tenant. While there are third-party tools for this, there is an easy-to-use method for such a scenario using PnP PowerShell. This article shows how it works with a step-by-step example.
Cloud | Developer | DirSync | Microsoft365 | Office365 | SharePoint | Tools | PowerShell
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