How to backup and restore a flow with another flow

How to backup and restore a flow with another flow

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. ...

August 29, 2022 · 8 min · Toni Pohl
Create a file with specific size

Create a file with specific size

Sometimes it is useful to create a file of a specific size to test network or internet speed or to upload it to a specific application. This is how you can create a file with a specific file size in Windows and with PowerShell. Using the fsutil command line tool For the start, we can use fsutil** command with the file createnew option in a command prompt or in a PowerShell terminal for that purpose. ...

August 25, 2022 · 3 min · Toni Pohl
ÖGS GebärdensprecherIn für das AI for Good Projekt gesucht!

ÖGS GebärdensprecherIn für das AI for Good Projekt gesucht!

Worum geht es in dem Projekt? Wir bei atwork haben zurzeit ein superspannendes Projekt mit dem Titel “AI for Good” laufen, für das wir Deine Mithilfe benötigen. Wir haben ein Software-Tool entwickelt, mit dem es möglich ist mittels Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) Gebärdensprache automatisch in Untertitel etwa in Microsoft Teams oder Zoom Onlinemeetings zu übersetzen. Damit das auch wirklich gut funktioniert, benötigen wir GebärdensprecherInnen für die Österreichische Gebärdensprache (ÖGS), die mit uns gemeinsam kurze Videos einiger Basisgebärden aufnehmen. Zu Beginn werden wir rund 50 Gebärden aufnehmen, mit denen wir unser KI-Model trainieren und optimieren wollen. Zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt wollen wir das Trainingsdaten-Set auf rund 500 Gebärden erweitern. ...

August 1, 2022 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Governance Toolkit 365-Improvements July 2022

Governance Toolkit 365-Improvements July 2022

The Governance Toolkit SaaS solution provides compliance coverage across multiple workloads and offers self-services for users. We have added many new improvements and services over the past few months. We started the Governance Toolkit 365 (GT365) journey at the Microsoft Ignite conference in 2018, when my colleague Martina Grom showed a first version how to develop a Power BI governance board for Microsoft 365 and an endpoint to provision a new Microsoft 365 Group with an approval workflow. We saw that there was a great need for governance in the market and from there we developed our solution as Software-as-a-Service offering. One of the great advantages of the GT365 is that it runs completely with the on-board tools of Microsoft 365 and can be completely flexibly customized. You can find more information and test GT365 anytime at governancetoolkit365.com . ...

July 31, 2022 · 8 min · Toni Pohl
Why we need the Power Platform

Why we need the Power Platform

Today, a quick tip on an article about one of Microsoft’s fastest growing companies: Helping power users to build business apps with low-code and no-code apps. Helping regular folks build business apps The article on protocol.com is about Charles Lamanna, who is corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Applications. Charles Lamanna runs one of Microsoft’s fastest-growing businesses: Helping regular folks build business apps Microsoft’s Power Platform strategy is to allow non-technical people to build applications for their team’s needs with it´s Power Platform, which basically includes Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate and other services out of Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, as the following graphics illustrates. ...

July 24, 2022 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Tips for PowerApps-9 set data row limit for SharePoint Online lists

Tips for PowerApps-9 set data row limit for SharePoint Online lists

If you’re using a SharePoint list in a Power App and some data is missing, you can change the data row limit to a higher number in the Power App settings. See how this works here. In the Power Apps editor, open menu File and Settings. In the General section, scroll down to the “Data row limit” and modify the number how many items shall be retrieved from the data source. ...

June 26, 2022 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Governance Toolkit 365-Turn off obfuscation

Governance Toolkit 365-Turn off obfuscation

The Governance Toolkit 365 (GT365) provides many insights from a Microsoft 365 tenant, like users, guests, teams, activities, Power Apps and Flows, Power BI reports and much more. If reports don’t show names, IDs, or other details, you’ll need to turn off the obfuscation feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Here´s how. The reports Here’s an example of a Teams activity report showing when Teams were last accessed. As you can see in the following screenshot, the TeamId and the TeamName are not shown correctly. ...

June 20, 2022 · 2 min · Toni Pohl
Tips for PowerApps-8 Group and chart

Tips for PowerApps-8 Group and chart

Grouping in Power Apps can be a little tricky. Here´s how to create a new collection from a data table and visualizing the grouped result in a chart control. In this small sample, I will show how you can use a data table with the group by function to visualize a summary with a chart in a Power App. The data source is minimal: It´s a SharePoint list named Fruits, containing some items. The Type column is what we want to see grouped by the number of items. ...

June 6, 2022 · 3 min · Toni Pohl

Delegate365 changelog 9.2.5-Updates

All Delegate365 tenants have been updated to the latest version v9.2.5. This enables the use of the new service health dashboard and new functions. So: If your health dashboard is not displayed correctly, please run the Delegate365 setup again (see here). This will renew the Delegate365 app with the necessary permissions for the operations. After the setup is completed, Delegate365 can be used again and the new extended service health dashboard will show the current tenant status. Otherwise, no setup is currently required. However, you can always do a setup to renew the Delegate365 app and ensure all required permissions are in place. ...

May 17, 2022 · 1 min · Toni Pohl
Join us at Thrive conference 2022

Join us at Thrive conference 2022

There are often hidden treasures to be discovered. The Thrive conference in Slovenia is one of them. Join us at there at the end of May! Thrive conference takes place from 24th - 25th May 2022 at ECO Hotel Bohinjska Bistrica, a small village between Bled lake and Bohinj lake in the heart of Triglav National Park, in beauftiful Slovenia. On 23rd May there are pre-conference workshops. The location is very easy to reach from Austria, by train or car. Visit the Bohinj website for more information about one of the most beautiful National Parks in the heart of Europe. ...

May 3, 2022 · 1 min · Toni Pohl