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With the latest Power Automate Desktop May 2021 release, we have announced the deprecation of utilizing MODI OCR engine and Create Tesseract OCR engine action in Power Automate Desktop. Please review below to learn about the available replacements and more info about these deprecations.

Here’s how to save all attachments when an email arrives and move the email automatically. Nothing like automation that does 100% of the work for us. I'll also explain why the obvious solution won't work and show you a workaround in fixing it.

Parsing out text from formatted emails is a common requirement.  This blog explains how to use the split() expression to meet the requirement.

Do you have tasks that you need to do on the last working day of the month? Any reports to execute, backup to run, summary mail to send? Following the great idea of GTD (Get Things Done by David Allen), you shouldn't remember it, but set up a trigger that reminds you about this task to do at a specific point in time.

Analyze the members of a distribution list which is populated by an HR process and automatically add new members to a specific Team, and send them a custom welcoming email with details.

Some flows might run more often than you expect. For example, you create a flow that sends you a push notification whenever your manager sends you an email (by the way this is an example from Microsoft Learn). That flow must run every time you get an email from anyone because the flow must check whether the email came from your manager. This action counts as a run. And it doesn't need to be this way.

I’ve seen some questions recently on the Power Platform Forums about how to send multiple attachments submitted in Microsoft Forms in an email.  Since this seems to be a common problem I thought it would be good to walk through the steps in a BLOG post.

In this article, we are going to see how Power Virtual Agent, Power Automate, and Dynamic 365 CRM combine to do wonders!

To demonstrate, I have taken a scenario of a broadband Internet provider companies extending their effective customer support using Virtual Agent Service.

In this article, you will learn how to create a flow that creates an Azure DevOps work item when a new email with attachments arrives.

Ever wanted to capture the error message from an action to be sent off with an email, or Teams chat? Check out this short blog post showing how!

A few days back, I was working with one of our customers. His requirement was very simple and he wanted to record Microsoft Forms choice response in a SharePoint List.

I quickly googled and found  a template which exactly meets the customer requirements but he said that the template did not work for him. To be very honest, the customers form was very simple with a multi choice field but when he tried updating the SharePoint list, Power Automate complained. At that point I realized that something simple can also turn into a complicated scenario.

If you've used SharePoint designer before, you know how easy it is to change item level permissions by first breaking the inheritance (List/Library Level Permissions on the item/file) and then adding new permissions for a person, people, or a specific SharePoint Group.

In this post, we'll be going over how to do all of these things using Power Automate (Flow)!

In the engineering world, we used to write N number of lines of code to create an application like to send an email notification, to run desktop application, to read/write data in the csv file, etc. But today Microsoft developed precious power automate component and made all engineer life easier. I would like to thank Microsoft!

I was asked recently if it was possible to upload a file via a Microsoft Form and then use Power Automate Approvals to Approve the file. The answer of course is YES, but that doesn’t answer the question of HOW? So in this POST I will walk through a simple example showing how this can be done.

You might want to use the service Principal account to run a flow which will avoid the interruption from user's absent in your company.

This simple 3 step flow will convert an easily found listId / GUID into a usable URL.

I've decided to write this solution for anyone that needs to be able to print automatically from flow.  The solution is pretty easy, but you need a few things first:

1. A multifunction printer that supports POP3 email protocol (if you can scan to email from your copier it means you likely have POP3 capabilities too.  Most modern copiers have this ability.)
2. An email address that is dedicated to only this task.

Hey Flow Fans!

I can tell you right away that if you're going to be working for Microsoft, you're going to be receiving a LOT of emails and you'd better have a way of keeping track of the really important ones to make sure that they are all being read and addressed properly. There are MANY ways to do this with Microsoft Flow. I'll show you how I make sure that I know every time my boss sends me an email.

Enjoy!