Month: February 2023

Automation Kit for Power Platform – Quick Review

Hi Folks,

Have you ever thought of a tool where you can review all your scheduled flows at once in one dashboard, then I am glad to introduce you the latest capability from Microsoft which is none other than Automation Kit.

If we get into detail, the Automation Kit is set of tools that accelerates the use and support of Power Automate for desktop for automation projects. HEAT is guidance that’s designed to help you deploy the automation platform and manage the entire lifecycle of an automation project.

The key features of this Automation Tool Kit:

  1. The ability to view the schedule of Recurring cloud flows
  2. View schedule by Day, Week, Month and Schedule view
  3. View the status of Scheduled flows (Success, Failure or Scheduled)
  4. View the duration of a Cloud Flow run
  5. View the details any any errors

The key element of the solution is the Power Platform main environment.

There are usually several satellite production environments that run your automation projects. Depending on your environment strategy, these could also be development or test environments.

Between these environments there is a near-real-time synchronization process that includes cloud or desktop flow telemetry, machine and machine group usage, and audit logs. The Power BI dashboard for the Automation Kit displays this information.

Automation Kit components

The Automation Kit supports an automation CoE with the following components:

  1. Automation Project: This project is a canvas app that supports requesting automation projects and submitting them for approval.
  2. Automation Center: This is a model-driven app that organizations can use to create and maintain automation assets, such as master data records, map resources and environments, and assign roles to employees.
  3. Automation Solution Manager: This is a canvas app in satellite environments that enables the metering of solutions and their artifacts.
  4. Cloud flows: These cloud flows use Dataverse tables to sync data from satellite environments, in near real time, to the main environment.
  5. A Power BI dashboard that provides insights and monitors your automation assets.

These two solutions contain the components in the kit.

  • The main solution, which you deploy to the main environment.
  • The satellite solution, which you deploy in each satellite environment.

Limitations:

  1. Only Power Automate Desktop and Power Automate solutions contained within a solution are displayed
  2. At least one Power Automate Desktop has been registered and executed

Reference:

Automation Kit for Power Automate

Automation adoption best practices overview

Learn More

I am glad to help you know about Power Platform Latest Capability…

Cheers,

PMDY

Track the Power Platform blog feed…Insight

Hi Folks,

Hope you were having a fantastic year….

By the way, in this blog post, I would like to give a bit of detail how to record new posts in any of the tech blogs mainly for your favorite power platform ones coming from Power Platform Tech Guru’s directly in your team’s channel without navigating away. This helps you to upskill or learn a new topic fast. Pshhh..at least for some.

All you need is a teams license and a RSS enabled blog address to get the feed…all WordPress blogs are RSS Enabled by default.

Ok, let’s get started….

Open Microsoft Teams

In the left pane, select Apps icon and search for RSS

Click on RSS in the search and choose Add to a team as below.

Next step is to select the channel..

Then choose Set up a connector as below

Key in the details of the feed…here for sake of simplicity, I am giving this blog feed…so see snap below, same time you can set the frequency and you get updates from your feed.

Next step is to just save the feed details….and once saved you can something like below…

That’s it, you will be notified each time a blog is published directly to your teams channel and all the feed for the blog will be available right in in Team’s channel as below. How great is it….

This is not a power platform related blog post actually but this tip can greatly enhance your learning in your workplace without getting distracted.

Hope this helps…

Cheers,

PMDY