Category: Power Automate

This category focuses on Power Automate. To be more specific I mainly write about cloud flows.

There are 9 posts in this category.

How to work with connection References

2024-10-07 • 7 min read

In one of my older posts, I described how connections and connection references work. I still often get asked how one can properly work with connection references since a few problems always occur. In this post, I will explain everything you need to know about how to work with...

Upcoming Licensing enforcement in Power Automate explained

2023-08-01 • 8 min read

A few weeks ago I saw a message in the M365 Message Center regarding “Non-compliant” flows. Unfortunately, I can’t find the message any longer, but it was pretty concerning because it looked like a lot of flows could be turned off during the summer holiday season. Therefore I am...

Fill Excel using Power Automate and Office Script

2022-10-25 • 17 min read

Över two years ago I wrote about how to “create and fill an Excel file dynamically using Power Automate“. I recently had a similar use case again. I discovered Office Script (Thanks to Tomasz Poszytek (LinkedIn, Twitter, Blog) for mentioning it to me), which I found to be a...

Environment Variable caching in Power Automate

2022-02-22 • 9 min read

In this blog post, we will talk about Environment Variable caching in Power Automate, what the problem is with it and how to work around it. I have attached both a managed and unmanaged solution containing the complete flow to this post. You can find the link furthure down...

Setup a Service Principal in Power Automate

2022-01-04 • 8 min read

Every now and then I get the question on how to setup a Service principal in Power automate. This blog post intends to explain this common request. Background First of all, we have to talk about what a Service Principal is and why we should use it. What is...