- Take your first steps with Power Automate for desktop
- Explore the console and the flow designer
- Learn how to use the core features of Power Automate for the desktop platform
- Create and run a flow
- Lab: Create and run a simple flow
- Power Automate for desktop development essentials
- Create a flow from scratch using the flow designer
- Learn how to use actions and variables
- Understand the testing and debugging features of the flow designer
- Configure the error-handling properties of individual actions
- Comprehend the use of UI elements and images
- Use sub flows to compartmentalize and reuse parts of a flow
- Build your first Power Automate for desktop flow
- Learn how to use Power Automate to create a new desktop flow
- Record actions that are performed in a desktop-based application
- Perform a test run of the new desktop flow
- Define input and output parameters in Power Automate
- Learn how to create a desktop flow with predefined inputs.
- Record actions that are performed in the desktop-based Contoso Invoicing application by using these inputs and
- capturing application data for output
- Perform a test run of a new desktop flow with a new set of inputs
- Integrate desktop flows with Outlook connector in Power Automate for desktop
- Create a new solution to package the complete invoice processing solution
- Create a new cloud flow that initiates the invoicing process through receipt of an email
- Integrate a desktop flow into a cloud flow
- Test the new cloud flow
- Connect a cloud flow to desktop flows in Power Automate for desktop
- Create a cloud flow
- Configure the on-premises data gateway to enable the cloud flow to run the desktop flow on your device
- Add the desktop flow to the new cloud flow
- Test the new cloud flow
- Use AI Builder to process invoice forms in Power Automate
- Build a new AI model for form processing
- Train the new AI model to process Contoso Invoice forms
- Integrate the new AI model into an existing cloud flow
- Test the updated cloud flow and associated AI Builder-based predictions
- Use the Teams connector in Power Automate
- Integrate a Microsoft Teams-based approval model and the associated conditional logic into an existing cloud flow.
- Integrate the desktop flow for entering the invoice information into the approval process.
- Integrate Microsoft Outlook-based approval/rejection notifications into the invoice process.
- Test the end-to-end invoice processing cloud flow.
- Run a Power Automate for desktop flow in unattended mode
- Run a basic desktop flow in unattended mode
- Run a desktop flow and cloud flow scenario in unattended mode
- Learn best practices and set up for unattended desktop flows
- Optimize your business process with a process advisor
- Create your first recording
- Edit recordings and group actions
- Analyze recordings and interpret results
- Handle variables in Power Automate for desktop
- Create, edit, and manipulate variables
- Examine the variables pane
- Become familiar with various variable data types and their properties
- Configure input and output variables
- Lab: Create, access, and manipulate variables
- Automate repetitive tasks using loops in Power Automate for desktop
- Use simple loops to perform a given number of repetitions and iterate through the data
- Deploy loop conditions in order to repeat actions until a condition is met
- Iterate through the items of a list using each loop
- Explicitly end loops when required
- Lab: Loops
- Adjust process behavior using conditional actions with Power Automate for desktop.
- Use "If" conditionals
- Deploy "Switch" conditionals in order to compare a single variable with multiple possible values
- Explore additional options when evaluating conditions
- Provide default and alternative behaviors for flows based on the environmental data
- Lab: If group of actions
- Configure flow control in Power Automate for desktop
- Learn how flow control works
- Learn how to use the flow control group of actions to direct and manipulate the flow
- Generate Power Automate for desktop flows by recording
- Use the recorder to generate actions automating local Windows UI-based tasks
- Deploy the recorder to automate interactions with a web browser
- Preview and edit the automatically generated actions during and after the recording
- Lab: Use the recorder to automate web applications
- Lab: Use the recorder to automate desktop applications
- Configure exception and error handling in Power Automate for desktop
- Configure the exception-handling properties of individual actions
- Lab: Exception handling
- Control file and folder handling in Power Automate for desktop
- Learn how to create flows that manage files and folders
- Learn how to manage the properties of multiple files and folders
- Lab: Create a backup copy of the desktop folder
- Web automation in Power Automate for desktop
- Learn how to configure browser automation actions
- Learn how to extract data from web pages
- Create a flow that extracts gainer stocks from the MSN website
- Lab: Extract stocks from MSN
- Use Power Automate for desktop to interact with windows and applications
- Learn about the concept of UI elements
- Discover the window and element-handling capabilities of Power Automate for desktop
- Excel automation in Power Automate for desktop
- Open Excel files and attach a process to an already opened file
- Use the Excel group of actions to read data from and write data to an Excel file
- Create and edit worksheets
- Save and close Excel files
- Lab: Organize data in a spreadsheet
- Automating email handling in Power Automate for desktop
- Become familiar with the email, Outlook, and Exchange actions
- Create a flow that retrieves, processes, and sends emails
- Lab: Confirm the submission of support tickets
- Automate system, workstation, and services actions in Power Automate for desktop
- Automate system-related tasks with the system and workstation groups of actions
- Automate the management of Windows services with the service group of actions
- Communicate using message boxes in Power Automate for desktop flows
- Familiarize yourself with the various preset message box actions
- Lab: Use message boxes to communicate
- Text manipulation in Power Automate for desktop
- Learn how to use the text group of actions
- Create methods that help you process and edit text
- Manipulate text type variables for input and output in actions and flows
- Lab: Text actions
- Simulate mouse and keyboard actions by using Power Automate for desktop
- Learn how to create a flow that simulates human interaction with a PC
- Learn how to automate simulated mouse movement and clicks
- Learn how to select and locate a specific image or area on the screen with the mouse
- Learn how to emulate typing or keypresses
- Lab: Simulate mouse and keyboard actions
- Combine Power Automate desktop and cloud flows
- Create a cloud flow in Power Automate that calls a Power Automate desktop flow
- Use the values of variables from Power Automate in a Power Automate desktop flow
- Use the resulting variables from Power Automate for desktop in Power Automate actions
- Lab: Create a cloud flow that calls a Power Automate desktop flow
- Database handling in Power Automate for desktop
- Compose a connection string to connect to a database
- Use the appropriate action to run queries on a database
- Active Directory handling in Power Automate for desktop
- Connect to an Active Directory server
- Manage users, groups, and objects with Active Directory actions
- Lab: Create a new Active Directory user
- Scripting in Power Automate for desktop
- Learn how to use scripting actions.
- Create two flows using VBScript and JavaScript.
- OCR technologies in Power Automate for desktop
- Learn how to configure OCR actions
- Create a flow that extracts text from images using OCR technologies
- Lab: Extract data from images
- Get started with custom connectors in Microsoft Power Platform
- Get started with custom connectors in Microsoft Power Platform
- Learn about the role of custom connectors
- Build a connector and use it in a Power Automate flow
- Lab: Create a new connector in a solution
- Lab: Use a connector from Power Automate
- Configure custom connectors with authenticated APIs in Microsoft Power Platform
- Learn about authentication options
- Learn how to use APIs with Microsoft Entra ID
- Use a graph API from a custom connector
- Share and move between environments
- Lab: Use graph API from a custom connector
- Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform security and governance
- Access Microsoft Power Platform admin experiences
- Create a simple environment and tenant-wide DLP policies
- Discover and identify the differences between the Business data group and the No-business data group
- Learn about the differences between out-of-the-box Power Automate Admin experiences and the Microsoft Power
- Platform Center of Excellence toolkit
- Use: Create a Power Platform environment
