Duration 2 days – 14 hrs
Overview
The Microsoft Power Automate Training Course is designed to introduce participants to the powerful capabilities of Power Automate, enabling them to automate workflows across Microsoft 365 and third-party services without writing complex code. This hands-on course covers the fundamentals of creating flows, managing approvals, integrating with Microsoft apps like SharePoint, Outlook, and Teams, and improving business productivity through automation. Participants will gain practical skills to build flows that save time, reduce manual errors, and enhance collaboration across departments.
Objectives
- Understand the core concepts and types of flows in Power Automate
- Create automated workflows for common business scenarios
- Connect Power Automate to various Microsoft 365 and external services
- Design approval workflows and manage notifications
- Use expressions, conditions, and triggers to control flow logic
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize existing flows
Audience
- Business professionals and team leaders
- IT support and operations staff
- Microsoft 365 users
- Process owners and citizen developers
- Anyone interested in workflow automation with little to no code
Pre- requisites
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft 365 applications (Outlook, SharePoint, Teams)
- Familiarity with workflow concepts is helpful but not required
- No programming experience needed
Course Content
Day 1: Power Automate Fundamentals
- Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform
- What is Power Automate? Use cases and benefits
- Types of Flows: Automated, Instant, Scheduled, Desktop (RPA)
- Navigating the Power Automate interface
- Creating your first automated flow (e.g., email notification from form)
- Exploring connectors and triggers (Outlook, SharePoint, Forms, Excel)
- Adding actions and conditions
- Flow logic: expressions, variables, switches
Day 2: Advanced Flow Scenarios and Management
- Approval workflows (basic and multi-stage approvals)
- Integrating Power Automate with Teams, OneDrive, and Planner
- Using SharePoint lists and libraries in flows
- Error handling and flow run history
- Security, permissions, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies
- Intro to Business Process Flows and Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
- Best practices for flow design, documentation, and optimization
- Hands-on project: Building an end-to-end business automation scenario
