Going with the Microsoft Flow

SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley 2016

by: Jennifer Pearcey

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Introduction

Jennifer Pearcey

MCP : SharePoint 2013

23 years experience in IT, architecture, development and design

14 years in SharePoint

Born Sweet under the great Sugar Maple

Raised Strong on the wide open frozen tundra of the Saskatchewan Prairies

Living Aloha : in the great 808 Sharing the love that is SharePoint

Occasionally referred to as a SharePoint proctologist

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-pearcey-09603617 @PCMOM03

What Is Microsoft Flow?

Automation of workflows across the growing number of applications and services utilizing IFTTT SaaS implementation

Hosted on Azure App service, Flows automate workflow across apps and services. i.e. Get notifications, Sync files, collect data and automate approvals

Connecting services and data using available templates or create your own Flows

Released in alignment with #FutureOfSharePoint campaign

Not officially announced as the Designer replacement for Workflow

Lists (currently) and Library (coming soon) SharePoint integration

On prem connector coming soon

Citizen developers, you can now officially get excited!!

Free sign up

Connect Cloud Serviceshttps://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/services/

Flow Templateshttps://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/

Connect to Apps

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Visual Designer

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DemoSharePoint List vs OneDrive for Business

Failures & Successes

PowerApp & PowerAppDesktop

Connects to the cloud services and data sources you're already using

Gives business analysts and specialists the ability to quickly build apps that suit their specific needs

No code required or struggling with integration issues to connect data

Apps can be published instantly to co-workers across web, tablets and mobile devices without waiting for app stores.

PowerApps also integrates with Microsoft Flow, making it possible to trigger flows from within apps.

IT Pro and Other Roles

Lifecycle management

Deployment management

PowerApp connector to access local SharePoint (coming soon)

API development and management

Manage Azure App Service as well as Office 365

Azure Logic Apps for more complex integration Azure Resource Manager, Azure Portal and Azure CLI, VS

Citizen developers

Cloud service broker

Developer

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easily create cross site or cross tenant Flows

Cross application Flows :

Templates : Leverage or Build

Recurring Flows :

User Profile Properties

Cons

Public Preview mode

Its personal; actions are ran using your connections including any created items, emails send are using your credentials

Cannot trigger a secondary Flow from the primary Flow

Reordering of steps not possible; requires deleting and recreating to insert another step

Error on Twitter REST API max connections (by app, not user)

Refresh Data SourcesPowerBI Desktop and PowerBI WebREF: https://app.powerbi.com

References

FlowREF: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/

PowerApps PreviewREF: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/

MicrosoftFlow and PowerApp public preview announcementREF: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-microsoft-flow-and-announcing-the-public-preview-of-powerapps/

Logic Apps (Also in preview at this time)https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/logic/

Office 365 Dev 1 year FREE Office Development tenanthttp://dev.office.com/getting-started

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices REF: http://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnPBONUS REF: https://docs.com/OfficeDevPnP

Refresh a dataset created from PowerBI DesktopREF: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-refresh-desktop-file-onedrive/BONUS REF: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-refresh-data/

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