This document discusses how Microsoft Flow and PowerShell can be combined to automate tasks in the cloud. It provides an overview of Microsoft Flow, including how it uses connectors to access data from different services and create triggers for workflows. The document demonstrates creating a custom flow that is triggered by a form submission, applies conditions to take certain actions, and exports the flow as a package that can be imported elsewhere. It also shows creating a flow with a webhook trigger and using the data gateway to run PowerShell scripts locally that are triggered by flows.

1. Microsoft Flow and PowerShell combined to
automate everything
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3. Agenda
Cloud Automation
What is Microsoft Flow
PowerShell & Flow
Demos
Questions

4. Cloud
Automation

5. What is
Microsoft
Flow

6. Connectors

7. Flow
Templates

8. Why Microsoft Flow?
Use connectors to get data
Create triggers based on this data
Build workflows
Integrate and combine different services

10. Demo Summary
• Flow.Microsoft.com
• Create and modify from template
• Create a custom flow

12. Demo Summary
• Created a form in Forms
• Created a flow with a trigger
• Added advanced condition
• Take action based on condition

13. Advanced
conditions
($_.status –eq ‘unnecessary’) –or ($_.status –eq ‘completed’)

15. Demo Summary
• Export flow
• Zipped json files in package
• Import flow
• Select connectors upon Import

16. Flow packages
Packaged
as zip
Manifest files
APIs
Connections
Definition

17. What are webhooks
A webhook transfers data over HTTP(s)
Create triggers based on this data
Build workflows
Integrate and combine different services
Methods: Get & Post

19. Encryption!

20. Demo Summary
• Created a Flow with webhook
• Write payload to disk
• Viewed what was delivered
• Transferred binary content
• Created binary file from content

21. Request
Flow

22. Request
Limits

23. Runtime
Limits

25. Demo Summary
• Install Data gateway
• Create connection online
• Run a watcher locally
• Create button enabled flow

26. Data Gateway sources
SQL Server
SharePoint
Oracle
Informix
Filesystem
DB2

27. Gateway
Port
Configuration

28. Summary
Use cases of Microsoft Flow
Microsoft Flow templates
Took a look at connectors
Created workflows
Ran PowerShell triggered by Flow

29. Questions?

30. References
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/gateway-reference
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/guided-learning/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/use-expressions-in-conditions
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