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Retry Policies in Power Automate: What Actually Happens When an Action Fails
How Power Automate retry policies work, which errors they cover, how to configure them, and how to keep retries from duplicating side effects.
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Power Automate gotchas
Nulls, blank dates, concurrency, duplicates, retries, and the trigger quirks that take production flows down.
28 articles
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Resilient Power Automate: Retry Policies and Dead-Letter Patterns
Transient failures are normal in any flow that calls an API. The difference between a flow that self-heals and one that pages you at 2 a.m. is how you handle retries and the failures that stick.
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15 Power Automate Expressions Every Maker Should Memorize
Memorize these Power Automate expressions to build faster flows, handle nulls, shape arrays, format dates, reduce action count, and debug WDL.
5 min read
Calling the Dataverse Web API from Power Automate with the HTTP Action
Learn when to call the Dataverse Web API from Power Automate for actions, functions, batch requests, impersonation, row association, and binds.
5 min read
Child Flows in Power Automate: Reuse, Pass Data, and Avoid Duplication
Use child flows in Power Automate to centralize reusable logic, pass typed inputs and outputs, handle errors, reduce duplication, and improve ALM.
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Speeding Up Apply to Each: Concurrency, Filters, and Select in Power Automate
Speed up Power Automate Apply to each loops with concurrency, Filter array, Select, OData filters, pagination strategy, lower action counts, and safer runs.
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Mastering Parse JSON in Power Automate: Schemas, Null Handling, and Arrays
Master Power Automate Parse JSON with generated schemas, nullable fields, required properties, arrays, nested access, and practical error fixes.
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Getting Started with Power Automate Desktop: Your First RPA Bot
Build your first Power Automate Desktop RPA bot with selectors, variables, loops, Excel data, cloud triggers, licensing, and reliable handoffs.
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Trigger Conditions in Power Automate: Stop Flows From Running When They Should Not
Use Power Automate trigger conditions to prevent noisy runs, save quota, filter SharePoint changes, skip system updates, and debug triggers.
6 min read
Try-Catch-Finally in Power Automate with Scopes and Run After
Implement try-catch-finally error handling in Power Automate using Scopes, run-after settings, result outputs, retries, alerts, and Terminate.
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Batch Create and Update SharePoint Items in Power Automate with the $batch API
Speed up bulk SharePoint creates and updates in Power Automate by calling the $batch API with changesets, chunking, and per-item error handling.
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Posting Interactive Adaptive Cards to Teams from Power Automate
Create Teams adaptive cards from Power Automate, collect inputs, capture responders, update cards, validate replies, and choose cards wisely.
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Connection References and Environment Variables: Power Automate ALM Essentials
Use connection references and environment variables to make Power Automate solution deployments predictable across dev, test, and production.
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Handling Pagination and Large Datasets in Power Automate
Learn how Power Automate pagination, thresholds, filters, and batching keep large Dataverse and SharePoint datasets reliable.
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Securing Secrets in Power Automate: Secure Inputs, Outputs, and Key Vault
Secure Power Automate secrets with Azure Key Vault, secure inputs and outputs, least privilege, rotation, and safer ALM patterns.
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Power Automate and Azure Service Bus: Reliable Enterprise Messaging
Build resilient Power Automate integrations with Azure Service Bus queues, topics, sessions, duplicate detection, and dead-letter handling.
6 min read
Power Platform Pipelines: Automated ALM Without Azure DevOps
Power Platform Pipelines let teams promote solutions from dev to test to prod with built-in approvals and validations — no Azure DevOps required.
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What's New in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform — 2026 Release Wave 1
The standout features from Microsoft's 2026 Release Wave 1 for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, and what they mean for your projects.
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Power Automate + D365 F&O End-to-End: Consuming Business Events and Calling Data Entities
Build a full round-trip integration between Power Automate and D365 Finance & Operations — trigger on business events, transform data, and write back via OData.
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Building a Multi-Step Approval Workflow with Adaptive Cards in Power Automate
Go beyond basic approvals — build a multi-level approval chain with rich Adaptive Cards, timeout handling, escalation logic, and full audit trails in Power Automate.
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Custom Connectors in Power Automate: Integrating Any API Without Writing Code
Build a custom connector from an OpenAPI spec, configure authentication, handle pagination, and share it across your organization — step by step.
4 min read
Advanced Error Handling in Power Automate Cloud Flows
Build resilient flows with scope-based try-catch-finally patterns, configure run after, and structured error logging in 2026.
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Concurrency Control in Power Automate: Preventing Duplicate Runs
How to configure concurrency limits on scheduled and trigger-based flows to prevent data corruption and race conditions — including split-on, Apply to each, and queued-run limits.
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Handling Null and Blank Date Fields in Power Automate
Reliable techniques for detecting empty date fields in Dataverse and SharePoint connectors within Power Automate flows — including Filter rows, Excel serial dates, and the 0001-01-01 sentinel.
3 min read
Managing Environment Variables Across Dev, Test, and Prod in Power Platform
How to use environment variables, connection references, and solution-aware configuration for clean ALM in Power Platform.
3 min read
Detecting Create vs Update Triggers in Dataverse Power Automate Flows
How to distinguish between create and update operations in Dataverse-triggered flows, filter Change type at the trigger, and handle the missing pre-image problem.
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Remove Duplicates From Arrays in Power Automate — 3 Approaches
Three practical techniques for deduplicating array data in Power Automate, from union() on scalars to key-based object dedupe — and when to leave the flow entirely.
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Eliminating Null Reference Errors in Power Automate Flows
Practical expressions and defensive patterns to prevent null field errors from crashing your Power Automate flows at runtime — including trigger conditions and Select columns.