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28 of 179 articles tagged power-automate

Jul 2, 20264 min read

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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Jun 15, 20267 min read

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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May 8, 20265 min read

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.

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May 7, 20265 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.

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May 6, 20265 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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May 5, 20265 min read

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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May 4, 20265 min read

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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May 3, 20266 min read

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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May 2, 20265 min read

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.

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May 1, 20266 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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Apr 30, 20266 min read

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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Apr 29, 20266 min read

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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Apr 28, 20266 min read

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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Apr 27, 20266 min read

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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Apr 26, 20266 min read

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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Apr 25, 20265 min read

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.

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Apr 24, 20266 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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Apr 15, 20264 min read

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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May 20, 20249 min read

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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Dec 4, 20237 min read

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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Nov 13, 20238 min read

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.

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Oct 24, 20234 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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Aug 7, 20233 min read

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.

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Jun 19, 20232 min read

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.

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May 9, 20233 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.

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Mar 2, 20233 min read

Detecting Create vs Update Triggers in Dataverse Power Automate Flows

How to distinguish between create and update operations in Dataverse-triggered flows and implement conditional logic accordingly.

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Jan 14, 20233 min read

Remove Duplicates From Arrays in Power Automate — 3 Approaches

Three practical techniques for deduplicating array data in Power Automate, from simple expressions to XPath tricks.

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Jul 22, 20223 min read

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.

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