Microsoft Flow can be used to automate workflows using connectors to gather and transfer data between various applications and services. Flow templates provide starting points for common workflows, while connectors allow accessing data from hundreds of supported services. Demonstrations showed creating a Flow to gather PowerShell tweets, using Microsoft Forms integrated with Flow to write responses to Excel and send emails, and triggering a local PowerShell script through a Flow button.

1. Automating everything with Microsoft Flow
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3. Agenda
Why
PowerShell?
1
What is
Microsoft
Flow
2
PowerShell &
Flow
3
Demos
4
Questions
5

4. Why
PowerShell
???

5. What is
Microsoft Flow

6. Flow
Templates

7. Flow
Connectors

8. Why Microsoft Flow?
• Use connectors to get data
• Create triggers based on this data
• Build workflows

9. Demo:
Create our first Flow

10. Demo Summary
•Flow.Microsoft.com
•Took a look at templates
•Created a custom flow
•Gather PowerShell tweets

11. What are webhooks
• A webhook transfers data over HTTP
• We can invoke them with Invoke-RestMethod
• Real-time information transfer between apps
• Methods
• Get
• Post

12. Demo:
Real-world examples - PSConfAsia

13. Demo Summary
•Introduced Microsoft Forms
•Flow and Forms
•Run an outgoing webhook
•Write content to Excel
•Email confirmation

14. Demo:
Run PowerShell with Flow

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

16. Summary
• We know what flow can be used for
• Introduced templates
• Took a look at connectors
• Created workflows
• Ran PowerShell triggered by Flow

17. Questions?