The document outlines Microsoft Flow and PowerApps, tools designed to automate workflows and create custom business applications, respectively. It details the admin center, management of environments, and troubleshooting methods for both Flow and PowerApps. The presentation emphasizes various use cases, features like visual design and templates, and practical advice for enhancing efficiency and collaboration in organizations.

1. Microsoft Flow & PowerApps End-to-End
Maarten Eekels

2. About me
20+ yrs in IT, 13 yrs in SharePoint
CTO Portiva
DIWUG board member
Speaker, vlogger
Contact
meekels@portiva.nl
www.eekels.net

3. Agenda
What is Flow?
What is
PowerApps?
The Admin
Center
Environments Hybrid Troubleshooting

4. What is
Microsoft Flow?
A platform that helps you work smarter
by automating workflows across your
apps and services to get notifications,
synchronise files, collect data, and more
• Visual designer and more than 400 useful
templates
• Consists of triggers and actions
• Advanced scenarios with multiple steps,
looping, and branching

5. What is
PowerApps?
A service for creating and using custom
business apps across platforms
• Designer Studio and lots of templates
• Use existing connectors or build your own (API
Apps & Azure Functions)
• Support for Common Data Service
• Publish apps instantly for web and mobile
• Easy sharing of apps

6. DEMO

7. Admin Center
• Manage environments
• Manage security
• Manage data policies

8. Environments
• Created under Azure AD tenant and its
resources can only be accessed by users within
that tenant
• Bound to geographical location
• Always a “default” environment
• Max one Common Data Service database
• Typical use cases:
• Test / production
• Specific teams or departments
• Geographical branches

9. DEMO

10. On-Premises Data Gateway

12. DEMO

13. Troubleshooting the gateway
• Don’t install on a domain controller!
• Enterprise gateway service logs:
C:UsersPBIEgwServiceAppDataLocal
Microsofton-premises data gateway
Gateway*.log
• Test-NetConnection -ComputerName
watchdog.servicebus.windows.net -Port 9350
• Check firewall settings: TCP 443 (default), 5671, 5672, 9350 thru
9354, and Azure Datacenter IPs

14. Troubleshooting Flow
• Check the Flow runs log
• Many times an error is caused by
an API limit
• You can “rerun” a Flow

15. Troubleshooting PowerApps
• The Studio is WYSIWYG
• When connection is Flow is changed: remove Flow from App, re-add
Flow, reshare App
• Excel data must be formatted as table and cannot contain calculated
columns

17. @maarteneekels
meekels@portiva.nl