My presentation for SharePoint Saturday Vienna 2017, about Microsoft Flow and PowerApps, including the on-prem data gateway and some troubleshooting tips.

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