Microsoft Flow and PowerApps End-to-End Maarten Eekels @maarteneekels

Maarten Eekels CTO Portiva & Microsoft MVP 20+ yrs in IT, 13 yrs in SharePoint DIWUG board member Speaker, vlogger Email : meekels@portiva.nl Twitter : @maarteneekels Blog: www.eekels.net

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

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

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

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Admin Center Manage environments Manage security Manage data policies

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

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On-Premises Data Gateway

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Troubleshooting gateway Don’t install on a domain controller! Enterprise gateway service logs: C:\Users\PBIEgwService\AppData\Local\ Microsoft\on-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

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

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

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