An Introduction to Microsoft Flow

Microsoft Flow

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Agenda

• Landscape

•Automation

•Extensibility

•Versions

•Take aways

Microsoft Flow helps you work smarter by automating

workflows across your apps and services

Get notifications Synchronize files Collect data Automate approvals

DEMO

Get started quickly

with over a

hundred useful

templates

Authenticate to your O365 account.

Build email Subject and Body

Choose to include properties

from previous step (Dropbox

file) to improve relevance

Specify Send To email address

and additional properties

(optional): From, CC, BCC and

ImportanceConnected to

[email protected]

Authenticate to your Dropbox account.

Select folder to monitor

PowerApps

Automate advanced scenarios with multiple steps,

branching conditions, and more

Integrate the systems

you’re already using…

even custom APIs.

Build modern business apps fastCompose analytics, user experiences, and automation

using an integrated set of services from Microsoft

More efficient developers Seamlessly extend capabilities for power users and

leverage powerful Azure platform services

Empowered power users People who understand their business needs best can

now build apps quickly without writing code

Connected data across apps Whether built on the Common Data Model or integrated

with existing systems, get more value from your data

App Services

Service Fabric

Azure Functions

…

Logic Apps

API Management

BizTalk

…

SQL Server BI

Data analytics

Internet of Things (IoT)

…

Extensibility

Flow

Logic apps

Managed APIs

or Custom APIs

Uses the Public REST

APIs for management

Calls into at runtime

Operational data store

Common Data Modeland custom entities

Real timesync

Data API

DEMO

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/embed-flow-dev/

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/embed-flow-dev/

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Future

Environment administration

Data Loss Protection

Local agility, central control

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Easily manage enterprise scale-out of applications and data. Move solutions across environments with packages.

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Apps Flows CDM

• To prevent data loss, as an admin, you can setup policies that classify services into three data groups.

• Any Flow or PowerApp that uses services from the Business data only and No business data allowed groups will be blocked.

• Policies can be applied to the entire tenant or specific groups of users

• In the future, we’ll add more actions like info tips, block pending business justification, and custom groups.

Co-authoring

Publish to AppSource

Creation from Mobile

Enhanced Flow mobile integration

Organizational gallery

Get apps from partners

Try and buy ISV solutions

Q4 Calendar 2016

oGeneral availability, 42 languages,

7 geographies

oAppSource integration

o In-context in Dynamics 365

o Leverage device signals (e.g.

Location)

oData Loss Protection Policies /

Admin management

oCo-Authoring

H1 Calendar 2017

o Sovereign cloud availability

(Government Cloud,

Germany Cloud)

o Seamless grow-up from

Microsoft Flow to Azure

Logic Apps

oALM: Move solutions across

environments

oAzure functions integration

Availability

Anyone can sign up for free

with their personal, work or

school email

Included for free with most*

Office 365 and Dynamics

365 application SKUs

Can be purchased by an individual or an admin

90 free trial available

Also included with Dynamics 365 Plans 1 and 2 and

PowerApps Plans 1 and 2

Extending Office 365 and

Dynamics 365

For creators and IT admins

Full creation & admin capabilities

For business users

Run any app using CDM

Included for free with most* Office 365

and Dynamics 365 application SKUs

Can be purchased by an individual or an admin

90 free trial available

Also included with Dynamics 365 Plans 1 and 2

Can be purchased by an individual or an

admin

Quotas (per user; pooled tenant-wide):

• 2,000 flow runs per month



• 20MB Data Storage

• 2GB File Storage



• 200 MB Data Storage

• 20 GB File Storage per user

Additional flow runs, Data Storage, and File Storage may be purchased as needed

• Flow allows you to easy connect many data sources

• Flow allows you to easy automate business processes

• Combine Flow with PowerApps to deliver quick solutions

• Flow can be utilised with on premises resources

• Flow is continually improving

• Flow enables ‘citizen developers’

• List of connectors - https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/services/

• Azure logic apps - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/logic-apps/

• Microsoft Flow Community - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community/ct-p/FlowCommunity

• Guided Learning - https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/guided-learning/

• Templates - https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/

• Get started with Microsoft Flow - https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/getting-started/

• On premises gateway - https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=820931

• Video gallery - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Webinars-and-Video-Gallery/bd-p/Webinars_Videos_Gallery

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