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Microsoft Power Automate - Introduction
2026-01-15 09:00 - 16:00 UTC
MICROSOFT POWER AUTOMATE
Course Duration: 1 Day

Overview
This course delivers an instructor-led product showcase for Microsoft Power Automate from start to finish in an engaging and practical way. Power Automate is a diverse product, turning business processes into automated, consistent, and visual workflows. Power Automate is designed to interweave the various products in Office 365 as well as connect to other on-premises and web-based solutions. This course will give you the confidence to select the right actions and workflow logic for your business workflows.
Audience
The intended audience for this course would be those who have been using Office 365 for some time and are now looking at optimizing their existing business processes and designing new ones.
Prerequisites
Delegates should have some exposure to Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office 365.
Course Objectives

An Introduction to Microsoft Power Automate
Getting Started with Workflows
Flow Logic
Integration
The Mobile App
Administration and Maintenance

Module 1:
An Introduction to Microsoft Power Automate
Let’s get started with an introduction to Microsoft Power Automate. Historically, automating business processes typically landed in the lap of a developer in the business, who has a good understanding of coding and the systems that they were connecting. However, more systems deployed to businesses are encouraging a bigger focus on end user design and management. With this culture change, end users are looking to further improve their business solutions. Power Automate brings workflow design to all audiences. It offers the building blocks for lightweight or business-critical processes.
In this module, we cover an overview of the product and its application to Office 365 and third-party services.
Topics Covered

What is Microsoft Power Automate?
The benefits of automation
How to get to Power Automate

Module 2:
Getting started with Power Automate
We begin our discovery of Microsoft Power Automate by building our first business process. We will discuss how to use templates to get started with Power Automate or how to use a blank template to start with no defined actions. Once in the product, we will give you a tour of the editor, workflow management page and the home screen to help you navigate around the product.
Next, we will start to add, edit, and remove actions from our workflow template in order to customize the Power Automate for a specific business need. Once ready we will publish and trigger the workflow to test that it works as expected. We will finish this module by discussing how to turn a flow on or off as well as deleting a flow.
Topics Covered

Using Power Automate templates
Navigating in Power Automate
Editing a flow • Publish and trigger a flow
Turn off or delete a flow

Module 3:
Power Automate logic
Decision making during a business process is often a bottleneck. Waiting for decisions or information to steer the workflow towards its goal is dependent on how long the involved party spends on the task. This could be mitigated if the desired information is found declared elsewhere for example, as a document property or a form entry to name a few examples. Logic in a workflow allows existing information to push the workflow down multiple paths. This often speeds up workflow duration and minimizes human input.
In this module, we will look at the core logic found in Power Automate and a practical application of each option.
Topics Covered

Adding conditions
Designing switches
Using apply to each
Configuring “do until” logic
Adding a scope

Module 4:
Integration
Businesses will often use a selection of productivity tools and services beyond Office 365. Marketing teams may use Facebook and Twitter whereas a sales team may use Salesforce to manage their customers. Power Automate provides connectors for popular services allowing your processes to extend beyond Office 365 to other web services. Connections can even be made to on-premises servers, allowing your business systems house at the office to take part in your processes.
Topics Covered

Standard and premium connectors
Connecting to web services
Using Power Automate with on-premises data

Module 5:
The Mobile App
Power Automate has a corresponding mobile app that can be used to leverage many features of Power Automate. Firstly, it offers users the capability to build new flows, directly from their phone or tablet. Secondly, it can be used to manage existing flows including editing, viewing history, saving a copy, disabling, and deleting flows. You can access any approvals that have been sent to you by Power Automate and approve or reject decisions. The app also supports the push notifications that can be sent to your phone or tablet from a flow. Additionally, you can even create buttons that appear in the app which allow you to trigger flows. This valuable app will be detailed in this module.
Topics Covered

Downloading the mobile app
Signing in and account management
Building and managing flows
Creating buttons
Feeds and approvals

Module 6:
Administration and Maintenance
In our last module for Microsoft Power Automate, we will be looking at how a business can manage their flows once they have a good uptake of the product. We will begin by discussing managing individual flows. This could be using history to discover the source of any issues and implement error handling as well as using the analytics to discover usage trends. We will discover how to share a flow which is ideal for sharing the maintenance of a flow with another colleague and how to import and export flows. Finally, we will discuss how Office 365 administrators can shape the Power Automate experience with high-level settings that help ensure data segregation and security.
Topics Covered

Maintaining a flow
View history and analytics
Sharing a flow
Export and import flows
Office 365 administration for Power Automate
Environments
Data policies
Data integration

Microsoft Copilot - Introduction
2026-01-21 09:00 - 15:30
Workshop: Using Copilot in Microsoft Applications
Duration: 6 Hours

Overview:
Copilot is a digital assistant embedded into Office tools that enable people to consume content impressively faster than we are used to. It helps to discover information by holistically searching for content in different repositories.
Microsoft has branded AI under different names, to mention: Bing Chat, M365 Chat, and Copilot. This will likely standardize in the future. Copilot answers could be different for everyone; content visibility and context of the prompt make the output unique. Copilot can help you quickly catch up with unattended meetings, especially when we are double/triple booked.
During a Teams meetings Copilot uses transcriptions. Transcriptions are sensitive to listening errors or misunderstanding, leading at times to inaccuracies.

Objectives

What is Copilot
How to access Copilot
Copilot in Excel
Copilot in Word
Copilot in Power BI
Copilot in Outlook
Q&A
