New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2: Manage Abandoned Cloud Flows

Power AutomateThis post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 12th of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is manage abandoned cloud flows.

This feature gives admins more visibility and lower risk through active management of their automation estate.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Dec 2023
General Availability: Mar 2024

Feature Details

Admins can more easily manage their automation estate with simplified reporting. They can also manage with support for bulk reassignment of flows that are running as a user who is no longer with the company. Prior to this, admins had to do this process manually per individual flow.

Admins get more visibility and can view information like the name of the last owner and number of days since the flow last ran from the Power Platform admin center. They can then perform maintenance operations like reassignment to another owner, or easily stop these flows with low effort.

My Opinion

This looks like it could be a very useful addition for managing flows after someone has left the organisation. This sort of thing can always be tricky, so exposing more information can only be a good thing.

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New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2: Use Your Own Encryption Key for Encrypting Data at-rest for Existing Environments

Power AutomateThis post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 10th of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is use your own encryption key for encrypting data at-rest for existing environments.

This capability allows you to meet your data and privacy policy according to your company’s or industry’s privacy guidelines.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Feb 2024

Feature Details

Use your own encryption key from your Azure Key Vault to encrypt an environment that already has running Power Automate flows. Previously, only environments without prior Power Automate usage were supported for customer-managed encryption keys.

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In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Inventory and Warehouse Management), how do I… Understand Warehouse Picks and Shipments in Advanced Warehousing

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We’ve so far taken a look at inventory picks and required shipments being processed separately. The next level of warehousing moves out of the basic warehousing which we’ve seen so far, into advanced warehousing by combining picks with shipments.

The shipments are the same, but the picks are warehousing picks rather than the inventory ones we looked at in the earlier article.

This configuration of requiring picks and shipments is generally used by larger businesses who require more controls in the warehouse. While in the coming articles, I will just be showing the process using a location, it is commonly used in combination with the use of bins. The only difference between using bins and not, is that in the pick and shipment process, bins will (generally based on setup) default and be changed if necessary.

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New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2: Use Copilot with French language

Power AutomateThis post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 8th of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is use Copilot with French language.

Makers in French speaking countries like France and Canada can use their own native language to interact with copilot.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Nov 2023

Feature Details

At this release, copilot is able to understand foreign language. It can create and edit a flow based on a foreign language prompt, or it can return content in the subject language. This can help non-English language customers to interact with copilot in the language they are most comfortable in.

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Table Reference Website Updated to Include Pages

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business CentralI have been building a azurecurve | Dynamics 365 BC Table Reference website which I started a while ago.

After recently updating it to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2, I’ve done some further work by adding pages to it as well.

You can browse the pages or use the search facility to find a page based on the page number, page name or controls on a page.

There are short URLs available which is structured as https://bct.azrcrv.co.uk/pagenumber where the highlighted section is the page number; for example https://bct.azrcrv.co.uk/page21 would get you the Customer Card page.

As always, this is an ongoing project, but hopefully people will find the site useful.

Any questions, comments or suggestions for improvement, please get in touch.

New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2: Channel Entry Point for Teams Workflows

Power AutomateThis post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 9th of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is channel entry point for Teams workflows.

Enable users to seamlessly create flows from within Microsoft Teams.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Oct 2023
General Availability: Nov 2023

Feature Details

This feature enables a new entry point in Microsoft Teams that lets you create flows from Teams channels.

This is a convenient way to automate tasks and get notifications from tools and services that your team or organization uses. You can access this feature from the channel menu, where you can choose from a variety of templates or create your own custom flow.

My Opinion

This sounds like the functionslity added for Business central, which is a good way of adding flows to specific areas of the system.

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New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2: Manage Unpublished Solution-aware Cloud Flows Using Admin APIs

Power AutomateThis post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 7th of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is manage unpublished solution-aware cloud flows using admin APIs.

Power Automate admin APIs now have full support for solution cloud flows. This allows admins to see unpublished solution cloud flows, share solution cloud flows, and view the ownership of solution cloud flows.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Nov 2023

Feature Details

Currently, Power Automate admin APIs don’t fully support the management of solution-aware cloud flows because flows that have never been published (turned on) aren’t visible. With this feature, Power Automate admin APIs can now fully support the management of solution-aware cloud flows using Power Automate Management connector, the Power Automate for Admins connector, PowerShell for Power Platform Administrators, and the Power Platform admin center. Admins can see unpublished solution cloud flows, share solution cloud flows, and view the ownership of solution cloud flows.

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In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Inventory and Warehouse Management), how do I… Post Shipment From a Warehouse Shipment Document

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With a location enabled for requiring receive, we can now the shipment of goods from the warehouse.

There are two methods for using warehouse shipment:

  1. Push, which is where a warehouse shipment is created for a single sales order (or other document bringing stock in, such as a purchase return) from the Create Whse. Shipment action on the Sales Order card.
  2. Pull, which is where a warehouse shipment is created from the Warehouse Shipments page. This would typically be used when you are shipping goods to a customer from multiple orders.

In this post, I will be stepping through the second of the above methods, but you end up in the same window when you use the action mentioned in the first.

To create a warehouse shipment, search for Warehouse Shipments and click the New button.

Tab from the No. field and select the location for which goods are being shipped and set the Posting Date:

Warehouse Shipment page with shipment header filled out

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New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2: Use Versioning for Solution Cloud Flows

Power AutomateThis post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 6th of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is use versioning for solution cloud flows.

Currently, you don’t have versioning for solution cloud flows, so you lack the ability to revert to a previous version. With this feature, you can view and restore past versions of solution cloud flows. This can save you time in re-creating flows when you encounter new errors or alter plans. This ensures that your business always has a working version.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Nov 2023

Feature Details

With this feature, you can use a panel in the flow designer to view and restore previous versions of solution cloud flows if something goes wrong, or you change your mind. The draft state and version history are stored in Microsoft Dataverse. This is part of a platform-wide approach to versioning, with solution cloud flows being the first solution component to add this Dataverse-backed versioning support. This won’t provide source control integration.

My Opinion

It will be interesting to see the frequency of the versioning which this new function records. I often click save when working on a flow as I make changes and test; will each of these saves be a new version?

Although, on reflection, the announcement references it to versions of a solution so the incremental changes I make may not be recorded and the versioning only take place when the solution is published?

Lots of unanswered questions on this function which I will need to answer when I can get hands on with this function.

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In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Inventory and Warehouse Management), how do I… Configure Warehouse Shipments

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In the last article, I covered SHIPPING items on a PO without a specific receipt requirement; this would generally be used by organisations with smaller warehouses or stockrooms and does not need any configuration on a location.

The next level up in the basic warehousing functionality, is to require a warehouse shipment. There is one toggle which needs to be enabled for a location to require warehouse shipments. When you create a location, on the Warehouse fasttab, you need to toggle the Require Shipment option to the on position:

Location Card showing the new PINK location

Receiving goods in this way, allows you to receive multiple orders at the same time, instead of one-by-one. In the next article of this series, I’ll step through the process of receiving items into the new location PINK location shown above.

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