Category: Power Automate

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1.

The 4th of the new functionality in the Cloud flows section is create and edit expressions with Copilot.

You can create, edit, and fix your Power Automate expressions by expressing your requirements in natural language. You can save a lot of time building expressions manually by invoking Copilot through this feature.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability: May 2025

Feature Details

Prior to this feature, you needed to write complex expressions in your cloud flows in Power Automate to process data, do conversions, manipulation, or comparison. With this feature, you can create complex expressions or edit your existing expressions simply by submitting natural language prompts to Copilot in Power Automate.

You need Copilot access in your tenant to use this feature. Turning off Copilot turns off this feature, too.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1.

The 3rd of the new functionality in the Cloud flows section is generate process maps For multi-flow automations.

This feature visualizes end-to-end process dependencies, reduces troubleshooting time, and simplifies navigation through automation logs and connections, leading to quicker issue resolution and improved operational efficiency.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2025
General Availability: Sep 2025

Feature Details

View and manage all flow-dependencies involved in your multi-flow process. Parent/child flows, desktop flows, and work queues are all visualized through the new process map management experience.

End to end observability through a process-centric view of all automation logs allows you to do the following:

• Easily perform impact analysis of failing sub-flows.
• Efficiently navigate between flow run logs, credentials, and connections.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1.

The 2nd of the new functionality in the Cloud flows section is create a flow on a file in Teams.

This feature allows you to create a flow on a file in Teams using one of the templates that are available to be done to a file. You can also use AI to create your flow from scratch.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: May 2025

Feature Details

This feature allows you to set up and use workflows in Teams on files. You can create a flow on a file in the overflow menu of the Workflows app. Improve your productivity by using one of the templates that are available to be done to a file, or by using AI to create your flow from scratch.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1.

The 1st of the new functionality in the Cloud flows section is create generative actions in cloud flows.

Instead of building out complex rules-based processes from beginning to end, you work with AI to inject intelligent activity orchestration from your cloud flow. You create intent-based generative actions where the large language model (LLM) considers all the resources available to it and dynamically selects the most appropriate actions and sequence of these actions to achieve the desired outcome. This allows for more dynamic automation and saves you time.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview:  Dec 11, 2024
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

Generative actions use generative AI reason over unstructured content and determine what steps and sequences it needs to achieve a process outcome based on instructions and parameters provided by you in natural language.

Building a generative action within cloud flows involves the following steps:

• Describe the objective of your process in natural language, and let AI develop an automation plan to achieve it.
• Refine the automation plan generated by the large language model (LLM) and adjust inputs, outputs, and variables as needed.
• Add reference sources and guidelines in natural language that influence the LLM as it executes the flow.
• Validate the intelligent action by reviewing how it is achieving the business objective prior to moving the flow into production.
• Review production run history, analytics, and individual flow run details to ensure your process is performing to expectations.

The ability of generative actions to easily incorporate both structured and unstructured data makes it flexible as information resources are updated. Its reasoning abilities make generative actions uniquely beneficial in the building and maintenance of complex process flows to handle conditions, exception management, and process loops.

This post is part of a series on the new functionality announced for Wave 1 of Microsoft Power Automate 2023. There are two release waves for Power Automate each year, with functionality being released over the six months of the wave.

In this series of posts, I am going to take a look at what is new with Power Automate in this release wave. My understanding is the announced new functionality will become available in the six months of the wave, so not all of it will be available immediately. When posting about some new functionality, I’ll try to indicate where something will be available in October or later. Microsoft do reserve the right to withdraw announced functionality before release; when this happens, I’ll try to publish an article on the removed functionality and update the original article I published to show that it has been removed from that release wave.

This series index, below (assuming you’re reading this on ), will automatically update as each post in the series goes live, so make sure you bookmark this post so you can see keep up-to-date with this series.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2024 Wave 2.

The 2nd of the new functionality in the Process mining section is process mining process simulations.

Process simulations enable you to simulate the impact of proposed changes in your business processes. Modeled changes include resource management and updates in a process flow. A process simulation compares performance and financial key performance indicators (KPIs) between original and simulated processes.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview:  Sep 22, 2024
General Availability: Dec 2024

Feature Details

Process simulations enable you to model various scenarios, run the simulation based on an existing process, and compare the simulation results with the original process (for example, duration of cases, and cost of cases).

You can model the following proposals:

• Resource management: Add and remove users, and change the performance and cost per resource.
• Manage durations and wait times for activities in business processes.
• Manage process flow: Define follow-up activities and their distribution.
• Manage working hours and timetables.

Simulation results offer a summary of global KPIs per process and detailed insights to analyze the impact of each activity.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2024 Wave 2.

The 17th of the new functionality in the section is secure credential retrieval in Power Automate for Desktop.

This feature enhances security and ease of use by allowing makers to securely retrieve and manage credentials directly within their desktop flows. It eliminates the need to pass credentials manually, reducing the risk of exposure and streamlining workflow processes.

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

Feature Details

A new action named “Get Credential” in Power Automate for the desktop will allow makers to securely retrieve and utilize credentials directly within their desktop flows. During the preview phase, this action will support credentials created via CyberArk, accessible within the specified section of the Power Automate portal. This feature ensures that credentials are handled securely, aligning with best practices for data protection.