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Read the about page →#PowerPlatformTip 192: 'Send an Email with Options Reliably - Skip the Attachment'
Why Power Automate's Send an email with options action can have delivery problems when a file is attached directly, and the two changes that fix it: link instead of attach, and use a functional account as sender.
#PowerPlatformTip 191: 'Recover a Power App That Vanished After a Tenant Migration'
How to find and restore a Power App that appears to have disappeared after a tenant or IT migration, using the Get-AdminDeletedPowerAppsList and Restore-AdminPowerApp PowerShell cmdlets.
#PowerPlatformTip 166: 'Check if a Person Is Out of Office Before an Approval'
TL;DR: Use the standard Office 365 Outlook → “Get mail tips for a mailbox (V2)” action with the automaticReplies option to see whether an approver is away - no HTTP, no app registration. Need the e...
#PowerPlatformTip 169: 'Run a For-a-Selected-Item Flow from Any List with a Column Button'
TL;DR: For a selected item only runs from the Default environment, which many companies forbid for productive flows. Instead of switching to the premium HTTP trigger, keep the standard For a select...
#PowerPlatformTip 174: 'Self-Healing Connector Actions in Copilot Studio - Retry & Remember'
TL;DR: A connector bound directly as a Copilot Studio tool treats any non-2xx status as a hard failure - the LLM never sees the error, so it can’t self-correct. Wrap the call in a flow that catches...
#PowerPlatformTip 173: 'Let Copilot Studio Build the Call - Your Connector as an AI Tool'
TL;DR: Add your generic Custom Connector (#172) to a Copilot Studio agent under Tools > Add a tool > Connector. Generative orchestration then reads the OpenAPI definition and builds the call ...
#PowerPlatformTip 170: 'One Flow, Many Tools – a Switch Router for Copilot Studio Agents'
TL;DR: Build one manually triggered flow with an action and an input parameter. A Switch on action routes to get (OData filter), create or update (JSON body), and Respond to a PowerApp or flow retu...
#PowerPlatformTip 165: 'Read On-Prem AD Attributes via the User Profile and $select'
TL;DR: The on-prem AD attributes synced by Entra Connect (onPremisesSamAccountName, onPremisesDistinguishedName, onPremisesExtensionAttributes, …) are not returned by a default user profile lookup....
#PowerPlatformTip 164: 'Add External Users to Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) with Power Automate'
TL;DR: POST /v1.0/invitations with invitedUserEmailAddress and inviteRedirectUrl adds an external user to Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) as a guest. Set sendInvitationMessage: true to let Graph emai...
#PowerPlatformTip 163: 'Create an ICS Calendar File in Power Automate'
TL;DR: Compose the iCalendar text (BEGIN:VCALENDAR … VEVENT … END:VCALENDAR), Base64-encode it, and attach it as invite.ics (text/calendar) to Send an email (V2). The recipient adds the event to an...