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Extracting Unified Workflow Metadata

Extracting Unified Workflow Metadata

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Recently I stumbled upon a question that kept nagging me: How can I get unified workflow metadata? This came up while I was working on my demo for the blog post Lightweight Workflow Monitoring. In that demo, I reused my Try-Catch-Finally pattern originally developed for Power Automate Flows. I applied this pattern to an Azure Logic App. So far, so good. But then I hit an unexpected twist. In Power Automate, I rely heavily on the workflow() expression to access…

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Building an AI Agent That Generates Test Data

Building an AI Agent That Generates Test Data

Recently, I was creating an agent with the goal to identify potential incidents in Teams community of practice channels. I started building this agent to find problems such as “I need help” and create ServiceNow incidents from its information. Testing it meant feeding realistic support cases into the system. But here’s the problem: real support data contains sensitive information. Project names. Client issues. Internal struggles. You can’t demo that publicly. You can’t even use it safely in testing. This isn’t…

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Lightweight Monitoring for Critical Workflows

Lightweight Monitoring for Critical Workflows

Some time ago, I built a larger Dataverse solution that included a whole bunch of automated workflow tasks. Everything worked fine during development. Then I deployed the solution and quickly realized a painful truth: all these workflows were running completely unobserved. I found myself waiting for a result that simply didn’t appear. I couldn’t see what went wrong in real time. I only got clarity at the end of the day when one of those delayed summary emails showed up….

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Agents, Agents, Agents

Agents, Agents, Agents

The Agents topic is everywhere and omnipresent. Everybody tells you; this is the next big thing. You need an army of agents that finish your work. But how do I build such agents? Should I go for pro-code or for low-code? Should I use AI Foundry or Copilot Studio. Furthermore, what is a good example of building an agent? This was also the billion dollar-question for me. Today, I will showcase a small example to you where I will build…

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Integrate Documentation in Model-Driven Apps

Integrate Documentation in Model-Driven Apps

During the last Power Atelier, I got asked: “Hey Michael, how do you usually document your Power Platform solutions?” I said, “I typically use Atlassian Confluence for documentation and Draw.io for architecture diagrams.”That kicked off a great discussion – and then someone followed up with,“Those diagrams and visuals are awesome! I’d love to integrate that documentation in my model-driven apps. But how can I do that?” I thought about it for a moment… and then I had an idea. What…

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Using AI for Data Correction

Using AI for Data Correction

How do you usually use Generative AI? That’s a question I get asked quite often. Most of the time, my answer is something like this: “I use it to summarize texts. I also draft ideas together with the AI, and it helps me write content more efficiently.” But this is just one piece of the puzzle. In automation scenarios within the Power Platform, I also utilize AI for data correction. Today, I will explain how this process works. In detail,…

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Pretty Print JSON within Flows

Pretty Print JSON within Flows

Some weeks ago I prepared my presentation about AI Foundry Content Understanding for the Baltic Summit 2025 at Gdansk, Poland. In detail, I have built a small model-driven app as frontend for my demo. My goal was to upload first my PDF file into my Dataverse table from my app. Next, I would start my automation scenario based on Power Automate flows. After completion of my content understanding analyzer, I would then show the resulting JSON in my app. So,…

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Content Understanding from Power Platform

Content Understanding from Power Platform

In one of my last blog posts I introduced my new friend AI Foundry Content Understanding to you. Here I have explained in detail how you can set up Microsoft’s new AI service offering for your documents. Furthermore, I showed you how I deployed my document analyzer in Azure. As result of this exercise, I got an endpoint that I can now use in one of my use cases. In other words, now I can start working with my custom…

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PowerApps Automation – Run Once!

PowerApps Automation – Run Once!

Creating Model-Driven Apps (MDA) is very efficient for me. I can design forms and views for my Dataverse tables in minutes. Furthermore, adding these tables to my app takes only seconds. Plus, I can add since a while Power Fx commands to my App in the Command Bar. However, executing Power Automate flows can sometimes be tricky. That’s why I’m sharing my Automation Run Once solution today, which helps prevent Power Automate flows from running twice. Recently, I noticed that…

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Enable Re-submit of Power Automate Flow

Enable Re-submit of Power Automate Flow

Hey community, were you also surprised by the error message “Flow run resubmissions are disabled for instant flows…” this week? Well, I was because suddenly I couldn’t re-submit my Power Automate flow anymore from the designer. I saw just this message: What happened? A colleague pointed me in the right direction. He told me, that Microsoft rolled out a new feature: Resubmit flow runs initiated by instant triggers, that become active. The new setting for resubmitting flow runs initiated by…

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