The new-ish world of Power Automate is growing quickly and there are a lot of great learning resources out there, both official content from Microsoft and organic development from the burgeoning Power Automate community. Power Automate comes with most Office 365 subscriptions and provides an easy, cheap way to automate work tasks.

Power Automate is one of the many apps you get with your Office 365 subscription. Click for the interactive version of the above infographic.

AtBot gets his actionable Skills from Power Automate, so to get the most from AtBot, you’ll want to make the most of Power Automate. To help you along, I’ve put together a list of some of the good resources I’ve found on Power Automate for everyone’s reference.

Feel free to comment below if you think I’ve missed any notable resource that you use or that others have praised. I’m happy to include them.

Websites

Power Automate home page: https://flow.microsoft.com Power Automate Guided Learning: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/guided-learning/ Get started with Power Automate: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/getting-started Power Automate Connectors: https://us.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/ Power Automate Templates: https://us.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/ 4 things to do before creating a workflow in Office 365, by Greg Zelfond: https://sharepointmaven.com/4-things-to-do-before-creating-a-workflow-in-sharepoint-and-office-365/ Workflow Definition Language schema (called out for Logic Apps, but applicable to Power Automate as well): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/logic-apps-workflow-definition-language

Communities

Official Power Automate Community: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community/ct-p/FlowCommunity Collab365’s Power Automate Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MicrosoftFlow/?ref=bookmarks Power Automate Group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/11900013

Blogs

Microsoft

Official Power Automate Blog: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ Community Blog: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community-Blog/bg-p/FlowBlog Flow of the Week series: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/category/flow-of-the-week/

Community

Multimedia

Power Automate’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG98S4lL7nwlN8dxSF322bA Jon Levesque’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClBCcDTylJUzvP8sycg6pEA AtBot’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUbWpikjmH9-zHeqSu8bzA

People

Below are some key individuals that create and share ideas, best practices, or official Power Automate updates. For each individual, I’ve provided a link to their Twitter page. I’ve also created a Twitter list for the two groups below. If you’re not familiar with Twitter lists, they filter Twitter feeds to just the members’ tweets, which helps keep things scoped and on topic.

Microsoft

The (alphabetical) list below consists of current members of the Power Automate product or program teams. You can follow this Twitter list to keep up with their posts.

Community

The (alphabetical) list below consists of active contributors to the Power Automate community. You can follow this Twitter list to keep up with their posts.

Feedback

Power Automate Ideas: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

Wrap up

There’s a powerful community growing around one of Microsoft’s best tools to come out of the Office 365 arena. Keep in mind that Power Automate is the designated successor to SharePoint Designer for workflow efforts, and Power Automate’s UX has made task automation significantly simpler than SPD ever could.

There’s a huge marketplace for applying Power Automate and now’s the time to jump on the Power Automate train with the rest of us, to help us navigate the Power Automate community’s strategy moving forward. So keep an eye on the examples, use cases, training, and other resources as best you can. I’m hoping this post helps a bit.

Special thanks to Melissa Hubbard, Joanne Klein, Jon Levesque, John Liu, and Sandy Ussia (Twitter handles are all linked above) for input and review of this post.

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