Power Automate Bootcamp | February 4, 2022 | Power Automation: A new set of Best practices, tips and tricks

Power Automate Bootcamp | February 4, 2022 | Power Automation: A new set of Best practices, tips and tricks

As part of the Intergalactic Automation Summit 2022 online event organized by the Power Community that is taking place between 4-6th February 2022:

  • 4th Feb- Power Automate Bootcamp
  • 5th Feb- Azure Integration Bootcamp
  • 6th Feb- Power Platform ALM DevOps

All of these events are free! And you can register here.

I choose to submit a session to the Power Automate Bootcamp, and I’m honored to be accepted as a guest speaker on a session about Power Automation: A new set of Best practices, tips and tricks. My session will take place at 05:00 pm according to GMT/UTC.

Power Automation: A new set of Best practices, tips and tricks

As I mentioned before, my session will be all about best practices and small tips and tricks that we can apply to our Power Automate flows. For those reasons, I would like to invite you to join me at the Power Automate Bootcamp virtual event on Friday, February 4, 2022.

Session name: Power Automation: A new set of Best practices, tips and tricks

Abstract: A brand new set of tips and tricks and best practices that you should know for being more productive and building more reliable and effective Power Automate flows. This is not an introduction session anymore. Instead, this session will go through a list of 10 new best practices, tips, and tricks addressing advanced topics like deployment, dynamic connectors configurations, etc.

Join us and reserve your presence at the Power Automate Bootcamp virtual event on Friday, February 4, 2022, it is free!

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Global Automation Bootcamp | February 4, 2022 | How to monitor your integrations solutions with Automation Account

Global Automation Bootcamp | February 4, 2022 | How to monitor your integrations solutions with Automation Account

As part of the Intergalactic Automation Summit 2022 online event organized by the Power Community that is taking place between 4-6th February 2022:

  • 4th Feb- Power Automate Bootcamp
  • 5th Feb- Azure Integration Bootcamp
  • 6th Feb- Power Platform ALM DevOps

All of these events are free! And you can register here.

I choose to submit a session to the Global Automation Bootcamp, and I’m honored to be accepted as a guest speaker on a session about How to monitor your integrations solutions with Automation Account. My session will take place at 05:00 pm according to GMT/UTC.

How to monitor your integrations solutions with Automation Account

In this session, we will address how you can monitor your integrations solutions using Azure Integration Account running PowerShell Runbooks and Logic Apps to notify inconsistencies in your solutions. For those reasons, I would like to invite you to join me at the Global Automation Bootcamp virtual event on Friday, February 4, 2022.

Session name: How to monitor your integrations solutions with Automation Account

Abstract: In this session, we will address how you can monitor your integrations solutions using Azure Integration Account running PowerShell Runbooks and Logic Apps to notify inconsistencies in your solutions.

Join us and reserve your presence at the Global Automation Bootcamp virtual event on Friday, February 4, 2022, it is free!

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M365 Below in Chicago! | January 14, 2022 | Power Automation: A new set of Best practices, tips and tricks

M365 Below in Chicago! | January 14, 2022 | Power Automation: A new set of Best practices, tips and tricks

After I delivered 21 lectures last year, it is time to start the 2022 season in a “new place” (it is virtual): Chicago! The M365 Chicago Virtual Conference brought to you by VEEAM is a free online (in Microsoft Teams), one-day event on Friday, January 14, 2022. The event will run from 8:30 am ~ 4:30 pm Central Time. ?

Microsoft 365 specialists, Cloud IT administrators, Power Platform administrators, end-users, architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Collaboration or Cloud Technologies will meet to share the latest information for working with anything and everything related to Microsoft 365 and Power Platform.

“M365 Below in Chicago!” is a community-led event dedicated to educating and engaging members of the technical community. The event draws upon the expertise of IT Professionals, Microsoft MVPs, Developers, Solution Architects, and other experts who come together to share their real-world experiences, lessons learned, best practices, and general knowledge with other like-minded individuals.

You will find sessions on different subjects like:

  • Teams
  • Power Platform
  • Employee Experience (Microsoft Viva)
  • SharePoint, OneDrive, Office, and Yammer
  • User Adoption & Productivity
  • M365 Security and Compliance

See the full event schedule here: Full schedule.

I choose to submit a session to this event, and I’m honored to be accepted as a guest speaker on a session about Power Automation: A new set of Best practices, tips and tricks. My session will take place at 03:00 pm according to UTC+0 on the Water Tower Power Platform room.

Power Automation: A new set of Best practices, tips and tricks

As I mentioned before, my session will be all about best practices and small tips and tricks that we can apply to our Power Automate flows. For those reasons, I would like to invite you to join me at the M365 Below in Chicago! virtual event on Friday, January 14, 2022.

Session name: Power Automation: A new set of Best practices, tips and tricks

Abstract: A brand new set of tips and tricks and best practices that you should know for being more productive and building more reliable and effective Power Automate flows. This is not an introduction session anymore. Instead, this session will go through a list of 10 new best practices, tips, and tricks addressing advanced topics like deployment, dynamic connectors configurations, etc.

Join us and reserve your presence at the M365 Below in Chicago! virtual event on Friday, January 14, 2022, it is free!

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Global Power Platform Bootcamp – Lüdinghausen | February 19, 2021 | Power Automate: Best practices, Tips and Tricks

Global Power Platform Bootcamp – Lüdinghausen | February 19, 2021 | Power Automate: Best practices, Tips and Tricks

As part of the Global Power Platform Bootcamp, the Lüdinghausen / PASS RG Münsterland, Deutschland is organizing a virtual event that runs from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Lectures and workshops are about Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power Virtual Agents). This is basically two days of Power Platform Festival – free events that are driven by user groups and communities around the world, for anyone who wants to learn more about Microsoft’s Power Platform that you can know more bout it here: Global Power Platform Bootcamp.

I choose to submit a session to the Lüdinghausen / PASS RG Münsterland, Deutschland community and I’m honored to be accepted as a guest speaker on a session about Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks. My session will take place at 12:00 am according to GMT+1.

Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

As I mentioned before, my session will be all about best practices and small tips and tricks that we can apply to our Power Automate flows. For those reasons, I would like to invite you to join me at the Global Power Platform Bootcamp – Lüdinghausen / PASS RG Münsterland, Deutschland virtual event on Friday, February 19, 2021.

Session name: Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

Abstract: In this session, we will do a reflection to your existing Power Automation flows and when thru a list of must-have best practices, tips, and tricks that will allow you to build more reliable and effective flows. At the same time, these will allow you to be more productive and document your flow’s from the beginning. I will be sharing 10 tips that you should know for being more productive and build epic flows!

Join us and reserve your presence at the Global Power Platform Bootcamp – Lüdinghausen / PASS RG Münsterland, Deutschland virtual event, it is free!

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BizTalk Server tips and tricks for developers: How to create a .NET class from a schema

BizTalk Server tips and tricks for developers: How to create a .NET class from a schema

Sometimes we want to bypass the adapters and perform the communication thru .NET code. Sometimes we want to access multiple values, or recursive values, of a message inside a helper class that supports an orchestration. Sometimes we want to perform a complex transformation or construct a message thru .NET code instead of a BizTalk Server map.

And for each of these circumstances, we can have several approaches, one that is simple, effective, and transversal to all of them is to use the XML Schema to generate a .NET class. This way, you have a quick and straightforward way to represent the messages you get from your BizTalk processes into a .NET class.

The easy way to generate classes that conform to a specific schema is to use the need to use the XML Schema Definition tool (Xsd.exe). You can do that by:

  • Open a Developer Command Prompt for VS <edition>
  • On the command prompt, navigate to the Schema folder and type
    • xsd /classes /language:CS Schema1.xsd

For complex schemas that import or include other schemas you need to provide all the dependencies, for example:

  • xsd /classes /language:CS Schema1.xsd Schema2.xsd

Now you will be able to import the C# class generated by the tool to your helper project and the rest is simple!

On the Orchestration you can create a variable that represents that class:

  • On property Type select <.NET Class…> and select the class that you created previously
  • From the Browse and Select .Net Type to reference, you need to select the proper assembly and the Type.

Then by using C# code inside Message Assign or Expression Shape you can serialize or deserialize XML document into C# and vice versa in a simple and straightforward way

//CONVERT MESSAGE INTO C# OBJECT
varPersonMsg = msgInput;

//CONVERT C# OBJECT INTO BIZTALK MESSAGE
msgOutput4 = varPersonMsg;

or if we have a function in a helper class like:

public static XmlDocument MapPersons(Person person)
{
  ...
}

we can directly pass the message to the function without the need to create a variable:

msgOutput4 = Support.Mapping.MapPersons(msgInput);

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Webinar: PowerTalk by Atea | February 25, 2021 | Power Automate: Best practices, Tips and Tricks

Webinar: PowerTalk by Atea | February 25, 2021 | Power Automate: Best practices, Tips and Tricks

Implementation of Microsoft 365 went rocket high when Covid19 disrupted the entire world. People are more social through technology due to worldwide lockdowns. As we take advantage of new technology, the addons that follow can help grow your business, expand the capabilities, improve the processes and make your workers more efficient.

Webinar: PowerTalk by Atea is an event that will go through the tools Power Automate and Power Apps included in Microsoft365. From the basics to the more advanced scenarios. How to ensure that governance and security are taken into consideration and amended to create a secure way for your employees to become more digital and efficient.

I’m honored to be a guest speaker at this event on a session about Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks. My session will take place at 10:00 am according to GMT+1.

Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

As I mentioned before, my session will be all about best practices and small tips and tricks that we can apply to our Power Automate flows. For those reasons, I would like to invite you to join me at the Webinar: PowerTalk by Atea virtual event on Thursday, February 25, 2021.

Session name: Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

Abstract: In this session, we will do a reflection to your existing Power Automation flows and when thru a list of must-have best practices, tips, and tricks that will allow you to build more reliable and effective flows. At the same time, these will allow you to be more productive and document your flow’s from the beginning. I will be sharing 10 tips that you should know for being more productive and build epic flows!

Join us and reserve your presence at the Webinar: PowerTalk by Atea virtual event, it is free!

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Global Automation Bootcamp 2021 | February 5- 27, 2021 | Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

Global Automation Bootcamp 2021 | February 5- 27, 2021 | Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

Global Automation Bootcamp 2021 will occur between 5th-27th February, where it will be delivered 53 sessions across six days on Power Automate, Powershell, Azure, LogicApps, and Functions, WebHooks, Runbooks, DevOps, Selenium, and RPA to automate administrative manual business operations.

  • 5th February – Global Automation Bootcamp Day 1
  • 6th/7th February – Power Automate Bootcamp
  • 13th February – RPA Bootcamp
  • 20th February – Azure Track
  • 20th February – Powershell Saturday
  • 27th February – UI Test Automation Bootcamp

I’m honored to be accepted and allowed to speak at this event on a session about Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks. My session will take place on the second day, Saturday – February 6, 2021, on the track/day Power Automate Saturday Bootcamp at 11 am according to GMT/UTC.

Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

As I mentioned before, my session will be all about best practices and small tips and tricks that we can apply to our Power Automate flows. For those reasons, I would like to invite you to join me at the Global Automation Bootcamp 2021 virtual event on Saturday, February 6, 2021.

Session name: Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

Abstract: In this session, we will do a reflection to your existing Power Automation flows and when thru a list of must-have best practices, tips, and tricks that will allow you to build more reliable and effective flows. At the same time, these will allow you to be more productive and document your flow’s from the beginning. I will be sharing 10 tips that you should know for being more productive and build epic flows!

Join us and reserve your presence at the Global Automation Bootcamp 2021 virtual event, it is free!

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Virtual Scottish Summit 2021 | February 27, 2021 | Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

Virtual Scottish Summit 2021 | February 27, 2021 | Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

Scottish Summit is a technology event organized by Microsoft MVP’s Mark Christie and Iain Connolly. Their first incarnation was as Dynamics 365 Saturday, in Glasgow in 2019. In 2020, they returned as Scottish Summit, a larger event held in the Technology & Innovation Centre at the University of Strathclyde.

The Scottish Summit is a diverse and inclusive technology event that brings some of the top Microsoft FTE, MVP’s & the amazing Microsoft Community to your PC to deliver Level 100 to Level 400 sessions on a variety of topics to Partners, Consultants, Customers, End Users, and Educators.

I’m honored to be accepted and allowed to speak for the first time at this event on a session about: Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks.

Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

As I mentioned before, my session will be all about best practices and small tips and tricks that we can apply to our Power Automate flows. For those reasons, I would like to invite you to join me at the Scottish Summit 2021 virtual event on Saturday, February 27, 2021.

Session name: Power Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

Abstract: In this session, we will do a reflection to your existing Power Automation flows and when thru a list of must-have best practices, tips, and tricks that will allow you to build more reliable and effective flows. At the same time, these will allow you to be more productive and document your flow’s from the beginning. I will be sharing 10 tips that you should know for being more productive and build epic flows!

Join us and reserve your presence at the Scottish Summit 2021virtual event, it is free!

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COLLABDAYS LISBON 2020 | October 10, 2020 | Power Automation: Best practices, tips, and tricks

SharePoint Saturday Lisbon has been rebranded, and it is now Collabdays Lisbon. Don’t worry, it is still organized by the same people and maintains the same spirit as in previous years.

Collabdays Lisbon is a community-driven event dedicated to all that is great about SharePoint and now also: Office 365 and Azure. At the moment, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this will be a one-day free virtual event and I will be there presenting a session about Power Automation: Best practices, tips, and tricks

Power Automation: Best practices, tips, and tricks

As I mentioned before, my session will be all about best practices and small tips and tricks that we can apply to our Power Automate flows. For those reasons, I would like you to invite you to join me at the Collabdays Lisbon virtual event next Saturday, October 10, 2020.

AbstractPower Automation: Best practices, tips and tricks

In this session, we will do a reflection to your existing Power Automation flow’s and when thru a list of must-have best practices, tips, and tricks that will allow you to build more reliable and effective flows. At the same time, these will allow you to be more productive and document your flow’s from the beginning.

Join us and reserve your presence at the Collabdays Lisbon virtual event, it is free!

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A fish out of water: How to Add connector points on Visio Stencils

A fish out of water: How to Add connector points on Visio Stencils

In the last blog post I spoke about how to add, or fix, text annotation bellow the shapes and how you can do it in a reusable way. On this blog post, we will be addressing another top complaint regarding my Microsoft Integration, Azure, BAPI, Office 365 and much more Stencils Pack for Visio package: Connector points.

A connection point is a special point on a shape that you can “glue” connectors and other shapes to. When you glue a connector or shape to a connection point, they stay connected, even if one of the shapes is moved.

Add a connection points on Visio Stencils

Connection points become visible when you try to connect one shape to another. You see a shape’s connection points when you hover near the shape with the Connector Tool or drag the endpoint of any connector or line near a shape that has connection points.

Add a connection points on Visio Stencils

if the shape you want to glue a connector to does not have a connection point where you want it, you can add one.

  • Select the shape.
  • On the Home tab, in the Tools group, click the Connection Point tool Button image.
Add a connection points on Visio Stencils
  • If connection points are not visible, on the View tab, in the Visual Aids group, select the Connection Points checkbox.
  • Press Ctrl and click where you want to add a connection point. The new connection point is automatically selected after you place it.
  • On the Home tab, in the Tools group, click Pointer Tool Select Objects to resume normal editing.
Add a connection points on Visio Stencils

Tips and Tricks – Fix or Add connector points on Visio Stencils (Video)

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