Mastering Microsoft Power Automate

Build flows. Govern them. Ship them. The complete developers path through Microsoft Power Automate. Power Automate is not a form builder. It is a full workflow engine with its own expression language, its own governance model, and its own deployment pipeline — and most teams never get past the drag-and-drop interface. Mastering Microsoft Power Automate is the practitioners guide to running it for real. Across 30 hands-on chapters, you will move from your first cloud flow to production-grade automation: Foundations — the Power Platform, environments, licensing, and solution-aware development Expressions — the WDL language, variables, control flow, JSON parsing, and error handling with retry policies Desktop RPA — attended and unattended flows, robust selectors, and cloud-to-desktop orchestration AI and Copilot — Copilot flow generation, AI Builder document models, and Copilot Studio agents that call your flows as tools Governance and ALM — DLP policies, Dev → Test → Prod promotion with the pac CLI, and Application Insights monitoring Enterprise patterns — polling with cursors, sagas with compensation, Dataverse as the data layer, and custom connectors Case studies — expense approval, high-volume invoice processing, and cross-system sync Every chapter ships with runnable JSON, WDL expressions, and CLI commands. You will parameterize a solution with environment variables, write a try/catch with the Configure run after pattern, deploy a managed solution to production, and set up alerting that never lets a failure go unnoticed. If you are a developer, analyst, or Power Platform architect ready to move past tutorials and own automation at scale, this book is your complete path from first flow to production system.