1. Microsoft Flow and PowerApps End-to-End
Maarten Eekels
@maarteneekels

2. Maarten Eekels CTO Portiva & Microsoft MVP
20+ yrs in IT, 13 yrs in SharePoint DIWUG board member Speaker, vlogger
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3. Agenda What is Flow? What is PowerApps? The Admin Center Environments
Hybrid
Troubleshooting
Roadmap

4. What is Microsoft Flow?
A platform that helps you work smarter by automating workflows across your apps and services to get notifications, synchronise files, collect data, and more
Visual designer and more than 400 useful templates
Consists of triggers and actions
Advanced scenarios with multiple steps, looping, and branching

5. What is PowerApps?
A service for creating and using custom business apps across platforms
Designer Studio and lots of templates
Use existing connectors or build your own (API Apps & Azure Functions)
Support for Common Data Service
Publish apps instantly for web and mobile
Easy sharing of apps

6. DEMO

7. Admin Center
Manage environments
Manage security
Manage data policies

8. Environments
Created under Azure AD tenant and its resources can only be accessed by users within that tenant
Bound to geographical location
Always a “default” environment
Max one Common Data Service database
Typical use cases:
Test / production
Specific teams or departments
Geographical branches

9. DEMO

10. On-Premises Data Gateway

12. DEMO

13. Troubleshooting gateway
Don’t install on a domain controller!
Enterprise gateway service logs: C:\Users\PBIEgwService\AppData\Local\ Microsoft\on-premises data gateway\ Gateway*.log
Test-NetConnection -ComputerName watchdog.servicebus.windows.net -Port 9350
Check firewall settings: TCP 443 (default), 5671, 5672, 9350 thru 9354, and Azure Datacenter IPs

14. Troubleshooting Flow Check the Flow runs log
Many times an error is caused by an API limit
You can “rerun” a Flow

15. Troubleshooting PowerApps
The Studio is WYSIWYG
When connection is Flow is changed: remove Flow from App, re-add Flow, reshare App
Excel data must be formatted as table and cannot contain calculated columns

16. Thanks for watching! @maarteneekels