Advanced Power Automate Solutions

The following training program can be delivered remotely and/or on-site with your team.

The goal of the program is for your team to understand how to use Power Automate to its fullest potential – whether it’s simplifying complex solutions, integrating with AI, or building your own connectors. Our training is broken down into theory/presentation and hands-on implementation with labs that can be tailored to your environment.

Duration: 3 Days

Target Audience

  • Senior Power Automate Makers
  • Solution Architects
  • DevOps / Integration Engineers
  • Pro developers extending Power Automate with APIs

Prerequisites

  • Solid Power Automate fundamentals
  • Experience with JSON, REST APIs, and Office 365 connectors
  • Basic familiarity with Azure DevOps or GitHub pipelines

Day 1 – Advanced Flow Design & Data Mastery

  • Enterprise Power Automate Patterns
    • Cloud flows vs Desktop flows vs Business process flows
    • When to use Power Automate vs Logic Apps vs Azure Functions
    • Performance, concurrency, and retry strategies
  • Expressions & Advanced Logic
    • Working with complex if(), coalesce(), apply(), union(), intersection()
    • Dynamic content vs expressions
    • Error handling with try/catch patterns in flows
  • Working with Data
    • JSON parsing and schema generation
    • XML handling
    • Building dynamic objects with compose and setProperty
    • Using Select, Filter Array, and Join for data shaping
  • Solution Design
    • Connections and Connection References
    • Running flows as users, service principals, or app registrations

Day 2 – Leveraging AI & Custom Connector Development

  • Microsoft & Premium Connectors
    • Deep dive: SharePoint, Dataverse, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive
    • Best practices for Office 365 connectors (throttling, pagination)
    • Premium connectors: Service Bus, SQL, Azure DevOps, AI Builder
  • Custom Connectors 101
    • When to build a custom connector
    • OpenAPI (Swagger) definitions for Triggers and Actions
    • Authentication options (API Key, OAuth 2.0, AAD)
    • Policy templates (throttling, caching, transformations)
  • Using the AI Builder
    • Custom LLM Definition
    • Integrating Sentiment Analysis into your decision-making
    • Parsing documents and images into Categories and Tags

Day 3 – Enterprise Patterns, Governance & Monitoring

  • Enterprise-Grade Solutions
    • Long-running flows (approval escalation, parallel branches)
    • Child flows and solution-aware flows
    • Reusable templates & patterns for enterprise
    • Governance & Security
    • DLP policies & connector restrictions
    • Environment strategy for flows (Dev, Test, Prod)
    • Logging & monitoring with Azure Application Insights
    • Handling credentials securely with Azure Key Vault
  • DevOps & ALM for Flows
    • Solutions packaging with flows
    • Connection references & environment variables
    • Deploying flows via pipelines (Azure DevOps/GitHub)
  • Monitoring and Troubleshooting
    • Integration with Azure Event Hub
    • Debugging and Logging

📢 Ready to take your skills to the next level?
📩 Contact us at training@betarover.com to book a team session and/or to ask about our next individual cohort session.