From the course: SharePoint: Migrating from Designer to Power Automate

Introduction to Power Automate

From the course: SharePoint: Migrating from Designer to Power Automate

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Introduction to Power Automate

- [Instructor] Power Automate enables you to work less and do more. With Power Automate, you can connect and automate processes across over 200 different apps, ranging from social media services like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, to line of business apps like Salesforce, G Suite, and of course, the Office 365 stack. Unlike SharePoint Designer, Power Automate is a cloud mobile-based tool, so there's no desktop version, and it's accessed via most modern web browsers or the mobile app. To access Power Automate from your desktop, you'll log in to your Office 365 environment and select the Power Automate option from your apps. You can also access it directly by going to powerautomate.microsoft.com. In Power Automate you can create and edit new workflows by clicking My flows. Access your approval history by going to Action items and Approvals. Browse through a list of templates to use by clicking Templates. See a list of available connectors by clicking Connectors. And get helpful how-to documentation by clicking the Learn button. As you might've noticed, Microsoft hasn't released a new version of SharePoint Designer since 2013. Designer has been used for many years as the end user workflow dev tool for SharePoint. Microsoft has announced that Designer will reach end of life in 2026, and Power Automate will be its successor. It's important to start getting familiar with Power Automate now, so that you're prepared when the time comes to migrate your SharePoint Designer workflows to Power Automate.

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