Connectors

Power Automate - Adding Images To BlueSky & Mastadon

In previous videos, I demonstrated how to post status updates to BlueSky and Mastadon via Power Automate. This video expands on that one by showing you how to add images to be embedded into your posts. #powerautomate #flow #flowfam #mastadon #bluesky

Monday, March 10, 2025 | 1 minute Read

Power Automate Connectors - HTTP

Taking a look at the Power Platform HTTP connector. Amazingly useful for your flows and power apps. #powerautomate #powerplatform #flowfam #https

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | 1 minute Read

Power Automate Connectors - OneDrive

A brief overview of the OneDrive connector for the Power Platform. See how easy it is to use Power Automate to manipulate files and folders on your OneDrive cloud. #powerautomate #flow #onedrive

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | 1 minute Read

Power Automate - Posting to Bluesky

The Bluesky API makes it easy to post, unlike a certain other social media platform that used to be important. Using Power Automate’s HTTP connector, you can send posts to your Bluesky feed with just a couple of steps. #powerautomate #bluesky

Monday, February 10, 2025 | 1 minute Read

Power Automate: Connectors from Independent Publishers

One of the most fantastic parts of Microsoft Power Automate is its ability to connect to a massive array of other systems to push and pull data. Early on this was restricted to those systems that Microsoft had created connections to or had worked with external vendors to develop connections to their systems. In recent years, however, they added the ability for people to create their own connectors to external systems and to share those connectors with the community at large. There are now a huge number of Microsoft-approved community-created connectors available for Power Automate. In this post, I want to highlight a few of my favorites.

Tuesday, July 26, 2022 | 5 minutes Read

Power Automate Connectors: Azure DevOps

One of the many useful connectors available in Power Automate is the connection to Azure DevOps. There is a wide variety of things you can do, including creating and updating tickets, responding to changes in ticket status, or responding to build events or code check-ins. In this post I’ll walk through a couple of examples related to interacting with Azure DevOps. Scenario 1: Creating a work item One of the more useful examples is the ability to quickly create a work item in response to some trigger. In this particular case, we’ll use a Microsoft Form to provide our clients a means of reporting bugs that we’ll use to trigger the creation of a bug in DevOps.

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 | 3 minutes Read

Creating a Custom Connector - Part II

Photo by Daria Shevtsova from Pexels In part I of this post, I demonstrated how to create a custom connector. Now, we’ll follow up with a short post on how to use that custom connector in a flow. Creating Our Flow We’ll start by creating a scheduled flow. We’ll run our flow at 9AM Eastern every day. custom-connector-ii-recurrence

Sunday, November 21, 2021 | 2 minutes Read

Creating a Custom Connector - Part I

Photo by Daria Shevtsova from Pexels (NOTE: Posting to Twitter no longer works. Check my YouTube channel for videos on posting to Bluesky and Mastadon) For those with the higher tier licenses, along with being able to use the premium connectors, you also have the ability to create your own custom connectors that you can use to connect to just about any API on the web. For our fun project this time, we’re going to take the next two blog posts to create a custom connector that makes use of the NASA public APIs in order to grab the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) and then we will create a flow that runs daily to post that day’s picture in a tweet to our Twitter feed.

Thursday, November 18, 2021 | 7 minutes Read