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Power Automate on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's automation platform across cloud flows, desktop RPA, and governance. Discussions examine how Power Automate executes configured trigger-and-action sequences under defined identities and connector policies, distinct from AI tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot that propose and summarize. Recent threads detail the GA of the Power Apps Data Grid, flow authoring in GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code, and the cancellation of Purview Communication Compliance integration for GCC High and DoD tenants. Administrators also explore replacing retiring SharePoint Online Alerts with Rules or Power Automate flows, and using Purview DLP actions to start custom workflows. The tag emphasizes practical deployment, licensing distinctions, and migration planning for enterprise IT.
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Keeper Secrets Manager Connector Adds Azure Function Middleware
Keeper Security has launched a Microsoft Power Platform connector for Keeper Secrets Manager, giving Azure Logic Apps and Power Automate workflows a way to retrieve and manage vault-held credentials during execution rather than embedding them in workflow definitions. IT Brief Asia first reported...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft 365 Copilot: 1 Million Adoption Claim Unverified
Microsoft 365 Copilot can speed up email triage, meeting recaps, and first-draft documents, while Power Automate can turn a defined trigger-and-action sequence into a repeatable process. But the productive workflow described in Analytics Insight’s August 8 explainer only becomes reliable when...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft 365 AI Automation: Copilot Drafts, Humans Approve — Megathread
Analytics Insight’s August 8 guide to “Microsoft 365 AI automation” gets one important idea right: the useful pattern is no longer asking Copilot to help with an isolated email or document. It is pairing AI-assisted interpretation with Power Automate and Teams so a repeatable business process...- WindowsForum AI
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Power Apps Data Grid Reaches GA, Replaces Table Control
Microsoft’s July/August 2026 Power Platform update makes the Data Grid modern control generally available for Power Apps canvas apps, adds a new way to pool Power Automate Process capacity, and brings Power Automate flow authoring into GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code. The most consequential...- WindowsForum AI
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Purview Power Automate Integration Cancelled for GCC High and DoD
Microsoft has cancelled its planned Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate for GCC High and Department of Defense tenants, closing a roadmap item that had been tracked since 2021 and was originally associated with preview availability in February 2022 and...- WindowsForum AI
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Power Automate 2026: Build Cloud and Desktop Flows
Power Automate in 2026 is no longer a single automation tool with one obvious starting point. It is a collection of cloud workflow, robotic process automation, AI-assisted design, mobile, Microsoft Teams, and governance experiences that can move information between services or operate Windows...- WindowsForum AI
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SharePoint Online Alerts Retire July 2026: Replace with Rules or Power Automate
SharePoint Online Alerts should be inventoried and replaced before July 2026: Microsoft began blocking creation of new Alerts for existing SharePoint Online tenants in January 2026, while existing Alerts continue only until the July 2026 retirement, when they can no longer be extended or used...- WindowsForum AI
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SharePoint Online Alerts Retire July 2026: Scan and Replace Them
SharePoint Online Alerts are now inside Microsoft’s July 2026 retirement window, and administrators should treat every remaining alert as a broken dependency rather than a notification they can rescue. As of July 18, existing alerts can no longer be extended and are not expected to work, so the...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft Purview DLP Workflows Reach GCC, DoD in September 2026
Microsoft has added a September 2026 target to a Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry for a Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention action that starts a custom Power Automate workflow when a DLP rule is matched. Roadmap ID 380721 remains listed as “In development,” with General Availability and Preview...- WindowsForum AI
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SharePoint Copilot Workflows: GA Targeted for December 2026
Microsoft plans to let SharePoint users create and revise live workflows by describing the automation they want to Copilot. Roadmap ID 567009 is marked In development for SharePoint on the web, with December 2026 listed as the general-availability target. Microsoft says Copilot will translate a...- WindowsForum AI
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Power Automate Triggers Purview Disposition in GCC, GCC High, DoD by July 2026
Microsoft plans to bring Power Automate integration for Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management and records management to GCC, GCC High, and DoD tenants in July 2026, letting administrators trigger workflows when content reaches the end of its retention period. That sounds like a narrow...- WindowsForum AI
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Power Automate for Desktop in Windows 11 Pro: Local Desktop Flows Explained
Microsoft’s Power Automate for desktop is built into Windows 11 and lets Windows 11 Pro users create local “desktop flows” that automate repetitive PC tasks such as file handling, app launching, browser work, form entry, and data movement without writing traditional code. That makes the feature...- WindowsForum AI
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Copilot Agents Returning Wrong Dates: Locale Traps, Time Zones, and Fixes
Microsoft Copilot agents can reportedly return incorrect dates and times in generated outputs, with Veronique’s Blog documenting the issue on May 11, 2026, after seeing agents confuse UK-style day-month dates with US-style month-day dates and sometimes produce unexplained future dates. The...- WindowsForum AI
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Windows 11 Task Scheduler vs Copilot: Why Microsoft’s Automation Is Still Hidden
Microsoft’s Task Scheduler is one of the most underappreciated automation engines in Windows 11, and the irony is hard to miss: the company is spending enormous energy selling a future built around Copilot, AI, and low-friction productivity while leaving a decades-old built-in automation...- WindowsForum AI
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How Everything Suarve Uses Power Apps and Copilot to Scale Youth Support
Australia’s Everything Suarve is showing how the right mix of Power Apps, Power Automate, and Microsoft 365 Copilot can do more than streamline admin work: it can help a youth-focused nonprofit scale its mission without losing its human center. The story is bigger than a software deployment. It...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft Planner 2026 Update Ditches iCal Feeds
Microsoft is rolling out a major update to Microsoft Planner in early 2026 that both adds new capabilities and removes several longstanding features — most notably the ability to publish Planner tasks as an iCalendar (iCal/.ics) feed. The change is part of a broader Planner overhaul Microsoft...- WindowsForum AI
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Windows Automation and Cloud Defaults: Power Automate Desktop, OneDrive, and Enterprise Trust
Microsoft’s recent Windows-era headlines form a clear pattern: Microsoft is pushing deeper into automation and cloud-first defaults while enterprise and consumer reactions expose a widening gap between convenience, control, and trust. New moves — from making Power Automate Desktop free on...- WindowsForum AI
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WYFRS Copilot Case Study: AI for Admin & Accessibility
West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (WYFRS) has quietly pushed one of the clearest practical tests of enterprise AI into the public sector: by embedding Microsoft Copilot across day‑to‑day workflows the service says it has accelerated routine admin, improved accessibility for neurodiverse...- WindowsForum AI
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Transformation: Unified Calendar, Templates, and App Handoffs
Beginning in September Microsoft wrapped a clear, deliberate push to make Copilot the connective tissue of Microsoft 365: Teams’ calendar and task surfaces are moving to the new integrated Microsoft 365 calendar, the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app becomes a preview‑and‑chat surface for Office...- WindowsForum AI
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Windows 11 Newsroom Workflow: End-to-End Sports Galleries and Obituaries
A single sports image page and a quietly written obituary tell a bigger story about how local journalism actually gets made—and for many newsrooms, the glue holding that story together is a Windows PC on a deadline desk, a sideline laptop on battery power, and a carefully tuned workflow that...- WindowsForum AI
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