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SharePains by Microsoft MVP Pieter Veenstra
Microsoft 365, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, SharePoint, Copilot, Teams and Azure
Are you looking for help with your Power Platform. And you had enough of looking for help by searching on…
For quite a few years now I’ve promoted the Try-Catch error handling pattern. But there is a new approach on…
Enabling a SharePoint feature from a flow in Power Automate is easy, but how do you deactivate features? Activate a…
It is important that each control on your screen fits and that nothing overlaps. Auto Height and Containers can help…
Last week I was asked about handling paginated REST API calls in Power BI. The REST API end point would…
How do we replace Edit with contribute permissions? When you create a new team site members will have Edit permissions,…
In this post I’m going through the steps to configure Logic apps to use Managed Identities to access SharePoint sites…
Earlier this week I was asked on the chat how to handle scheduled flows that need to lock an app…
Today, I found 4 new undocumented functions in Power Automate Why Encode Xml? First of all, why would we need…
Earlier this week I fixed some PowerShell scripts that connected into Microsoft Graph using the Thumbnail of a certificate installed…
In Power Automate, it has always been a good habit to rename actions so that other developers can understand your…
Today I hit one of those unclear error messages in Power Automate. All I got was Flowname.Run failed: _scrubbedSensitiveData_. What…
Currently the new Power Automate Designer is only available in the US base Preview environments. But some point soon this…
Today I had a look into how to generate documents from lists items using Microsoft Syntex with Power Automate. In…
Today I was asked on the chat about how to create a REPT function in Power Automate. Excel has a…
Low Code Development is all about anybody can do it! But what are the pitfalls of low code development? Anybody…
Today I was asked how to implement in Power Apps calendar booking. The booking availability app So I’m looking to…
We all know about delegation warnings in Power Apps, but how about delegation with SharePoint lists in Power Automate? Ever…
When you create apps, it is important to understand the timing issues that may happen. When various elements manipulate data,…
Recently I needed to implement a PDF preview in a Model Driven App. This should be quite an easy thing…
When you build your flows do you consider performance? SharePoint has multiple APIs available. The Performance of the Graph API,…
Recently a new feature to added to Power Apps to add your Power Virtual Agent chatbot in Power Apps. In…
Following my posts about the Content Type Gallery and my series about the Graph API, today a post about Enterprise…
An Upsert in Dataverse can be implemented in two different ways. Check before you do or just a plain Upsert…
On a recent project I needed to be able to lock and wipe devices. I used Microsoft Graph, Power Automate…
Today I received an email confirming my 5th Microsoft MVP award. Time has flown since those first nomination emails in…
The default solution in the Power Platform is an unmanaged solution even in production. How do you handle unmanaged changes…
Recently I noticed that some of my flows end up with many running flows. Types of flows There are a…
This post is all about error handling and parallel branches. General error handling in Power Automate In the past I’ve…
Microsoft Forms is great to create a survey, but what if you want to use Power Automate to process responses?…