Learn PL-500 Power Automate RPA Developer Associate

Explore robotic process automation (RPA) as software robots that automate high-volume, repeatable tasks across systems, outlining goals, benefits, and key tools like UiPath, Blue Prism, and Power Automate.

Explore major RPA roles and responsibilities, from developers to administrators, detailing how they design and govern automated workflows using UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, and Power Automate.

Learn how to sign up and sign in to Microsoft Power Automate, create your account, and explore key features like my flows, templates, connectors, and monitoring.

Download and install Power Automate Desktop from the Microsoft Power Automate portal, log in with a licensed account, and set up desktop flows with browser extensions and prerequisites.

Explore power automate environments, including default, trail, sandbox, and production, and learn to create and switch environments via power automate and admin center.

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Create a cloud flow using templates in Microsoft Power Automate, linking Facebook and Twitter to automatically post Facebook updates as tweets.

Explore how connectors in Power Automate, Power Apps, and Azure Logic Apps enable data movement between apps. Learn standard and premium connectors, and how actions and triggers power flows.

Learn to create an automated cloud flow in Power Automate for cloud that triggers on new emails, checks for attachments, and saves them to OneDrive for Business.

Create and schedule cloud flows in power automate using a time-based trigger with a start date, time, and repeat frequency, for example daily emails.

Add a send email action to a scheduled cloud flow using the Outlook connector, sign in to your Microsoft account, specify recipients, subject, and body for weekly Tuesday meeting emails.

Test a scheduled cloud flow by manual trigger, run it, and review run history to confirm success; set recurrence to every minute to demonstrate automatic runs.

Develop an automated cloud flow for a live leave approval using SharePoint and Power Automate. Trigger on new items, route for approval, update status, and notify the requester by email.

Explore parallel branches in Power Automate cloud flows to run update item as under review and start and wait for an approval concurrently, with conditional outcomes for approved or rejected.

Configure the run after command in cloud flows with Power Automate, setting actions to run after success, failure, skip, or timeout in an automated approvals workflow.

Learn how scopes in cloud flows group actions and conditions to improve error handling, testing, and maintenance, while providing collapsible sections for easier flow management.

Learn to handle exceptions in Power Automate cloud flows by using run-after configurations and scope blocks, implementing try-catch-finally logic, and notifying via email while updating SharePoint items.

Learn how to share cloud flows across the team or organization in Power Automate, assign owners, manage connections, and revoke access to ensure collaborative automation.

Learn to create solution aware cloud flows in Power Automate and package them in a solution for portability across environments, including adding new or existing flows and managing connections.

Export and publish solution aware cloud flows across development to production, choose unmanaged or managed solutions, and apply versioning, solution checker, and download the exported package.

Learn how a solution package exports as a zip, containing XML and JSON files such as the solution XML, customization XML, content types, and workflow JSON definitions with connection references.

Export a solution aware cloud flows as a zip, then import it into another environment in Power Automate, reestablishing SharePoint and approvals connections and completing the import.

Learn how to assign and manage permissions in Power Automate, including owners, co-owners, and run-only users, share and edit flows, and view run history.

Learn Microsoft Dataverse, a cloud-based, low-code data service that powers Power Platform with secure, table-based data. Create standard or custom tables, enforce security and business rules, and integrate via APIs.

Explore how Dataverse, a cloud-based, low-code data service, stores data in tables—rows as records and columns as fields—and view, edit, and manage standard or custom tables in Power Automate.

Explore Dataverse data types, totaling 23 across six parts—numbers, text, date time, choice, lookup, and currency and file—and see how a sample table's columns are defined, stored, and formatted.

Create a purchase order table in Dataverse from scratch, define columns like purchase order ID, order date, status, comments, and amount with appropriate data types, and set a primary column.

Create an automated cloud flow in Power Automate that uses Dataverse to trigger on added, modified, or deleted purchase orders, with scope settings and advanced options.

Explore Dataverse in Power Automate by listing rows from the purchase orders table, selecting id and comments, filtering by comments and order date, and sorting by order date.

Explore how data loss prevention (DLP) policies guard sensitive information across files, emails, and cloud apps, and exact data matching, regular expressions, and machine learning prevent unauthorized access.

Explore the three types of data loss prevention: network DLP, endpoint DLP, and cloud DLP, highlighting visibility, data classification, and policy-based protection.

Walks through creating a DLP policy in the Power Platform admin center, configuring connectors, defaults, and enrollments to govern data sharing across SharePoint and OneDrive.

Configure data loss prevention (DLP) policies in the Power Platform admin center to protect sensitive data and enforce connector usage at tenant or environment levels.

Demonstrates creating a Power Automate tenant data loss prevention policy in an environment, using SharePoint and OneDrive for business, and testing flows that trigger violations with non-business connectors.

Create a desktop flow in Power Automate Desktop by using the action panel, designer workspace, and variables to build a hello world example with display message, run, and save.

Learn how to create and set variables in Power Automate, store email, employee id, and URLs, and fix syntax errors caused by special characters and percentages.

Debug a desktop flow in Power Automate Desktop using run, breakpoints, and run from here. Set run delays and step through actions with run nest action while checking error panel.

Learn to schedule a Power Automate desktop flow via a scheduled cloud flow, with a premium account, run in attended mode, and post updates to LinkedIn groups.

Learn how to read data from an Excel worksheet using Power Automate Desktop, launching Excel, reading all data, handling column names, and retrieving specific cells by index or name.

Learn to use exception handling in Power Automate Desktop to handle errors and prevent crashes, with action-level and block-level strategies for robust flows.

Explore exception handling properties in Power Automate Desktop, including on error, retry settings, and action versus block level handling with set variable and run a sub flow.

Learn action level exception handling in Power Automate Desktop by using on error rules, set variable, and run sub flows to manage SQL insert errors and safely close connections.

Explore block level exception handling in Power Automate Desktop, learning how to group actions, throw or continue on errors, and run a sub flow when an exception occurs.

Monitor cloud flows, desktop flows, and machines in Power Automate using cloud flow activity, run history, and failure filters to ensure reliable runs.

Monitor desktop flows in Power Automate using the desktop flow activity to track run status, errors, duration, and machine usage, with filters and an optional Power BI template.

Monitor machines in Power Automate to track real-time health and status of desktop flows, machine groups, VM images, network connections, and gateways.