M365UK Power Automate Approvals & Microsoft 365 PowerShell Scenarios Apr 2022

Welcome to Microsoft 365 UK (M365UK) user group as well as guests from around the globe.
Want to run advanced scenarios of Power Automate approvals and using PowerShell with Microsoft 365 to make things easier?
Join us online for free on Microsoft Teams with our guest speakers Tomasz Poszytek MVP (Poland) and Todd Klindt MVP (USA)

Agenda (UK Time):
16:00-16:10 - Welcome & Introductions

16:10-17:00 - Learning to Love using PowerShell with Microsoft 365 - Todd Klindt MVP
Do you love PowerShell? If not, you will after this session. Microsoft 365 has a pretty good UI, but there are times when you need the raw power and automation that PowerShell has. In this session Todd will show you how to get yourself all set up to use PowerShell with M365, and then he'll show you some of his favourite scripts and one-liners. By the end of this session you'll feel more confident about using PowerShell and you'll have all kinds of ideas on what to do with it.

17:00-17:10 - Break

17:10-18:00 - Power Automate approvals advanced scenarios - Tomasz Poszytek MVP
Power Automate approvals is a powerful functionality allowing business processes designers to easily assign a task to anyone in the organization and then design process based on the outcomes. Assuming that assigned person will complete a task is bad and can easily lead to failing processes. The built-in options, that allow tasks management only by their owners is usually not always sufficient. If you ever found yourself in a situation, where task wasn't completed because assignee wasn't able to do it, join me during this session to learn about possible approaches for managing tasks.
During this session you will learn:
- What is the tasks architecture at a Microsoft Dataverse level
- How to complete, cancel or reassign tasks on behalf of anyone
- How to resume workflows waiting for tasks
- How to complete approvals when a specific number of approvals is met... Stuck task assignments is a bottleneck in every process. Workflows can't proceed because they are waiting for that one last approval. Start using 100% of what approvals in Power Automate have to offer.

18:00 - Finish

Speaker Profiles:
Todd Klindt MVP, Consultant, Sympraxis Consulting
Todd has been a professional computer nerd for over 20 years, specializing in SharePoint for more than 15. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD that was holding up his coffee cup, and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for Windows SharePoint Services. He has had the pleasure of working with SharePoint farms both large small. For over a decade, Todd has presented sessions on SharePoint at many major conferences both in the United States as well as Europe and Asia and does the user group circuit, SharePoint Saturday events, and the occasional children’s birthday party as well. He has also written several books and magazine articles on SharePoint and related topics.
While SharePoint is first love, Todd isn’t a one-trick pony, he also works with other technologies like PowerShell, SQL Server, Office 365, OneDrive, and Azure AD. He spends his days consulting on various Microsoft Cloud technologies at Sympraxis Consulting with Marc Anderson, Julie Turner, and Derek Cash-Peterson​.
He chronicles his SharePoint and other technical adventures on his blog, http://www.toddklindt.com/blog. If you’re bored you can follow him on Twitter @toddklindt.
If you're looking for Todd's Cloudy Podcast go the Podcast Homepage or subscribe on YouTube.​

Tomasz Poszytek MVP, CEO, Konsultanci Digital Workplace
A believer in enabling organizations to work more effectively helping them to achieve it by leveraging their effectiveness through their business processes digitalization and optimization. Having a strong analytical background being a Business Analyst for years, he has lots of experience in Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Bi), but also in Nintex or Webcon. He really enjoys to continuously learn to stay up to date and to share his knowledge not only with his customers, but with technical communities as well. He's building business processes and applications that are easy for users' to stick to, so they can follow and understand them. In overall he transforms processes to be more reliable and effortless. Co-organizer of Power Platform events in Poland and active community member, blogger and international speaker. Blog: https://aka.ms/poszytek YouTube: https://youtube.com/tomaszposzytek