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Microsoft Power Automate

4 Courses
9 Hours
Skill IQ

The Microsoft Power Automate skill path is a curated collection of courses for makers, automation engineers, and IT professionals who have foundational Power Automate knowledge. These courses in this path can be taken in any order. Each course is self-contained and targets a distinct topic area within the broader Power Automate platform.

**Power Automate** - AI-Assisted RPA and Modern Desktop Flows with Power Automate (video course) - Automating with AI in Power Automate (video course) - Connecting AI Agents and Power Automate with Copilot Studio (video course) - Using Power Automate Custom Connectors with Authenticated APIs (video course)

Content in this path
Power Automate

This path serves as a collection of topics of interest for learners wanting to expand their Microsoft Power Automate knowledge. There is no defined order for learning, pick and choose as you please between the topics presented here.

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What You'll Learn
  • Build resilient, AI-assisted desktop flows that self-heal when UI elements change and support real-time team collaboration.
  • Create Copilot-generated cloud flows and refine them using natural language to dramatically accelerate automation development.
  • Configure Generative Actions to make dynamic, AI-driven routing and classification decisions within automated workflows.
  • Train and deploy AI Builder Intelligent Document Processing models to extract structured data from invoices, forms, and other unstructured documents.
  • Connect Copilot Studio AI agents to Power Automate cloud and desktop flows using Copilot Studio-powered actions.
  • Expose Power Automate capabilities to external AI tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
  • Build, authenticate, and govern custom connectors for internal and third-party REST APIs requiring OAuth 2.0 or API key authentication.
  • Apply enterprise governance policies like DLP, managed environments, version control, and licensing — across all automation types.
Prerequisites
  • Familiarity with Power Automate cloud flows like creating, testing, and debugging basic automated flows using out-of-the-box connectors. Understanding of the Power Platform ecosystem, including the relationship between Power Automate, Power Apps, and Dataverse. Basic knowledge of REST APIs and JSON, particularly for the Custom Connectors course. Experience working in the Power Automate Desktop environment is recommended before the RPA/AI Desktop Flows course. Completion of an introductory Power Automate course or equivalent hands-on experience (e.g., the Pluralsight 'Getting Started with Microsoft Power Automate' course or Microsoft PL-100 preparation).
Related topics
  • Microsoft
  • Dataverse
  • PowerBI
  • Power Apps
  • Power Automate
  • Copilot
  • Copilot Studio
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