MSFT Today 2019–01–28 : Microsoft Flow with Jon Levesque

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3 min readFeb 26, 2019

Microsoft Flow is a service that helps you create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to synchronize files, get notifications, collect data and more. The main types of flows are automated, button, scheduled, and business process flows.

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Flow is a SaaS offering for automating workflows across the growing number of applications and SaaS services that business users rely on.

Introductions

Brad introduces the show
Brad gives a short introduction for Jon and how the show came about

Brad provides the listeners and Jon with a little insight about his background and time at Microsoft as a PFE

Jon provides a few tidbits about himself and his role on the Microsoft Flow team
Father. Motivator. Outdoorsman. Keynote Speaker. The #MicrosoftFlow guy. Beer & Wing enthusiast. Builder of Community. Problem Solver.

Brad and Jon Discuss what Jon has going on, including –

Life at Microsoft

Jon and Brad discuss life at Microsoft, and Jon’s various roles and workloads

How did Jon make his way to Microsoft?
Jon’s Flow videos and YouTube channel
Can discuss how Jon’s seeking to do a formal training series
How’s life as a keynote speaker?
Where can people see Jon next?

Microsoft Flow

Introduction

Jon provides a short “elevator pitch” describing Microsoft Flow to the audience
Brad discusses how he’s been using Flow in his day to day duties

Microsoft Power Platform

Dynamics 365
Power BI
PowerApps
Microsoft Flow

History of Flow

Didn’t Flow start as a part of the Dynamics suite?
Does it now fall under the Azure Logic Apps area?

Flow Apps — Web, Mobile, Visio, Windows 10?

Flow Templates
Flow Ideas
Flow Connectors — Office 365, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Excel, Twitter, RSS, Salesforce, Adobe Creative Suite, Amazon Redshift, Azure, Approvals, Basecamp, BitBucket, GitHub, Zendesk, Yammer, YouTube, Microsoft Teams, OneNote, PowerApps, Planner, Power BI, MailChimp, JIRA, InstaPaper, Instagram, Medium, G-Suite, etc. (Flow Data Gateway — File System Connector)
Flow Resources — As Flow is an ever-evolving service and toolset, where are the best places for people to go to get the up to the latest changes regarding flow (Brad can discuss how many times when he’s searching for ways)

Questions

Below are some possible questions for discussion

What is the development cycle for the Flow platform? It seems that they iterate fairly quickly.
Who is building all of the Flow integrations? (Is there an evangelism team within Microsoft wooing platforms)
What is the coolest way that Jon or the Flow team have seen users utilizing the Flow platform?
What are some of the most complex uses you’ve seen for Flow?
John Liu — Minecraft Connected Flow (Website, @johnnliu, #FlowNinja)
Which industries do you see utilizing Flow most?
With Flow being such a complex and far reaching platform, how tough is it to support a toolset with nearly endless possibilities?
Can you discuss the licensing requirements for business process flows? (Brad really wants tips on how to sell the cost to management)
With Office 365 rolling out, how are companies expanding workloads to Flow? Is it happening more organically or is there usually direction from the top?