Tag: Office 365

Flow: Send A Happy Birthday Email Message To Everyone In Your Organisation

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Quite regularly I hear requests that centre around wishing users a Happy Birthday within an organisation. There is an extremely popular template within the Flow template gallery that does just that, it is called "Send a Happy Birthday email to employees on their birthday" and it uses a SharePoint list. It work's really well, although sometimes date formats can become an issue for the Flow implementer when they are imported from the list. Also, the organisation's users need to be added to the list itself in advance. Whilst that isn't a huge chore for most people, below is a process that requires no list and will send an email to every enabled user in your O365 tenant at 9am on the day of their birthday.

Sound, interesting?

Well, read on and follow the steps and you too will be able to implement this process.

Your email will look like this.

Pre-requisites: You will need a suitable Office 365 group. This may be an "All Users" group or a segmented group that only has users who have agreed to recieve such an email. Maybe it's a group that omits the CEO or those who may not celebrate their birthday. I will leave that to you to decide, but in this example a pre-configured "All Users" group is in use.

Here is the complete Flow.

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Flow: Filter Array on Multiple Parameters Using and()

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Back in part 8 – Call O365 Roadmap Web Service Weekly Digest you will see there is a Filter Array that I left alone at that time. This is because the scope of the blog post was to get a weekly digest of posts made by the Microsoft 365 Roadmap.

The expression within the Filter Array get's you the last 7 days of updates and does no more.

This is great, unless of course you have no need to be viewing a specific category such as Windows or O365. Maybe you are an Office 365 Admin and would like to streamline the output by only sending those with category of O365. Or maybe you need to see all Security & Compliance updates along with O365 and the rest, so you would need to omit posts with category Windows Desktop.  Here are steps that you can take to modify the above Filter Array and why.

Consider this filter …

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Call O365 Roadmap Web Service Weekly Digest – Part 8

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The Microsoft 365 Roadmap can be an invaluable source of information at times, although staying on top of the hundreds and hundreds of information it has to offer can be overwhelming. I've seen it advised by some to export the data to excel and move it to Power BI. That works great, although the context of this blog series is to have key information alert you so that there is no need for you or your team to check of your own back. With the power of Microsoft Flow, we will capture the new entries on the RSS feed and we will then send a weekly digest email.

Here is a glimpse of what the email output will look like.

For the ID of 43977 featured here, please see this link.

As you can see, each title is a hyperlink and directs you to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap where you can see full information as below:

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Call Microsoft Graph Organization Scope to Check Last AAD Connect Sync Time – Part 7

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Within any organization who run a hybrid Office 365 setup, AAD Connect has a sync cycle of 30 minutes (default) and unless someone is on one of the sync servers or in the admin portal and spots an error, there is a possibility that Dir sync (deprecated technology but still can be used to refer to AAD Connect) could have failed and go unnoticed for some time.

In terms of generating an alert, there is more than one way to achieve this using a PowerShell job, or a task on the server using task scheduler that runs PowerShell, but for some organisations these things are not permitted or possible, so in steps Flow & Microsoft Graph.

Firstly, I'd advise popping over to the Microsoft Graph Explorer and authenticating with your admin account.

Check the box to Consent on behalf of your organization.

We are now going to access the organization resource type and look at at 2 properties, onPremisesSyncEnabled & onPremisesLastSyncDateTime.

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Harness the Twitter API via flow to capture new tweets from @MSFT365Status – Part 6

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In this post, we will now add an additional layer of visibility with the Office 365 Alerts Mailbox by monitoring tweets from @MSFT365Status.

Microsoft 365 Status only tweets relating to Service Incidents so having visability of these tweets within Outlook comes with many benefits.

Firstly you will need a Twitter account and to have created a connection for that account within Flow. We will use this to authenticate only, after that the email only contains Tweets from Microsoft 365 Status.

Here is the Flow:

It could not be simpler. There are templates for this also but I tend to start from blank and add When a new tweet is posted trigger.

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