Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - September 25
In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group Community Playbook News from our community Ace Aviator of the Month September’s Ace Aviator: Kritika Singh Integration Architect & Sr. Consultant at Capgemini Norge AS What's your role and title? What are your responsibilities? I work as an Integration Architect & Sr. Consultant at Capgemini Norge AS. In my role I assist clients in addressing a wide range of integration challenges, with a particular emphasis on modernizing legacy systems, such as BizTalk, by transitioning them to cloud-native Azure iPaaS solutions. I’m responsible for architecting secure and scalable integration landscapes, designing and developing solutions, mentoring team members, and engaging with stakeholders and cross-functional teams. I work extensively with technologies such as Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, API Management, Service Bus, App Service Environment(ASEv3), Virtual Networks and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub. One of my proudest achievements was successfully delivering a complex BizTalk modernization project to Azure that required deep technical expertise and strategic coordination. Can you give us some insights into your day-to-day activities and what a typical day in your role looks like? As part of a distributed team across different locations and countries, my day starts with stand-ups involving both offshore and onshore team members to review progress and assign tasks. I spend time with developers, helping them navigate technical challenges and mentoring them through dedicated sessions—this has helped improve delivery quality and team confidence. I collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align on requirements and solution design. Throughout the day, I work on resolving issues, improving existing solutions, work on innovation ideas and managing tasks. What motivates and inspires you to be an active member of the Aviators/Microsoft community? I am deeply passionate about technology—having worked with BizTalk throughout my career and, for the past 5+ years, diving into Azure iPaaS. Microsoft products evolve constantly, and that sparks my curiosity to explore, learn, and innovate every day. What truly drives me is the opportunity to give back to the community by sharing my learnings, challenges, and even failures. It’s all about growing together and inspiring others along the way. Looking back, what advice do you wish you had been given earlier that you'd now share with those looking to get into STEM/technology? Curiosity and consistency matter more than perfection. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, experiment, and fail, that’s where the real learning happens. Also, find a community that supports you; sharing your journey, both wins and setbacks, can inspire others and help you grow faster. What has helped you grow professionally? My professional growth has been shaped by a blend of curiosity, courage, and the right opportunities. Starting with BizTalk and evolving into Azure iPaaS, I’ve embraced every challenge as a chance to learn. What’s made the biggest difference is having the boldness to take on responsibility, the willingness to take risks, and the drive to keep growing. Sharing my journey with the community has not only helped others but also deepened my own learning. If you had a magic wand that could create a feature in Logic Apps, what would it be and why? If I had a magic wand to enhance Logic Apps, I’d bring in three powerful features to supercharge developer productivity and solution resilience: Seamless Version Control & Rollback Having Git-like capabilities built into Logic Apps—track every change, compare versions, and roll back instantly when needed. This would empower teams to experiment confidently and collaborate more effectively without fear of breaking production workflows. Effortless Disaster Recovery Setup Setting up DR should be as simple as a few clicks. A built-in, automated DR configuration for AIS would ensure business continuity, reduce downtime, and give developers peace of mind—especially in mission-critical environments. Native JSON Mapper(Not Liquid) A visual, intuitive JSON mapping tool would simplify complex data transformations, reduce manual coding, and speed up development. This would be a game-changer for integration scenarios, especially when working with dynamic schemas and APIs. Simplified Authorization like ClaimChecks for Logic Apps Standard (Beyond EasyAuth) A more developer-friendly authorization setup that minimizes manual configurations and integrates seamlessly with identity providers. This would make securing Logic Apps faster, easier, and more consistent across environments. News from our product group Logic Apps Live August 2025 Missed Logic Apps Live in August? You can watch it here. We had a recap on Logic Apps Hybrid, our special guest Kritika Singh talking about her learnings with BizTalk Migration to AIS, and updates on Data Mapper GA and Logic Apps Standard Deployment Center. Logic Apps Community Day 2025 We are bringing Logic Apps Community Day again this year, on October 30, 2025 (Pacific Time) and we want you to join us as we host a full day of learning where you will be the star! Call for Speakers is still open until September 07, 2025 – so hurry and submit your session! General Availability: Enhanced Data Mapper Experience in Logic Apps (Standard) We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of the redesigned Data Mapper UX in the Azure Logic Apps (Standard) extension for Visual Studio Code. This release marks a major milestone in our journey to modernize and streamline data transformation workflows for integration developer. Announcing: Setup CD in Azure Logic Apps Standard with Deployment Center Looking to automate your Azure Logic Apps code deploymentsin a faster way? Deployment Center - a built-in feature in Azure Logic Apps Standard - in now available, with built-in support on your VS Code projects, making it easier to deploy Logic Apps from your source control repository. Deployment Center is designed to make deploying, updating, and managing your Logic Apps workflows simple and straightforward. Hybrid Logic Apps deployment on Rancher K3s Kubernetes cluster Explore how Hybrid Logic Apps run effortlessly on K3s—delivering the power of Hybrid Logic Apps without the complexity and heavy infrastructure demands of a full Kubernetes cluster! News from our community What gets returned to the LLM by my Logic App Agent Loop tool? Video by Michael Stephenson Michael has been experimenting with Logic App Agent loop and, following a discussion with Kent Weare about the interaction between the workflow and the LLM, aimed to understand what data is returned to the model, since the number of tokens influences cost. He summarizes his findings from that conversation in this brief video. SOAP 1.2 Calls from Logic Apps – Fixing Unsupported Media & WS-Addressing Errors Post by Prashant Singh Struggling with SOAP 1.2 in Azure Logic Apps? Learn how to fix Unsupported Media errors, decode MTOM responses, and handle WS-Addressing headers for seamless integration in this post by Prashant. Demystifying AI Agent Loops in Logic Apps: The Future of Integration (But Not Everywhere) Post by Al Ghoniem Explore how AI Agent Loops enhance Azure Logic Apps for non-deterministic tasks like anomaly detection and IT Ops triage—while knowing when traditional workflows are the better fit. Can I use AI to create and deploy an Azure Logic Apps with Business Central connector? Post by Stefano Demiliani Stefano is testing the boundaries of what AI can do, so you don’t have to – he ran a blind test showing that AI can deploy Azure resources well—but struggles with external connectors like Business Central. Learn what worked, what didn’t, and why better prompts matter. How to use ChatGPT Agent Mode with Azure! Video by Stephen W. Thomas And looks like August was the month to experiment with Azure Resources. Stephen did some research too and shows you how easily ChatGPT-5 Agent Mode can auto-provision resources in Azure. This video demonstrates how to use a single prompt to build a logic app and create a resource group. Follow his video along to see how to get ChatGPT-5 agent working for you! Integration Love Story - Andrew Wilson Video by Ahmed Bayoumy and Robin Wilde In this special fast-paced episode recorded at INTEGRATE, Ahmed and Robin sit down with the brilliant Andrew, newly awarded Microsoft MVP and Logic Apps Ace Aviator, to talk about his journey, passions, and why integration is the powerhouse behind every digital experience. Tips for Migrating SAP IDoc Reception Workloads from BizTalk to Azure Logic Apps Post by Francois Malgreve Learn how to reuse BizTalk XSLTs in Azure Logic Apps! In this post by Francois, you will learn hot to configure the SAP trigger with the right IDoc format and namespace settings—minimizing code changes and easing migration. Query Azure DevOps work items with Logic App and Managed Identity Post by Michael Stephenson Learn how to use a reusable Logic App and a user-assigned managed identity to securely query Azure DevOps work items using WIQL—ideal for building scalable, secure workflows. Understand Agent Loops in Azure Logic Apps Video by Srikanth Gunnala In this video, Srikanth explore Azure Logic Apps AI Agents — also known as Agent Workflows or Agent Loops — and how they’re redefining workflow automation with Azure OpenAI. You’ll learn what an AI agent is in Azure Logic Apps, how it works, and see a live demo of building an AI-powered, adaptive workflow. Automate Microsoft Fabric Cost Savings with Logic Apps Post by Sherry L. Robinson Learn how to pause and resume Microsoft Fabric capacity using Azure Logic Apps—cutting costs during off-hours with minimal code and seamless integration via REST API or Resource Manager, in this insightful post by Sherry. Use Graph API to send Emails in Logic Apps Post by Şahin Özdemir In this post, Şahin shows your hot to use Microsoft Graph API with service principals to securely send emails from Logic Apps using app registrations and access policies. This will be quite useful in cases where you can’t associate the calls to a user account, which is a requirement for the Office 365 connector.
AVD - Sign-in issues with O365 applications
Hi everyone Our AVDs are currently running on Windows 10 22H2 (Build 19045.5854) For some time now, our users have been experiencing issues signing in to certain Office 365 applications, especially OneDrive and Outlook. For many users, the sign-in gets stuck in an endless loop. The affected AVD host then needs to be restarted for the sign-in to Outlook and OneDrive to work again. In the event log, we often encounter the following error: "A fatal error occurred while creating a TLS client credential. The internal error state is 10013." Has anyone else experienced this issue or found a solution for it?
Domain migration + Azure DevOps
Due to an recent acquisition the company that I work for (Company A) needs to migrate another tenant (Company B) into ours. Company B is running Azure AD + M365, including several other services such as Azure DevOps. Now to my question: Let's assume that once we have successfully migrated all data residing in Azure AD and M365, set up the domain, migrated all mail, aliases and set up the necessary DNS-records and such....should we be expecting any problems (such as authentication, sync etc) once the companyB-users will try to log into Azure DevOps with their old login credentials? If so, how do we prevent this from happening? Any feedback is greatly appreciated, thanks!
Office 365 Outlook Adapters in Action
This article presents all Office 365 Outlook adapters integrated in a simplified e-tailer scenario. The goal is to show one way to get started with the adapters in a minimal yet complete BizTalk application. The adapters are: - Office 365 Outlook Email - Office 365 Outlook Calendar - Office 365 Outlook Contact All files used in the BizTalk solution are attached. Scenario A customer (Contoso) submits a purchase order (PO) by plain text email from an Office 365 account to an e-tailer (Fabrikam). The content of the email follows a custom purchase order xml schema defined by the e-tailer. One of the elements is a due date by which the order and an invoice will be sent. Upon receiving the email, Fabrikam will do the following in parallel: - Schedule sending the customer invoice. - Create or update the customer contact information. - Send a confirmation email to the customer. On the due date, Fabrikam sends an invoice to Contoso. Receive-Side: Processing the purchase order Fabrikam implements the PO processing by using a BizTalk orchestration (shown below) and the construction of three messages: calendar event, contact, and email. The PO follows the schema: The order is received on an Office 365 email account, in plain text, with the following content in the email body: <ns0:PurchaseOrder xmlns:ns0="http://CreateEventFromPurchaseOrder.PurchaseOrder"> <PONumber>PONumber_0</PONumber> <CustomerInfo> <Name>Contoso</Name> <Email>contoso@outlook.com</Email> </CustomerInfo> <Description> <Item>Item_0</Item> <Count>5</Count> </Description> <DueDate>2020-04-08</DueDate> </ns0:PurchaseOrder> Note: In desktop Outlook, the default text format in HTML. It needs to be changed to Plain Text. In the BizTalk message constructions, the PO xml schema is mapped to calendar event, contact and confirmation email schemas. For the calendar and contact schemas, we copied into our BizTalk project the schemas provided in the BizTalk installation folder under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server\SDK\Schemas: The resulting maps are shown below: For contact, givenName element must be provided. The confirmation email also contains the original PO and an additional document as attachments. This is done by defining a multi-part message in the orchestration. The PO-to-email map takes care of creating the email body. Then, email attachments are added in the message assignment shape with the following code: CreateConfirmationEmail.PO = PurchaseOrderMessage; CreateConfirmationEmail.PO(Microsoft.XLANGs.BaseTypes.ContentType) = "application/xml"; CreateConfirmationEmail.Receipt(Microsoft.XLANGs.BaseTypes.ContentType) = "text"; // NOTE: all message parts must be instanciated before the context properties are assigned. CreateConfirmationEmail(OfficeMail.Subject) = "Order Confirmation for " + PurchaseOrderMessage.PONumber + " due date " + System.String.Format("{0}", PurchaseOrderMessage.DueDate); CreateConfirmationEmail(OfficeMail.AttachedFiles) = "C:\\Brochure.xml"; CreateConfirmationEmail(OfficeMail.To) = PurchaseOrderMessage.CustomerInfo.Email; All parts have to be instantiated before the context properties are assigned. For a complete list of the context properties, refer to Office 365 Outlook Email. Context properties for the calendar event (not used here) are also available and documented in Office 365 Outlook Calendar. (Attachment support for calendar events may be added in future BizTalk releases if there are enough requests for the feature.) As a result, on the customer's side, the confirmation email will look like: The orchestration is bound to an email receive port, and to calendar/contact/email send ports. The default XML receive pipeline is used in the email receive location. The setup is summarized below. Send-Side: Sending invoice on the due date Fabrikam gets notified on the due date that the invoice needs to be emailed to Contoso. The following orchestration is used to define the business flow: Once again, the BizTalk message for the email is constructed in two steps. First, Office365OutlookCalendarReceive.xsd (copied from the SDK/Schemas folder) is mapped to a custom schema defining the invoice email content. Then, the following message assignment shape is used to create the email subject and extract the recipient's email from the received calendar event, which corresponds to the second element in the attendee list (hence the [2] in the xpath): CreateInvoiceMessage(OfficeMail.Subject) = "Order Invoice for " + ReceiveEventMessage.subject; CreateInvoiceMessage(OfficeMail.To) = xpath(ReceiveEventMessage, "string(/*[local-name()='Event' and namespace-uri()='http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/Office365OutlookCalendar/Receive']/*[local-name()='attendees' and namespace-uri()=''][2]/*[local-name()='emailAddress' and namespace-uri()='']/*[local-name()='address' and namespace-uri()='']/text())"); The orchestration is bound to a calendar receive port with a 1-day time horizon to get notified within 24h before the due date. In our solution, we reuse the existing email send port bound to the first orchestration. However, a new email send port may be warranted if different default adapter properties (shown below) are required, or if invoices need to be sent from a different Office 365 email account. In Summary The Contoso-Fabrikam business scenario was implemented by integrating all Office 365 Outlook adapters in receive- and send-side transforms and orchestrations. BizTalk artifacts are attached to this article for reference.Attachments in the Office 365 Outlook Email Adapter
Starting with the release of BizTalk Server 2020, email attachments are supported by the Office 365 Outlook Email adapter. As a growing number of businesses are adopting Office 365, this new feature is an interesting alternative to the POP3 Adapter on the receive side, and to the SMTP Adapter on the send side, in scenarios such as (non-exhaustive list): Migration of existing deployed POP3/SMTP BizTalk applications to a more modern platform; Integration of Office 365 and BizTalk to transfer data via email attachment payloads; Organizations that use Outlook 365 by connecting other email accounts. The article Office 365 Outlook Adapters in Action provides an example of how to use attachments in a BizTalk ochestration. Receiving Attachments 1. Multipart BizTalk Messages The first way to receive and save attachments in the Office 365 Outlook Email adapter is by creating a multipart BizTalk message where each part corresponds to an attachment. This is equivalent to the Apply MIME decoding option set to true in the POP3 adapter configuration. The receive location transport property settings for this configuration are shown below. Note that by default, the "Include attachments" checkbox is unchecked, and it needs to be checked explicitly. As an example, let's receive the following email with attachments (as shown in the Outlook desktop app): The corresponding BizTalk message, shown in the screenshot below, will have one part per attachment. The part named "body" corresponds to the email body as sent by the server, which is with HTML body type by default in Outlook 365. Subsequent parts are named after the attachment names. Each part of the BizTalk message contains character set information, and MIME type as content type. 2. MIME Content The second way to receive attachments is by choosing MIME email payload, as shown below: In this case, the BizTalk message body will contain the entire MIME representation of the email (headers, body and attachments). Sending Attachments Let's consider an email send port with the configuration below. Send ports with transport type Office 365 Outlook Email can be configured to attach the parts of a multipart BizTalk message to an email, as well as specific files. This is the equivalent of the MessagePartsAttachments and Attachments properties in the SMTP send port configuration. For illustration, we forwarded the email with attachments received earlier. The corresponding BizTalk multipart message looked like: The email sent by the send port is shown below, in the Outlook desktop client app used by the recipient. Note that the attachment types are preserved, and the body is shown as HTML in the same way as the original email. References: Office365 Outlook Email adapter POP3 Adapter SMTP Adapter Office 365 Outlook Adapters in Action
Error deploy Windows Virtual Desktop
I'm trying to deploy Windows Virtual Desktop I have a Free Subscription. I made sure complete all steps to deploy correctly; my steps were: Create a Resource Group and Virtual Network called DomainService-net Created an Azure AD Domain Service. Created a VMs with Windows Server 2019 and deploy an Active Directory also install Azure AD Connect. 4.The domain was Synchronized successfully with Azure AD. I granted access to my ID AD on https://rdweb.wvd.microsoft.com/ with Server app and Client App Into the Azure AD Domain > Enterprise Application> Windows Virtual Desktop and Windows Virtual Desktop Client I added roles like owner and tenant creator Created a VMs with Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session Office 365, in that machine I wrote the followings cmdls in PowerShell ISE <Install-module -name Microsoft.RDInfra.RDPowershell> <Import-module -name Microsoft.RDInfra.RDPowershell> <New-RdsTenant -AadTenantId <MyADID> -AzureSubscriptionId <MyIDSubs> -Name MiguelORG> Next I go to azure portal into marketplace select Window Virtual Desktop Pool and proceed to fill the requeriments. * Hostpool Name = DesktopPool * Location = EastUS * Desktop type = pool * Usage Profile = Medium * Image OS Version = Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session Office 365. * Disk Type = Premium SSD * AD Domain Join UPN = My on-promise user with Global Administrator and User Administrator roles. * Virtual Network = The same virtual network and subnet where is my domain server. * Windows Virtual Desktop tenant group name = Default tenant group * Windows Virtual Desktop tenant name = MiguelORG * Windows Virtual Desktop tenant RDS Owner = UPN * UPN = My on-promise user with Global Administrator and User Administrator roles. At the end I received this message. The template deployment 'rds.wvd-provision-host-pool-20191101234128' is not valid according to the validation procedure. The tracking id is 'ea249dd8-371b-4495-a78e-50deb4628612'. See inner errors for details. I did this process 3 time and each one that give me the same error, If I doing something wrong please help me to resolve this problem. Regards Miguel GuevaraMicrosoft Cloud Show | Episode 208 | Reviewing the Latest Microsoft Azure and Office 365 News
In this 208th episode, AC & CJ recap the latest news from Microsoft around Office 365 and Azure, including new tenant scoped deployment for SPFx apps, and new Azure regions in Australia! Microsoft Cloud Show | Episode 208 | Reviewing the Latest Microsoft Azure and Office 365 News
