Power Automate - don't trust the green tick too much
There isn't actually any HTML tag in the text you pasted. The issue is most likely caused by special characters or formatting that Microsoft Tech Community's editor is interpreting incorrectly. The most suspicious part is: Request submitted -> SharePoint item created -> Approval sent -> Status updated -> Notification sent. If you're copying this from another editor, hidden formatting characters can sometimes get carried over. Also, Markdown formatting such as: Succeeded What happened? Input validation may not always paste cleanly depending on where you're posting it. For Microsoft Tech Community, I'd use a plain-text version with simple formatting: A green tick in Power Automate doesn't always mean the process succeeded. This is something I understood better after working with business-critical flows. Imagine a flow like this: Request submitted → SharePoint item created → Approval sent → Status updated → Notification sent. The flow run shows "Succeeded". Looks good. But what if the notification didn't reach the user? Or the approval is still pending after three days? Or the flow was triggered twice and created duplicate records? Or the process stopped after updating the status but before completing the next business step? From Power Automate's point of view, individual actions may have completed successfully. But from the business user's point of view, the process may still be stuck. That's where I think automation design becomes more important than simply knowing which connector or action to use. For important processes, I usually think about: Input validation • Duplicate handling • Timeout scenarios • Error handling • Retry • Logging • Notifications • Recovery • Monitoring Especially with flows running hundreds or thousands of transactions, you can't depend on someone opening the run history every time something goes wrong. The flow should give you enough information to answer: What happened? Where did it fail? Which transaction was affected? Can we safely run it again? For me, that's the difference between a flow that simply works and an automation that can actually be supported in production. What is one Power Automate issue you've faced where the run showed "Succeeded", but the business process wasn't actually completed?Playbooks with MDCA
I am attempting to integrate MDCA alerts with freshdesk as per the e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-cloud-apps/flow-integration I have E5 without teams licenses. I created the flow, Once from playbooks in MDCA portal and once in power automate directly and went to create a policy to test it out but the option "Sent to power automate" from the policy is always greyed out. Alerts are not automatically detected in the flow unless the action in the policy is set to send to power automate which again is greyed as option in the policies. Also playbooks tab in the MDCA portal does not show the flows I created before, It shows empty, Seems link is broken between MDCA and PowerAutomate. Any reason for this, Any Idea about this? Thanks in advance.
Add link to SharePoint Document Library to OneDrive programmatically with PowerShell or PA
Hello, I have a document library on a SharePoint Online Site that needs to be added as a shortcut in each user's OneDrive. Obviously, you can do this individually as the user, but I would like to add this link to each user's OneDrive now, and every time a new user account is created in the future(Will take care of this later). This is required as the leadership for my organization wants users to be able to view the library from their file explorer, but open the file in their browser. (Add Shortcut to OneDrive functionality). The Sync functionality is not acceptable. The "1C" folder here was added by clicking the "Add Shortcut to OneDrive" button on the SPO Document library itself. I would like to achieve the same result, just programmatically for each user. Any advice is greatly appreciated. I am aware of how to create new files in Power Automate and PowerShell, but cannot seem to create the same link as achieved with the "Add Shortcut to OneDrive" button. Thank you in advance for your time, Cam
