Back To Work Second Attempt

Today could have been far more productive and the problem was not procrastination.

Microsoft Power Automate has the potential for helping me with a lot of things. There are a lot more functions within MPA than the simple email rules in Outlook which could potentially trigger scripts and tasks without my input.

There's a potential for gathering data and turning a lot of the junk messages that we get from systems into useful information.

The right way to do this would be to use monitoring tools, central log servers and disable all these notifications but since there seems to be a lack of willingness to do this, Microsoft Power Automate could fill the gap.

I say "could" because I've been arguing with CoPilot all day.

Co-pilot, just like any manuals, YouTube videos or Reddit posts always seems to have detailed knowledge on a version of software that you're not using!

Initially I asked co-pilot to set up a simple Flow and I'd then tweak it and it did!

When my tweaks weren't working quite as I expected I asked Co-pilot to fix it and... well that's where we got into an argument.

Co-pilot first told me I should do what I'd already tried, fair enough it didn't know what I'd done. Then it told me to "copy/paste" some code and when I did it picked up the HTML around the code and that didn't work. I cleaned up the HTML, pasted that in and that didn't work. Co-pilot then told me that the code wouldn't work as it had embedded HTML in it, which it didn't and so on and on and on. Eventually I tried a different approach to the problem which was more complicated but it worked!!!

I'm going to stick with it as there is potential. Just a little frustrated to find this is another service that's for business accounts only.

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Tags:Microsoft Power Automate, AI

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This update was first written by Darren Wall
on Wednesday 3rd Sep 2025.
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