Microsoft Power Automate with Microsoft Teams — Lesson 2: Custom Teams Flows, Approvals, Notifications, and Adaptive Cards

Topics Covered

• Build flows from scratch for messages, channels, meetings, and notifications
• Design approval workflows with owners, outcomes, reminders, and audit evidence
• Use adaptive cards for structured requests, responses, and user interaction
• Step-by-step implementation workflow and configuration decisions
• Hands-on verification of core features, data, and expected results
• Documentation of assumptions, dependencies, naming, and change controls

Guided Practice Steps

1. Translate the lesson requirement into a clear Microsoft Power Automate with Microsoft Teams implementation or analysis objective.
2. Document assumptions, selected tools or features, dependencies, risks, and expected results.
3. Perform the guided task, capture evidence, and compare the result with the acceptance criteria.
4. Record issues, corrective actions, and a reusable operational or development note.

Practical Activity

Build an approval workflow with an adaptive card and clear outcome handling.

• Define the scenario, inputs, constraints, and expected outcome.
• Complete the activity and preserve screenshots, outputs, logs, code, or decision evidence.
• Review the result, identify gaps, and document corrective or improvement actions.

Validation Checklist

• The stated requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• Configuration, code, data, or design decisions are documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational considerations are reviewed.
• Evidence supports the conclusion and the next action is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Custom Teams Flows, Approvals, Notifications, and Adaptive Cards within a realistic Microsoft Power Automate with Microsoft Teams scenario and support the result with validation evidence.