Flow Issues – Let’s Pretend It Didn’t Happen

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I had a client contact me with a weird issue. They receive e-mails which are generated by a Power Automate Flow, suddenly, around August 5-7th 2024, when they use the ‘Reply’ or ‘Reply All’ buttons it doesn’t offer up the recipients e-mail address, but rather their own?!

Ok, let’s rewind for just one moment to put things into context. This Flow has been in place for a number of years and hasn’t been edited for over 2 years. So I was 100% certain it wasn’t anything I had done!

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Power Automate, Flow, Is Great Until It Isn’t

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As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’ve done a fair bit of ‘Flowing’, that is using/implementing Microsoft Power Automate Flows for a couple clients. One is particular is quite heavily invested using it to process online form, push data to SQL Azure, process e-mails, send e-mails, … It has been quite a journey and I’ve posted a few articles in the past about some of it:

and several more!

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Where’s Microsoft Access On All The MS365 Pages?

I recently was flagged on a post on LinkedIn

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Legacy Browser Vs Modern Web Browser Control, Which to Use?

Anyone that follows my blog, or Access for that matter, know that I am probably the foremost blogger regarding all things Access Browser related.

I have one of the most complete articles on the Legacy Web Browser Control (LWBC):

and when the ‘new’ Modern Web Browser Control (MWBC) was released I compiled another article on the subject to try and give everyone else a quick guide to get going on the right foot:

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CrowdStrike Crashing Windows PCs

Yesterday I posted a short article related to the mess the world experienced last week with all the Windows PC issues/BSOD!

That said, I’ve seen people giving erroneous information and advice on the issue and thought I’d quickly give the proper information on the subject!

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The Grass Isn’t Any Greener, Microsoft Outages Felt Worldwide

A decade or so ago, every IT guy was on local systems.  Then came the cloud which was an old approach to computing dating back to at least the 80’s (shhh no one wants you to know that) and it was hyped as the best thing since sliced bread.  It was going to revolutionize IT, drive down costs, improve…

So, of course, business decision makers jumped on the hype word of the week and corporation after corporation made the expensive switch over to ‘The Cloud’.

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New Outlook Hit My First Client Hard

The Impact of the New Outlook on Email Automation

Well, the day has finally arrived! I wrote about the significant changes coming to Outlook, specifically the introduction of the New Outlook, and how these changes could lead to serious issues for users:

 
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Find Most Recent Similarly Named File From A Folder

So I was working on a project and was faced with a little issue. You see, I created a program which processes files that are generated by a web application and that get downloaded to the user’s PC. The problem is that if the file already exists, Windows helpfully adds a numeric prefix to differentiate the files.

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Modern Web Browser Bug Rendering Media with CAPITILIZED Extensions

Software Bug

Here’s another really weird bug with the Modern Web Browser control that was mentioned to me by Juanfran Rodriguez (@juanfranrodriguez), one of my YouTube viewers.

The issue is that if you use a capitalized the file extension used in the Modern Web Browser control’s Control Source, when trying to directly display media, you will get gibberish displayed rather than the actual media.

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