Why is this important?
Whether a customer has adopted a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategy or is providing employees with a corporate phone, they are looking for more control over the data that resides on a mobile device. Organizations may want to restrict how data moves on the device and ensure the data is removed, should the employee leave the organization.

What is MAM?
MAM allows organizations to create policies that govern how an application is used within a tenant. This can include enforcing app data encryption, limiting the ability to copy/extract data to only approved applications or enforcing a PIN on a device can be implemented.

Does my device need to be enrolled?
Intune MAM without enrollment does not require a user to enroll their device in Intune MDM. However, the Company Portal application needs to be installed on the device to enforce policies. A user does not need to sign-in to the company portal application for MAM to function. The Company Portal application can be downloaded from the Apple and Android app stores.

What version of the Microsoft Flow mobile app is required?
Version 2.31.0 of the app is required. Our deployments for iOS have reached 100% coverage to all regions. For Android, we are staging our rollout so there may be a delay in this version of the app being available.

How can I setup a MAM policy?
An administrator can create polices from the Azure portal. For the purpose of this blog post, we will create an App protection policy that enforces a flow user to require a pin when using the Microsoft Flow mobile application.

• We now need to select an application that we want to manage. Currently, the Microsoft Flow application can be identified as one of the following. 

   com.microsoft.procsimo  (iOS)

   com.microsoft.flow (Android)

 

Note: A more friendly “Microsoft Flow” display name will appear in this experience later this month.

 

• Ensure the appropriate application is selected based upon the platform that you are trying to target. If you do not find it in the list of apps, search for it by typing in the appropriate value into the Bundle ID field. Click the Add button to add this application as a required app and then click Select to complete this configuration. 

• We now need to define our policy that will impose specific application behaviors by clicking on Configure required settings.
• Within the Configure require settings experience, there are 3 areas that we need to configure: Data relocation, Access requirements and Conditional launch.
• Let’s start with the Data relocation settings. Since the flow app is not used to generate local data, we can use the default policy.

Note: This policy has been used as an example. Please modify to meet your organization’s needs. 

• Next, we are going to focus on Access requirements and can establish a policy like the one below. Once we are done configuring our Access requirements we can click on the Ok button.

Note: When testing you can lower the Recheck the access requirements after (minutes) setting to reduce the amount of time you need to wait for a prompt.

• In addition, we can also provide a Conditional launch configuration. For the purposes of this blog post we will keep the default policy and can click OK to complete this interaction.

• Click OK to close the Settings panel.

• Click Create to finalize the policy.

• Within our policy list we should now see the policy that we just created.

• We now need to assign Azure AD groups for which this policy should apply. We can assign access by clicking on our policy and then by clicking on Assignments.

 

 

To select an Azure AD group(s), click on Select groups to include and then select the appropriate group. For this purpose, I have created an Azure AD group and included members for whom I want these policies applied to.

We can now go ahead and test our MAM policy by logging into the Microsoft Flow mobile app and follow these instructions:

• Ensure you have the latest version of the iOS or Android app (version 2.31.0)

• Close the Microsoft Flow mobile app

• Launch Microsoft Flow mobile app

• You should be prompted with the following message indicating that “Your organization is now protecting its data in this app.”

 

 

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Flow buttons

Flow buttons can be triggered from the Flow mobile app (get the app) or website.

View a short video below to learn more on flow buttons:

Moreover, after serving well their administrators, ProRail now plan to leverage Flow further by using button sharing and exposing various SharePoint operations to their end-users for self-service. Button sharing enables you to share buttons with your peers such that these users can run them as well, thus helping them become more efficient, as well as enforcing the same processes across the organization. Check out this list of templates to get started. 

About ProRail

Prorail is a semi-governmental organization that is responsible for the entire railway infrastructure in the Netherlands. They work 24/7 to make the rail infrastructure safer, more reliable, and more durable to get people and goods to their destination in time. The Netherlands have the busiest rail system in Europe. In 2015 3,3 million train rides were made. ProRail employs approximately 4000 people and has a E3 Office365 enterprise license for every employee.

“Flow buttons help us to create sites quicker which makes our customer happy. Another advantage is that a non-technical person can do the job.I can’t wait to see the Flow app in the hands of the end-users. It will help them adopt SharePoint. Most people like apps, don’t they?” says Berna Vink from ProRail.

To support such a scale, ProRail works closely with two preferred solution providers on their various needs, Sogeti and Motion10.

• About Sogeti – “We are a leading provider of technology and software testing, specializing in Application, Infrastructure and High-Tech Engineering Services. Sogeti offers cutting-edge solutions around Testing, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Mobile, Cloud and Security.”
• About Motion10 – “Integration is in the DNA of Motion10 and we are specialists in Digital Collaboration and Business Intelligence using Microsoft technology. We help clients to work smarter and more efficient. Next to this, using the Flow mobile app to provision sites is very easy and intuitive”

When recently speaking with Daniel Laskewitz from Sogeti, he shared that “Flow helps ProRail to be more productive with their site creation process. It’s easy to use different services and connect them to our Flows. The Flow buttons make it possible for the SharePoint administrators at ProRail to create a site from anywhere with any device.” 

How did Flow come to the rescue

ProRail uses Office365 and SharePoint Online to collaborate in teams, departments and project teams. In order to support and maintain SharePoint sites they use several different site templates that are used to provision a site when a new project or team is formed.

All this work is done by the Enterprise Content Management team. To facilitate easy and rapid provisioning of team and project sites they asked to use a more streamlined process. 

This is where Flow and Flow buttons step in.

ProRail defined a button flow for SharePoint administrators for the rapid site creation. ProRail currently uses Mavention Make for site creation, and the button flow uses this solution to create sites. For your own environment you can also use Office Dev PnP as a provisioning solution.

The Administrator can trigger a button flow from anywhere using his mobile app, or from the flow website.

When selecting the button, they can easily provide input parameters such as the site title, the template used and a unique tracking number for the site.

Below, for example, are the inputs to fill when triggering a button from the flow website.

How does the flow work?

Once every input is filled, a compose action is used to create a JSON message from the inputs. When the compose-action is completed the Flow sends a JSON message to an Azure function that provisions the site. These inputs, combined with additional configuration pre-defined in the Flow, are all that’s needed to easily provision new sites.

“Optimizing business processes is a breeze with Microsoft Flow and Azure Functions. As a developer you have all the required tools for testing your integrations and it’s easy to quickly provide value for your client. Next to this, it is a joy to see new and useful features get added to Flow on a weekly basis.” Says Jurgen Wiersema from Motion10

As a next step, the team plans to leverage button sharing as well as Approvals to make this ability available for end-users. They will add an approval step to the button flow and then share that button with company employees. This allows for self-service site creation which is monitored by the ECM team. In addition, they will also make self-service creation available with other configurations for SharePoint. 

Learn more and connect with us

Check out our documentation that covers app concepts, from getting started to more advanced capabilities.

Visit the Mobile section on our community and share what you’re doing, ask questions or even submit new ideas and reach out to us on Twitter.

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After gathering your valuable feedback, and improving our Beta version, today we’re proud to make the Windows Phone app officially public on the Windows Store, and by that complete our mobile offering throughout all platforms.

Similarly to our Flow Mobile App for iOS & Android, the Flow Windows phone app allows you to Create and monitor flows, receive notifications, trigger Button flows (and soon share them), manage flows and more – all from the palm of your hand.

So, if you own a Windows phone device running on Windows10, be sure to check out the new Flow app and enjoy automation made easy!
Here’s a short guide to get you started – how to install, create and use a button for tracking your work hours:

How to install Microsoft Flow on you Windows phone device:

1. Open the Windows Store and search for ‘Microsoft Flow’, or use this link.

   
    

2. Tap ‘Get’ to download the app

   
         

3. Once the download completes, tap ‘Launch’

   
    

4. Swipe through the carousel or tap ‘Get Started’

   
    

5. Sign in to Microsoft Flow
   If you don’t have an account for Microsoft Flow, follow these instructions.

      
    

How to create a button flow from a template:

1. Open the Flow app and tap on the ‘Browse’ tab

   
    

2. Search for ‘Track your working hours’ and tap on the template

         
    

3. Tap ‘Use this template’

   
   Notice that in order to use this template you will need to create an Excel table with the following columns: Date, Timestamp.
    

4. Connect the required services

           
    

5. Choose the file and the table within the file, and tap save

      
    

6. Congratulations! Your flow was successfully created. Tap ‘Done’

   
    

7. Go to the Buttons tab and tap on your button to trigger it

                

Learn more about button capabilities here.

Coming soon:

• Shared buttons – share your button flows with your team and colleagues to run.
• Approval center – where you’ll be able to review and approve pending approval requests directly from the app.

Learn more and connect with us

Visit our Flow community and share what you’re doing, check out our documentation, ask questions or even submit new ideas and reach out to us on Twitter.

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Learn more about Flow button on a short video here or below:

Also, we will be adding support for shared buttons soon, so you’ll be able to leverage the widgets power even more. For example, let’s say you want to create a tool for your team to help them track their working hours. You can create this flow once, share it with your team, which in turn will be able to trigger it by tapping on its widget on their device home screen.
 

How to get started:

Let’s look at an example – follow the steps below to create a widget for triggering a new build in VSO and learn more about the widget possibilities.

Prerequisites:

• An account for Microsoft Flow.
• The mobile app for Microsoft Flow installed on a supported device.
• At least one active button flow.

Android widget:

The Android widget is a single button shortcut, which you can place on your device’s home screen and use to trigger a specific flow. It’s resizable, and you can add as any as you’d like.

Here’s how you can create your own Android Flow widget:

1. Long tap on the home screen background

   
    

2. Tap on the ‘widgets’ menu item

   
    

3. Scroll down to the Flow entry or search for it

   
    

4. Tap/drag the widget to your home screen

   
    

5. Pair the widget with any of your button flows

   
    

6. Set your widget location & size

   
    

iOS widget:

The iOS widget is a widget containing all your enabled button flows.
The widget can be accessed from the widget screen, lock screen, and from the 3D touch menu of the Flow app.

Here’s how you can add the Flow widget:

1. Swipe to your widgets screen, scroll down and tap ‘Edit’

   
    

2. Choose ‘Flow Buttons’ from the ‘MORE WIDGETS’ list, reorder the widget list and click ‘Done’

                      
    

3. Flow widget will be added to the widget screen.
   Use the ‘Show More’ button to expand it and see all your buttons flows.

          

Flow widget can also be accessed from the 3D touch menu – simply long tap on the Flow app’s icon:

Learn more and connect with us

That’s it, you can now start using the Flow widget to trigger flows easily. This opens a world of possibilities for you, your colleagues, and your customers.
Visit our Flow community and share what you’re doing, check out our documentation, ask questions or even submit new ideas and reach out to us on Twitter.

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A Microsoft Flow Windows Phone App Beta is now available for download!

You are now invited to participate in our Beta program.

To install the app from the Windows store: http://approjects.co.za/?big=store/apps/9nkn0p5l9n84

Don’t miss out – Join today!

Please note the App is only available for Windows 10 OS, not supported on 8.1.

Thank you,
Your Microsoft Flow Team

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First, just a reminder of the basics: If you aren’t familiar with button flows, they are an easy way to kick off a workflow from your iOS or Android device with a single tap. To use a button, download the app for Android or iOS and sign in.

Also, if configured to do so, a button you triggered can send info on your location, your user details, and the current time. You can find an example for such a useful button flow in a recent Flow of the week blog.

Now, heading on to our newest capability: When creating a button, you may want to define which information is required from the user when that button is triggered. In turn, a user who taps that button will be asked to provide these specific details. The details will be used upon execution.

There are countless daily operations which can now be triggered easily from your mobile device, using button flows.

Below are just a few examples of such useful button templates:

1. Create a new contact in Dynamics CRM 
2. Add notes to a Dynamics CRM contact
3. Create a bug in Visual Studio
4. Create a new task in Asana
5. Add a new item to a Basecamp to-dos list
6. Create an Outlook task from a button
7. Add a new card to a Trello list
8. Add a new task to Wunderlist

Note: You can create button flows from template or from blank, either from the Flow portal or from your mobile device.

Getting started

Select a template from the list above, or start creation from blank. For this example let’s use: Create a bug in Visual Studio.

When defining required fields for such buttons, keep in mind what details are required from the user. In this template, the button is already defined to ask for bug title and description. You could ask for more inputs using the “Add text input” option.

Fill your ‘Account name’ and ‘Project name’ for creating the item in Visual Studio.

Tap Create to save your flow. Your button is now saved.

Running a button flow

You can run all your buttons from the buttons tab. In our example, find your new button in your Buttons tab and tap it: 

Enter the details for the bug you are reporting. In our example, you will be asked to enter ‘bug title’ and afterwards ‘bug description’. Then tap Done.

That’s it, your button flow is running. As part of this flow you will also get a push notification when the bug is created. You will also be able to track this flow run along with all your runs in the Activity tab.

I’m certain this new functionality will help you be much more effective with your workday.

You can read more about this topic here.

Outlook Tasks and HelloSign support

Also, we’ve added support for two new services this week: Outlook Tasks and HelloSign. Outlook Tasks service lets you create, read, synchronize, update and delete your tasks that are secured by Azure Active Directory in Office 365 or a Microsoft account.  For example, you can now create a new outlook task using a Flow button.

HelloSign enables secure electronic signatures that are business-caliber, easy-to-use and legally binding.

Learn more and connect with us

View our app video, and check out our documentation that covers app concepts, from getting started to more advanced capabilities.

Visit the Mobile section on our community and share what you’re doing, ask questions or even submit new ideas and reach out to us on Twitter.

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There are three types of button trigger tokens, each offering several tokens for you to use:

1. User info
   • User name
   • User email  
2. Time
   • Date
   • Timestamp  
3. Location
   • Street
   • City
   • State
   • Country/Region
   • Postal code
   • Full address
   • Longitude
   • Latitude

All tokens refer to the location & time at the triggering moment, and to the user who’s triggering the Button flow.
Please note that in order to use the location tokens, you’ll have to grant the Flow app with location permissions, and to turn on your device’s location service.

Now, imagine all the new scenarios which you can unlock. Here are a few template examples:

• Track your working hours
• Save my location to Google Sheet 
• Send me a push notification with my current location

Using Button trigger tokens

In order to use the above tokens, all you have to do is to create a button template.
You can create a button template from blank, or start with a button template. Once created, the above tokens will be suggested as parameters from previous steps.
Just click on the target field and choose the relevant token out of the list, as seen here:

For further guidance, please refer to our documentation page here.

Learn more and connect with us

View our app video, and check out our documentation that covers app concepts, from getting started to more advanced capabilities.

Visit the Mobile section on our community and share what you’re doing, ask questions or even submit new ideas and reach out to us on Twitter.

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First, check out this short video which will give you a glimpse of Flow capabilities on phones (always more to come…).  

Flow creation

As we updated earlier this month, Flow creation is now available from your mobile phones. You can now easily create a flow from your phone by just a few simple clicks. Browse our rich template gallery, navigate through our services list, search the gallery by keyword, or select a various template category to drill into. Finally, after creating your flow, the mobile app allows you to edit, rename or delete the flow, as well as fix a broken connection if needed. Read our dedicated blog for more details.

Buttons

There are countless operations we wish we could trigger anytime and anywhere. Now, with Button Flows, you can get those done at just a click of a button, from your mobile device.

Imagine just a few examples: 

• Text a colleague that you’re running late to a meeting
• Trigger a new product build in Visual Studio
• Log the latest tweets about your company to a google sheet
• Send a “Working from home” email to your colleagues
• Instantly create Dynamics Leads based on tweets

Your available Buttons live in a dedicated tab where you can easily and quickly trigger any action at any time. To add more buttons to your Buttons tab, just go ahead and create more Button flows.

Button flows are like any other flows, they can be created from the Browse Tab, Managed in My Flows tab, or Monitored in the Activity tab. To help get you started, we created a category of Button templates with a long list of available buttons, and we will keep enriching it overtime. Like other template categories, the Buttons category is accessible from the Browse tab. As always, you can also publish useful templates to the gallery for other users to enjoy.

Ready-To-Use Flows

Are you new to Flow? Haven’t created any flows just yet? Don’t worry, we’ll help get you started with just a few clicks. Our new ready-to-use experience will help you wire up your first flows with just a click or two. After that, when you wish to create more personalized flows, it will already be smooth sailing in our Browse tab to view all suggested templates and services.

Flow App now available for everyone

Last month an important update made Microsoft Flow available for everyone to sign up or sign in. up until that update, users could sign into the mobile app only with email addresses provided by their work or school, like those used with Office 365 Business or Office 365 Enterprise. With the last update, the App is now open to all users, no matter what email you have.

Learn more and connect with us

View our app video, and check out our documentation that covers app concepts, from getting started to more advanced capabilities.

Visit the Mobile section on our community and share what you’re doing, ask questions or even submit new ideas and reach out to us on Twitter.

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You can now easily create a flow from your phone by just a few simple clicks. Browse our rich template gallery, navigate through our services list, or select a various template category to drill into.
Also, if you’re looking for a specific service or template, you can simply search the gallery by keyword, and get in no time a list of results focused to your needs. 
Finally, after creating your flow, you can come back and edit or rename it directly from within the app, from the flow properties page.

Let’s look at an example. Follow the steps below on your phone to create a flow that sends a push notification when you get a mail from your manager.

Prerequisites

• An account for Microsoft Flow.
• The mobile app for Microsoft Flow installed on a supported device.
• To use the template demonstrated, you’ll also need:
  • Office 365 credentials.
  • Push notifications enabled on your phone.

Open the mobile app, and then tap Browse at the bottom of the screen.

You can find a template by following any of these steps:

• Specify a keyword in the search box at the top of the screen.
• Tap an option in the list of services.
• Scroll down to show a variety of categories, or select See All and tap a template in any of them.

In this example, you’ll open the template that sends a push notification when you get mail from your manager.

One quick option is to directly search for a relevant keyword, for example push notification, and get a result list of all the templates which include push notifications.

Another option is by browsing, as presented below:

1. In the list of services, tap See all.
2. Tap the icon for Push notifications.

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3. In the search bar, type email, and then tap the template to send a push notification when you receive an email from your manager.

4. In the screen that gives details about the template that you’ve selected, tap Use this template.

1. If prompted, tap Sign in and provide your credentials for Office 365 Outlook, Office 365 Users, or both.

You can use the same connections when you create other flows.

2. In the upper-right corner, tap Next.

The next screen shows the trigger event and all of the resulting actions.

For this template, new mail triggers the flow, which retrieves your information (including your manager’s address) and sends you a push notification when you get mail from that address. Some templates require some customization to work properly, but this template doesn’t.

3. (optional) Near the top of the screen, type a different name for the flow.
4. In the upper-right corner, tap Create.

Your flow is created and will check for mail from your manager until you pause or delete the flow.

The flow has been added to your flows list, accessible from My Flows tab, where you can tap any flow to edit its properties. 

That’s it, you’ve created your first flow from your phone, and can now continue to create many more.

Learn more and connect with us

View our app video, and check out our documentation that covers app concepts, from getting started to more advanced capabilities.

Visit the Mobile section on our community and share what you’re doing, ask questions or even submit new ideas and reach out to us on Twitter.

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Today, we are pleased to introduce another major piece of our offering: a mobile app now available for download on iOS (soon also on Android) that gives you the power to manage, track, and explore your automated workflows anytime and anywhere. 

My name is Adi Regev, and I’m the Product Manager for Microsoft Flow on Mobile. Using the new capabilities of the Flow app, I’ve managed to make my work life substantially easier. I use the app to stay up to date on my flows, respond to real-time notifications, investigate failures, get a general view or dive into run details, and much more. Now, with the app available, you are able to do the same. 
Here are some examples of how you can use the app daily in your work life:

Access & manage your flows, anywhere anytime 

With the Microsoft Flow app, you can stay connected to your flows from your mobile device.

you can view flow properties and definition, turn flows on or off from wherever you are, or review detailed run history reports.

Track ongoing flow activity

Stay up-to-date on all flow activities from a central location, the Activity Feed.

The feed helps you detect quickly which flows require your attention and what actions you need to take.

View and filter your runs or your notifications, and drill into further details upon demand.

Stay on top of your flow activities with notifications.

You can now get a push notification while a flow is running that will include details and a customized link to investigate further.

This makes it possible to track important flows and quickly diagnose any issues in real-time.

As an example, these are some of the flows which I use regularly.

• Instantly respond to critical emails – There are specific cases when I need to respond in real-time, and in these cases even checking my email periodically isn’t enough. I want to know about those cases as soon as they happen. For example, a high priority email from my manger, or from a VIP customer. Check out this template.
• Get a notification whenever a file is added or updated – often myself and my team members collaborate on the same file, or on a shared SharePoint folder. In these cases, I want to know when our shared file changed so that I can review these changes, without having to sporadically check the folder. Here’s a template I use.
• Get a notification when a certain keyword was retweeted more than 100 times today – When Microsoft Flow was launched, I was excited to track the social attention it got. I used a flow that sent me a push notification for each tweet that started trending including a link to the respective tweet template.

This is just the start of the journey for the Microsoft Flow app. In the coming weeks and months, you will see us releasing new features on a regular basis, enabling many more capabilities like flow creation, triggering, remediation, approvals, and flows that leverage your actual mobile device signals. Stay tuned for these exciting updates to come!

Learn more and connect with us

Once you download the app in the AppStore, you can start using some of the mobile templates we’ve created, or create new flows of your own. View our app video, and check out our documentation that covers app concepts, from getting started to more advanced capabilities.

Visit the Mobile section on our community and share what you’re doing, ask questions or even submit new ideas and reach out to us on Twitter.

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