Have you ever wished you automatically received an e-mail every time something specific happens in your ConfigMgr hierarchy, but you couldn’t find an alert or other notification option in the console? One way that many admins have accomplished this in the past is using a Status Filter Rule to run a PowerShell script which sends an e-mail to your SMTP server. This is great, but what if you want to do it expand the dynamics a bit and take other actions besides just sending an e-mail? If you haven’t yet had the chance to play with Microsoft Flow, I highly recommend checking it out. Another equivalent is called Logic Apps which are, for the most part, the same, however Flow is more geared to Office workers, business users, and Sharepoint admins, while Logic Apps has more advanced integration options available. At the end of the day, both will work for this purpose, so it’s ultimately up to you which you use, and if you know how to use one, you pretty much know how to use the other. Click here if you want to read more comparisons of the two. You get Flow free with Office 365, but if you want to hit Flow hard and plenty, you may eventually need a fancier slightly less than free version 🙂 First, browse to http://flow.microsoft.com Click My Flows, New, Automated from Blank. Enter a name for your flow in the Flow name blank. Give your new Flow a meaningful name Click Skip (you don’t need to select a trigger yet) In the search blank, enter Request and click on the Request trigger in the top window, and When a HTTP request is received in the Trigger window. In the Request Body JSON blank, enter your JSON code. In this example, we’re...
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