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Follow the wizard steps to install it on your environment and configure your automation including permissions and the Power Automate flow connections to your Outlook service mailbox and Dataverse.

Thanks to this automation solutions, organizations can accelerate and optimize the processing of any kind of printed or digital form so humans can be saved from repetitive, low value and error prone tasks. To learn more about document automation, you can refer to this documentation page. Use Python to print that file system directory output to it's own text file by entering this command directly in your PowerShell terminal: python3 list-directory-contents.

You've just written an automated systems administration script that reads the directory and files you created and uses Python to display, and then print, the directory structure to it's own text file. If you're unable to install Python 3 from the Microsoft Store, see this issue for an example of how to handle the pathing for this sample script. This example uses the files and directories you just created, renaming each of the files by adding the file's last modified date to the beginning of the filename.

Inside the src folder in your python-scripts directory, create a new Python file for your script:. It must be converted to a standard datetime string first. Test your update-filenames. Use Python to print the new file system directory names with the last-modified timestamp prepended to it's own text file by entering this command directly in your PowerShell terminal: python3 list-directory-contents.

Hope you learned a few fun things about using Python scripts for automating basic systems administration tasks. There is, of course, a ton more to know, but we hope this got you started on the right foot. We've shared a few additional resources to continue learning below. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported.

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