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Start and Stop Azure VMs Using PowerApps, Power Automate(formerly known as Microsoft Flow), SharePoint and Azure Automation - Part 1

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I’ve been trying to figure out how I can manage my Azure VMs using PowerApps. There are probably better ways of doing this so I would like to know your ideas too. I'll take you through what I have done. There are four components to this: SharePoint – this has a list of VMs that I want to control from PowerApps   Azure automation process automation with Runbook and module galleries  – I’m using the runbook for process automation Power Automate(formerly known as Microsoft Flow)  – automate VM start and stop by integrating SharePoint and Azure Automation PowerApps – used to build Azure VM Manager This is basically what my end result looks like: I will break it down into different pieces covering each component separately. 1. SharePoint This is simply just a list of machines that are under my Azure subscription which I wish to control from my PowerApps. You can read more here  about how to create a SharePoint list. In the next step, I'm using Azure Automa