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My department had an initiative this year to clean up our on premise Exchange environment. Any mailbox that did not have a reason to stay on premise was migrated to Exchange Online. One mailbox in particular was utilized by our E-Fax service. When an incoming fax was sent to the mailbox, a PowerShell script copied the email attachment to a NAS share. The process is outlined below: I had a meeting with the mailbox owner prior to the migration. I could tell she was very uneasy with any sort of major change the current process. In addition, the NAS share had permissions for a large number of users. Therefore, I wanted to make as few changes to the process as possible. That's exactly why Power Automate with a Data Gateway connection works well for this use case. I can create a Flow that leaves the existing NAS share and all permissions in place. The new process is outlined in the diagram below: Pre-Requisite M365 Licensing is required to use the Data Gateway feature. This article exp...
