I just finished my third week at a new IT job.

My boss had built a custom asset management system that worked, but barely.

Three people sharing one Excel file, manually deleting rows, forgetting what asset tags were used. You know the drill.

I decided to fix it with automation. Took longer than expected, but now we save 15 minutes per device setup. And when you have 150 users and each one needs 6 devices…well…you do the math.

Here's what I learned about building your first Microsoft Power Automate flow.