Run Desktop Flows From Power Automate Cloud

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for all your likes and help ❤ Here's my step-by-step video on how to schedule Power Automate Desktop flows: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eX_CpYOadqqeisU

[@patrick2131]

This is still a relevant lesson and helpful. The 'whoami' piece is important!! Great walkthrough. Thank-you.

[@andersjensenorg]

My pleasure, thanks a lot for letting me know 😊 Kind regards, Anders

[@alexarratia5275]

thank you!!. I have a question Can I run a desktop flow that call a local store procedure (sql) and get the output of this procedure on automate on cloud?

[@shashikantbansode5299]

Thank you it was helpful i was having trouble connecting to the desktop flow

[@King.of.Jalebi]

Nice videos as always. Sticking to Power Automate, if you need an idea on your next video, how about putting out a video about a few best practices on how to centrally manage PA/PAD within an organization. Separation of environments, license management, etc. Compared to Ui Path, it doesn't seem as intuitive. Cheers and keep up the good work.

[@andersjensenorg]

Hey King of Jalebi. I'm planning a large video on the topic "Code of Conduct/Best Practices in PAD" 🙂 But it will take a couple of months. Kind regards, Anders

[@Cesar_Villanueva]

Hi, great video Do you know why when I trigger rpa from dpa, RPA runs with all my windows minimize causing an error ?

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 11,000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders

[@puneetsodhi7046]

Ander, thank you so much for such informative videos. I have a concern though. This does not work well in case if the Flow has UI elements involved. When u are on the VM and you run the flow, it works sucessfully. However, if u minimise the VM and then run the flow, it fails at UI element steps. Is there a way to resolve that?

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 10,000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders

[@LogicalAmmar]

Brilliant explanation!! Importantly, you took a practical scenario of developing the flow on one machine and running it on a different machine. Just one quick query I am sure you can answer very quickly…. Can a VM be registered to multiple environments?

[@andersjensenorg]

Thank you so much. No, only one environment, but you can ofc change it 🙂

[@nananketia1824]

Hello Anders I just came by your videos I need some guidance, when setting up the flow I don't get the option to connect directly to my computer, all i get are " Connect with username and password", "Connect with sign in - Attended (preview)" and Using an on premise data gateway (deprecated). Any guidance on how to get the direct to computer option?

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 8000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders

[@sarangrajgure4456]

It is really helpful 🙂 thanks

[@andersjensenorg]

Glad to hear, thanks a lot 😊🙌 Kind regards, Anders

[@ruchigupta1536]

Hi Anders, in my scenario, I need to pass a url from cloud to automate to be able to open that URL in browser ( As far as I understood, there is no cloud connection which opens a new browser and paste the step of previous step( which is a URL) in browser)and then again coming back in my power automate cloud to download a file from that URL. How can I do that?

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 8000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders

[@JiDailyActivity]

Hi I want to ask, how to restore deleted flows in power automate desktop. Is the flow stored locally on the desktop?

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 11,000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders

[@allthecommonsense]

All of your videos seem to start from just downloading the PAD installer whether for PAD or the machine runtime. From everything I've read, a special license (with "Attended RPA") is required to run a desktop flow from the cloud. What kind of account & license do you have that allows you to do this? Is it free? How did you sign up for it? Also everything I've read about the PL-500 exam talks about things like Dataverse, environments, etc... but I don't think I've ever seen you talk about any of that. What kind of accounts & licenses are truly needed to try all the skills in scope for the PL-500?

[@andersjensenorg]

Hey Common Sense. Thanks a lot for the feedback 🙂 It's very rare that I download PAD in my videos and here I don't download PAD, but the Machine Runtime just. If you want to run PAD for cloud you just need an M365 premium license. If you want to also be able to schedule it, you need an Unattended license. Check this: powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/ I've prepared 52 lessons about the PL-500 exam, and yes it will cover environments, etc. To be able to prepare and pass the PL-500, you just need a free license. Kind regards, Anders

[@allthecommonsense]

@@andersjensenorg thanks. Does "M365 Premium" include all the various things tested in the PL-500 then? Dataverse, multiple environments, etc.? Are you saying then if I have M365 Premium, I don't need to also get the "PA with Attended RPA" license, which is what official MS docs suggest is needed to run PAD from cloud? From what I've seen, M365 isn't free (per your "just need a free license" comment above). Do they always offer a free trial for M365 Premium, or should we expect to have to pay for a month or two? Do we also need an Azure/DevOps account for the PL-500 skills, and does it need to be connected or related to the M365 account in any way? They don't make it easy for a beginner to figure this out.

[@deeptiramdas4764]

Great content !!

[@andersjensenorg]

Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊 Kind regards, Anders

[@Dreambigcinemalover]

Anders. I am a big fan of your work. I learnt power automate from your videos. I have a question on whether PA cloud can insert any document into excel file ?? Is it possible

[@andersjensenorg]

Can a human do it? Then yes, very possible 🙂 Somewhat advanced, please post the case at my discord (link in the video description), then we solve it. Kind regards, Anders

[@andersjensenorg]

And thanks a bunch 😍

[@DepOpsDhir]

Thanks, Andres for your guidance. I have learnt a lot from your videos. I have written a Powershell script for SysAdmin tasks which need to run via Powershell (administrator only). When I go to write up a Desktop Flow. It doesn't work as the Desktop flow doesn't have any option to run my script as admin. When I add another line to run the script via Powershell admin, then I get UAC, which is not an ideal scenario, as my goal is to run this script on client PCs unattended, using Scheduled Cloud Flow.

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 9000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders

[@marcoantoniovallejocarrill8051]

Nice video! Anyone knows, if it´s possible set a value from PowAutomate Cloud to PowAutomate Desktop?

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 11,000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders

[@uolohtputin8702]

It takes very long time to trigger my desktop flow from cloud. Is there any solution to speed up the triggering?

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 11,000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders

[@AshokSankarVarmaChekuri]

Hello @andersjensenorg, I'm glad to find this video. In our organization, we exclusively rely on Windows PIN and Windows Hello for user authentication, rather than traditional passwords. Are there any alternatives or adjustments available for us, considering this authentication method?

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 11,000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders

[@zanguinetti8612]

Hello Andres, I would like to send an email from PA desktop that don't be dependent on the user's email, like a email or notification sended by power automate itself. Because I don't want that the user of my flow know the email contein, is it possible?. I hope it has been understandable. Thanks for your answer!!!

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 9000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders

[@zanguinetti8612]

Don't worry, I appreciate and enjoy your youtube videos, that's a lot for me. Thanks for the link!!

[@botaverse]

Great demo Anders 🙌🏼🙌🏼 New Delhi is the capital of India , brace yourself Delhites are coming for ya 🤣🤣🤣🤣 jk

[@andersjensenorg]

Hahahaha, oh no, I'm so stupid 😄😄😄 Sorry!! Kind regards, Anders

[@RishavJindal-h2q]

Amazing

[@andersjensenorg]

Thank you so much 🙌😊

[@yi-chuan2544]

May I know how to speed up cloud flow call desktop flow? cloud flow always consumes about 30-40s to trigger desktop flow 😂😂 The performance is so low…This situation even happens when I just set one in variable in input and output..

[@andersjensenorg]

Unfortunately impossible 😅 Kind regards, Anders

[@elcarryboo9344]

Is this a premium feature ? Thank you for your work !

[@andersjensenorg]

Unfortunately yes, but you can do it with PowerShell for free 🙂