How to Setup Power Automate Desktop on Virtual Machines

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This step-by-step tutorial teaches you how to set up Power Automate Desktop on an Azure virtual machine. You will be guided through creating an Azure virtual machine, installing the Power Automate Machine Runtime, creating a Power Automate Desktop flow, and running Desktop Flows from Power Automate Cloud.
By the end of the video, you will have the knowledge and skills to automate your tasks and improve your workflow with Power Automate Desktop on a virtual machine.
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00:00 Intro
00:13 Set Up an Azure Virtual Machine
This step-by-step tutorial teaches you how to set up an Azure virtual machine to run Power Automate Desktop. In this chapter, you will learn how to create a new Azure virtual machine by navigating to portal.azure.com and following the instructions to choose a region, select an image, set up a username and password, and configure public inbound ports. By the end of this chapter, you'll have your virtual Windows 11 machine up and running, ready for the next steps in the setup process.
7:53 Set Up Power Automate Machine Runtime
You will learn how to install the Power Automate Machine Runtime on your virtual machine, essential for running Power Automate Desktop flows. First, you must open a browser on your virtual machine and search for the Power Automate Desktop installer. After downloading and running the installer, you will select the Machine Runtime app to install. We will also show you how to enable browser extensions and Java for UI automation.
11:38 Create a Power Automate Desktop flow
Create a simple Power Automate Desktop flow to test that everything works correctly.
15:18 Run Desktop Flows from Power Automate Cloud
In Power Automate Cloud, use the Run a flow built with Power Automate Desktop action to start the Desktop flow on the virtual machine. Configure the machine settings and run mode.
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@andersjensenorg Жыл бұрын

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@DT-go2vc 4 ай бұрын

Great video!

@andersjensenorg 4 ай бұрын

Many thanks 🙌😊

@ayja1l Жыл бұрын

Hi Anders I have been watching all your tutorials and love them Excellent I had one question can you please share the templates that you created in each of the tutorials?

@andersjensenorg Жыл бұрын

So far I haven't saved them, but I definitely will consider it 🙂 Kind regards, Anders

@kannank7313 8 ай бұрын

Hi Anders, Excellent video. I have a question.. the desktop flow that does the web scrapping was built on your computer. For unattended bot, Do I need to deploy the package from local computer to Azure VM for this automation to work?

@andersjensenorg 7 ай бұрын

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): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rr12rZCEnpy8d6M.html Kind regards, Anders

@XeniaD Күн бұрын

Hi andre! thank you for the great tutorial ! i would like to ask you , if i schedule an auto on and auto turn off for the VM , can it run the flows , refrehs my power bi? etc , in case i go on vacation , whats the best option would you recommend?

@andersjensenorg 21 сағат бұрын

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 13,000+ 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): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rr12rZCEnpy8d6M.html Kind regards, Anders

@nithishkumarg3497 6 ай бұрын

Hi Anders, sir, I have a doubt about whether we can check whether the power automation agent is running or not on the virtual desktop.? using power automate desktop flow actions.

@andersjensenorg 6 ай бұрын

@toby645pa 11 ай бұрын

Great video, how about starting the VM when the bot it triggered? Are we able to add an ps (Invoke-AzResourceAction?) which will first start the vm, wait until it is running and them start the edge browser. Afterwards shut down the VM, This would save many DKKs 🙂. Perhaps you already recorded something like this?

@andersjensenorg 10 ай бұрын

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): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rr12rZCEnpy8d6M.html Kind regards, Anders

@baliflorent6971 Жыл бұрын

I want to make a flow that will classify pdf, word, excel documents in different folders. How can I trigger the flow when the main folder just receive a new file. The file will automatically be classified in it's appropriate folder. The question is to trigger a flow when a folder status change.

@andersjensenorg Жыл бұрын

Great question. Either have a desktop robot, that scans the folder. Or even better use the When a file is created (OneDrive or SharePoint) in Power Automate Cloud 🙂 That OneDrive/SharePoint require the files to be in either of those storage locations. Kind regards, Anders

@baliflorent6971 Жыл бұрын

@@andersjensenorg ok. Please how can I create this desktop robot ? I want some guidelines. Thanks

@mani0536 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video.. will it run if i disconnect the remote connection? Will the session be alive

@andersjensenorg 3 ай бұрын

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 12,000+ 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): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rr12rZCEnpy8d6M.html Kind regards, Anders

@alexl9610 Жыл бұрын

If the PAD flow involves opening a large excel file and manipulating it, is there still no need to download PAD on the VM?

@andersjensenorg Жыл бұрын

If you want to use PAD, yes. But you can do it in PA Cloud and leverage the workflow engine here 🙂

@mkultrafan1565 Жыл бұрын

I am using an M1 Mac. Have UTM installed running windows 11. Just installed power automate and getting an error when trying to install an on-premises data gateway. Suspecting it has to do with port / firewall issue but can’t pin point exactly. Any idea how to solve this issue?

@andersjensenorg Жыл бұрын

Hey MKUltra. I honestly don't know a lot about Macs. Can you try to post your question on the ILA discord. discord.gg/iloveautomation Kind regards, Anders

@mkultrafan1565 Жыл бұрын

@@andersjensenorg thanks anyways I just switched over to parallels and everything worked perfectly 👍🏼

@taciusa Жыл бұрын

I have a MAC m1 running Power automate on parallels (virtual machine), but unfortunatelly it is absurdly slow. Im thinking about using an azure VM, my workflows are really simple, which is the cheapest VM u think we can use? Thank you

@taciusa Жыл бұрын

just read on microsoft website, ARM processors are not suported for power automate.. Thats probably why it is so painfully slow on my computer :(

@andersjensenorg Жыл бұрын

Hey Tacius. Azure works well, but I honestly haven't got the idea, which is the cheapest we can use. I recommend stopping the VB, when we don't use it (then we only pay for storage) 🙂 Kind regards, Anders

@taciusa Жыл бұрын

@@andersjensenorg whooow, thats an amazing ideia!! I was already looking to buy and mini pc to use as a server... but our workflows demand is really low. Activating it just when needed is a great ideia! Thx

@mrfenix4111 Жыл бұрын

@@taciusa activating when u need it meaning manually going there to activate? or ad hoc when automation is trigger? if manually then its not worth it

@mrfenix4111 Жыл бұрын

I hate Windows is there a way to fully use power automate without windows?

@allthecommonsense Жыл бұрын

Does the PL-500 exam actually have questions about *creating an Azure virtual machine* to use Power Automate?

@andersjensenorg Жыл бұрын

No, but it has about creating robots on VMs 🙂

@ankita199 5 ай бұрын

Can we use Service Principal to login into this VM?

@andersjensenorg 5 ай бұрын

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): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rr12rZCEnpy8d6M.html Kind regards, Anders