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Unable to start or stop services

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I get the error "Access is denied" but the logged in user is able to stop start these services (I've tried several) using services.msc without escalation.

I've tried manually stopping a service and then running a flow to start it, fails with the same error.

There doesn't appear to be any way to escalate the privilege of an action within the flow or the whole flow itself.

 

The flow is very simple:

 

1. Stop service "Workstation"

2. Start service "Workstation"

 

It fails at the first step and I've tried substituting several different services to get any to work, they all fail.

 

Other actions (file manipulation for example) seem to work just fine and complete as expected.

 

Can anyone help?

  • lilkillabee Profile Picture
    4 on at

    Hi,

     

    it's because default local account that runs power automate flow doesn't have permission to start or stop the services.

    You can see the local account if you run "Power Automate machine runtime" and go to troubleshooting.

     

    You could change the account or grant permission to default one (UIFlowService).

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