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Cannot run Desktop flow unattended without user being local admin

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Posted on by pollyo

Complete n00b here. A remote desktop has been configured with Power Automate and Office installed. If the RDP user has local admin privileges, I can run in unattended mode from a cloud flow, but if we remove local admin I can't even create or edit without getting the message

Test connection failed. Details: Connection failed: [Machine ...] There’s an issue with your credentials. Check your credentials or use different credentials to connect to the machine.

Desktop flows can be run locally regardless of the privilege setting.

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AS-06081019-0 1,736 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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@pollyo Refer this https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/connection-failed-ui-flow/td-p/761276

Let me know if you need further assistance.

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Ankesh

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pollyo 20 on at

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@Ankesh_49 thank you for the reply. Unattended execution does work for me if the account has local admin privileges, but for security reasons we would prefer avoiding having any workstations with simple domain auth AND local admin privileges.

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DanielK030 17 on at

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@pollyoYou've obviously had the problem for a while. Have you by any chance found a solution to not give local admin in the meantime? Was looking for official documentation but only came across this post. "Remote Desktop Users" seems not to be sufficient.

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Esbastian 24 on at

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Hi @pollyo
Did you find microsoft documention on this?
I also want to avoid giving admin access.

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