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Hello,

With the depreciation of Gateways for desktop flows, I want to change my connection to my VM to Directly to Machine.
However, when I try and establish a connection with Manage your connections, I select Directly to Machine, select the VM in the dropdown, enter credentials, and then I get the following error (more info below):

The connection could not be established: [Machine 45115bd6-f75e-4cfd-aa74-5f3e925b6b38] The endpoint was not found. No endpoint connection has been established. Make sure your computer is online. Correlation ID: e07ba5b7-f3d2-48f5-8afb-225b7e24db29

I've tried with the VM on and off.
PA is the most up to date version.
I have no issue creating a connection to my regular desktop computer with the directly to a machine function.

I've had no issues with the Gateway function.

I am using my own Microsoft account as "admin" for all Power Automate stuff, and the VM has a separate Microsoft account.

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Did you register the machine with Power Automate? That's required for the direct connection and wasn't required when using a gateway. Manage machines - Power Automate | Microsoft Docs

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Hi @Pstork1
Thank you for your swift reply.
Yes, it's been registered and is running in the same environment.

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The next thing I would check then would the network configuration. I assume this is an Azure VM. The ports for connecting to it as a registered machine may not be available. I believe they are slightly different than a gateway.

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I was also wondering where you saw an announcement that gateways were "Deprecated". I know machine groups are preferred, but hadn't seen anything about deprecation of Gateways.

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@Pstork1
I made it work.
I opened the VM, logged into it's own MS account on the PA Platform, created the connection, worked for some reason? then shared the connection with my admin account. Works now.

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