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Hi I am new to power automate and am wanting to schedule a desktop flow. The way I believe you can do this is by registering a local machine using power automate machine runtime into an environment. This should allow me to then link the desktop machin back to the cloud flow and set up a scheduled flow.

The issue i am having is I can't seem to ge tthe local machine regesitered into the environment. Has anyone had experience of this before?

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  • AS-06081019-0 Profile Picture
    1,738 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @rkirbz Check here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/manage-machines#register-a-new-machine

    Or try the other way round. Register your machine from power automate cloud environment.

    Hope it helps!!

  • rkirbz Profile Picture
    2 on at

    Thanks Ankesh I have followed through the guide but i am still not able to register. I did get this error though when I tried to register after re-installing

     

    Message = Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
    Error = System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException
    Full text = System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
    at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.MachineRuntime.UI.ViewModel.MainViewModel.OnMachineInfoUpdatedEvent(MachineInfoUpdatedEvent obj)
    --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
    at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor)
    at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(Object obj, Object[] parameters, Object[] arguments)
    at System.Delegate.DynamicInvokeImpl(Object[] args)
    at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Shared.ApplicationFlow.Internal.ApplicationEvents.RaiseInternal[T](T domainEvent)
    at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs)
    at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler)

  • AS-06081019-0 Profile Picture
    1,738 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Try re-installing the gateway and select the correct region while doing so.

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