Run desktop flows concurrently on Windows Server devices

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Posted on by AdrianRycz

Hi,

I'm trying to use one Windows Server 2016 machine with 2 separate user accounts to run Power Automate Desktop.

I use On-premises data gateway to connect with Microsoft Power Platform (version: 3000.101.16)

I have a problem when I'm connecting both of them and would like to use one for attended runs and one for unattended runs.

On one user I'm developing PAD solutions and I would like to test it with the attended robot version and when I have only this one connected I can run flow from MPP.

When I connect second useruser with unattended mode, I can run only flows in unattended mode.

Running on first user with attended mode is not working then.

I found that this suppose to work: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/run-pad-flow

Did you have any similar issue?

Regards,

Adrian

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Hi AdrianRycz,

Running in unattended mode requires the user to be logged off from the machine, whereas running in attended mode requires the user to be logged on.

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George

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Hi George,

Thank you for your message.

Maybe I didn't explain my issue enough.

I know that I have to be logged in when I run the robot in attended mode. I was able to run the robot in attended mode when I only connected one gateway to MPP.
Then I connect the second gateway to another user on this machine, I sign out from the machine, and I start the flow from the first one. I can see that everything is working fine on the second machine which is working in unattended mode.
But when I want to again run the robot on the first user it is not working, it's showing me a message:
"There was an error creating this connection, if the gateway is online then it needs to be reinstalled."
Gateways for both users are connected and online.

Regards,
Adrian

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