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Power Automate Desktop Flow on a Virtual Machine

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Posted on by AlickCam 27

Greetings, 
I'm new to Power Automate Desktop. I would like to know if it is possible for a bot that uses UI elements to be run on a server that has no Display Monitor connected to it. Will these bots fail when I get the unattended license and schedule them to run on the VM?

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    Highboy 1,187 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Yes it works, we run our scripts on two VM's.

    Only thing you have to make sure is that you edit the file C:\Program Files (x86)\Power Automate Desktop\UIFlowService.exe.config and change the value to true (Default is false).
    Set the resulution in the file to match the one that you use on your machine for scripting.

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    Otherwise you can run into some problems as the default resolution will be 1024x768.

    Remember to edit this file each time you update PAD to a new version.

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