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Experiencing Challenges Transitioning to 'Machines' from Gateway with Multiple Environments. Any Solutions?

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I'm facing challenges with my desktop flows as we make the transition to using "Machines" instead of the gateway connection. All of my flows are failing, and the connections I make to the machine are broken. Currently, our flow development takes place in the DEV environment within a solution. Subsequently, we export this solution to the managed PROD environment. However, the machine runtime app necessitates specifying the environment for running flows.

Flows that appear well-connected in the DEV environment lose their connections once we transfer everything to PROD.

My initial thought is to create an "unmanaged layer" in PROD, where I can edit all the flows and include the "Machine." However, this approach seems less than optimal. Am I overlooking a better solution? Is there a way to set up the machine in DEV and then seamlessly transfer it to PROD using these new settings?

These are all for existing flows.

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Note: This is for cloud flows trying to trigger a desktop flow.
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If you only have one machine for two environments, the best way I found to do the same is having the machine registered to PROD and then also have the Gateway installed and using a Gateway connection in DEV. When you have both connections created properly in both environments, migrations will not fail and they will pick up the correct connection. It is more important to have a stable and robust connection in PROD anyway, so use the direct-to-machine connection there.
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