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Even though the M365 office app can SSO using ADFS, only PowerAutomateDesktop just doesn't materialize. Specification? Has anyone been able to SSO with ADFS as well?
Nope, it does not support SSO, as far as I know. It runs separately from the Windows services and you can easily sign in to PAD with a different user account than the one signed into the machine. Why would that matter anyway?
Thank you.The reason why we want to realize SSO is that we do not disclose the account password to users in operation.
Do they need to actually have access to the flows in PAD? If it's launched from the cloud, PAD does not need to be signed into to call the flows. All you need is to have PAD installed and the machine registered to an environment via the machine runtime app.
This is possible. I just helped my customer do it through the use of this registry key:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/governance#allow-users-to-sign-in-to-power-automate-for-desktop-using-web-account-manager-wam
My customers use smart cards so they don't know their passwords, but were still getting prompted to enter a username and password. They enabled the registry entry described in the link above and it fixed their issue. Hopefully it does the trick for you too!
I really appreciate your suggestion to test this out.
I tested the registry key you provided, and as a result, the account input (no password required) is prompted during the first login. From the second time onwards, SSO works.Thank you so much for your help!
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