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I have a reminder set to send a message to my Teams Power Automate Chat every Monday around 3pm. I did not dismiss the reminde on Monday/Tuesday, and I woke up Wednesday morning to the reminder being sent in my chat every 10 seconds or so. When I dismiss, snooze, and deleted the automation, it hasn't stopped sending the reminder. It is incessant. The only solution I've found is blocking the bot conversation, but that means I'll lose all of the other reminders, automated flows I have.

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Hi @AB-22041348-0,

Why this happens

The reminder flow is usually based on a Recurrence trigger.
If the trigger fires while Teams or Power Automate is lagging, it can enqueue hundreds or thousands of pending runs.
Deleting, disabling, or snoozing the reminder does not cancel already queued runs.
Teams then keeps delivering the messages every few seconds until the queue drains.

This is a platform issue, not user error.

What usually fixes it (in order)

1. Disable the flow at the environment level

Go to Power Automate portal, not Teams:

Find the flow
Toggle it Off
Wait several minutes
Refresh the page

If the flow no longer exists but messages continue, it means runs were already queued.

2. Cancel all running and queued runs

If the flow is still visible:

Open the flow
Go to Run history
Cancel any Running or Waiting runs

This is the most effective fix if you can still access the flow.

3. Sign out of Teams completely

This helps only after the queue starts clearing:

Fully sign out of Teams (not just close)
Wait 5–10 minutes
Sign back in

This forces Teams to resync bot delivery state.

4. Temporary workaround (what you already did)

Blocking the Power Automate Chat bot stops the flood, but you’re right that this also stops all other flow notifications. This should only be a last resort.

When nothing works

If messages are still firing hours later, the only real fix is Microsoft intervention.

Open a support ticket and reference:

The specific flow ID (you’ll see it in the error history)
That this is a runaway recurrence trigger in Power Automate → Teams
Request backend queue purge

Support can clear the stuck executions server‑side. End users cannot.

How to prevent this in the future

For recurring reminders:

Add a Terminate action at the end
Avoid very tight recurrence schedules
Add a control condition (for example, only send if Now is within a defined window)
Consider using a scheduled cloud flow with safeguards, not a simple recurrence

Bottom line

This is a Power Automate backend queue issue
Deleting the flow does not stop already queued runs
Cancelling runs or Microsoft support is the real solution
You’re not the only one who’s hit this

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