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Power automate Desktop flow to run to all users pc

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I have an requirement where i have to create bot and in that bot there are 2 options current user name , and Current User IP Address , so when any user from org run or uses this bot and selects IP Address as option then flow will run and it will return current user IP address .This bot will be accessed by entire Organization. I have created this entire thing its running well on my system but when I ran this bot on other users pc its giving me my IP Address only not his , can basically it should return current user IP Address. So can you help me like how to do this .For this I have written Power Shell script as well and added that in desktop flow.

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Hello @Lalit88

How about PowerShell code as below?
[system.net.dns]::GetHostAddresses((hostname)) | where {$_.AddressFamily -eq "InterNetwork"} | select -ExpandProperty IPAddressToString

You should note that one or more IP addresses may be returned as a result.

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Hey thanks for reply, yes right one or more ip can be returned thats not an issue but there is the thing , just that who ever is using that flow that script should be executed on there pc.
suppose if you are using this bot and you request for current ip address then it should return your address and if you chosse to another option like Current User details then your user name it should return.
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How about running CMD, and sending IPCONFIG, then reading from CMD. It would look like this:

Copy the below text and paste it into your subflow. It should work:

Cmd.Open Directory: $'''C:''' Session=> CmdSession2
Cmd.Write Session: CmdSession2 Command: $'''ipconfig''' SendEnter: True
Cmd.Read Session: CmdSession2 CmdOutput=> CmdOutput
Text.RegexParseForFirstOccurrence Text: CmdOutput TextToFind: $'''IPv4\\ Address\\.\\ \\.\\ \\.\\ \\.\\ \\.\\ \\.\\ \\.\\ \\.\\ \\.\\ \\.\\ \\.\\ :\\ \\d\\d\\d\\.\\d\\d\\.\\d\\d\\.\\d\\d\\d''' StartingPosition: 0 IgnoreCase: False OccurrencePosition=> Position Match=> Match
Text.RegexParseForFirstOccurrence Text: Match TextToFind: $'''\\d\\d\\d\\.\\d\\d\\.\\d\\d\\.\\d\\d\\d''' StartingPosition: 0 IgnoreCase: False OccurrencePosition=> Position2 Match=> IPAddress

The PAD subflow should look like this after you paste:
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Hello @Lalit88

You can use below to get the current User Name or simply run "whoami" command.
[System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent().Name

Sorry to say, but I can't understand what you're trying to do in the flow...
Does that mean asking the user questions one by one and outputting the answers according to the selected option each time?
What is the relationship between IP addresses and usernames? What will eventually be output?

Thank you.
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Hi Let me explain it again
i have one power virtual chatbot where i have 3 options 1st one install MS office , 2nd IP Address, 3rd Current user Name, so when user selects any one option from this 3 I am running power automate desktop flow , suppose if i selects IP address it should return my current ip address , same way if any other selects IP Address as option it should give his/her ip address on there machine .
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Hello @Lalit88

Thanks for your additinal input.
So the actual trigger that kick start the desktop flow is Power Virtual Agents.

I myself have no experience and can't imagine how to launch a Power Automate Desktop flow from the Power Virtual Agents, is there any technical documentation regarding this topic?

How do we launch Power Automate Desktop flow on virtually every employee's PC?
Do they already have installed PAD software on their PCs? Also do they already have signed in to PAD with their own user account?

Are all employees' PCs registered in the Power Automate cloud as machines, as described in the documentation below?
Manage machines - Power Automate | Microsoft Docs
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You are in the Power Automate Desktop (PAD) forum; that is why you were getting PAD responses. You may have better luck in another forum.
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thanks but I found alternative to this problem
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thanks but I found alternative to this problem
i was able to run Desktop flow in using cloud