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Limitation of managing Power Automate Desktop flows on the tenant

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We faced a limitation when planning a housekeeping process for PAD flows on the tenant. We have the same process for Cloud flows. But the next limitations make it impossible to create the same process for PAD:

  1. The PAD runs are created in Dataverse only for flows which are created using the license. Without the license, runs are not recorded at all.
  2. We can't get the list of actions which are used in the flow.
  3. We don't have a status for them to see whether they are premium or not.
  4. For getting details about cloud flows we can use flow actions (i.e. a lot of actions in groups ‘Power Automate Management’ and ‘Power Automate for Admins’). But there are no such actions for Power Automate Desktop. That means that we can't make a clean up process on the tenant and create a bulk deletion of the flows which are not needed any more.

Is there any way or workaround Microsoft can suggest to create a housekeeping process for PAD?
Is it in the roadmap?
Or what should we do if my organization wants to use the PAD flows, but there is no way to manage them?

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