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Power Automate - Using Flows
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Stability of a Power Automate Desktop flow in Un-attended setup(in VM's)

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Posted on 3 May 2023 14:59:27 by 4

Hello Everyone,

 

The Brief:

We have few processes running on UiPath as attended bots, got a requirement for migrating those to Power Automate.

All the processes are complex, which includes UI automations, pdf extractions, excel manipulations, invoking python and VBA scripts.

For few of the processes the web applications do not have api capabilities and we should program it as surface automation.

 

Questions

1. If we run desktop flows( which includes surface automations) inside VM's as un-attended (cloud flows triggering a desktop flow), how stable/feasible power automate is?, because we have seen UI element identification errors in UiPath few years before when we used to run the bot inside VM's.

 

2. If we only use Power Automate desktop, is this a better option than running surface automation inside VM's?

 

Expecting honest feedbacks and opinions....

 

Thank you.

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  • whitebeerd Profile Picture
    2 on 11 Jul 2024 at 05:57:06
    Re: Stability of a Power Automate Desktop flow in Un-attended setup(in VM's)
    Do you have insights for this? Did you figure out if surface automation is stable enough in powerapps?
  • GouthamV Profile Picture
    4 on 08 May 2023 at 06:58:38
    Re: Stability of a Power Automate Desktop flow in Un-attended setup(in VM's)

    Hi,

     

    Nope, it's not image based.

  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,014 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 06 May 2023 at 10:45:38
    Re: Stability of a Power Automate Desktop flow in Un-attended setup(in VM's)

    Hi @GouthamV 

     

    To confirm, does surface automation meant image automation ?

     

     

  • GouthamV Profile Picture
    4 on 04 May 2023 at 05:10:06
    Re: Stability of a Power Automate Desktop flow in Un-attended setup(in VM's)

    @Nived_Nambiar  Hi Nived, Do you have any insights on the above post?

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