web
You’re offline. This is a read only version of the page.
close
Skip to main content

Announcements

News and Announcements icon
Community site session details

Community site session details

Session Id :
Power Platform Community / Forums / Power Automate / Stability of a Power A...
Power Automate
Unanswered

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

(0) ShareShare
ReportReport
Posted on 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.

Categories:
I have the same question (0)
  • GouthamV Profile Picture
    4 on at

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

  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @GouthamV 

     

    To confirm, does surface automation meant image automation ?

     

     

  • GouthamV Profile Picture
    4 on at

    Hi,

     

    Nope, it's not image based.

  • whitebeerd Profile Picture
    2 on at
    Do you have insights for this? Did you figure out if surface automation is stable enough in powerapps?

Under review

Thank you for your reply! To ensure a great experience for everyone, your content is awaiting approval by our Community Managers. Please check back later.

Helpful resources

Quick Links

Season of Sharing Community Challenge Winners!

Congratulations to our community stars!

Kudos to our 2025 Community Spotlight Honorees

Expanding mentorship, skilling, and AI innovation

Congratulations to the June Top 10 Community Leaders!

These are the community rock stars!

Leaderboard > Power Automate

#1
David_MA Profile Picture

David_MA 262 Super User 2026 Season 1

#2
11manish Profile Picture

11manish 167

#3
Haque Profile Picture

Haque 154

Last 30 days Overall leaderboard