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Can Service account be used Power Automate Desktop?

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Posted on by aaroh_bits 416

Hi experts, 

 

I have a client's query as follows: 

 

  • They want to Power Desktop Desktop with a $40 per-use-per-month plan and an attended license. This user is User A 
  • The organization has a simple flow and assigned User A the per-user plan. 
  • User A wishes to delegate a PAYG plan for troubleshooting to another user (User B).  

    Q: So the organization will pay 1 $40 per-use-per-month + 1 PAYG plan with $0.60 with 10 flow runs = $46 per month. 
    Is this calculation correct? 

  • They need to schedule a process and that schedule works at 4 am GMT every day. They will be leverage services account in an Azure VM. 
    Q: is it possible to use service account for Power Automate desktop? 

 

Please advice. 

 

@Pstork1 @Expiscornovus  @MarconettiMarco 

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    Pstork1 69,485 Most Valuable Professional on at

    That depends on how they are scheduling the process.  But if they are scheduling it to run on an Azure VM at 4 am then it sounds like that is an unattended scenario, not an attended one. There are ways to run the Power Automate Desktop as a different user by using the RunAs settings, but that is normally to do security elevation.  As I said it sounds like what they actually want is an unattended run.

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    aaroh_bits 416 on at

    @Pstork1 ...thank you so much for your valuable input. Appreciate it.  

     

     

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