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i need assistance with getting automate to start a desktop flow on a virtual machine.

can you help with the following:

what is the domain

username is my email right? and password.

do i have to use a gateway for this?

many thanks

AI14

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UshaJyothiKasibhotla 225 Moderator on at

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User name is your machine name
Type who am I in cmd prompt then you will get user name
And password is your computer login password which you get while opening your laptop

Hope this helps
Usha

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Is this a personal machine or an organization computer? If it's a personal machine, @UshaJyothi20 has correctly mentioned that you should open the CMD window and just type in "whoami" and use the result as the domain/username.

You do not need a gateway to do this. Gateways for running desktop flows have been deprecated. They're used for different connectors. But what you do need is to run the Power Automate machine runtime app on your machine, login to it, and register the machine to an environment. When you've done that, you will be able to select the machine from the Machine or Machine Group drop-down menu. See her for a guide: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/manage-machines#register-a-new-machine

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/manage-machines#register-a-new-machine

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I need this for a virtual machine

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Hi,
it’s for a virtual machine not personal. Would I need the same steps? Also I need it to run unattended.
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You can still use the whoami command to get the user name and domain, if you don't know what to type in there.

And yes, you would still need to set up the Power Automate machine runtime app and register it.

For unattended runs, you will need to purchase the Power Automate Process license and assign it to the environment.

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