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Connection error after changing Windows password

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I have a desktop flow, triggered at a specific time in a cloud flow. I recently had to change my Windows login, and now my flow fails because it cannot connect. I have hunted around for a way to change this, even logged off and back into both the online and the desktop PA, but it still fails. The connection shows my laptop machine (that it runs on), so I have no idea how to change this. I have not yet rebooted, but that's on the table for today.

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VJR 7,635 on at

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Since you are using the Cloud Flow to call the Desktop Flow you must be using Gateways. Have you tried re-configuring the data gateway?

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No, I apparently do not have a gateway. I have a data connection, which can either point to my laptop or my VM, both of which have the PAD machine connector running. So from my web login, I can see all my desktop flows. I've been able to have a desktop flow trigger every morning (weekdays), it just started the connection error thing after I changed my Windows login password. I did try pointing it to the VM, and it's supposed to trigger in another 15 minutes or so, so we'll see what happens there.

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Well, the desktop flow triggered. This flow runs some console apps, redirects standard out into a log file. Something failed, the logs were empty, but the apps did run. So I think the VM may have a permissions problem. I'll direct the flow back to my laptop and try it again.

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I set it back to use my connection to my laptop rather than VM, and was able to run the flow with no problems. I also tried to run the flow from PAD on the VM, and while that worked, the console apps themselves did not work. So, now I know...

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charles_ross_oh 91 on at

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Use the Powershell module CredentialManager

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