How to Setup Power Automate Desktop on Virtual Machines

This step-by-step tutorial teaches you how to set up Power Automate Desktop on an Azure virtual machine. You will be guided through creating an Azure virtual machine, installing the Power Automate Machine Runtime, creating a Power Automate Desktop flow, and running Desktop Flows from Power Automate Cloud.

By the end of the video, you will have the knowledge and skills to automate your tasks and improve your workflow with Power Automate Desktop on a virtual machine.

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00:00 Intro

00:13 Set Up an Azure Virtual Machine

7:53 Set Up Power Automate Machine Runtime
You will learn how to install the Power Automate Machine Runtime on your virtual machine, essential for running Power Automate Desktop flows. First, you must open a browser on your virtual machine and search for the Power Automate Desktop installer. After downloading and running the installer, you will select the Machine Runtime app to install. We will also show you how to enable browser extensions and Java for UI automation.

11:38 Create a Power Automate Desktop flow
Create a simple Power Automate Desktop flow to test that everything works correctly.

15:18 Run Desktop Flows from Power Automate Cloud
In Power Automate Cloud, use the Run a flow built with Power Automate Desktop action to start the Desktop flow on the virtual machine. Configure the machine settings and run mode.

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[andersjensenorg]

I made a Discord, so we can network and solve RPA problems together 😊

[ayjal]

Hi Anders I have been watching all your tutorials and love them
Excellent I had one question can you please share the templates that you created in each of the tutorials?

[kannank]

Hi Anders, Excellent video. I have a question.. the desktop flow that does the web scrapping was built on your computer. For unattended bot, Do I need to deploy the package from local computer to Azure VM for this automation to work?

[XeniaD]

Hi andre! thank you for the great tutorial ! i would like to ask you, if i schedule an auto on and auto turn off for the VM, can it run the flows, refrehs my power bi? etc, in case i go on vacation, whats the best option would you recommend?

[nithishkumarg]

Hi Anders, sir, I have a doubt about whether we can check whether the power automation agent is running or not on the virtual desktop.? using power automate desktop flow actions.

[tobypa]

Great video, how about starting the VM when the bot it triggered? Are we able to add an ps (Invoke-AzResourceAction?) which will first start the vm, wait until it is running and them start the edge browser. Afterwards shut down the VM, This would save many DKKs 🙂. Perhaps you already recorded something like this?

[baliflorent]

I want to make a flow that will classify pdf, word, excel documents in different folders. How can I trigger the flow when the main folder just receive a new file. The file will automatically be classified in it's appropriate folder. The question is to trigger a flow when a folder status change.

[alexl]

If the PAD flow involves opening a large excel file and manipulating it, is there still no need to download PAD on the VM?

[mkultrafan]

I am using an M1 Mac. Have UTM installed running windows 11. Just installed power automate and getting an error when trying to install an on-premises data gateway. Suspecting it has to do with port / firewall issue but can’t pin point exactly. Any idea how to solve this issue?

[mani]

Thanks for the video.. will it run if i disconnect the remote connection? Will the session be alive

[taciusa]

I have a MAC m1 running Power automate on parallels (virtual machine), but unfortunatelly it is absurdly slow. Im thinking about using an azure VM, my workflows are really simple, which is the cheapest VM u think we can use?

Thank you

[allthecommonsense]

Does the PL-500 exam actually have questions about *creating an Azure virtual machine* to use Power Automate?

[ankita]

Can we use Service Principal to login into this VM?

[steve_aventura]

I don’t understand the video. I thought it was about running PAD on a virtual machine. But you are using Power Automate, not PAD. Please explain