Use Power Automate Desktop and Task Scheduler Together

Learn how to use the Windows Task Scheduler for your Power Automate Desktop robots. This video tutorial shows how to set up Task Scheduler, so you can use it for Power Automate Desktop orchestration.

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00:00 Create a Sample Power Automate Desktop Flow

00:38 Settings
Untick the Display confirmation dialog when invoking flows externally. And copy the URL to the Power Automate Desktop we created.

01:36 Task Scheduler
Create a folder for the Power Automate Desktop flows you want to schedule. Set up a task with a trigger and specify what flow you want to run.

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[M_Dolega]

I love the format straight to the point and all the steps explained in layman terms!

[richardbaron]

This is a game-changer for me, because of the way our IT dept lock down our computers, I can't create virtual machines or set up machine control. Many thanks for this awesome tip!

[sebastianschrder]

Amazing Anders, I have tried to do this long ago and had actually given up. Keep up your awesome work :)

[beeshepard]

Thank you! I've had issues getting remotely triggered desktop flows to run and this works great.

[arremangalapuerca]

Very useful. I'm definitely going to try this one out. Thank you👍

[Andrew_]

Hello, You forgot to mention that this solution works only for users that have Premium License in Power Automate Desktop.

[joylin]

Have tried and it did work!!! Thank you sooo much!!

[appsreviewer]

Oh that's what i never though about. Thank you for your brilliant tutorial

[MichaelRecht]

Nice tip, will try it in the next days!👍

[puneetsodhi]

Hi Anders, thank you so much for such amazing videos on Powerautomate ! I have one question, with this trick, does this mean we can run a flow in unattended mode without a premium license?

[balasabarishudayakumar]

This great awesome its more helpful, With Task scheduler can I do unattended? Can Task scheduler perform login to machine and run the process?

[MarceloNogueiraGoogle]

Great Video, thank you! Question: when running this way, after the flow finishes, the task in the task scheduler keeps on running. How to "tell" the task scheduler that the task has ended?

[mirrrvelll]

Great one! Question, can you run also a powershell script from scheduler with PA? and is it possible to do the same from Cloud?

[PaweW-tdwt]

Thank you for another great tip. I'm wondering which solution is better: triggering the flow from the cloud (which requires a premium license for both options).

[justin-share]

Love your sharing!! I have a conern with my project, I want to trigger the flow with the webhook, here is example flow: send json info from excel to webhook -> active flow -> result -> send json result to excel. Is it possible to start flow for this example? Thanks!

[realsacmon]

This is great .. found an issue that when you schedule desktop flow using task scheduler it prompts you to confirm input variables used. Can we schedule desktop flow with input variables without having the prompt to confirm input variables ?

[vtan]

GREAT work.

When you will demo PAD processing queue items (similar to UiPAth). I need info

[petaratanasov]

Thanks a lot for this video. Just one question: Do we need a license to use the MS Scheduler to run the dekstop flow as we need for cloud flow to trigger it or?

[debrawildansyah]

Hi Anders, thanks for the quick tutorial. I managed to do all that steps and my Power Automate automation ran perfectly. However, I noticed that the status of the automation still says "Running" even after the automation is completed. Would that affect my scheduled trigger for the next run? If it does, How do you make sure the status goes back to Ready?

[BrumCraft]

Hi Anders do you know if it's possible to trigger an Outlook VBA via Power Automate please? I can't seem to do it