I have now created a Scheduled Cloud Flow, provided the recurrence details, configured On-Premises Gateway, selected the desired desktop flow and selected 'Unattended' mode. The requirement is to schedule that desktop flow to run in unattended mode at early morning hours. If you make it a habit to sign out after you’ve worked on your desktop flow in Power Automate Desktop, you should not get this error anymore. I have built a desktop flow using Power Automate Desktop. To avoid this type of error, make sure that you always “Sign out” of the VM, not “Lock” or “Disconnect” which are also options. There is a user session on the target machine.

In the case of unattended mode, it can happen that you get the error “There’s an issue starting your desktop flow. The newest way to connect Power Automate in the cloud to the software on a machine (virtual machine or desktop/laptop of a user) is using machines & direct connectivity. No installation of software is required.Ī desktop flow only runs on a machine of a user (attended RPA) or on virtual machines (unattended RPA) using the Power Automate Desktop software.

This Blog will explain more about how to call the desktop flow using Power Automate.

From there you can call the desktop flow. First of all, a little bit of vocabulary:Ī cloud flow runs only in the Power Automate cloud. To schedule a desktop flow you will need to create a regular recurrence flow in Power Automate. Power Automate desktop flows are triggered from Power Automate in the cloud and can return multiple types of indications that something is not right.

Power automate desktop run on schedule