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Automate tasks with Power Automate Desktop for Windows 10—no additional cost

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In 2020, Microsoft Power Automate doubled down on its investments in the robotic process automation (RPA) space with the introduction of Microsoft Power Automate Desktop. We first introduced RPA in Power Automate at Microsoft Ignite in 2019, and we have seen tremendous growth with hundreds of thousands of organizations using Power Automate and taking billions of actions each month.

Approvals app now available on Microsoft Teams

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Approvals in Microsoft Teams, now generally available, allows you to easily create, manage, and share approvals.

Automate workflows with Power Automate connector for Updates in Microsoft Teams

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In this blog, you will learn how to use the Updates Power Automate connector – a feature that lets you create workflows with the Updates Teams app. You will also find out what you need to do before using this connector and how to set it up step by step.

Automate unstructured documents like contracts with AI Builder

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With Power Automate and AI Builder you can now easily automate extracting information from unstructured documents such as contracts, statement of works, contracts, statement of work, financial or medical reports, publications, and many others.

December 2023 update of Power Automate for desktop

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Power Automate for desktop comes with new additions in 2023 December’s release, including the support of input variables to a run URL and the introduction of Power Fx to desktop flows.

Design Your Own Swag contest ends today — submit your shirt!

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It’s the final day to submit your fun and functional t-shirt ideas to the Design Your Own Swag contest! You can still Kudo your favorite t-shirt designs until April 13, 2017. The designs with the most Kudos and Twitter likes will be reviewed by a final judging panel, and their selections will be printed for the Data Insights Summit on June 12 – 13, 2017, and given away as part of Flow community events over the next year.

Want to help shape the future of Flow? Join our User Research Panel

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Your feedback is important to us! Join our user research panel to give your feedback to our UX research team and help design the future of Microsoft Flow.

Introducing the Power Automate plugin for ChatGPT

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The Power Automate Plugin for ChatGPT allows you to create and run flows directly from within ChatGPT. Use the new Skills connector and Run from copilot connector to author flows that can be called from ChatGPT that leverage the over 1000+ connectors in Power Automate.

August 2023 update of Power Automate for desktop

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Power Automate for desktop comes with new additions in 2023 August’s release, including the introduction of a new logging action, a new setting to disable uploading error screenshots, and the ability to edit certain variable values during debugging.

June 2023 update of Power Automate for desktop

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Power Automate for desktop comes with new additions in 2023 June’s release, including the introduction of work queue actions in preview and OneDrive for Business actions.

Mars automates enterprise IT processes using Power Automate

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Mars, Incorporated, is a global manufacturer of confectionery, pet food and food products, and provides animal care services. Mars has been a proud, family-owned business for over 100 years with over 130,000 employees spread across the globe. There are several teams at Mars responsible for supporting the daily global enterprise processes. One of these teams is the Digital Demand Engineering team with employees based in North America and Europe. In this team, a Collaboration Architect transformed several enterprise use cases by automating their processes with Power Automate cloud flows.

Automation through conversation with Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents

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Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power Virtual Agents are two powerful capabilities that are addressing an increased trend to automate workflows and conversations through conversational bots.

Admins can now manage RPA automations with ease using Data Loss Prevention for desktop flows (Preview)

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As organizations begin to grow and scale RPA it is critical to do so in a responsible way. To support the ability for enterprise admins to apply managements and controls over automations, we are happy to announce that data loss prevention (DLP) for desktop flows is now in preview.

Mine your business with Process and Task mining

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 In this blog we will explain what Process mining and Task mining are and how to use them to discover what is going on in your organization and how to improve your operational processes.  

Manage your Power Automate Desktop flows using Web APIs

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In this post, we will walk through how you can use the Web API capabilities of Power Automate to manage the Power Automate Desktop flows.

9 New Independent Publisher Connectors in January 2023

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We are excited to announce that we have 9 new Independent Publisher connectors that were published in January 2023. Read about the connectors, learn about the talented publishers, and take a look at the connector files!

Announcing new releases for Microsoft Power Automate hosted RPA

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Microsoft Power Automate now supports two hosted RPA scenarios that provide developers and COE admins a simple way to setup and scale automations. Using Microsoft hosted infrastructure running in Azure, Power Automate hosted RPA empowers our customers to run RPA quickly and at scale while freeing up resources and reducing costs.

7 New Verified Connectors and 7 Updates released in October 2022

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We are happy to announce that we have launched 7 new verified connectors and 7 updates in October 2022. Partners are excited about the release of their connectors and have shared an overview of their services and feature updates. Read the post to learn more about the capabilities of these services.

Power Automate helps you transform faster than ever before

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Now your organizations can use Power Automate to more easily identify, prioritize, build and measure the return on investment for these automations. Watch the Microsoft Mechanics walkthrough, Faster Results with Power Automate, to learn about the latest innovations we’ve made to help scale automation across your enterprise.

Introducing the Automation Kit for Power Platform

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The Automation Kit for Power Platform is designed to help organizations manage, govern, and scale automation platform adoption based on industry best practices. The Automation Kit for Power Platform is now available to the public as an open source GitHub project.

Run multiple concurrent UI flows on a single Windows Server device – High Density

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We are excited to announce that the June release brings support for multi-user sessions for Windows Server. This will allow you to run multiple UI Flows in parallel on a single Windows Server machine.

Announcing support for Office Scripts in the Excel Online (Business) connector

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The addition of the new “Run script” action to the Excel connector dramatically expands its applications and capabilities, far beyond what was previously possible.

Automate the digital workspace with Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Teams

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Learn about the new connectors, triggers and more available with Power Automate and Microsoft Teams. You can streamline how you work and launch a workflow directly from Teams, expand automations within Teams through new connecter updates, and, automate with Dataverse.

Automate Citrix remote apps and remote desktops with the July 2020 update to UI flows in Power Automate

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We are happy to announce that Citrix Workspace users can now test in Public Preview our new feature which will allow you to record and playback actions from your Citrix remote applications and desktop.

Connect directly to machines and new machine management for desktop flows

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Previously, you needed to install and configure an on-premises data gateway to trigger your desktop flows from the cloud. We are excited to announce that Power Automate Desktop can now connect your machine directly to the cloud and run desktop flows without the use of a gateway. We have also introduced new machine-management capabilities to help scale your robotic process automation (RPA). Try them out starting today, available in preview.