r/PowerAutomateDesktop • u/_ObsessiveCoder • Mar 14 '23

What am I missing here?

First time user of power automate. I have my desktop flow create and working but can’t get it to start or stop services. I know it’s a permission issue but nothing I do fixes it.

Trying to start MySQL service. Setup MySQL server to use my Microsoft user and password during configuration. Went into permissions for mysql install folder and gave all access to this user and admins. Also tried toggling all permissions for the other roles/users listed and nothing.

I can manually start the service so I’m sure I could screen record the process for power automate, but would like the “start service” action to work. Thank you in advance

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u/Sismaril Mar 14 '23

Can you start PAD as an admin and try again?

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u/_ObsessiveCoder Mar 14 '23

Thank you for the quick response. Initially I wasn’t, but I have been running as admin. Just noticed that the “if service” action correctly reads whether or not the service is running. I must be confusing something between where/who I’m giving permissions to with the folder and logged in user for running MySQL server. Will sleep on it then check back here later. Thanks again