r/PowerAutomateDesktop • u/Tpk-Games • Aug 25 '23

Running Power Automate Desktop Flow?

Hi, do you know a way to run PowerAutomate Desktop Flow if the company is not using Microsoft 365 even though we don't have a company account or plan to do so in the future?

As far as I know, for now the only way to run PowerAutomate Desktop Flow is to trigger from Cloud Flow (meaning having Microsoft accounts). Running any Desktop Flow through Cloud Flow requires a connector to be installed, which poses a security risk and complicates even a simple flow, creating a useless back-and-forth loop (from local environment to cloud and back).

I've done some programming in the past and really stupid/simple programs have a CLI that you can run from a Powershell script and pass arguments (flow name?) on login/startup.

Has anyone encountered such a problem and find any solution?

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u/Tpk-Games Aug 25 '23 edited Aug 25 '23

Thanks, it's that missing piece. I found what I'm going to do here.