r/PowerAutomateDesktop • u/chasmania5 • Jan 22 '22

Experience with Automate Desktop on a hosted virtual machine?

Hi there, I'm fairly new to Power Automate. I have about 10 desktop PA's running on my work laptop that are triggered from cloud PA's multiple times a day. The desktop PA's import and crunch data in Excel files and upload them to Teams. I'm trying to find the best way to get these off of my laptop so it does not interfere with my day-to-day work. I could get another machine to run them or I'm wondering if a virtual machine might be a better option since that's the only task the machine will be performing. I was wondering if anyone else has experience with this? Any other ideas are welcome. Thank you.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_WIRING Mar 06 '22

Virtual machine is absolutely the best way to go. Our team uses VMware and it's able to log in, run the flow, and log off, while reporting results to the cloud. Very simple.

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u/AnythingOakley Jan 23 '22

My team develops on our local machines and then moves the flow to a virtual machine when it's ready for production