Introduction to Power Automate for Desktop

Hey Everyone,

This is the beginning of many more videos to come about Power Automate Desktop (PAD) flows. Desktop flows broaden the existing robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities in Power Automate and enable you to automate all repetitive desktop processes. Automating is quicker and easier than ever with the new intuitive Power Automate desktop flow designer using the prebuilt drag-and-drop actions or recording your own desktop flows to run later.

The key items I'll be covering are:

• 1) Overview of Power Automate Desktop
• 2) Overview of attended and un-attended
• 3) Installation of the Power Automate Desktop for Windows 10
  • a. Console overview
  • b. Flow designer overview.
• 4) Creation of a simple attended Power Automate Desktop flow

Table of contents

Introduction

Overview of Power Automate Desktop 00:37

• Power Automate Desktop Architecture 01:28
  • Attended and Un-Attended flows 02:45
  • Licensing options 04:35

Windows 11 built-in Power Automate for desktop 06:02

• New Home page 06:45
  • Pay-As-You-Go environment 07:38
  • Additional settings option 08:19

Installation of the Power Automate Desktop for Windows 10 09:30

• Release updates of Power Automate for desktop 10:22

My flows 11:28

• Examples 12:08

Console 13:02

-Menus 14:03

• Actions 14:42
  • Variables, UI elements & Images 16:53

Building a simple attended RPA flow 17:58

• Select a folder 18:03
  • Launch an Excel spreadsheet 20:57
  • Display message 21:57
  • Close the Excel spreadsheet 23:07

Test the flow from the console 23:50

Run the flow as a production scenario 25:08