26 upcoming features included in release plans
You can create, edit, and fix your Power Automate expressions by expressing your requirements in natural language. You can save a lot of time building expressions manually by invoking Copilot through this feature.
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Public preview date moved to Aug 2024 General availability date moved to Sep 2024 |
May 17, 2024 |
You can use a central consolidated view to monitor and understand the executions across cloud and desktop flows.
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Public preview date moved to Jun 2024 Removed general availability date |
Jul 17, 2024 |
Today, admins have difficulty finding and reassigning orphaned flows, and changing flows is done individually. This feature gives admins more visibility and lower risk through active management of their automation estate.
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Public preview date moved to Mar 2024 |
Aug 25, 2023 |
Makers can search for and select from connectors action in cloud flows quickly and more efficiently.
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General availability date moved to Jan 2025 |
Dec 06, 2024 |
You can avoid writing complex OData queries with a simplified condition action-like editor to filter items.
This feature simplifies the license assignment process for admins and enables a governed self-serve mechanism for premium feature access. Admins don't always know who needs a license and why. They need to understand which users are using Power Automate and require a premium license. They can rely on Power Automate intelligent license recommendations to provide them with a list of users who will benefit from having a premium license.
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Public preview date moved to Sep 2024 |
Mar 15, 2024 |
Instead of building out complex rules-based processes from beginning to end, you work with AI to inject intelligent activity orchestration from your cloud flow. You create intent-based generative actions where the large language model (LLM) considers all the resources available to it and dynamically selects the most appropriate actions and sequence of these actions to achieve the desired outcome. This allows for more dynamic automation and saves you time.
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Public preview date moved to Dec 2024 |
Sep 25, 2024 |
You can now create a flow description by the press of a button without having to open the flow and read the actions inside it.
A new AI-powered suggestion feature in Power Automate for desktop provides you with the next best action for your workflow creation, by constantly analyzing your workflow and suggesting the most appropriate action. By leveraging this feature, you can automate repetitive tasks quicker and more efficiently, thus freeing up time to focus on higher valued work.
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General availability date moved to Jan 2025 |
Oct 30, 2024 |
Improve your monitoring story by simply asking the copilot in natural language about past flow runs, machines and other related data. This feature will provide advanced operational visibility, without the need to build and deploy custom reports with a predefined set of queries and reports. The copilot may derive insights you wouldn't have uncovered otherwise.
Copilot now contains the capability to provide remediation guidance to flow errors and offer to fix them for you. You can accept the changes or revert to the original and modify the flow as desired.
The AI Recorder in Power Automate for desktop revolutionizes task automation by allowing users to simply record and explain their tasks using their voice and showing a task. This intuitive feature not only saves time but also leads to improved productivity and streamlined operations for businesses.
Maximize your automation efficiency with the automation center in the Power Automate portal. Copilot's AI-powered analysis helps you focus on high-impact desktop flows by providing insightful run history trends and failure identification.
The automation center in the Power Automate portal offers comprehensive AI-powered automation monitoring. Copilot answers questions about work queue statuses and handling times, helping you enhance processing throughput, resiliency, and prevent SLA breaches.
Use Copilot's comprehensive understanding of Power Automate to explore new possibilities and potentially optimize your workflows. Boost your productivity by getting answers to your questions regarding features like conditions, approvals, and flow recovery.
Users can run desktop flows using a hosted machine group connected to their own virtual network (VNet) in order to execute RPA jobs that require access to on-premises networks.
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Public preview date moved to Feb 2024 General availability date moved to Mar 2024 |
Oct 16, 2023 |
You can now enhance the sharing experience for desktop flows by embedding connection references. This feature allows you to control what you share with co-owners, ensuring seamless execution of flows containing connector operations.
You can now run a child desktop flow in parallel with its parent flow. This feature helps handle unexpected popups in the target application that could block the parent flow. By running a child flow in parallel, you can monitor and manage these popups, ensuring the parent flow continues smoothly. This improvement addresses the limitation of the current concurrency policy, which only allows one flow per machine at a time.
In many organizations, each machine must have a unique user session. This implies that they can't use machine groups. A list of credentials will allow them to use unique credentials for each of their machines. For organizations that want to use automations executed on agent machines, there's no option to define mapping between machine(s) and agent(s). The list of credentials will allow an attended automation to the machine of the right agent.
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Public preview date moved to Jan 2025 |
Oct 21, 2024 |
Microsoft Entra hybrid join using custom virtual networks (VNETs) with hosted machine groups enables your hosted machine group bots to enroll in both your on-premises Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft Entra ID. This feature is useful in scenarios where automation requires authentication using an AD account, or when devices need to be managed using Group Policy (GPO).
With the VM (virtual machine) image capture capability, you can capture a VM image that you customized on a hosted machine. This VM image can then be used as a template for other hosted machines or hosted machine groups. This capability enables you to create your own reusable custom VM image in Power Automate.
Configuring Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for your work queues enables Power Automate to prioritize running work queue items that are close to the SLA deadline. It also allows Power Automate to highlight work queue items at risk of SLA breach and recommend actions to prevent SLA breaches.
This feature enhances security by allowing the use of certificates stored in Azure Key Vault for connecting to Windows sessions on desktop flow machines. Certificate-based authentication credentials can meet Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) requirements.
This feature is for Power Automate for desktop users that automate UI and web interaction scenarios. It improves success rates and handles cases where UI elements can't be found.
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Public preview date moved to Jul 2024 |
Jul 01, 2024 |
Process simulations enable you to simulate the impact of proposed changes in your business processes. Modeled changes include resource management and updates in a process flow. A process simulation compares performance and financial key performance indicators (KPIs) between original and simulated processes.
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General availability date moved to Jan 2025 |
Nov 21, 2024 |
The current Power Automate Process Mining app requires you to download the process model to the client computer. This download puts specific requirements on the hardware resources on the client computer. To unblock your resources, you can use the Azure Process Intelligence Analytic Service instead. With this service, you can use a lightweight desktop app with a process intelligence engine without the need to download the process model. The functionality of the thin desktop application offers features that are identical to the previous full desktop app. This allows you to scale faster, it supports larger process models, and doesn't put specific requirements on your computers.
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Public preview date moved to Dec 2024 General availability date moved to Mar 2025 |
Nov 05, 2024 |