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Cloud flows

The new Automate work button in Excel Online makes it easier than ever to automate tasks and run processes from Excel running on Windows desktop and Mac devices. This allows users to automate repetitive tasks, reduce errors, and boost productivity with just a few clicks, all without leaving Excel, which makes it easy to respond to customers' needs and improves satisfaction.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Aug 16, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Cloud flows

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : Apr 2025

Included in:
Power Automate
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Dec 2024
Sep 25, 2024
Cloud flows

Makers can quickly create useful flows from the Automate tab in Excel. Excel is one of the most popular data tools in the world, with hundreds of millions of people using it for work and personal purposes across various industries. It has advanced features for teamwork, simplicity, flexibility, and automation. Power Automate simplifies the automation of tasks and processes from Excel.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Aug 16, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:

Enabled for:
Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Cloud flows

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Oct 28, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : ---

Included in:

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Sep 2024
Mar 15, 2024
Cloud flows

You can boost productivity with calendar-related templates to get ideas for scenarios you might be interested in.

Available to:
Users
Last updated:
Aug 16, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:

Enabled for:
Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Cloud flows

You can use a central consolidated view to monitor and understand the executions across cloud and desktop flows.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 07, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jun 5, 2024
General Availability : Jan 2025

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Jun 2024
Removed general availability date
Jul 17, 2024
Cloud flows

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Oct 28, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability : ---

Included in:

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Mar 2024
Aug 25, 2023
Cloud flows

Makers can create, edit, and fix their Power Automate expressions by expressing their requirements in natural language. They can save a lot of time building expressions manually by invoking Copilot through this feature.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 2024
General Availability : Mar 2025

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Aug 2024
General availability date moved to Sep 2024
May 17, 2024
Copilot for Power Automate

Copilot can provide better and more accurate answers to questions.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Oct 28, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Copilot for Power Automate

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Sep 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Apr 25, 2024
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Copilot for Power Automate

You can ask Copilot questions related to Power Automate documentation, and your flows, or ask Copilot to edit your flow. Copilot can now understand your intent more accurately. This improves your productivity and finding answers quickly while building your flows.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Oct 28, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Copilot for Power Automate

Copilot provides you with the ability to ask product related questions using natural language and receive prompt, precise answers, eliminating the need for time-consuming searches and waiting for support responses. This feature increases your productivity and allows you to have uninterrupted focus while developing your flows.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Oct 14, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 12, 2023
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2023 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Copilot for Power Automate

You can enhance efficiency and save valuable time and resources by using natural language and AI to generate the code in the scripting actions in Power Automate for desktop. This added capability allows you to describe your desired scripts and have AI automatically generate the necessary code for you. By doing so, you can streamline your flows automation and reduce the time and the effort required to write code for simple tasks, such as running PowerShell, VB, CMD scripts or executing SQL statements.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Sep 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 12, 2023
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2023 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Copilot for Power Automate

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Sep 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 6, 2023
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2023 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Copilot for Power Automate

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Oct 30, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 29, 2024
General Availability : Jan 2025

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2023 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


General availability date moved to Jan 2025
Oct 30, 2024
Copilot for Power Automate

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Oct 28, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Sep 2, 2024
General Availability : Mar 2025

Included in:
Power Automate
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Desktop flows

You can now build desktop flows in your preferred color mode. Choose between the default mode and dark mode to reduce eye strain and improve focus.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : ---

Included in:

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Desktop flows

The automation center provides comprehensive automation monitoring experiences across Power Automate flows, infused with the power of AI and Copilot. It provides in-depth monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for both experienced makers and citizen developers, as well as members of the Center of Excellence.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Aug 16, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: May 21, 2024
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Desktop flows

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : Apr 2025

Included in:
Power Automate
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Jul 2024
Jul 01, 2024
Desktop flows

Copilot in automation center provides a multi-skill experience enabling users to ask questions about cloud flow and desktop flow activity, work queues, and even features of Power Automate. With Copilot, unlock a deeper understanding of cloud flow trends, statuses, and performance by simply asking questions in natural language.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: May 21, 2024
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Desktop flows

The automation center is available in the Power Automate portal and offers a comprehensive automation monitoring experience infused with the power of AI. Maximize efficiency and focus on high-impact desktop flow automation with Copilot's insightful analysis of desktop flow run history.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: May 21, 2024
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Desktop flows

The automation center is available in the Power Automate portal and offers a comprehensive automation monitoring experience infused with the power of AI. With Copilot's ability to answer questions about work queue statuses and handling times, you can enhance processing throughput and resiliency as well as understand and prevent SLA breaches.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Oct 28, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: May 21, 2024
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Desktop flows

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Aug 16, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: May 21, 2024
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Desktop flows

This feature enhances troubleshooting efficiency when desktop automation is stuck or slow. Near real-time logging allows for tracking the progress of desktop automation at a granular level, without having to wait for the process to complete.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 08, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : ---

Included in:

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Dec 2024
Nov 08, 2024
Desktop flows

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Oct 30, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Sep 15, 2024
General Availability : Jan 2025

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Feb 2024 General availability date moved to Mar 2024
Oct 16, 2023
Desktop flows

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability : ---

Included in:
Power Automate
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Jan 2025
Oct 21, 2024
Desktop flows

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Oct 27, 2024
General Availability : Feb 2025

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Process mining

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 11, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Sep 22, 2024
General Availability : Dec 2024

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history
Process mining

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.

Available to:
Admins | Makers
Last updated:
Nov 20, 2024

Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 2024
General Availability : Mar 2025

Included in:
Power Automate
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
Change history


Public preview date moved to Dec 2024 General availability date moved to Mar 2025
Nov 05, 2024