Troubleshooting Copilot can assist users with a new feature that can rectify errors in your cloud flow. These corrections are based on issues that arise during authoring and debugging and can be implemented to amend your flow within the Power Automate designer.

This feature is automatically turned on for makers with access to Copilot.

You don't need to know technical aspects to use this feature. When you want to add an action at a certain place, you see an option to describe to inline Copilot what actions you want in natural language. Then, inline Copilot creates these actions for you automatically.

Without contextual Copilot, you must describe to Copilot where exactly you want those new steps being added to in the chat window, which can be very time consuming.

This feature is automatically turned on for makers who have access to Copilot.

You don't need to know technical aspects to use this feature. You see the auto-generated summary at the top of the page. You can expand it to read more details or select the download button to download it as a PDF file.

This feature saves you time by automatically creating flow documentation for members without access to the flow. Also, other members might not know how to read a raw flow definition.

Power Automate for desktop now lets you automate browsers without requiring an extension. The Launch browser actions include a new option to choose between extension-based automation and direct browser control, which uses native browser drivers for interactions.

Additionally, an advanced failover setting ensures reliability by automatically switching to the next available method (for example, from direct control to extension) if the default method fails at runtime.

This update simplifies deployment, improves automation speed, and reduces points of failure for both individual makers and enterprise IT teams.

VM (virtual machine) image capture allows you to reuse the custom VM image for provisioning other hosted machines or hosted machine groups. It performs the following:

• Snapshot: Point-in-time capture of the VM's disk.
• Generalization: Removes machine and user specific information from the VM so that it can be reused.
• Storage in your Azure Compute Gallery: Allows the VM image to be stored and usable by Power Automate services.

This feature provides support for joining hosted machine group bots to both on-premises Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft Entra ID when using custom virtual networks (VNETs).

• A custom virtual network (VNET) is configured using Azure Virtual Network. Access to the domain controller is required from the custom VNET.
  • A custom VNET allows you to access on-premises resources when running your automation.
• Microsoft Entra hybrid join is configured as part of Power Automate network connection setup.
  • Microsoft Entra hybrid allows your hosted machine group bots to enroll in both your on-premises Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft Entra ID.

Endpoint filtering in Power Automate for desktop offers an added layer of control and security for your automation tasks. As an admin, apply endpoint filtering using the existing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) feature in Power Automate. Create an allow list of applications and websites that your automation scripts can interact with, or a deny list of those that should be restricted.

This feature targets UI and Browser automation actions, ensuring that your automation adheres to your organization's policies. Endpoint filtering is checked the same way DLP policies are currently verified in Power Automate for desktop. Leverage endpoint filtering to tightly manage which endpoints are accessible, enhancing the precision and security of your automation workflows.

Power Automate for desktop now lets users assign custom names to actions directly in the flow designer. After adding an action to the designer panel, users can rename it to something meaningful and descriptive. These custom names appear in runtime logs in the Power Automate portal, making it easier to trace, monitor, and troubleshoot specific steps in flows. This enhancement promotes best practices in flow design, improves legibility, and benefits complex workflows or collaborative environments where naming consistency is critical.

Copilot in Power Automate for desktop offers an interface that simplifies the automation creation process. With natural language and Power Fx syntax capabilities, you can create desktop flows by providing instructions in natural English language or using Power Fx syntax. This eliminates the need for algorithmic or pseudocode knowledge. With Copilot, you can generate automations with ease, saving valuable time and resources.

• Desktop flows have versions. Each time you open a flow, you can make changes and save drafts until you decide to publish it.
• Version history in the flow designer for Power Automate desktop shows who made the changes and when.
• Compare changes between the current version and a previous version or between any two versions you select.
• In the console for Power Automate desktop, the context menu has a version history option. This shows version information in the properties window of the desktop flow.
• Some of this functionality will also be available in the portal.

You can now create subflows as public or private in Power Automate for desktop. When you create a private subflow, any variable you add is local to that subflow and can't be accessed from outside. Private subflows also let you set up input and output variables.

The Run subflow action now shows input variables as fields for arguments and displays output variables for private subflows. In the variables pane, you can see which variables belong to a subflow and which are global, with filters to help you find them quickly.

The optimize desktop flows with intelligent insights and recommendations feature in Power Automate for desktop is designed to provide users with proactive, intelligent recommendations during the creation of desktop flows. This feature leverages historical flow data, usage patterns, runtime performance, error profiles, and established best practices to offer tailored, context-sensitive insights that can significantly enhance the efficiency and reliability of your automations.

In the Error Avoidance category, this feature helps prevent run-time errors by alerting users to potential issues before they occur. For example, it can warn of data loss prevention (DLP) policy violations that could cause a flow to fail, and it offers workarounds where possible. It also identifies elements that violate flow checker policies and suggests automatic remediations. Furthermore, it detects previous selector failures and self-healing events, recommending users to review or remediate these selectors accordingly. This feature also highlights potential flow timeouts by analyzing past run history, and it offers code-scanning recommendations to avoid pitfalls like infinite loops or uninitialized instances.

In the Error Remediation category, this feature assists in fixing design-time errors that might otherwise go unnoticed. It provides suggestions to complete any missing action properties, including variables, and helps correct syntax errors in Robin or Power Fx. This guidance ensures that flows are logically sound and free from common errors, making the development process smoother and more efficient.

The Code Optimization category focuses on improving the performance and maintainability of desktop flows. This feature suggests more performant or understandable actions, identifies logical shortcomings, and proposes possible solutions. It recommends wrapping actions in try & catch blocks to handle exceptions gracefully. It adds comments or regions for better readability, and breaks large subflows into smaller, more manageable units. These optimizations enhance flow performance and make the code easier to understand and maintain. The AI-powered Copilot facilitates these improvements by providing clear remediation steps and linking to relevant documentation. This empowers you to implement best practices with ease and confidence.

Work queues in Power Automate can play a crucial role in improving the efficiency, scalability, and resiliency of automation and help prioritize work.

This is how you can configure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for work queues:

• Type of SLA
  • Time to live (TTL)
  • Business hours
• SLA engine
  • Prioritize work queue items that are nearest to the SLA deadline.
  • Identify work queue items at risk.
  • Monitor the state of SLAs for work queues.

Power Automate for desktop now supports templates, letting you start automation projects faster with prebuilt, best-practice flow structures.

You can choose from several out-of-the-box templates, including:

• Generic business process
• Basic exception handling with try/catch logic
• Work queue item producer and consumer templates
• Generic logging frameworks

Templates are accessible directly from the Power Automate for desktop console. When creating a new flow, you can start from scratch or use a template. You can also import templates into existing flows from within the designer.

Organizations can create and centrally distribute custom templates to align with internal standards, speed up development, and improve quality.

Web client for process mining provides customers with the ability to view and analyze process mining results directly through a web-based interface in Power Automate Process Mining page.

Key functionalities are:

• Replaced default embedded Power BI report with fully interactive Process overview dashboard.
• Process map component offers a full range of KPIs to display.
• Content of Process Overview page is dynamically recalculated based on filters set by the user.
• Power BI report is still generated, but users don't need to wait for its creation to access Process Overview analysis.

This feature is connected to the feature Support for delta-parquet data ingestion and extends the options that you can choose from, with respect to data ingestion. You're now able to ingest data through:

• Dataflows
• Bring your own Azure Datalake Gen2. Data can be in CSV, parquet, and delta-parquet format
• OneLake through Fabric Lakehouse. Files can be in CSV, parquet, and delta-parquet format

The feature is automatically turned on as an option in the Create process wizard. Its goal is to provide ingestion from Microsoft Fabric unified data platform for creating a data twin of an organization.

Today in Power Automate Process Mining, you need some level of technical and product knowledge in order to get to actionable insights. It requires that you create filters, custom metrics, and categorization variables to get to a standardized view of the process. You can use Copilot to get to iterative actions in process mining, process insights, and an introduction to process mining that allow you to start with the tool in an easy way.

Analytical copilot offers:

• Desktop plug-in to create actions on process.
• Ability to summarize findings qualitatively and quantitatively.