Power Platform 2025 Release Wave 2: Power Automate Updates for Cloud Flows and Desktop Flows

UG Expert Kylie Kiser unpacks Power Automate updates as part of Power Platform Release Wave 2, providing an overview of cloud flows and desktop flows.

Key Takeaways

  • Overview: The overview released reveals what the cloud and desktop flows are focusing on. There’s a lot of talk about agents and Copilot with Power Automate. It talks about being AI-first, building intelligent workflows through rich human-in-the-loop experiences, and making it enterprise-ready, so anything we can do to improve the observability, orchestration, resource optimization, and more. These are just more reasons to be using Power Automate.
  • Cloud flows: There are two key features for cloud flows. Kylie shows what it looks like, highlighting where users can create and edit expressions with Copilot, which has been in public preview and will be generally available in December. Users can easily debug in conditional actions at runtime; this is in the modern designer.
  • Desktop flows: These flows involve robotic process automation. Users can assign a custom name to the desktop flows within the action and within the designer. This makes it easy to document flows as you go along. There is now the ability to build desktop flows with record in Copilot. Users can capture a VM image on a hosted machine to use as a template.
  • Public preview: Kylie encourages users who have access to public previews to provide feedback, as it helps ensure each update is working properly when it becomes generally available.

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