Applications for Instant and Desktop Flows

Correct Answers: B, C and E

Power Automate Desktop flow automates processes on legacy, modern desktop, and web applications.

There are two types of Desktop flows automation: on the windows desktop and the web application.

The Desktop flow runs only on Windows-based machines.

The device needs to run Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, or 2019

You can create a Desktop flow using Power Automate Desktop or using alternative solutions involving Windows recorder and Selenium IDE.

When you automate the Desktop flow execution using an instant flow, you need to connect your instant cloud flow with the Power Automate Desktop application running on the Windows-based device.

You must install an on-premises data gateway for this purpose.

Power Automate Desktop flow interacts with the application using its elements, images, and coordinates.

It has two types of recorders to capture the users' application interaction: Web recorder and Desktop recorder.

Power Automate Desktop application uses a Web browser extension for the Web recording.

You can download this extension for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox browsers.

All other options are incorrect.

For more information about Power Automate Desktop, please visit the below URLs:

To create an instant flow to run a desktop flow built with Power Automate Desktop, you would need to install certain applications on your device. These applications are:

B. Power Automate Desktop: This is the main application that is required to create and run desktop flows. It provides a graphical interface for creating flows and executing them on your device.

C. Web browser extension: This is a required extension that needs to be installed on your web browser. It allows you to trigger your instant flow from a web page or a web-based application.

E. On-premises Data gateway: This is an optional application that needs to be installed if you want to access data from on-premises data sources in your desktop flow. If you only want to access cloud-based data sources, you can skip this installation.

Therefore, the correct options are B, C, and E.

A. Power BI Desktop and D. Microsoft SQL Express are not required applications to create and run desktop flows using Power Automate Desktop. Power BI Desktop is a separate application used for data analysis and visualization, while Microsoft SQL Express is a lightweight version of SQL Server that can be used for small-scale data management.