Managing Power Automate Desktop on Windows

[Pages:85]Managing Power

Automate Desktop on

Windows

Summary: This playbook introduces you to the concept of managing lifecycle for Power Automate Desktop, leveraging Microsoft Endpoint Manager tools such as Intune, SCCM and ring deployment techniques to deploy, monitor and audit Power Automate Desktop. Watch the video series for this playbook as well. Writers: Thomas Barcenas (KMicro Tech, Inc.) Technical Contributors: Apostolis Papaioannou, Ashvini Sharma, Costas Chamosfakides, Gautier Chastan, Kathy Osborne, Kent Weare, Pranav Rastogi, Quentin Sele Barancy Published: August 2021 Version: 1.0 This document is provided "as-is." Information and views expressed in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, may change without notice. You bear the risk of using it. Some examples are fictitious and are for illustration only. No real association is intended or inferred. This document does not provide you with any legal rights to any intellectual property in any Microsoft product. ? 2021 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents

Forward ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................................. 3

SCCM Deployment ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Requirements............................................................................................................................................ 4 Set up network share ................................................................................................................................ 4 Install application on a test machine ........................................................................................................ 7 Build application package ......................................................................................................................... 8 Distribute application package ............................................................................................................... 27 Create device collection.......................................................................................................................... 33 Add devices to device collection............................................................................................................. 41 Deploy application .................................................................................................................................. 44 Monitoring deployments ........................................................................................................................ 53

SCCM lifecycle management ...................................................................................................................... 55 Update to the latest version ................................................................................................................... 55 Ring deployment ..................................................................................................................................... 62

Intune deployment ..................................................................................................................................... 65 Requirements.......................................................................................................................................... 65 Create Azure security group ................................................................................................................... 65 Install application on a test machine ...................................................................................................... 66 Create content prep tool directories ...................................................................................................... 67 Build application package ....................................................................................................................... 68 Deploy application .................................................................................................................................. 71 Silent registration for machines.............................................................................................................. 78

Intune lifecycle management ..................................................................................................................... 80 Update to the latest version ................................................................................................................... 80 Ring deployment ..................................................................................................................................... 82

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Forward

These procedures will help guide you through the process of deploying Power Automate Desktop to Windows 10 using either SCCM or Intune.

1. SCCM a. Deployment ? Consisting of the initial install of Power Automate Desktop onto Windows 10 machines that currently do not have Power Automate Desktop deployed.

b. Lifecycle Management - Consisting of the scenario where automatic updating is either unavailable or disabled.

2. Intune a. Deployment ? Consisting of the initial install of Power Automate Desktop onto Windows 10 machines that currently do not have Power Automate Desktop deployed. b. Lifecycle Management - Consisting of the scenario where automatic updating is either unavailable or disabled.

Prerequisites

? A Microsoft work or school account to sign into Power Automate ? An account with administrator privileges to sign into your Windows device ? System requirements:

o A device that runs Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Enterprise. ARM devices are not supported. Minimum hardware ? Storage: 1GB ? RAM: 2GB Recommended hardware ? Storage: 2GB ? RAM: 4GB .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later

? Read the terms and conditions:

? Download the Power Automate Desktop Installer:

? Reference to verify none of the command line arguments have changed.

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SCCM Deployment

Requirements

Step-by-step instructions on setting up your Endpoint Configuration Manager Site Servers and Roles is outside the scope of this document. At a high level you will need the follow prerequisites already configured to follow the steps in this document:

? Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager o Running the latest servicing update required to manage your deployed Windows 10 version o A reachable distribution point (or a fallback point) to distribute software from

? A network share which is accessible to SCCM where you can store application installers, for example: \\.\sources\

Set up network share

In this section, our goal is to get the power automate desktop installer copied to the network share where it can be built into a Configuration Manager Application. We will need the full UNC path for a later step when we build the application in Configuration Manager

1. View the properties of your Power Automate Desktop application installer and go to the Details tab.

2. Make a note of the Product Version.

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3. In your application installers network share, create a Power Automate Desktop folder.

4. Inside your Power Automate Desktop folder, create a subfolder with the version of Power Automate Desktop.

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5. Copy your installer executable into the Version folder.

6. Shift + right click your setup file, then choose Copy as Path.

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7. Paste the path into a scratch Notepad; you will need it later.

Install application on a test machine

This step is required to get the detection method settings for building the package.

1. Install Power Automate Desktop on a test machine. 2. Find the MSI product code in the registry at this location:

SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\

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3. Copy the path and paste it into Notepad. 4. Copy the DisplayVersion and paste it into Notepad.

Build application package

In this section we will create the actual application package we can deploy to endpoints.

1. Open the Configuration Manager Console and browse to Software Library and expand Application Management.

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