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What's new and planned for Power Automate

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This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, see Microsoft Power Platform product documentation. For the latest release plans, see Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.

This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2020 through March 2021. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released. For more information, go to Microsoft policy.

In the General availability column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the date of release.

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Integration with Microsoft Teams

Create and use Power Automate flows within Microsoft Teams.

Feature Enabled for Public preview Early access* General availability
Templatizing and distributing common business process scenarios Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Nov 12, 2020

New desktop flow (RPA) capabilities

Increase scale and app compatibility with these new robotics process automation (RPA) capabilities.

Feature Enabled for Public preview Early access* General availability
Set priorities for desktop flows Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Dec 9, 2020
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Microsoft account users can now access Power Automate Desktop Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Mar 2, 2021
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Users with a work or school account can access Power Automate Desktop without a license Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Mar 2, 2021
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Add WinAutomation actions to desktop flows v1 Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Jun 23, 2020
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Oct 5, 2020
Desktop flows V1 allows users to customize the retry and timeout settings for each action Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Jun 23, 2020
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Oct 5, 2020
Add delay actions to desktop flows V1 Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Aug 21, 2020
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Oct 5, 2020
Add support to pass arguments to the launch application step in desktop flows v1 Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Aug 21, 2020
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Oct 5, 2020
Desktop flows V1 adds support for copy and paste Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - 👁 Image
Aug 21, 2020
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Oct 5, 2020
Desktop flows V1 supports do until loops Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Sep 16, 2020
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Oct 5, 2020
Deep analytics for desktop flows to administer, govern, and nurture RPA through the CoE starter toolkit Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Sep 21, 2020
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Oct 5, 2020
Easier setup, creation, and runtime configuration of desktop flows Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Oct 19, 2020
Administrators can use out-of-the-box reports to monitor and govern the use of RPA Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Nov 12, 2020
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Nov 12, 2020
New and improved management and monitoring for desktop flows Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Dec 9, 2020
Automation lifecycle management for Robotic Process Automation Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Dec 10, 2020
Sovereign cloud support for RPA Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Dec 10, 2020
Use sensitive text inputs with desktop flows Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Dec 10, 2020
Direct sensitive input and variables or expressions can be used interchangeably in some action fields Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Dec 11, 2020
More conditional operators are available in Power Automate Desktop Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Dec 11, 2020
New PDF actions are available Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Dec 11, 2020
Power Automate Desktop to send logs to Microsoft Dataverse Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Dec 11, 2020
Start or extend trials from Power Automate Desktop Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Dec 11, 2020
Support for IMEs in Power Automate Desktop and web recorders Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Dec 11, 2020
Second level of error handling in Power Automate Desktop Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Nov 13, 2020
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Dec 11, 2020
Further democratize RPA through new authoring experiences with Microsoft Power Automate Desktop Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Sep 20, 2020
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Dec 30, 2020
Role-based sharing experience for automations Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Jan 25, 2021
View the value of variables in Power Automate Desktop Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Jan 26, 2021
Run from here functionality Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Feb 9, 2021
Enhanced capabilities in the interaction of Desktop Recorder and Windows Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Mar 2, 2021
Power Automate Desktop governance Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Mar 2, 2021
New Microsoft Power Automate Desktop settings panel Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Mar 14, 2021
Use of variables within the desktop and web recorder as input and output parameters Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Mar 14, 2021
View shared desktop flows from Power Automate Desktop Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Mar 14, 2021
Real-time view of Robotic Process Automation runs, errors, and queues available Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Dec 10, 2020
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Mar 14, 2021
Actions parameters parity with WinAutomation Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Mar 15, 2021
Provision a Microsoft Dataverse database from Power Automate Desktop Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Mar 15, 2021

World-class business process capabilities

Power Automate provides world-class business process capabilities for its users that span endpoints and experiences.

Feature Enabled for Public preview Early access* General availability
Chat bot assistant to help build flows Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Dec 30, 2020
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Contextual help for Power Automate makers Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Dec 30, 2020
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Diagnose trigger issues using flow checker Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Dec 30, 2020
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Document Automation for Power Automate Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Jan 15, 2021
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Makers can filter SharePoint rows without OData queries Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Mar 14, 2021
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Actionable error messages will be available in Power Automate Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically 👁 Image
Mar 28, 2021
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See raw inputs and outputs in the run history Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - 👁 Image
Dec 30, 2020

* Some features are available to opt-in to some features as part of early access on August 3, 2020, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.

Description of Enabled for column values:

  • Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.

  • Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.

  • Users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, go to the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.


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