More resilient UI automation in Citrix environments
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| Enabled for | Public preview | Early access | General availability |
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| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 
Jul 25, 2022 |
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Oct 19, 2022 |
Business value
Power Automate improves the support for UI automation on Citrix environments by having a lightweight runtime inside the target Citrix environment.
Feature details
Today, customers can automate Citrix systems using image recognition with desktop flows. Although image recognition is flexible and can work for any system, it isn't as reliable as UI automation, which leverages the UI elements using accessibility APIs.
With this feature, we improved the support for UI automation on Citrix environments by having a lightweight runtime inside the target Citrix environment. This runtime is able to communicate with the Citrix session and thus directly access UI elements, bringing direct addressability to controls and bypassing the need for image-based lookup where possible. Customers can use either this lightweight runtime approach or existing image processing to perform their automation.
See also
Automate on virtual desktops (docs)