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Hi
I have been trying to automate desktop using azure automation. My python script works well in VM, But the same script when I tried to run from power shell in azure automation,
It throws error cant find notepad.exe in dictkeys
Hi there,
Did you run your runbook as a HRW task or an Azure sandbox task?
If you target your task in Azure, it will never find notepad afaik (because they will run on a quite limited environment)
Yes I did run with hybird worker with admin credentials
Did you use a full path to notepad.exe? Can you share an example of your script?
Yes i have attached the powershell script and python script as well as error msg
Did you read the limitations of using Python scripts in hybrid runbook workers? Especially on Windows machines
Yes, but in my case it's just the powershell run book
As shown in image its just change the directory to desktop in VM(Hybird worker) and start a python script(desktop.py) which is already present in desktop of VM. When I run the same script using command line on VM it works, but through azure power shell run book fails.
python script also shared
here is the difference - when you run your powershell script you run it from a logged user permissions and as interactive session, when it runs via a runbook, it uses localsystem credentials with a non-interactive session.
So is it possible to run as interactive session using azure automation? Also I have passed admin credentials in the credentials section of hybird worker, even though does it run as local account?
the HRW service runs on localsystem creds (actually Microsoft monitoring agent triggers that runs), all other things could be run outside of MMA, but I'm not 100% sure this will solve an issue with the interaction session
Okay, is there any other azure service that provides robotics process automation which includes desktop automation as well.
Why don't you want to try PowerShell scripts natively, not Python?
Yes I want in python, just for azure automation I have used powershell.
Please let me know is there is way to do python automation(included GUI Automation)using azure services
Python script is a CLI automation itself :)
If you really want to tun pyhton scripts, please have a look at hybrid workers on Linux or try to run them in Azure Functions (but both options are not GUI based and not interactive solutions)
Okay thank you:)