Automate Citrix remote apps and remote desktops

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Enabled for Public preview Early access General availability
Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically This feature is released. Jul 14, 2020 - -

Feature details

Power Automate, with UI flows, allows anyone to create Robotic Process Automation (RPA) that can replay UI interactions with web and desktop applications.

We recently announced a new preview feature to record and replay automation on Remote Desktop sessions without the need to install additional software on the remote computer.

We are happy to announce that Citrix Workspace users can now test in preview our new feature which will allow you to record and replay actions from your Citrix remote applications and desktop.

Since the UI flows recorder cannot access the logical elements on Citrix during the recording, UI flows uses custom Azure AI technology (image recognition and text extraction from images using Tesseract OCR) to make automation possible.

Contoso actions in a UI flow with a recording of a Citrix remote app

To use this feature, you will need the following:

  • A Windows 10, Window Server 2016, or Window Server 2019 machine
  • The latest version of UI flows running on this machine
  • Citrix Workspace 2002 or above

See also

Automate Citrix remote apps and remote desktops with the July 2020 update to UI flows in Power Automate (blog)