Run desktop flows on cloud-hosted machine groups

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Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically May 23, 2022 - -

Business value

You can quickly run desktop flows using fully managed virtual machines (VMs). This feature also allows you to dynamically scale up and down the VMs used to run their automations.

Feature details

Before this feature, desktop automation required admins to provision and configure custom machines and manage them. These additional steps slow the development and deployment of desktop flows.

To accelerate adoption within organizations, this feature enables IT admins to leverage a new offering that provides the virtual machines needed for the users to run their desktop flows. Admins can configure the VMs using their images while connecting to their internal resources (through Azure Active Directory and local networks).

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