Introduction

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Often, you might find it necessary to automate many miscellaneous tasks that are fundamental to the Microsoft Windows operating system.

This functionality is critical for processes that perform actions like printing or implementing system tasks, such as managing Windows processes or running applications.

By automating these tasks, users can perform them in a faster and more reliable way, while maintaining full control of the operating system. For this reason, Power Automate for desktop provides three distinct groups of actions that allow users to perform system tasks.

Learning objectives

In this module, you will learn how to:

  • Automate system-related tasks with the system and workstation groups of actions.
  • Automate the management of Windows services with the services group of actions.

Prerequisites

To complete this module successfully, you should have basic familiarity with Power Automate for desktop and an account with Administrator privileges.