Author: Ian Grieve

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1.

The 2nd of the new functionality in the Desktop flows section is use machine to credential mapping in desktop flow connections.

In many organizations, each machine must have a unique user session. This implies that they can’t use machine groups. A list of credentials allows them to use unique credentials for each of their machines. For organizations that want to use automations executed on agent machines, there’s no option to define mapping between machine(s) and agent(s). The list of credentials will allow an attended automation to the machine of the right agent.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability: Jun 2025

Feature Details

Allow customers to define lists of credentials and use them in the desktop flow connections. These lists allow customers to define which machine(s) can use these credentials. These lists can be used as login credentials in the desktop flow connections and will benefit from the same credential management feature, such as:

• Encryption and data protection
• Password rotation
• Application lifecycle management

During the public preview, only CyberArk credentials are supported for mapping.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1.

The 1st of the new functionality in the Desktop flows section is self-heal UI and browser automation actions at execution with AI.

This feature is for Power Automate for desktop users that automate UI and web interaction scenarios. It improves success rates and handles cases where UI elements can’t be found.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview:  Dec 12, 2024
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

Once enabled by users, the feature uses AI to locate elements on the screen at the execution time. The repaired selector is used in future executions. Plus, it’s optional and can be disabled if you prefer.

• Self-healing refers to the case that a UI element cannot be found at the execution time.
• Self-healing can be applied only for UI and web automation scenarios, and subsequently for Desktop and web UI elements.
• With self-healing, Power Automate for desktop can detect UI elements on the screen.
• When a UI element and its selector are retrieved, the user must confirm to heal and save.
• This feature can be disabled by the user.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1.

The 1st of the new functionality in the Copilot for Power Automate section is troubleshooting Copilot in cloud flows Designer.

Copilot now contains the capability to provide remediation guidance to flow errors and offer to fix them for you. You can accept the changes or revert to the original and modify the flow as desired.

Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview: Feb 2025
General Availability: Jun 2025

Feature Details

The Troubleshooting Copilot can assist users with a new feature that can rectify errors in your cloud flow. These corrections are based on issues that arise during authoring and debugging and can be implemented to amend your flow within the Power Automate designer.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1.

The 4th of the new functionality in the Cloud flows section is create and edit expressions with Copilot.

You can create, edit, and fix your Power Automate expressions by expressing your requirements in natural language. You can save a lot of time building expressions manually by invoking Copilot through this feature.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Jan 2025
General Availability: May 2025

Feature Details

Prior to this feature, you needed to write complex expressions in your cloud flows in Power Automate to process data, do conversions, manipulation, or comparison. With this feature, you can create complex expressions or edit your existing expressions simply by submitting natural language prompts to Copilot in Power Automate.

You need Copilot access in your tenant to use this feature. Turning off Copilot turns off this feature, too.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1.

The 3rd of the new functionality in the Cloud flows section is generate process maps For multi-flow automations.

This feature visualizes end-to-end process dependencies, reduces troubleshooting time, and simplifies navigation through automation logs and connections, leading to quicker issue resolution and improved operational efficiency.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2025
General Availability: Sep 2025

Feature Details

View and manage all flow-dependencies involved in your multi-flow process. Parent/child flows, desktop flows, and work queues are all visualized through the new process map management experience.

End to end observability through a process-centric view of all automation logs allows you to do the following:

• Easily perform impact analysis of failing sub-flows.
• Efficiently navigate between flow run logs, credentials, and connections.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1.

The 2nd of the new functionality in the Cloud flows section is create a flow on a file in Teams.

This feature allows you to create a flow on a file in Teams using one of the templates that are available to be done to a file. You can also use AI to create your flow from scratch.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: May 2025

Feature Details

This feature allows you to set up and use workflows in Teams on files. You can create a flow on a file in the overflow menu of the Workflows app. Improve your productivity by using one of the templates that are available to be done to a file, or by using AI to create your flow from scratch.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2025 Wave 1.

The 1st of the new functionality in the Cloud flows section is create generative actions in cloud flows.

Instead of building out complex rules-based processes from beginning to end, you work with AI to inject intelligent activity orchestration from your cloud flow. You create intent-based generative actions where the large language model (LLM) considers all the resources available to it and dynamically selects the most appropriate actions and sequence of these actions to achieve the desired outcome. This allows for more dynamic automation and saves you time.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview:  Dec 11, 2024
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

Generative actions use generative AI reason over unstructured content and determine what steps and sequences it needs to achieve a process outcome based on instructions and parameters provided by you in natural language.

Building a generative action within cloud flows involves the following steps:

• Describe the objective of your process in natural language, and let AI develop an automation plan to achieve it.
• Refine the automation plan generated by the large language model (LLM) and adjust inputs, outputs, and variables as needed.
• Add reference sources and guidelines in natural language that influence the LLM as it executes the flow.
• Validate the intelligent action by reviewing how it is achieving the business objective prior to moving the flow into production.
• Review production run history, analytics, and individual flow run details to ensure your process is performing to expectations.

The ability of generative actions to easily incorporate both structured and unstructured data makes it flexible as information resources are updated. Its reasoning abilities make generative actions uniquely beneficial in the building and maintenance of complex process flows to handle conditions, exception management, and process loops.

This post is part of a series on the new functionality announced for Wave 1 of Microsoft Power Automate 2023. There are two release waves for Power Automate each year, with functionality being released over the six months of the wave.

In this series of posts, I am going to take a look at what is new with Power Automate in this release wave. My understanding is the announced new functionality will become available in the six months of the wave, so not all of it will be available immediately. When posting about some new functionality, I’ll try to indicate where something will be available in October or later. Microsoft do reserve the right to withdraw announced functionality before release; when this happens, I’ll try to publish an article on the removed functionality and update the original article I published to show that it has been removed from that release wave.

This series index, below (assuming you’re reading this on ), will automatically update as each post in the series goes live, so make sure you bookmark this post so you can see keep up-to-date with this series.

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