Turning a Power Automate Desktop flow into a cloud flow which can run on a schedule.In this follow-up post I want to cover a few things: Power Automate Desktop is now free with Windows 10 and Windows 11 - Microsoft's move to bring RPA technology to the masses and gain market share as RPA moves from exotic and niche to democratised and commonplace.

By driving the keyboard and mouse directly, RPA opens the door to wider automation since it simply replicates how a human would interact with the application. Enter Robotic Process Automation - RPA technologies are designed to 'automate what cannot be automated', in other words applications without APIs, applications which run on the desktop and other legacy systems. Since the scheduler in the portal doesn't support what I need, I had been manually visiting the site many times each week to block and unblock sites, which was a huge pain to both me and the kids.

In the last post I talked about how I automated my home wi-fi/ISP settings with Power Automate Desktop so that my kids can only use gaming websites like Roblox at permitted times.

Scheduling power automate desktop flow