Microsoft lets users snapshot hosted machines for Power Automate desktop flow templates
Power Automate 2026 Wave 1 now supports capturing a full image of a virtual machine running on a hosted machine. The image can then be used as a template to spin up new environments for desktop flows. The feature targets teams that already run desktop flows on Microsoft's hosted RPA infrastructure. It forms part of a wider set of desktop flow updates scheduled for the first half of 2026. Setup time for consistent desktop flow environments should decrease, though the change still requires existing hosted-machine licensing and infrastructure.
Until now, anyone wanting reliable desktop flows on hosted machines had to configure each new environment from scratch, often repeating the same manual steps and risking configuration drift between machines. The new template option shortens that process for teams already deep into Microsoft's RPA offering, but it leaves untouched the far more common problem of cloud flows that suddenly stop working after weeks of stable operation.
Analysis
Treat this as noise and leave it alone. Open one of your existing flows that has failed without warning, add a simple error-handling scope with a Teams notification on failure, and test it before the end of the day.
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