Power Automate Desktop adds AI agents and unattended approvals without Premium licenses
Microsoft has released version 2.67 of Power Automate Desktop. The update allows users to trigger Microsoft Copilot Studio agents directly within desktop flows. Crucially, this integration bypasses the usual Power Automate Premium license requirement. Users only need a standard Microsoft 365 license and Copilot Studio capacity to run the agents. The release also introduces standard approvals for unattended desktop flows. These features are currently limited to US and Canadian environments, with a gradual global rollout planned.
Bridging local desktop tasks with cloud-based intelligence used to be an expensive headache. If you wanted an AI agent to process a local file or needed an approval step for a legacy application, you had to build a fragile bridge between cloud and desktop flows. This almost always triggered a prompt for a Premium license, killing the project before it started. Now, desktop flows can handle both AI processing and approvals natively. You can build unattended automations that pause for human sign-off or consult a Copilot agent without bouncing data back and forth to the cloud. It removes the licensing wall that blocks most teams from experimenting with AI in their daily workflows.
Analysis
Ignore the AI hype for a minute and focus entirely on the unattended approvals. The cloud-to-desktop handoff is exactly where most flows fail silently at 3am, so moving your approval logic directly into the desktop flow eliminates a massive point of failure. If you are in the US or Canada, rewrite your legacy app automations to use native desktop approvals today.
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