Can Service account be used Power Automate Desktop?

[aaroh_bits]

Hi experts, 

I have a client's query as follows: 

• They want to Power Desktop Desktop with a $40 per-use-per-month plan and an attended license. This user is User A 
• The organization has a simple flow and assigned User A the per-user plan. 
• User A wishes to delegate a PAYG plan for troubleshooting to another user (User B).  
  
  Q: So the organization will pay 1 $40 per-use-per-month + 1 PAYG plan with $0.60 with 10 flow runs = $46 per month. 
  Is this calculation correct? 
  
  
• They need to schedule a process and that schedule works at 4 am GMT every day. They will be leverage services account in an Azure VM. 
  Q: is it possible to use service account for Power Automate desktop? 

Please advice. 

@Pstork1 @Expiscornovus  @MarconettiMarco 

[Pstork1 · Accepted solution]

That depends on how they are scheduling the process.  But if they are scheduling it to run on an Azure VM at 4 am then it sounds like that is an unattended scenario, not an attended one. There are ways to run the Power Automate Desktop as a different user by using the RunAs settings, but that is normally to do security elevation.  As I said it sounds like what they actually want is an unattended run.

[aaroh_bits]

@Pstork1 ...thank you so much for your valuable input. Appreciate it.