Consultant KB for Microsoft Power Automate end to end: cloud flows, desktop flows and RPA, connectors and integration, AI and agent flows, process and task mining, approvals and human-in-the-loop, ALM and solutions, governance and security, licensing and capacity, monitoring and troubleshooting, plus cross-cutting decision guides. Implementation notes, configuration decisions and the gotchas that bite on real projects. Populated by the daily author agent from the Power Automate release plans, docs repo and product blog, plus the author's own consultant notes.
Features Microsoft has announced are going away for Power Automate, grouped by the area they affect. The mirror of the roadmap: what to plan a migration off, not what to adopt. 0 still to take effect · 11 already retired.
The standalone Power Automate mobile app is being deprecated from 31 August 2026 — approvals and flow management move to the Power Platform / Microsoft 365 mobile experiences.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The Visio desktop feature that exported BPMN diagrams as Power Automate cloud flows is deprecated from 14 July 2026.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The PROSE-backed helper that wrote formatting expressions for you is gone from the classic designer. Nothing breaks in existing flows — you just write the expression yourself now.
Move to Write the expression directly, or use the new designer's expression assistance.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The Viva Engage connector stopped accepting OAuth 2.0 connections; new ones must use Entra ID. Existing OAuth2 connections had a grace period to 15 November 2025, so anything still on one is already broken.
Move to Recreate the connection using Entra ID authentication.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The V1 actions on the SQL Server connector were disabled from 30 June 2025, not merely unsupported. Any flow still calling one has already stopped working.
Move to Move to the V2 actions on the same connector.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The original Snowflake connector was discontinued on 26 May 2025 and replaced by a rewritten one, still labelled preview. Flows on the old connector need repointing and reauthenticating, not just a version bump.
Move to Snowflake (Preview) connector
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The AppSource add-in is going; the Automate tab built into Excel does the same job. Only matters if someone deployed the add-in centrally — check before it disappears from under them.
Move to Use the native Power Automate integration on Excel's Automate tab.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The help chatbot built into the Power Automate maker portal is being retired 9 September 2026; use the standard docs and support channels instead.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The Power Virtual Agents help chatbot in the bottom-left corner of the Power Automate maker portal is being removed from every page. Makers who use it to ask product questions will need to go to Learn or support instead.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗Exporting Power Automate flows to Microsoft Visio is being removed from 14 July 2026; flow documentation will need another route from that date.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗Personal Microsoft accounts can no longer be used with Power Automate. The kind of thing that bites a proof-of-concept someone built on their own account and then quietly put into production.
Move to Move the flows to a work or school account before the deprecation window closes.
Microsoft deprecation notice ↗The Power Automate mobile app is deprecated from 31 August 2026 and is being pulled from the App Store and Google Play, with no more updates or support.
Move to Use the web app; run approvals in Teams or Outlook.
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