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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 · 8 already retired.

Cloud Flows 2

Retired

Power Automate integration in Visio desktop

Support ended 14 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago

The Visio desktop feature that exported BPMN diagrams as Power Automate cloud flows is deprecated from 14 July 2026.

Microsoft deprecation notice ↗
Retired

Format data by examples (classic designer)

Support ended 1 Aug 2025 · 14 months ago

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 ↗

Connectors & Integration 4

Retired

Viva Engage (Yammer) connector OAuth 2.0 connections

Support ended 1 Sept 2025 · 13 months ago

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 ↗
Retired

SQL Server connector V1 actions

Support ended 1 Jun 2025 · 16 months ago

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 ↗
Retired

Snowflake connector (original version)

Support ended 26 May 2025 · 16 months ago

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 ↗
Announced

Power Automate for Excel add-in (AppSource)

Deprecated no date

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 ↗

AI & Agent Flows 1

Retired

Help chatbot in the Power Automate maker portal

Support ended 9 Sept 2026 · 8 days ago

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 ↗

Governance & Security 1

Retired

Personal Microsoft account support in Power Automate

Support ended 27 May 2025 · 16 months ago

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 ↗

Product-wide 1

Retired

Power Automate mobile app (iOS and Android)

Support ended 31 Aug 2026 · 2 weeks ago

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.

Microsoft deprecation notice ↗