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Service Principals in Microsoft Power Platform

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Shdsouza
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May 01, 2026

Your passwords are a liability. Here is how to eliminate them across Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, and your entire ALM pipeline.

Shared Passwords Are a Ticking Time Bomb Let’s be blunt: if your Power Platform automation runs on a shared service account password that three people know, you are one resignation away from every ...
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DLutchy365Assist
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May 06, 2026

Service Principals are great. However what solution do you recommend if your data source is SharePoint? I believe that Service Principals don't work in that scenario.

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Shdsouza
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May 07, 2026

Connectors such as SharePoint, Outlook, and Teams require delegated user context by design. Where app‑only execution is required, the HTTP connector can be used to call Microsoft Graph with application permissions, introducing a premium dependency.

Ive included the links on this in the blog. You basically need to call a graph api to make calls to the respective systems like Outlook or sharepoint.