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Best practices for Power Automate with service account
We had a colleague leave who had their work email address and account connected to MANY Power Automate flows, SharePoint, OneDrive, Forms, Excel, etc. We are looking to create a recommendation / ...
I can't see how MS can force us to use a the Per Flow licensing model instead of a Service account that has a Per User license assigned. In our scenario we create a few account with an E3/5 license and assigne them a Per User license. The accounts are then used by a select few to create any Automated or Scheduled Flows that have business impact. Flows that are for pure personal productivity, are created by the end users personal account. The hard part is keeping up with what flows have business impact vs personal flows.
Just sharing this from LinkedIn - remember it is a draft document https://www.linkedin.com/posts/priyakodukula_licensing-flows-using-service-accounts-in-activity-6914470425523617792-41tC/