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Matthew Carter
Jan 04, 2022Iron Contributor
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 / ...
SteveKnutson
Mar 23, 2022MVP
As I understand it, yes 1 per flow license is required for each flow running under a service account.
RB_HL
Apr 04, 2022Copper Contributor
SteveKnutson I disagree here, Steve.
The article states:
"The service account is used by many users. In this case, it is recommended to assign a per flow license to the flow to ensure any new users adding to the account are automatically compliant."
(Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/power-automate-licensing/faqs#i-have-multiple-flows-running-under-a-shared-service-account-what-licenses-do-i-need
It looks like a recommendation to make Microsoft licence compliance easier but it doesn't seem like a strict functional requirement that will block you.
Meaning that it shouldn't break your flows if you don't follow it, it seems to be worded as a recommendation, not a rule.
But I might be wrong, haven't traversed this yet. Keen to hear from someone who actually went down this path and has a solution in production that goes through this scenario