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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 / ...
Hi Mathew Carter. You can try this one strategy:
1) Setup a Service Account and assign it an O365 License
2) Create new Flows or import existing Flows into the Service Account
3) Share the Flows with the Authors (so they can update the Flows from their own account but it continues to run as the Service Account)
4) email will come from the Service Accounts email address
More Ways:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/change-cloud-flow-owner?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-9698
Author: https://gosloto.co.za/
- This is what I have done. The only issue is frequent re-authentication.
LAA-IT Re-authentication is proving troublesome for us too. Does anyone have a solution for this other than disabling MFA and/or password changing policies?
- MFA on the service account is still an issue. We had to remove MFA from this account. When the token expires, the flows don't run, need re-authentication and it was a complete mess. Other solutions are overly convoluted. MS fails to properly address this yet again.
