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Flow Credentials: Best Practices?
Hi Courtney!
Its totally ok to use your own credentials, as you can then share your Flow out with teammates so its not only owned by you, in case something were to happen or you were to leave.
Also, when a password chages, Microsoft Flow is able to still persist. The only way that Flow connections will expire is if your environment admin were to kill your tokens. Not refresh them.. Kill them.
If you want to get quick help on Flow related items, i would reccommend you join the official community at: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community/ct-p/FlowCommunity
Let me know if i can be of any more help!
- Jon
I don't understand how it can be okay to use individual user accounts for production flows. Flows typically require connectors. For example, a flow may send an email via Outlook. If the Outlook connector is defined using a personal account, when the person leaves and their account is disabled or deleted, the connector will no longer function, breaking the flow. Right? It wouldn't matter that the flow was a team (shared) one; the connector would still have to be rebuilt using a different (active) account.
If, in contrast, a managed service account is used, the flow will continue to work as long as the account remains active.