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Iron Contributor

Mar 29, 2017

Flow Credentials: Best Practices?

I am just getting started with Flow and I want to try to do things with best practices in mind from the beginning. I would like to create a flow on a Sharepoint list which of course requires credenti...

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Jon Levesque

Former Employee

Apr 27, 2017

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

Anonymous

Aug 14, 2018

I know this is an old post, but looking to finally create some production flows, and my test flows I've had have actually had "You need to fix your connections" pop up consistently on my account even thou I've never reset tokens. Unless resetting my password manually in AD causes that to happen :P.

Anyway, seems service account is the safe bet just for future proofing if someone leaves the org.

Dean_Gross
Silver Contributor
Aug 15, 2018
How Flow uses accounts is way more confusing than it should be. There is a lot of room for improvement and clarification in the documentation about exactly what account is going to be used, what perms are needed and how it going to show up. Sending emails is one area that needs a lot of attention.