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Flow indirect execution licensing when using premium connectors/features

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Hi,

 

couldn't find a definitive answer when searching. So our use case for a Flow goes like this: We would have a service account setup with premium Flow per user license that has a Flow using the premium "When a HTTP request is received" trigger.

 

We would use a SharePoint workflow to call the HTTP trigger Flow when an item has been added in a SharePoint list. The users who are indirectly causing an execution of the flow by adding a new item to the list would have Flow for Office 365 through their E3 license.

 

The question here is, is this enough or do ALL the uses need premium licenses since they are indirectly triggering a Flow that uses a premium trigger? Same question if that same Flow would be using custom connectors or any other premium connectors inside that flow.

 

Considering the group of users that would have access to the list we would be talking over a hundred licenses each 15$ per month just for this one use case. An approch to instead call azure functions or web apis hosted in azure would in the workflow instead of the Flow would cost almost nothing in terms of cost compared to the licensing so many users.

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  • Daniel_H Profile Picture
    10 on at

    Can anyone shed some light on this?

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    We need also more information about this.
    Does somebody know something about this?

  • hayden Profile Picture
    21 on at

    Same question, looks like this question has been asked alot but no answers.

  • DenisMolodtsov Profile Picture
    317 on at

    So there is still no answer to this question? 

     

    What we want to clarify is: "Are we legally required to have previum licenses for all users who indirectly trigger the premium flow?" This question is more about legal licensing requirements. The mistake in the licensing can be very expensive. We try to clarify this very carefuly. I remember Microsoft was saying something about requirements for Premium licenses for all users who "indirectly" benefit from the premium connecter. Is it still the case? Or something has changed?

  • ThomasDK Profile Picture
    265 on at

    Hi @DenisMolodtso, 

    Did you ever find out what license to use? We have the same scenario and as far as I can see, the Automated Cloud Flow only needs a license to the Service Account running the flow (and Premium connectors). Whar I don't know is if this license is included in some of the other licenses purchaed already or if I need to purcase it in addition. It looks like that users with either Business Premium, ½ffice Pro or O365 Premium have this included, but I'm not sure. Do you know?

     

    Best regards,

    Thomas

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