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When a user has Microsoft Power Automate Free assigned to them, what connectors can they use? Is this the Automate Trial?
Its not a trial license. It gives you access to all the standard connectors. The problem is that you have to have permission to the data source to use the standard connector. So although the Power Automate free license will give you access to the SharePoint connector, you can't access SharePoint without an Office 365 license that includes Sharepoint. So although it is an actual license you really can't do much with it if you don't have some other license to go with it.
So it's basically just standard stuff. How did they get that license, and do you know what the actual automate trial license would be called?
Also, does that license have an expiry? I'm not sure what good it is really...
You can sign up for the free license at Power Automate | Microsoft Power Platform. If you use a non-Work or School email to sign up you'll get the Power Automate free license. If you use a Work or School (office 365) email then you can sign up for a Trial license. The trial license is time limited (30 days) but give you access to Premium connectors.
The Power Automate free license doesn't expire. But as you've seen it isn't useful for much without a license to some back end data source. And most of those are either premium or include the use of Power Automate.
We have users in our enterprise, that have the Microsoft Power Automate free license assigned, meaning they are work accounts. When I dump the user list from the tenant, that is listed as Trial = true.
Also, this link says the Trial is good for 90 days? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/organization-q-and-a#how-can-people-gain-access-to-the-paid-features-of-power-automate
I don't get it... What is the Automate Free license, how do you get it in the first place, and if it's not a Trial why does Get-AdminPowerAppLicenses return it as a Trial?
Additionally, if you did have an Automate Trial assigned to a user, what is it called in M365 Admin licensing? I don't see anything other than the Automate Free, and Power Apps Plan 2 Trial.
Yes if you have an Office 365 license then you will get a Power Automate Free license automatically. But it is not a Trial and it does not expire. Its the license that covers Microsoft's internal use of Power Automate for things like Approvals. I'm not sure why your tenant is reporting it as a trial, but it does not expire.
They probably have a Trial for Power Apps, which also gives you the ability to use Premium connectors in Power Automate if they are related to the data source you are using for a Power app. There is also a Per user trial for Power Automate. But you don't seem to have that one.
Ok that helps thanks.
If we did have the Powr Automate trial license what would it be called in the licensing in M365? I don't see anything so as you say we don't have it, but the best way to confirm that is to know what it would be!
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