web
You’re offline. This is a read only version of the page.
close
Skip to main content

Announcements

News and Announcements icon
Community site session details

Community site session details

Session Id :
Power Platform Community / Forums / Power Automate / Flow fails after Multi...
Power Automate
Unanswered

Flow fails after Multi Factor Authentication enabled

(0) ShareShare
ReportReport
Posted on by 20

Hi Automators,

My organization enabled multi-factor authentication (MFA or 2FA) this week. This policy change has caused my Automate Flow to fail every time on the step that uses a SharePoint data connector. My issue is very similar to this post, here. Having reached out to my IT team, they also point to this article, here. It seems like this was unforeseen by our IT admin when MFA was enabled.

 

Has anyone else encountered this issue, and what steps did you take to restore functionality to your Automate Flow? Specifically, was this an issue that the Flow's owner/creator could do within some settings, or something to be addressed on the Admin side (such as adjustments to the MFA policies in Azure)? The article, linked above, seems to suggest changing the Flow to use a token policy for the Power Application; however I am not sure what this entail. 

 

Thank you for your time, any leads or advice will help!

Categories:
  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    8,726 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Automation is fundamentally incompatible with MFA.  You need to argue with your IT team to disable MFA for a limited set of accounts/service principals.

  • joshGIS Profile Picture
    20 on at

    Thank you for your response. Can you clarify service principals for me?

     

    I don't think I could get much traction in an argument to wholly disable MFA for an entire division, but if there were some fine-tuning to some policies that may be more palatable -- such as not requiring MFA just for SharePoint services. Thank you for your time.

  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    8,726 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    you can think of a service principal as a user without a face. (I didn't want to say headless).  They are used when your process requires a login/authentication, but in an unattended, automated fashion.

  • joshGIS Profile Picture
    20 on at

    Okay, this makes sense, thank you. 

Under review

Thank you for your reply! To ensure a great experience for everyone, your content is awaiting approval by our Community Managers. Please check back later.

Helpful resources

Quick Links

Season of Sharing Community Challenge Winners!

Congratulations to our community stars!

Kudos to our 2025 Community Spotlight Honorees

Expanding mentorship, skilling, and AI innovation

Congratulations to the July Top 10 Community Leaders!

These are the community rock stars!

Leaderboard > Power Automate

#1
David_MA Profile Picture

David_MA 229 Super User 2026 Season 2

#2
11manish Profile Picture

11manish 223 Super User 2026 Season 2

#3
Valantis Profile Picture

Valantis 136 Super User 2026 Season 2

Last 30 days Overall leaderboard