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What are the reasons you would want to share a connection with a service principal? They cannot own a connector, or be licensed for premium connectors so why would you be able to share it with a service principal?
Hello @byrnep,
If you are using automated Application Lifecycle Management, e.g. through Azure DevOps pipelines, solutions will be imported through a service principal.
To be able to automatically activate flows in the target environment, the service principal needs to have access to the connections. To achieve this, you can create a connection through a user account and then share it with this service principal.
Can it be used to run connections that the original user doesn't have permissions to? Like Entra ID?
Hello @FemaleMarvel365, yes, if a flow is set up to "use this connection" instead of the connecting on behalf of the user ("run-only user"): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/business-apps/power-automate/guidance/manage-list-flows
@FemaleMarvel365
Service principal does support running flows but you need to be aware of the limitations.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/service-principal-support
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