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Using Managed Identities as a service connection in pipeline

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We currently use service connections that use Service Principals for authentication. We would like to try out Managed Identities instead so we don't need to manage the secrets expiring every 2 years anymore.

What is involved is changing to using Managed Identities? Do you really need to setup a VMscale set to use them?

Is it worth it to change from a simple Service Principal, even though you have to manage the secrets?

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kavya_sp Microsoft Employee on at

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I am also going through this. I have setup managed identities and granted proper access to environments. I have gotten as far as setting Managed identity in service connection of the ADO project.

But I am testing this service connection with Managed identity with "Who am I" task in YAML pipeline, it errors with this message-
"
[
"Error: The value passed to '--url' is invalid. No Dataverse organization was found matching the specified criteria (--url https://<environment>.crm.dynamics.com/)."
]
[ '' ]
[
'Warning: Argument --url will be deprecated soon. Please use --environment instead.'
]"

Can someone help me to get this right?

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To me it reads that you don't have the URL of the environment entered correctly. Copy and paste using PPAC, details of the environment.

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kavya_sp Microsoft Employee on at

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@byrnep , I have the URL setup correctly and it works just fine when I use Application Id and secret authentication method for the service connection. When I switch to Managed identity, it throws error.

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If there is any other approach than setting up VM Scale sets , please share .
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/power-platform-developer-tools-november-update/

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Hi Kavya,

I have same requirement to use Managed Identity for PowerApps Pipeline. Please let me know the steps to create and use Managed identity.

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I suggest looking at Workload Identity Federation Preview · microsoft/powerplatform-build-tools · Discussion #884 (github.com) which allows you to connect without secrets and passwords

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