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Are Service Principals supported on PowerApps and Flow Yet ?

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Hi

 

Are Service Principals supported on PowerApps and Flow yet.?

 

I want to have a high privileged service Principal to access CDS and Environments just like Microsoft Power Platform service admin privilege for the Manuela Pilcher's Centre of Excellence package.

 

Thanks

 

Nigel

  • EricRegnier Profile Picture
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    Re: Are Service Principals supported on PowerApps and Flow Yet ?

    You might want to try the SharePoint forums to get better support since you're using SharePoint: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint/ct-p/SharePoint

    Cheers

     

  • NPrice99 Profile Picture
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    Re: Are Service Principals supported on PowerApps and Flow Yet ?

    Hi

    Has anyone got step by step instructions how to do this.

     

    All of the examples which proport to show PowerAutomate flows are actually CDS !

     

    I have created an APP registration with Flow permissions, I have created a sample flow, I have created an application user and associated the application user with the APP registration, but I cannot create PowerAutomate flow connections for SharePoint using Service Principal I created !  I do not get the option.

     

    A rather frustrated Nigel 

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    EricRegnier Profile Picture
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    Re: Are Service Principals supported on PowerApps and Flow Yet ?

    Cool, and that's the best practice approach as well. It is now supported with Flows Power Automate with connection references. More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/powerapps/maker/data-platform/create-connection-reference 

  • NPrice99 Profile Picture
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    Re: Are Service Principals supported on PowerApps and Flow Yet ?

    Hi @EricRegnier 

     

    I mainly want to use Service Principals with SharePoint online, MS Forms, Outlook and Office 365 Users.

     

    Thanks

     

    Nigel

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    EricRegnier Profile Picture
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    Re: Are Service Principals supported on PowerApps and Flow Yet ?

    Hi @NigelP, can you clarify what you want to with SPNs? You can authenticate to CDS with a service principal. In CDS, it's known as "application user". Here are some documentation about it: 

    Hope this helps!

  • Joel CustomerEffective Profile Picture
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    Re: Are Service Principals supported on PowerApps and Flow Yet ?

    They are with power automate flow, not with power apps

     

    Here is how to do it with flow 

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Community-Blog/Using-Service-Principal-in-Power-Automate-Flow/ba-p/452086

     

    this will use an application user and impersonate the running user of the flow

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