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Hello everyone,

In my RPA team, we use Power Automate and rely on bot accounts (service accounts) as the actual users executing automations on virtual machines. However, I’m facing a challenge: my developers tend to use these bot accounts for development and testing instead of using their own individual accounts.

This practice creates issues with traceability, as it becomes harder to track who is doing what. I would like to ensure that developers use their personal Active Directory (AD) accounts for development while reserving the bot accounts strictly for automation execution.

I’m looking for ideas or strategies to enforce this. Ideally, I’d like to:

Limit developers’ ability to log in and work directly under the bot account.
Possibly restrict the bot account’s access in the Power Platform environment to only what is necessary for automation.

Has anyone dealt with a similar situation before? Any tips, best practices, or technical configurations to achieve this?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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