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Teams connection, how to not use your own credentials

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I have a Flow that posts to Teams. Is there some way to change the Teams connection this Flow is using to use something else than my own AD credentials for authenticating to Teams, similar to using a Service Principal when connecting to Dynamics 365 from Power Automate?

The point being to not use my own credentials in a Power Automate connection, but rather a "generic" connection not associated to any user's own credentials.

  • JArpalo Profile Picture
    JArpalo 4 on at
    Re: Teams connection, how to not use your own credentials

    Thanks for your help!

  • jinivthakkar Profile Picture
    jinivthakkar 4,177 on at
    Re: Teams connection, how to not use your own credentials

    @JArpalo Yes, just another account with all licenses dedicated just to be used as connections

     

    Check this out : https://dmitryrogozhny.com/blog/flow-pattern-service-account

     

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  • JArpalo Profile Picture
    JArpalo 4 on at
    Re: Teams connection, how to not use your own credentials

    By service account, do you mean a regular user account that is dedicated to be used just for this connection (and maybe other similar connections?) I was thinking the same, but this would probably also require the necessary licenses to be able to use the services. Unlike a application user, that does not require a license.

  • Mari Profile Picture
    Mari on at
    Re: Teams connection, how to not use your own credentials

    I support the idea of the service account proposed by @jinivthakkar, it seems the easiest way.

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    jinivthakkar 4,177 on at
    Re: Teams connection, how to not use your own credentials

    @JArpalo you should have a service account and the connection reference should be of the service account with never expiring password and MFA disabled

     

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