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Power Automate Connectors & Service Principals

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I am trying to find best way to run our Power Automate flows on non-interactive user accounts, Microsoft recommending Service Principals for this purpose.
 
 
As per Microsoft documentation below, I was able to create a service principal and assign ownership of a flow to a service principal, but not really sure if this process transfers all connections from a personal account to service principal.
 
As per below blogs Teams or SharePoint connectors can't be used with Service Principals, 
 
 
My flows do have MS Teams & SharePoint connectors, could someone shed some light on this and advice whether using service principal is the right approach to accomplish my goals, if not, please suggest alternative.
 
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    HI,
     
    It depends on what you are doing. Technically I am not aware of a recommendation to run entire flows as a SP. Specific Actions can be, but entire flows... I realize the page says one thing, but in the end its still not really all the SP because you have to share the connections to that non-interacted users, which means the connections and connection references can still fail just as much as if its an interactive user.
     
    Personally I prefer to use a service account because not all actions fall under "you should use an SP for this" because licenses etc are needed.


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