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Posted on 11 Mar 2021 02:17:17 by Mattw112b 1,084

I have a flow that I am running to get groups of a user from AD.

 

Several of them came back as failed "Access token has expired or is not yet valid"

 

But hundreds more came back fine.  The users with this error, arent anything special. I'm a global admin anyway.

 

It seems to be some issue in Power automate?  How do I get around this?

 

Terry

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    markf 9 on 03 Apr 2023 at 15:01:11
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    Thanks, I'll give that a go

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    jcollins 149 on 24 Mar 2023 at 16:56:28
    Re: Access token has expired or is not yet valid

    Create a new connection to the mailbox and maybe delete/re-add the action with the new connection to the mailbox. 

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    jcollins 149 on 24 Mar 2023 at 16:55:31
    Re: Access token has expired or is not yet valid

    He's saying to create a new connection to your resource (ie: Outlook) and use that new connection in the flow. 

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    markf 9 on 24 Mar 2023 at 08:01:53
    Re: Access token has expired or is not yet valid

    I'm seeing the same. The errors happen randomly about once a month. Oddly they are all related to mailbox calls - creating rules or renewing subscriptions. Glad of any ideas

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    Bart-Rennes 3 on 20 Jan 2023 at 09:21:14
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    Does someone has a fix? I have same problem, it is random, impossible to reproduce on demand.

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    schuess3 353 on 24 May 2021 at 17:42:29
    Re: Access token has expired or is not yet valid

    I too have the same issue, but I do not understand what you are suggesting for a fix @v-duann-msft ? Can you re-phrase or be more specific?

     

    Thanks

    matt

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    jcollins 149 on 07 May 2021 at 15:57:05
    Re: Access token has expired or is not yet valid

    Hi @Mattw112IG ,  I'm getting the same thing. Using the Get user Profile & Get Manager actions to get just 88 staff profiles.  Mine runs everyday and each day it fails on random accounts.   I am leaning towards a threshold limit being reached and then it throttles the action long enough to fail and then picks up again.  The hunt continues... let me know if you find anything. Cheers! 
    Joe

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    Mattw112b 1,084 on 16 Mar 2021 at 15:02:39
    Re: Access token has expired or is not yet valid

    Hi thanks,

    But like I said some work fine and others give this message...

     

    So maybe user groups  1-10 work, 11 fails, 12-15 work, 16 fails...

     

    So it isn't that all of them fail at some time threshold.

     

    Thanks,

    Terry

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    v-duann-msft on 11 Mar 2021 at 07:20:47
    Re: Access token has expired or is not yet valid

    Hi @Mattw112IG 

     

    Thank you for posting.

     

    According to your description, you got access token error for specific user while running flow.

     

    Actually, the error has nothing to do with flow. This is normal behavior which is designed based on system security mechanism.

     

    This is access token lifetime limitation and we are not able to configure from user side. Thus, you could only update or create a new connection to the connector before the Flow Access Token Expires as workaround.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/active-directory-configurable-token-lifetimes

     

    Hope the content above may help you.

     

    Thanks

    Anna

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