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Tip #1394: Make connections as other people

I’m writing a Power Automate flow, and I want to have other connections like OneDrive and Outlook owned by other accounts, such as a service account. Yash Agarwal had a great suggestion on how to handle this: Share the flow with the service account as an owner, then open the flow as the service account […]

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Joel Lindstrom (Twitter) in Power Automate
Tagged connections, owner, ownership, service account | 3 Comments

Tip #1303: Apps and Flows, buses and future access

Bus travelling at night that can potentially kill you

You are writing canvas apps and Flows, but what happens if you get hit by a bus? How do you make sure that someone will be able to edit them in the future? Option 1: add them to a solution. If you create your Flow or canvas app in a solution, Flows and canvas apps […]

Posted on September 6, 2019 by Joel Lindstrom (Twitter) in Power Apps, Power Automate
Tagged bus, service account, solutions | 1 Comment

Tip #1141: Timezones and application users

Timezones

Once upon a time server-side connections to Dynamics 365 / CRM were easy. Use username and password to connect and, if you are license-conscious, use non-interactive account. Users have timezones that can be set using personal options (for non-interactive, logon after assigning the license but before converting to non-interactive, and set the zone). The day […]

Posted on July 25, 2018 by George Doubinski (Twitter) in Development, Dynamics 365
Tagged S2S, service account, timezone | 1 Comment
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