Setup A Power Platform Service Account

A Power Platform Service Account is a Microsoft 365 account used by the system to perform background operations. Service Accounts often have an elevated security role like System Administrator. By using a Service Account, Power Platform Pipelines can deploy solutions as the service account instead of the user who started the deployment. This avoids giving the user system administrator privileges to the target environment

Table Of Contents:
• Add A New User In The Microsoft 365 Admin Center
• Assign Power Apps And Power Automate Licenses
• Grant The System Administrator Role

Add A New User In The Microsoft 365 Admin Center

To create a Power Platform Service Account go to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Then browse to Users > Active Users and press the Add A User button.

Set the first name and last name to Service Account. And choose a username such as powerplatformserviceaccount@domain.com. Then press the Next button.

Assign Power Apps And Power Automate Licenses

The Power Platform Service Account must have premium licenses assigned to it. Apply a Power Apps Premium license and a Power Automate license. Then press Next.

On the final screen, review the setup details. Then press the Finish button.

The Power Platform Service Account now appears in the list of Users.

Grant The System Administrator Role

The Power Platform Service Account must be given a System Administrator role in all environments: Development, Test, Production and the Pipelines Host environment. For each environment, go-to the landing page and open the Users menu.

Add the Power Platform Service Account as a new user.

Assign the System Administrator role to the Service Account.

Next Steps

Continue to the next steps in the Power Platform Pipelines & ALM Setup Guide.

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