Set Up Microsoft Azure API Application

Microsoft Azure allows you to create an app which you can use to sign in to connectors in Designer. The apps inherit the permissions of a user or you can limit the permissions even further. If you opt for a service principal, the permissions aren’t dependent on the user and the apps can access the data source resources without any user information. This will ensure that scheduled workflows will continue running even if, for example, the user who set them up leaves the company. Note that connectors require the users to sign in once even when they set up the connection to a service principal. You can use one application for multiple connectors. See Application and service principal objects in Microsoft Entra ID for more information.

The app registration process is the same in both cases, but you can then choose to only grant permissions to the app or manage the service principal. See Overview of permissions and consent in the Microsoft identity platform to learn more about Delegated and Application permissions.

Dataverse requires an additional step of creating a user in Power Platform.

To register an app with the user's credentials, see Set Up Azure API Application with User's Credentials .

To register an app with service principal, see Set Up Azure API Application with Service Principal.