Fantastic video Reza! This information represents 90% of the questions and support cases I get related to ownership and licensing of flows 😅 On the benefits of solution cloud flows defined in Dataverse, you missed a chance to promote your recent video on another Dataverse-specific capability for flows: Drafts and Versioning 🙂

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much Chris! I definitely missed that :( Drafts and flows is my favorite

Very clear explanation of a complicated subject! The Change Ownership / non Solution Flow foxed me for some time. Many thanks for sharing your knowledge

@RezaDorrani

28 күн бұрын

You’re most welcome

Wow! Reza came just on time when I was really confused with the plan of Power Automate and the API Call limit. Could not thanks more. Thanks

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

A very informative video, Reza - thank you. The API limits are another good reason to use batch updates in flows rather than loop through every single record in turn.

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Most welcome! Batch for the win.

This video is incredibly insightful and well-made! The explanations are clear, and the visuals are engaging. Great job!

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Very useful and informative especially the account under with the flow run and changing ownership with the solution context. Thanks for sharing

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Great to hear!

Very insightful, as ususal! Thank you very much, Reza!

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Most welcome

Well done Reza! Rock solid information. One interesting aspect of this to me which isn't well documented is the amount of time it may take before a flow begins executing after the trigger condition. E.g. When a SharePoint list item is modified. If the flow is owned by a user with a Premium License, then the flow will begin to execute within a shorter period of time. I don't believe there is a precise documentation on the time window, but there is a clear difference if you do a comparison between non-premium license and premium license.

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

I am not aware of any documentation on this or if there is a time limit in play to trigger based on license

Incredible video, very well explained and understandable. Congratulations! It would be great another one like it but of Power Apps 🙏🙏

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Would love to do one on Power Apps as well. Let’s see how well this video is received.

You are one YT greatest content creators- thank you!

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Wow! Thanks so much

This was well explained! Thank you!

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Most welcome

Very clear video Reza, thank you.

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

You are very welcome

Many Thanks Reza. Article is good on Power Platform resources with respect to licensing. Awesome

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Most welcome

Great video and thanks for sharing this info, Reza.

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Hi, Thank you for this video

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Welcome

Thank you for this video

@RezaDorrani

17 күн бұрын

My pleasure

Great breakdown of licensing in Power Automate flows, Reza! Understanding the nuances of licensing can be daunting, but your video makes it clear and concise. Thanks for sharing this valuable information with the community! Regarding your mention at the end of the video about flows running under the Power Apps license, could you please elaborate on what that entails?

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Power Apps license grants use rights for power automate (in context flows). If you associate a power app to a flow, then the app license will cover the flow. There are some requirements for it. Video description has link to the detailed documentation.

Thank you so much Reza for the explanation. One question do the SPNs need to have license assigned when adding as a primary owner to premium flows?

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Most welcome! SPN cannot get a license as its a non-interactive user but since flow is premium you would need to license it with process license.

Thanks - very helpful video. I hope at some point Admins can see if the Flow is Standard or Premium e.g. from CoE, so it will help assign Premium licenses effectively

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

CoE does have a premium flag from what I remember. Check documentation on coe.

Very good video, however I wish you talked more about the license because there is a LOT of things that could change the limit. For example the Transition Period. I would love to know more about that, like how it changes the limit, if you are in that period do you run flows as per your plan or not, etc.

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Transition period is a transition. I want this video to stand the test of time :) I have shared links to detailed documentation in video description

Thank you so much for this, very useful, one more thing, does Microsoft alert once an account hits maximum request limits on allowed flows within the 24hrs?

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

I believe if you are exceeding limits the flow owners are now getting an email warning

Hello Reza, Thanks for the fantastic video! I have a query. Does polling trigger also counted for API limits. Ex- I have a trigger - When an item is created in SharePoint list with frequency - 1 minute. Does every minute polling will be counted against API limits? Thanks in advance!!

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Most welcome! I am not sure about that. My guess is Yes but please check the documentation.

Thanks Reza, great video. Quick question, are the API limits per user per flow in 24 hrs or just per user for all flows owned by the user in 24 hrs?

@RezaDorrani

27 күн бұрын

All flows (automated and scheduled) owned by the user and run by the user (manually triggered) in 24 hours

Where can i see the request counter? Great video!

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Analytics option in flow. Video description has links to documentation that has the details.

It is interesting video. I would need more information what type of licenses is required for Queue based process running of 2 machines and how to assign licenses in this scenario.

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

PAD is not an area I am well versed with

Excellent video @Reza. Can't thank you enough. Can you share custom connectors with Service Principal? I assume custom connectors require premium license much like http connector?

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Custom connectors are premium. I believe the connection can be shared with SPN.

Hey Reza, Thank you very much for this very useful video, as usual ;-) It is a coincidence that on my side I've just tried to run a flow few days ago with a Service Principal account I've created in Azure as it is a good solution (maybe the only one?) not to be user dependant. Very quickly I've succeded to run a flow with this Service Principal account to a Dataverse connector, but I could do it with a SharePoint connector (not able to connect the Service Principal acccount maybe due to access limitations?). Do you know if there are some limitations with the Service Principal account as owner of the flow ?

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

SharePoint connector does not support SPN. What you are doing is setting connections via SPN. What I show in video is the flow owner being the SPN.

@alexandrubadiu2355

Ай бұрын

​@@RezaDorrani, if the user leaves the company, the SPN, as owner of the flow, can continue using the users connections in the flow without erroring out?

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

@@alexandrubadiu2355 No it cannot as the connection is not working. For connections, you can use a service account.

if we make the Service Application as Primary owner how the Licensing affect ? not sure if we can assign any license to it.

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

You can assign process license to the flow if flow is using premium connectors

Thanks! Where we can find info about daily consumption API call related to an account? :)

@RezaDorrani

3 күн бұрын

Video description has all the links

I would like to prepare some sort of forms to be accessed also by organization's guest. Is it possible?

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Forms in flow?

Not sure to understand SPN licensing. I have some critical flows for the organization, no premium connectors. I do not want to have users to be owners of the flows as they might leave the company. I would like to use deployment pipelines and solutions. I do not share these flows with many people. Do I need process license for each flow (i have around 20) and each workspace Dev/Uat/Prod? Or maybe if the owners of the SP have premium per user licences is enough? Thank you for your reply

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

A process license is recommended for SPN owned flows. You cannot assign a user license to an SPN.

@alexandrubadiu2355

Ай бұрын

@@RezaDorrani is the process license mandatory if the flows are NOT using premium ?

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

@@alexandrubadiu2355 No but the API limits for all flows combined that have SPN ownership is only 25k

Can you please explain Powerapps licensing, especially the licensing relationship between powerapps and power automate?

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Dataverse requires premium license when used in apps or flows

Is every action considered an API call? e.g. Compose action where the API call in it?

@RezaDorrani

7 күн бұрын

Yes.

Need a video on new Coauthoring in power apps

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

I make videos when I receive multiple requests on a topic. Every 6 months I ask subscribers for topic suggestions on Community Tab of my channel. Most voted idea gets added to my backlog. Make sure to post this idea whenever I post the next topic suggestion post.

Is there a way to convert .xls to .xlsx file through Power Automate?

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

I have not tried that hence not sure

Case 1: Power Apps triggered Instant Flow "Associated" with an App Case 2: Power Apps triggered Instant Flow "Not Associated" with an App. In both the cases the flow will be triggered under the triggering user context, association is just to pair(App and Flow) from the relation point of view , it does not bend/skew/provide advantage from licensing perspective, this is my understanding, any correction to this? #SPN is going to be my next best friend in some scenarios (only some). Thank you!

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

Power apps triggered flows always run in user context.

Is power automate desktop a separate tool and is it free ?

@RezaDorrani

5 сағат бұрын

Separate tool. Free only for windows 10 or 11 users and that too only manually triggered and attended automations. You would need the premium license to utilize its full capabilities.

Isn't Power Automate entirely a RPA tool? Why are you only calling desktop flows as RPA. Doesn't the cloud flows fall under RPA as well

@RezaDorrani

Ай бұрын

No. DPA is cloud flows. RPA is desktop flows.