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Using a Non-interactive service account to run a python script

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Posted on by Aidan Rosamond

Hey,

I've been working on a script to call the Microsoft API to make some changes to D365. But after I registered the application in Azure and ran the script I got an error telling me I needed to create a application user. Rather than burning a license to create a application user is there anyway I could use a service account to run the script?

Thank you in advance!

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Aidan Rosamond 14 on at

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Using a Non-interactive service account to run a python script

Hey after reading the S2S documentation(thanks @RudyZhang) it mentions setting up the Azure app in Business Central. We only have Sales Professional so could someone point out how I would connect the Azure registered app and the Service Account in D365 Sales Professional?

Also to answer @Mahendar_Pal I did not setup a application user because our IT department handles applying licences and creating users and it takes a while for them to create those users. It is my understanding that a Application user needs a full license where a service account does not.

I appreciate your help!

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Hi,

Regarding your mention about the need to run python scripts in Dynamics365 using a non-interactive service account

According to the official Microsoft documentation you can Use Service-to-Service (S2S) Authentication, which enables external and non-interactive users to access the Business Center online.

The link to the documentation is as follows
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/automation-apis-using-s2s-authentication#main-usage-scenarios

Additionally, you can use the Dynamics 355 Api with the package dynamics365crm-python, which is hosted on Pypi at the following link
https://pypi.org/project/dynamics365crm-python/

I hope my answer is helpful to you! If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact me.

Best Regards,
Rudy Zhang

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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Hi ,

You should not have any issue with App user, I am sure you have done but just to reconfirm - Are you sure you have added app user into Dynamics and provided a required security role.

We have been using app user for different integration without any issue.

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