Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

One of my ADO pipelines ‘Power Platform Publish Customizations’ task failed with “Failed to connect to Dataverse” error.

Reason:

• ‘Power Platform Publish Customizations’ task’s ‘Authentication type’ was selected as ‘Username/password’ which does not have MFA support.

• MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) was enabled on the Environment, which I was trying to connect from the Pipeline.

• Since the ‘Power Platform Publish Customizations’ task’s ‘Authentication type’ was selected as ‘Username/password’ which does not support MFA, pipeline could not connect to the Dataverse environment.

Fix:

• Create an ‘Application User’ by completing App Registration in Azure Active Directory and grant a Security Role.

• In the ADO pipeline’s ‘Power Platform Publish Customizations’ task, select ‘Authentication type’ as ‘Service Principal’.

• Make sure the ‘Service Connection’ configured properly with Azure App Registration details (i.e., Tenant ID, Application ID and Client Secret).
  • My connection name is ‘SP_ExpAugust21’ and details are as follows.

• Save and run the pipeline and it should work now.

🙂