Exercise - Create an enterprise application in Microsoft Entra ID

  • 3 minutes

In this exercise, you create an enterprise application in Microsoft Entra ID to use with pipelines in Microsoft Power Platform.

Scenario

You're a Microsoft Power Platform administrator and need to create a service principal so that you can carry out deployments by using a service principal.

Exercise steps (video)

The following video demonstrates the steps for this exercise. The detailed instructions follow.

Preparation

Create or identify a user who has one of these Microsoft Entra roles: Cloud Application Administrator or Application Administrator.

Exercise

First, you need to create an enterprise application.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center.

  2. Go to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > All applications.

  3. Select New application.

    The Browse Microsoft Entra Gallery pane opens and displays tiles for cloud platforms, on-premises applications, and featured applications.

  4. Select Create your own application.

  5. Enter the name that you want to use to recognize the instance of the application.

  6. Select Integrate any other application you don't find in the gallery (Non-gallery).

  7. Select Create.

    The system takes you to the application that you registered.

  8. Copy the Application (client) ID.

Anyone who activates or modifies service principal configurations in pipelines must be an owner of the enterprise application (service principal) in Microsoft Entra ID. It's a best practice to assign owners to the enterprise application at this point.

To assign an owner to an enterprise application:

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center.

  2. Go to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > All applications.

  3. Select your application.

  4. Select Owners and then select Add to get a list of user accounts from which to choose an owner.

  5. Search for and select the user account that you plan to use to configure service principals in pipelines.

  6. Select the Select option to add the user account that you chose as an owner of the application.

Next steps

Now you learned about configuring a service principal for use with delegate pipelines in Microsoft Power Platform. Next, you learn how to configure delegated deployments by using a service principal.