Schedule Data Pipeline to run as a Service Principal

[frithjof_v]

Please make a UI (user interface) option to schedule a Data Pipeline to run in the user context (security context) of a Service Principal instead of my personal user.

This should also have the effect that any Notebooks within the Data Pipeline are run in the security context of that Service Principal.

[Shahid12523]

Absolutely! Adding a UI option to run Data Pipelines under a Service Principal would improve security and consistency, ensuring notebooks and tasks execute under a dedicated identity rather than a personal user account.

[jkers55]

Very frustrating when a pipeline fails due to a lack of authorizations on the "run as" user, which seems you cannot set anywhere.

Would indeed be great if this can be set to a service principal or identity.

[nogoodboyo]

This makes total sense from a security best practice and business continuation aspect. This should be one of the highest priorities in my view.

[Christan]

This is absolutely required! Currently everything has to be owned by a human Admin. It causes many security and audit issues. There should be a way to schedule and assign everything to a Service Principal (without having to login to a Service Principal -- Since its means to be equivalent to a machine user). This should be an option for Admins to put a "Run as" for all Fabric Items AND Power BI Items. It should follow design principals which exists literally in every other product --> BATCH users to run batch jobs, Service Accounts to run services. None of which can be physically logged into.

[Rado-Majkut]

Currently I need to request fabric capacity admins to schedule or change the schedule of my pipeline. Very annoying. A workarround is to run notebook, get service princibal from key vault and call API with those credentials. But this does not solve the auditing issues.

[dan7]

After just having to go through every activity in a pipeline that uses various connections that all of the sudden needed my user to re-authenticate. I felt this pain. A UI to run the pipeline and its actions (including downstream notebooks) as a SP would be great.

[makromer]

This feature is under development for CY26