Overview Hello! Microsoft recently announced the general availability of support for Managed Service Identity(MSI) in Azure Automation account. This news has been widely appreciated from Microsoft Azure’s customers as it greatly reduces the pain of managing the Run-As-Account SP certificates, which has been the main authentication method for runbooks running in Automation accounts since the inception of the service. To make the customers adapt this more-secure method, Microsoft has now removed the option to create a Run-As-Account along with the new Automation account.