Power Automate Cloud Can't Reach oauth.sky.blackbaud.com/token – UnresolvableHostName

Heather Ravenscroft
Heather Ravenscroft
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I'm setting up a Power Automate Cloud flow to authenticate with the Blackbaud SKY API using client credentials (https://oauth.sky.blackbaud.com/token), but the HTTP action fails with:

"The provided host name 'oauth.sky.blackbaud.com' could not be resolved."

Is this a known limitation with Microsoft cloud or a Blackbaud firewall issue?
Does anyone have a working cloud automation flow for this scenario, or know if any additional allow-listing or tenant configuration is needed?

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  • Carol Grant
    Carol Grant
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    @Heather Ravenscroft
    There is another way to Get Started using Power Automate. You need to create a developer account in Sky Developer then connect Power Automate in the Marketplace to access your Blackbaud data.

    The instructions are here:

  • Heather Ravenscroft
    Heather Ravenscroft
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    @Carol Grant Thanks so much. It looks like I don't actually need Automate to connect for my purposes. I am trying to create an Executive Dashboard with visualizations for our ED. It seems like PowerBI actually connects directly and we can make visualizations this way that refresh on a schedule. Thank you for the link to the resources, I found a tutorial here:


  • Alex Wong
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    @Heather Ravenscroft
    while you can use power bi unofficial custom connector to get some data to create custom report and dashboard, it has 2 main drawbacks:

    1. you need to setup a gateway for cloud based refresh/autorefresh
    2. the custom power bi connector doesn't have all the fields that can be available in other means (i.e. query api)

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