Author Archives: Alex Shlega

  A few days ago somebody raised a question in the community forums: https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/117/p/280331/801869 “Currently, Microsoft Dynamics 365 requires the .NET Framework version 4.6.2 for plug-in assemblies. Rebuild the assembly with the .NET Framework version 4.6.2 and try again.” Well, it’s hard to know what’s happening in various environments, so I made a note for… Read More »

  There are a couple of things about Resource Scheduling / Field Service I learned today which may be worth sharing, so here we go: 1. For those who want to try Field Service on-premise If you already have access to the customer source, you can download Field Service files from this link: https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/Global/365Enterprise/downloads/product-releases/365fieldservicedownloads#DownloadLink There… Read More »

Normally, I don’t like participating in any kind of Dynamics vs SalesForce vs Oracle vs .. discussion, since, in my mind, those are all great products, and the success of every particular implementation depends more on the skills and experience of the team working there than on the product itself. So the purpose of this… Read More »

I never, actually, tried the Field Service before – just never had to.  You might say that’s so much for being an MVP, eh? And you would probably be right, but, to my excuse, Ottawa is still using on-prem version of Dynamics almost exclusively. It’s a bit of an on-premise enclave here – Microsoft is… Read More »

What if you had to synchronize access to Dynamics data from the external applications/components. Maybe there is a scheduled process that’s scheduled to run nightly on different servers, and that’s supposed to process that data, or maybe there is a multithreaded application that’s using multiple threads.. Whatever the case is, imagine that you need to… Read More »

Imagine that some data is being pushed to Dynamics through SSIS or other tool, and that data includes associations between non-existing users and their roles/teams. Your data migration script will diligently fail when trying to push those associations to Dynamics, just as it should. But what if, this time, you just wanted to ignore those… Read More »

This is a continuation of the  Creating a web version of the plugin registration tool post Let’s start with the most important part(or so I thought when I started to look into this).. How do you get a file uploaded to Dynamics without resorting to the cumbersome “use notes” technique? There is a 3-year old post on… Read More »

For the last month or so I have been trying to create a web-only version of the plugin registration tool. As much as I’d like to say it’s done, it’s not the case. Looks like, at least for now, I just have to put it on hold since this has been taking an absolutely insane… Read More »

Just registered a new Dynamics 365 trial (v9.0.2) today, and could not help but notice something about it: Huh? I thought I was using Dynamics 365? Well, it might be a little bug there, but it’s also a clear indication of what’s coming and what’s described in the Power Apps blog: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powerapps-spring-announce/ The two platforms… Read More »