What are Data Loss Prevention polices in Power Platform and why would you use those? That’s the question I had to answer recently in a relatively concise manner, and, perhaps, what came out could be useful for others, too. Essentially, the purpose of DLP in Power Platform is to help prevent users from unintentionally exposing… Read More »
In Microsoft Dataverse, business rules are not application-specific. They can be scoped to a certain main form, they can be scoped to a table, or they can be scoped to all forms in that table (in the latter case, this would mean the rules would also apply to all quick create forms). Model-Driven applications will… Read More »
For some reason, this issue comes up every now and then. It may come up when talking to the new application users, to the new developers, to the business analysts sometimes… and, usually, it needs to be addressed quickly. Basically, it might not be obvious that different applications in the same environment might still be… Read More »
I’ve been diligently checking for this setting in my admin portal a few times per week lately, and, finally, it has arrived: Before you proceed, you might want to read my earlier intro post for this feature: https://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/matrix-business-units-the-cool-new-way-of-setting-up-user-security-in-microsoft-dataverse/ In this post, I’m just going to show how this works. First of all, don’t be surprised… Read More »
Well, good things just keep coming in. API limits have been increased quite a bit, and, it seems, it just happened yesterday: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/api-request-limits-allocations It’s, now, 40000 calls per Power App / D365 user: And, for the non-interactive/application users, it’s 500000 per day pooled: When did this happen? Looking at the git sources, it seems this… Read More »
Now that we have the ability to configure maintenance window settings in the production environments, what would we use it for? The wording there is quite interesting – if there is no downtime or service degradation, why would we care? Well, the answer seem to be two-fold. On the one hand, from the operations perspective,… Read More »
Have you noticed that there is a new feature that’s been added to the security model in Dataverse, and it’s called “Matrix Business Units”? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/wp-security-cds It is in preview, and it is being rolled out. To be honest, it’s not, yet, available in the environments I have access to, so I’m just waiting to see… Read More »
This one is almost of an academical interest; since, after all, there is Dataverse connector available already. But, just on the principle, I was wondering if it were possible to use C# code in the custom connector to connect to Dataverse? Actually, there is nothing special about Dataverse – the same approach could be used… Read More »
I am, usually, not too shy of writing relatively long functions in the plugins. And I mean long – not 15 lines, not 30 lines. In a relatively complex plugin I would, occasionally, have 200+ lines in the Execute method. Here is an example: Notice the line numbers. Even if I removed all the comments… Read More »
In the previous post, I wrote about how we can use C# code in Power Automate connectors now. The example given there (converting a string to uppercase) was not that useful, of course, since we could simply use an expression and a “toUpper” function directly in the expression. So I thought of a more useful… Read More »