If you have not heard about UI Flows, give them a try! As in right now… that’s just some cool stuff from Microsoft which is now in preview. Login to your powerapps portal (https://make.powerapps.com), select Flows, and choose UI Flows: The coolest part about it is that, right from the start, you can probably… Read More »
You may have heard of it already, but there is going to be a new way to purchase Power Platform services soon – Self-Service Purchase Capabilities are arriving in November: There is a corresponding FAQ page that answers some of the questions you may have: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/subscriptions/self-service-purchase-faq One thing to keep in mind, though, is… Read More »
Having deployed my Flow in the Test environment earlier today, I quickly realized it was not working. Turned out Flow designer was complaining about the connections in the Flow with the following error: Some of the connections are not authorized yet. If you just created a workflow from a template, please add the authorized connections… Read More »
It seems in the effort to promote PowerApps, Microsoft has created the situation where there had to be a way to take this fast spreading powerapps movement under control – otherwise, everyone with the proper license can create environments, so, if there are 100 licensed users, we may end up with 100 trial environment… Read More »
Now that John and Debbie have there own dev/test instances, and they also have their own development branches in Git (Feature1 for John, Feature2 for Debbie), it’s time for them to start making changes. John was supposed to add a new entity, so let’s just assume he knows how to do that in the… Read More »
In the two of my recent posts, I tried approaching CI/CD problem for Dynamics, but, in the end, I was obviously defeated by the complexity of either of those two approaches. Essentially, they were both artificial since both assumed that we can’t use source control merge. If you are wondering what those two attempts… Read More »
Before you read this post, here is the disclaimer: whatever I write below is my own interpretation which you may want to confirm with Microsoft. Why is there a disclaimer? Well, I’m going to talk licensing below… So, you know there are two different types of CDS (Dynamics CDS and regular CDS). I am… Read More »
I went to the Azure Active Directory properties earlier today for a completely different reason, and, then, I noticed something that made me jump: What?! With the client being in Canada, all Dynamics/Sharepoint data needs to be physically stored in Canada, or this whole implementation is going to stop quite abruptly. Unfortunately, when looking at… Read More »
This post is a proof of concept for the following scenario: Would not it be nice if we could use more than one security group so that, for example, we would have admins in one group and all the other users in another. This way, we might add that admin group to Sharepoint so admin… Read More »
Sep 26: A newer version of this post is available here: https://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/using-powershell-to-exportimport-solutions-data-and-word-templates/ I have never been a big supporter of the configuration migration tool simply because it seems strange that we need to export data manually while preparing a package for the package deployer. I am also on the fence when it comes to the… Read More »