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It used to be all you had to remember is when your site's SSL certificate was going to expire. Now we have certificates and client secrets that are used for all kinds of

There is a new tool on Xrm.Tools - Azure Region Check. You can give the tool a try here https://www.cds.tools/AzureRegion The goal of the tool is to help

If you are fighting with App for Outlook and custom security roles you aren't alone. Turns out OOB security roles are special as they don't require create currently the "App" entity.

Back in September Microsoft gave us all notice that for 9.0 orgs they were going to start blocking TLS 1.0 and 1.1 and only accept SDK connections from TLS 1.

I just reset one of our sandbox instances to the 9.0 release this evening and I was reminded of one of the weird messages you might get trying to access your instance

Mark your calendars - November 17th is the next Denver Dev Day. Save the link - https://denverdevday.eventday.com/ you will want to register once registration opens in the next couple of

One of the questions I get frequently is "Hey Dave, when should I use the App Module feature of Dynamics 365?" First, let's talk about what are app modules. To explore

The call for speakers is now open. What type of topics are we looking for? We are looking for topics that help our community of developers learn about new things, improve on existing

Just finishing up setting up a new instance of Microsoft Portals for Dynamics 365 I wanted to jot down a couple things to remember for the future if I'm setting up a custom

Putting this here as much for you as for me. Here are a couple of blog post that appear to keep current historical look at the version numbers for both CRM/Dynamics 365

A local launch event for Visual Studio 2017 will be happening in Denver on March 10th. It's a short half day event focused on the key new features - you can register for

We just published an update to the Nuget package for Xrm.Tools.CRMWebAPI that now includes support for .NET Core If you find any issues please report them here https://github.com/davidyack/

This week I will be live blogging from Summit 16 (AKA CRMUG) in Tampa Florida. If you are attending make sure to check out my Web API talk on Friday! (function() { var lb24

While I can't believe it is already October, there is still time for a couple of events before the end of the year. First up is Summit 2016 in Tampa next week October

While I can't believe it is already October, there is still time for a couple of events before the end of the year. First up is Summit 2016 in Tampa next week October

You've probably seen the cool demos where someone connects PowerBI to CRM and a pretty dashboard is available I bet at least once you've wondered how they did all of that right? For

Xrm.Tools now is able to work with CRM3(Canada) and CRM8 (India) region organizations. If you have suggestions on new tools or changes - please use http://Xrm.UserVoice.com

Looks like the One Primary Data Store per Production Instance isn't working too well from an architecture point of view for some SalesForce.com customers. In North America, they have 45 instances, and

Cloud makes it easy to deploy stuff, even just to test it, but that is also what can slowly make your bill bigger than it needs to be. I finally just added a

Managing and understanding security roles in CRM can be tough. One of the Tools on Xrm.Tools is a Security Role Explorer, which tries to help make it easier. If you haven't used

One of the nice things about OData is it has a lot of rich metadata available. If you want to have it parsed into a nice object model, you can use IEdmModel. This

One of the nice things that changed recently in CRM Online is the ability to change the instance type of a CRM organization. That means you can change from a production org to