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Hands down the fastest Power App you can build is a model-driven Power App.  In this video Julie Yack walks through doing exactly that!

In this video I give an overview of the Power Platform.  This includes explaining Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agent, Common Data Service, Connectors and AI Builder.  I also explain the key role Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 play in

One of the things you might notice with VS 2019 is that it now has a start up splash screen attempting to make it easier to open recent work or get started with new projects.  After too many times of clicking Continue without code

By default when you create a Microsoft Flow using the CDS List Records action the most records it will return is 512 records unless you do additional configuration via settings. For some scenarios, for example retrieving Order Items on an Order this might not

With the latest preview release of the PowerApps portal (check your preview environment, more here) you might happen to notice the link that normally says "Solutions" has been renamed to "Projects".  This is nothing more than a label change for now.  All the other

As Microsoft Teams becomes more popular and used for collaboration it is likely you will be a guest on one or more teams.  While this works, it can be a slow process of switching between guest networks. And if you want to be on

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 things in the cloud including for Azure AD apps. Consider this

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 you determine which is the best Azure region to use for

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. However, if you even copy an OOB role like Salesperson to

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 1.2. The time has arrived where this blocking is in place.

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 after the reset. In this case they moved the instance so

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 weeks. If you aren't familar with past events, the presentation topics

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 that, let’s first remember that without app modules CRM offered

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 things, or see real-world examples of patterns, techniques, and technologies. Long-time

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 domain (which of course why wouldn't you!) You do this from