PowerApps Projects = Solutions 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
Working with as a guest in multiple Microsoft Teams 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
Managing Azure AD App Keys 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
Dynamics 365 Xrm.Tools/CDS.Tools multi geo support When you've used https://Xrm.Tools to talk to your Dynamics 365 / CDS instance, you've been doing it from the West US. That means for those of you in EMEA or other regions
New Tool - Azure Region Check 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
Dynamics 365 New Dynamics 365/CDS update policy Give people a way to procrastinate, and they shall procrastinate. These procrastinators who don't keep reasonably current cost additional resources to support taking away precious time that could be spent by Microsoft adding
Sorry, something went wrong: App for Outlook 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.
TLS 1.0 and 1.0 now blocked to Dynamics 365 9.0 orgs 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.
Where did my instance go... 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
Denver Dev Day - Nov 17th Save the date 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
When should you use App Modules? 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
Creating a Skype for Business Meeting One of the things we have been doing for XrmVirtual.com user group is automating more of the group meeting management process. Today we were able to automate one more part setting up
Denver Dev Days - Call for speakers open 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
Configuring Custom Domains on Portals 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
Version number history for Dynamics 365 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
Denver Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event 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
Xrm.Tools.CRMWebAPI now supports .NET Core 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/
Summit 16 - Live Blog 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
Upcoming Events 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
Upcoming Events 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
CRM PowerBI Content Packs Demystified 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 supports CRM3/CRM8 regions 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
Dear SalesForce.com - data loss isn't cool 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 Housekeeping 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
Xrm.Tools - Security Role Explorer 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