New Course - Creating Power BI Visualizations with Microsoft Dataverse I just published a new training course on 365.Training covering using Power BI and Microsoft Dataverse. The content includes videos and hands on exercises. If you have a 365.Training subscription it is included in your plan! If you have ideas on courses you would like to see published
CDS Using Power Automate with CDS Training I've taken time over the last month to put together this course on Power Automate and CDS on 365.Training. This course includes the most comprehensive information on using the CDS connectors in one place you will find anywhere. Stop guessing how things work! For those of you who haven't
What CDS Connector To Use With Power Automate Sounds like it should be easy, but watch to learn how to choose from the three options available.
Make a Power Apps Model Driven App In 3 Minutes 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!
What Is the Microsoft Power Platform? 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 the Power Platform. The video also
Photography Keep your head high... Giraffe's may not be the most graceful animals when they move but they always keep their heads high and above everything around them!
Photography Just after sunset Photographers enjoy first light and last light. For me I'm not a morning person so your more likely to see evening golden hour shots here. This one is looking down into downtown Seattle with Mount Rainier in the background.
Photography Which way? This photo was from Yellowstone National Park in the winter. If you ever get a chance to visit there during the winter make sure you go! It's like stepping into another planet and you are immersed into the white. All transportation into the park is done via over snow vehicles.
Photography Sunset in Zadar I've been really bad at posting images to my blog, so I'm going to start posting one every week or so This one was from Zadar Croatia just as the sun was setting at The greeting to the sun. This is a must stop if you are in that area
Customize Visual Studio 2019 Startup 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 to just open the editor I
Using Flow CDS List Records action with > 512 records 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 cause a problem in most cases,
CDS Using a Service Principal with the CDS Connector If you are creating background automation with Microsoft Flow that is using the Common Data Service (CDS) connector triggers or actions as part of an overall solution you should consider using service principal on the connection instead of having it tied to a specific user account. This allows you to
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 nothing more than a label change for now. All the other screens and tools will still say
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 switching between guest networks. And if you want to be on multiple networks at once forget it.
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 things in the cloud including for Azure AD apps. Consider this my public service announcement that you
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 longer latency when it does some of its operations. We've started testing out using it with Azure
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 you determine which is the best Azure region to use for integration with your Dynamics 365 / Common
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 new features or responding to security needs etc. because Microsoft's resource are spread across multiple versions. Today,
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. However, if you even copy an OOB role like Salesperson to let's say "Saleperson Dave"
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 1.2. The time has arrived where this blocking is in place. You can read the full blog
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 after the reset. In this case they moved the instance so it got new DNS entries. When
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 weeks. If you aren't familar with past events, the presentation topics ranging from desktop, micro-services, and web
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 that, let’s first remember that without app modules CRM offered a single navigation definition and many
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 the Skype for Business meeting. Microsoft recently released a new Skype for Business connector for Flow so
