Photography Precision... There is no margin for error here. [https://www.davidyack.com/Portfolio/i-5brxWS8/buy]
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! [https://www.davidyack.com/Portfolio/i-PvmjPFC/buy]
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. [https://www.davidyack.com/Portfolio/i-7mTRBsX/buy]
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
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
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 [https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/preview-program/]) you might happen to notice the link that normally says "Solutions" has been renamed to "Projects". This is nothing more than a label change
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
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
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
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'
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
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
Creating a Skype for Business Meeting One of the things we have been doing for XrmVirtual.com [http://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
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 domain (which of course why wouldn't you!) * You do this from the Portal
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 here [https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crminthefield/2013/07/11/microsoft-dynamics-crm-2015-2013-and-2011-update-rollups-and-service-packs-release-dates-build-numbers-and-collateral/] and AX/Dynamics 365 Operations here
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/Xrm.Tools.CRMWebAPI/issues Stay tuned we should be adding Typescript defintion files soon for the JavaScript
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!
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 11th-14th (details [http://www.dynamiccommunities.com/conferences]) Next is Denver Dev Days October 28th -
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 example, how did they deal with Option Set Values to show a nice
