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

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

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,

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

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.

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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 -