A daily newsletter about automation and eliminating friction.
I'm now over 40 years and was thinking about the qualities I look for in a partner to grow old with. For me, the three most important values for a partner are: Emotional stable, kind and compassionate. One test I use is how somebody treats a person in a lower status,...
Microsoft Lists are built upon (or evolution of) SharePoint Lists. The pack a lot of power - no pun intended. Shouldn't they be rebranded to Power Lists? Are they really used a lot for personal lists to keep them under the Microsoft 365 flag? For me they are a...
Environment Variables Dynamics 365 / Power Apps solution can have Environment Variables. Often a Settings table (=entity) would be created to store configuration settings that differ between environments. We now can replace these with environment variables. These...
.NET 7 is coming out soon. Where .NET 6 is known for its big performance improvement, the idea was that this big step couldn't be done again. But .NET 7 comes with a feature that dynamically optimizes your running code. The JIT compiler is already incredibly good at...
Using Basic Authentication in Exchange? From Okt 1 that will not be possible anymore! Someone that has been looming for a while is happening starting from Oktober 1: Depreciation of Basic Authentication in Exchange Online. See the blog post of the Exchange team for...
Two weeks ago, I posted about why not to use Power Pages and it triggered a lot of discussion on LinkedIn. I have given a couple of reasons not to use it, mostly related when you want to create a customer portal. But what are three reasons to use Power Pages? 1....
Have you sent emails with a snapshot of the status that you wished for would always show the latest status instead of a snapshot of the time the email was sent? You share action items are discussing a paragraph of text through email and wouldn't it be nice if you can...
Simple advice to become Dynamics 365 / Power App Developer when you are a .NET Developer Learn about Entities first, they are like SQL tables with some restrictions and a lot of metadataPower Apps Maker (https://buff.ly/3xUTlOV) is like an SQL Manager studio / editor...
1) Know Your Needs There are differences in features between Bulk Email Sender. You have Bulk Email Senders that only do simple mass emails, then make sure the tool you buy doesn’t come with more features. If you want to personalize your emails, email templates, send...
When you want to send bulk emails, like newsletters, don't do this from your own mail account or Dynamics 365 (unless it's Dynamics 365 Marketing which is also a Bulk Email Sender). - save you a massive amount of time and money by sparing you the headache of manually...
Kindle is a life changer for me! It removed the friction of reading for me.
I like to read books, but somehow, I never can find the time to read them. I always had excuses. Most of the time I read books when I am on holiday.
Nice that Canvas apps can now also automatically be added the Dataverse Default Solution (still called Common Data Services Default Solution 😉). See Creating canvas apps as Dataverse solutions by default (preview) | Microsoft Power Apps This Solution isn't used a...
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