The Daily Friction

A daily newsletter about automation and eliminating friction.

Using Basic Authentication in Exchange?

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...

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Three reasons to use Power Pages

Three reasons to use Power Pages

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....

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Emails received a Power Up

Emails received a Power Up

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...

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How To become A Dynamics 365 / Power App Developer

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...

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5 Tips for using an Email Bulk Sender

5 Tips for using an Email Bulk Sender

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...

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Why should you use Bulk Email Sender app

Why should you use Bulk Email Sender app

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...

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Kindle is a life changer

Kindle is a life changer

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.

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Creating Canvas apps as Dataverse solutions by Default

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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What does cloud native app mean?

For me it means: 1) An app that knows how to scale out instead of up.Embracing this will make your app extremely scalable. One of the best way to do this, is by making it stateless. 2) An app that knows the network is unreliable.The first fallacy of distributed...

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Don’t use Power Pages!

Don’t use Power Pages!

Any architect/analyst that is advising Power Apps Portals or the new name Power Pages as a solution to a customer didn’t weigh the pros and cons properly.

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The attribute was not found in the MetadataCache

The attribute was not found in the MetadataCache

The Problem I was trying to export a Solution from Dynamics 365 CE / Dynamics CRM to deploy into the next environment, but instead I got a Query Builder Error: The specified field does not exist in Microsoft Dynamics 365. Looking into the log file I saw the...

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Remy van Duijkeren

Remy van Duijkeren

Power Platform Advisor

Microsoft Power Platform Advisor with over 25 years of experience in IT with a focus on (marketing) automation and integration.

Helping organizations with scaling their business by automating processes on the Power Platform (Dynamics 365).

Expert in Power Platform, Dynamics 365 (Marketing & Sales) and Azure Integration Services. Giving advice and strategy consultancy.

Services:
– Strategy and tactics advise
– Automating and integrating

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