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What if...? Production has a Staging slot. Staging or QA environment needs to be the same or as close to production as it can be. Preferably, you want to restore a recent backup 💾 from Production as...
Microsoft is going to block unmanaged solutions in Production 🚫 I hear this argument a lot when debating unmanaged vs managed 🔄 That MS will do this in the next couple of years. I've heard this for...
For ages, we've been ferociously encouraging the integration of developer practices, such as source control and ALM, into the Dynamics 365/Dataverse realm. The ultimate truth The revered 'Master...
💭What if...? Empty fields are hidden by default in Dynamics 365 CRM? 🧐 Some other CRM's, like Hubspot, have this feature. When viewing the contact form, it only shows fields that have values. Empty...
Timeline Bookmarks? I just noticed a new icon Bookmarks in the Timeline in Dynamics 365 (New Look). You can save your filters and give it a name (like personal views). I have a different association...
The connector only supported syncing from Dynamics 365 CRM to Spotler. It was not yet possible to synchronize changed contact information back to Dynamics 365 CRM. Only Permissions (Subscriptions)...
You like to use strong types in .NET when working with Dataverse / Dynamics 365? Are you into Early-Bound Classes? Generating entity classes? You can use CrmSvcUtil for this, but I personally like...
Mysterious 86% storage drop in Dataverse? 🤔 My customer has a lot of Email. Since beginning of this month we see a big drop in Database storage. Database storage - ActivityPointerBase table:🔻From...
When we implemented Automations into the connector SpotlerAutomate, we created two new operations to choose from when creating a Spotler Job: Start Automation Stop Automation The Start Automation...
You want to call Form OnLoad multiple times? Don't! I was reading about a blogpost to trigger the Form OnLoad multiple times. This should happen after the data was saved and/or refreshed. Why would...
Powerful segmentation is coming to Dynamics 365 Sales. When you are running marketing campaigns and leads are coming more than you can handle you get the desire to segment them. Now you can create...
Last week a customer wanted to edit directly in a view in a model-driven Power App. They needed to quickly set the attendance for the students. Opening each record to set if someone is present or...
Power Platform Architect
I help Dynamics 365 teams remove friction. Architecture, automation, and integrations that hold up.