Monthly Archives: August 2019

New licensing is just around the corner now – more details keep coming out

Microsoft has just published more details on the upcoming licensing changes – don’t miss this update: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/updates-to-microsoft-365-dynamics-365-powerapps-and-microsoft-flow-licensing I know there are different ways to look at it – some of us are working more on the model-driven applications side, yet others are using CanvasApps and/or Flows. What’s coming might affect us differently. However, looking at… Read More »

DevOps for Dynamics/PowerApps – Q & A

In the last several weeks, I wrote a few blog posts on the devops topic. However, I also meant to conclude those series with a dedicated Q & A post, so here it goes… 1. Why did I use PowerApps build tools? Quite frankly, it was, mostly, out of curiosity. There are other community… Read More »

Use AAD Groups to set up your PowerApps / Dynamics teams

Have you tried creating a team lately? If not, give it a try, and you may see a couple of team types that were not there before and that might actually get your AD admins excited: Now imagine that there is a group in AAD which you want to use to set up a… Read More »

PowerPlatform Environments: Order vs Chaos

It seems in the effort to promote PowerApps, Microsoft has created the situation where there had to be a way to take this fast spreading powerapps movement under control – otherwise, everyone with the proper license can create environments, so, if there are 100 licensed users, we may end up with 100 trial environment… Read More »

PCF Control Manifest file setting that’s easy to ignore

It’s been a little while since I noticed that my treeview checkbox control stopped working, so I was eager to see what’s going on. Finally, got to look into it today, and it turned out there is a settings in the control manifest file that I overlooked before. Normally, when creating a web resource,… Read More »

Flow and workflow permissions in CDS

Funny how you hope you know stuff, and, then, you discover something very basic that’s not working the way you’d think it would. That’s my life, though. I was having a hard time trying to figure out why a user with Sales Manager permissions can use a link to access a Flow I created.… Read More »

CI/CD for PowerPlatform: Developing Feature2

Almost a month has passed since the previous post on the DevOps topic, so, the imaginary “Debbie” developer has left the project, and, it seems, I have to finish development of that second feature myself… Oh, well. Let’s do it then! (Tip: if you have no idea what I am talking about above, have… Read More »

Filtered N:N lookup

If you ever tried using out of the box N:N relationships, you may have noticed that, out of the box, we cannot filter the lookups when adding existing items to the relationship subgrids. In other words, imagine you have 3 entities: Main entity Complaint entity Finding entity Main entity is the parent entity… Read More »

MFA, PowerApps, XrmTooling and XrmToolbox

If you are working in the online environment where authentication requirements have started to shift towards the MFA, you might be noticing that tools like XrmToolBox (or even the SDK itself) are not always that MFA-friendly. To begin with, MFA is always interactive – the whole purpose of multi-factor authentication is to ensure that… Read More »