Category Archives: Power Platform

Getting an “object reference not set to an instance of an object” error when deploying a custom connector?

If you created a very minimal custom connector and looked at the swagger definition right after, you’d notice a bunch of attributes added by default: However, not all of those are literally “required” when creating a new connector. For example, I could have removed “schemes” node, and it would still be acceptable: The problem would… Read More »

Multiplexing is fine, as long as you are properly licensed. But can you say if you are?

It seems I still can’t quite get over those Power Automate licensing updates – new questions keep coming up, we keep digging, and that brings some new revelations. Well, today’s topic is multiplexing. First off all, “multiplexing” is not a bad word 😉 Here is how Microsoft defines it in the Client Access License (CAL)… Read More »

How to play a broken telephone game professionally – just create a user story and let it be!

I don’t think a lot of things have changed since I learned about the tree swing analogy. Which has been a while ago, and, even by then, that analogy had been around for a lot longer😄 So it’s probably been like this forever, I’d think it would also be applicable to the pre-software-development days: Normally,… Read More »

Microsoft Dataverse is more than a database, and it’s not, necessarily, a good thing

There are all sorts of definitions of what Microsoft Dataverse is. Just go to https://powerplatform.microsoft.com/en-us/dataverse/, and you’ll get a few right away: Microsoft Dataverse is the data backbone that enables people to store their data in a scalable and secure environment dynamically. It enables [us] to look at data as a service spun up on-demand… Read More »