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 to… Read More »
ITA Business Rules Admin v1.01 has been released, and it comes with some cool features: 1. You can now register your rules to run in Pre-Validation, in Pre-Operation, or in Post-Operation Why is this important? Those stages correspond to the plugin execution stages, and, depending on what happens behind the scene, Post-Operation data may be… Read More »
These are not the same business rules you are used to in Dataverse – these are relying on the plugins and FetchXML, so, technically, there is nothing new since we’ve been using plugins forever. However, the cool thing about them is that: Everything is in git, and you’ll find plugin source codes, as well as… Read More »
You may have seen the announcement – we can now configure Dataverse IP Firewall per managed environment: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/ip-firewall#what-is-audit-only-mode This is only possible in the managed environments, so all the licensing and other considerations still apply. Also, when specifying the IP address, you actually need to use CIDR format (classless inter-domain routing), which looks like this:… Read More »
I was trying to visualize Dataverse data storage options, and this is where the diagram below started, but it actually did not go quite as planned and ended up being something slightly different. It seems difficult to look at the data options out of the context, so that’s the reason I had to keep adding… Read More »
Just when I thought my recent encounter with the upcoming licensing changes was dramatic enough, it turned out there is more to it. Do you have a project where you’ve been using multiple flows, apps, etc? Then keep reading but be prepared to lose sleep for a bit. Are you just starting a new project? Well, there… Read More »
Not sure if you folks are aware – I was not, not until a few weeks ago when this came up in some discussions with the client, but, apparently, we should really start looking at our integration/migration/and other heavily utilized user accounts to see how many power platform requests are being made daily under those… Read More »
There is something magical about five hundred: AND, ready for the next one? There is 500 limit on the number of controls you should be adding to your canvas applications: I am pretty sure you can add more, of course. There is no hard limit – as in, your application will not stop working if… Read More »
In the latest version of the CoE Starter Kit, the team behind it has implemented “Nurture Apps – Maker” model-driven application for solution makers which, among other things, allows application makers to submit solution assessment to the COE admins: The questions there are configurable, but, in general, the purpose of this app is not necessarily… Read More »
There is a scenario which came up recently, and, with the usual disclaimer that you may want to run any licensing suggestion by Microsoft, here is where this landed (the credit for those explanations goes to those who provided them) Let’s say you were using Power Pages, or, perhaps, you were using a custom web… Read More »