It’s not all about solutions, workflows, configuration changes, etc. Sometimes, we just need to move data from one environment to the other before making any configuration changes, and, of course, we need to keep the ID-s.. Can we use SSIS? We can. Can we use SCRIBE? We can. But what if we did not… Read More »
Imagine this kind of (probably simplified) scenario: You have added a field to the contact entity in the sandbox environment. Let’s say it’s “Saved Full Name” field You have also created a workflow to copy values from the out-of-the-box “full name” field to your new custom field You want to make sure that, once… Read More »
Automated deployment has always been a bit of a problem in the Dynamics world to say the least, and, of course, we hit exactly the same walls while working on the most recent project. Here is what we came up with – you might (or might not) find it useful.. In the core of… Read More »
Here is a Scrum-related problem which I’m sure has been discussed before and will be discussed again.. so it’s just me thinking out loud. We have developers, we have testers, and we have business analysts on the team. Our product owner is not a single person but a group of people where various stakeholders… Read More »
You might be creating a number of new entities, all related to each other through a hierarchy of relationships, and, then, you might have to set up security so that, if a user were given permissions to the top-most entity in that hierarchy, that user would also get access to the other entities. Imagine, for… Read More »
There was an interesting story today which came out of the It Aint a Problem experiment. Basically, a question came in with an example of a business process flow which looked more or less like the one below: There is a branch in that BPF – basically, if there is an existing account, then the… Read More »
Please note: This offer is on hold as of October 29, 2018. Did not get any but one question in October, so will be focusing on other things for now. What kind of questions do you have about Dynamics? Are you about to start a new trial to evaluate what’s doable? Are you facing a technical/functional… Read More »
I have my own online instance of Dynamics v9, so there is not a lot of activity there on a regular day.. but I know for sure that I did not go there even once yesterday. So this morning, when I went to the Power Apps admin center to see the analytics for that instance… Read More »
When setting up server-side email integration, it’s good to remember the same mailbox can only be used with one organization: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4053618/incoming-emails-aren-t-being-synced-because-the-email-address-for-the “An Exchange mailbox can only be configured to use Server-Side Synchronization with one Dynamics 365 organization. These alerts are logged if you have multiple Dynamics 365 organizations and try to configure your mailbox… Read More »
In this first ever ItAintBoring video, I am talking about a couple of things: Advanced Find dialog, which is now available in the Unified Interface Emojis, which were recently discovered in Dynamics by Megan Walker