Dynamics 365 Dynamics\CDS client + Azure Functions + Managed Identities I'm catching up on Azure Functions in context of Dynamics 365 / Power Apps CDS. There are some binding redirect issues with V1 runtime, but overall I like them. Looking on code in commercial projects but also on GitHub I noticed that there is lack of understanding how to
Dynamics 365 Dynamics 365 Virtual Entities tips and tricks Recently I've finally got opportunity to work with Dynamics 365 virtual entity and write custom data provider. While working on implementing custom data provider I stumbled upon pretty peculiar or not well documented behavior. First of all there already are plenty of good articles regarding virtual entities. Two
Dynamics 365 How to hide timeline control action buttons Dynamics 365 CE has really nice timeline control. It comes out of the box and has extensive configuration options. It is written using PCF (PowerApps component framework) and even able to show your custom activities. But it has one downside. Unfortunately action buttons bar isn't customizable and doesn&
Dynamics 365 Plugin Registration Tool 9 doesn't work Dynamics 365 v9 has brought lots of changes. On of them is that there is no more monolithic SDK. If you go download and extract NuGet package with Plugin Registration Tool it may just not work as you expected. It will connect to organization, but some buttons just won'
Dynamics 365 Dynamics ActivityFeeds.Plugins and empty display names Today we faced issue when we couldn't create Case (incident entity name) with customer set to account which have empty display name. From one side for sure accounts must have display name filled. From another side we don't want to loose any cases. Organization service provided
Dynamics 365 CRM Field Security Profiles Bug Our clients use FLS extensively. And we faced weird bug when FLS permissions aren't applied properly even though users are members of respective FLS profiles. Assume that there are two solutions: 'first' and 'second'. Both of them are managed. Not sure if it'
Dynamics 365 CRM audit log and SQL partitioning Last half year I spent on migrating our clients from Dynamics CRM 2011 to 2015 version. That was a long and interesting journey. In some periods it was really exhausting... Trying to manage with all the issues that come up from CRM bugs and behavior nuances to our product specific
Dynamics 365 Slow audit history view for entity One of clients complained that audit history view for a specific account takes a long time (about sixty seconds) to load. For most of other entities it worked fast. I armed with sql profiler to check what's happening there. The audit history for entity loaded very fast. But
Dynamics 365 Scheduled reports problem in CRM After scheduling report in CRM UI you may still get error with next message: The selected report is not ready for viewing. The report is still being created or a report snapshot is not available. If check that report in SSRS directly, we can see that 'Report History'
Dynamics 365 Troubleshooting CRM actions and SPN Recently we have started using custom actions. Basically they allow to fire workflows or plugins by simply sending specific organization request. More can be read here: * Create your own actions - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn481600.aspx * Actions - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn531060.aspx * Four
Adding SQL AG database error Using wizard 'Add Database to Availability Group' you may receive next error message: Failed to join the database '<db-name>' to the availability group '<ag-name>' on the availability replica '<secondary-sql-server>'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) Availability-group DDL operations are
Dynamics 365 Decrypt CRM Email Router saved passwords We are using Email Router for Dynamics CRM 2011. And we have lots of profiles there. During migration to CRM 2015 we need to recreate email server profiles and mailboxes. I don't like how OOB migrate email router data works. Cause it creates email server profile per email
Dynamics 365 Dynamics CRM fails on help content server tests After deploying Dynamic CRM you may start receiving next errors in application event logs where Help Server role installed: Monitoring test failed: Test Title: Help Content Server Tests.: Machine: <MACHINE-NAME>: ServerRole: HelpServer Test Log: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse(
Dynamics 365 Increase rollup fields maximum Recently we started transition from Dynamics CRM 2011 to 2015. As part of transition we started using rollup fields. There are some limitations for that feature: You can define a maximum of 100 rollup fields for the organization and up to 10 rollup fields per entity. Which we faced on
SQL How to restore merge replication triggers Issue We are using merge replication to provide some filtered data for our clients. Also we use data-tier applications for deploying latest DB schema, stored procedures, etc for our databases. Somehow it turned out that deployment of DACPAC are breaking replication. It took quite a time to troubleshoot it. The
DevOps Usging NuGet for software deployment? Developers here work on rewriting\refactoring our product to have modular design rather then monolith. We consider using NuGet packages for deploying. Octopus uses NuGet for packaging: Before you can deploy an application using Octopus, you will need to bundle all of the executables, DLL's, configuration files, installation
PowerShell PowerShell for Dynamics CRM Organization Data Microsoft guys released PowerShell cmdlets Microsoft.Xrm.Data.Powershell. About half a year since I've started my Handy.Crm.Powershell.Cmdlets project to deal with day to day work and automate routine DevOps tasks. Haven't checked their work though. Rhetorical question rises up if I should
DSC WinRM MaxEnvelopeSize quota While testing your Desited State Configuration configuration you may receive next error message during exectuion of Start-DscConfiguration: VERBOSE: Perform operation 'Invoke CimMethod' with following parameters, ''methodName' = SendConfigurationApply,'className' = MSFT_DSCLocalConfigurationManager,'namespaceName' = root/Microsof t/Windows/DesiredStateConfiguration'. The WinRM client sent
SQL Configuring SQL mirroring During configuring database mirroring via Microsoft SQL Management Studio you can stumble upon error message: The server network address "TCP://srv-sql.test.local:5022" can not be reached or does not exist. Check the network address name and that the ports for the local and remote endpoints are
Dynamics 365 How to restore Dynamics CRM entity from audit log Eventually almost everyone face the situation when you removed something that shouldn't be removed. There is no built-in recycle bin inside Dynamics CRM. Restoring database to specific state isn't right thing to do for sure, because of several reasons: * It is resource intensive. * You may not
Dynamics 365 Adding CRM 2011\2013 node errors Issue You have already configured CRM deployment with IFD (claims-based authentication) configured and some of the rollups are installed. Eventually you want to add another node into existing deployment. You may get stuck with weird error messages: * The product key is not compatible with installed version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
AD FS Changing AD FS service account Changing AD FS service account isn't thing that you will usually need to perform. But sometimes due to initial poor configuration you have to do it. In our case AD FS service account was used in so many places... Many different users were using it in day to
Dynamics 365 How to configure CRM Email Server Profile for unsecure connection In Dynamics CRM 2013 Microsoft has added feature Server-Side Synchronization. You can now enable and configure synchronization of email, appointments, contacts, and tasks directly from the WEB UI. The thing is that you can't configure insecure connection for email server profile by default. But you can achieve it
Dynamics 365 Separate event log for Email Router By default Dynamics CRM Email Router writes its errors, warnings and other messages into default Application event log. When you have dozens of different profiles for different queues and users and lots of emails sent per minute, it becomes hard to keep Application event log clean. You can't
Dynamics 365 PrincipalObjectAccess table. Clean it up fast In Dynamics CRM on-premise deployment PrinicipalObjectAccess (POA) table contains implicit and explicit entity sharing. Explicit sharing can be created and checked directly with UI via Share button. Implicit sharing is created during different processes by CRM itself: account merging, emails with users in CC, workflows, etc. During active CRM usage
