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Removing the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Outlook Deprecated warning
Nick Chin, 13 December 2020
You may have noticed every time that you log into Dynamics 365 that you are getting the warning“Dynamics 365 for Outlook Deprecated”.This is because from the 1st of October 2020 the Dynamics 365 Client for Outlook has been Deprecated. You will only receive this warning if there are any active users
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How to unblock applications connecting to Dynamics 365
Nick Chin, 14 October 2020
Sometimes when running application like Scheduled Task, Windows Service or SQL Server Integration Jobs (SSIS) on a local network, the access to Microsoft and Dynamics 365 can be blocked. This is because the proxy or firewall rules are blocking access to Dynamics 365.Identifying the problemNormally w
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Dynamics 365 Sign in required pop-up
Nick Chin, 08 October 2020
Does the “Sign in required” pop-up keep appearing when browsing Power Apps, Power Automate or Power Admin? This is because your browser is blocking third-party cookies.I often use Chrome in Incognito mode, which causes third-party cookies to be blocked by default.Check your Cookie SettingsGo to the
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Power Automate: How to import Flow Connection References
Nick Chin, 22 September 2020
Microsoft has finally announced that Solutions will now handle Flow Connections. Previously you had to import the Solution, then manually create a Connection and reconfigure each Flow individually.Connection References Now Microsoft has created Connection References for “Solution-Aware” Flows, the C
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Dynamics 365 File usage over capacity issues
Nick Chin, 08 September 2020
For Dynamics 365 staying under Capacity can be a bit of an issue, as files can easily balloon in size.Normally you would delete attachments and logs to clear up space, however there is a problem where you cannot delete data.In the Power Platform Admin under the Storage Capacity you can get a detaile
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Logging into Dynamics 365 XrmToolBox with Multi-Factor Authentication
Nick Chin, 04 August 2020
Until earlier this year, users who had multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled could connect to the Organization Service without needing to use MFA.However, if you try this method to connect to an Organization through XrmToolBox now you may encounter an error. This is what it looks like:If you are
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Dynamics 365 updates can break the XrmToolBox Plugin Registration
Nick Chin, 11 June 2020
If you’re a Dynamics 365 Developer like me and frequently use the XrmToolBox, you’ll have noticed that the Plugin Registration tool recently stopped working with the Dynamics 365 Environment has the 2020 Wave 1 update. On load of the Plugin Registration tool I got the following error.I could registe
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Maintaining Lookup References during Merge in Dynamics 365
Nick Chin, 08 June 2020
When merging records in Dynamics 365, all lookups referencing the deactivated record will be replaced with the master record. For example: there is a Case for managing merged Accounts and you need to keep the original Account look up reference after the Accounts are merged.Currently there is no way
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Setting the Organisation URL in the Power Platform Admin Center
Nick Chin, 22 May 2020
In the Power Platform Admin Center, setting the URL has confused some people familiar with the old Dynamics 365 Admin Center. This is because you can no longer set the URL on create.Here is an example of the old Dynamics 365 instance create form.In the “Power Platform Admin Center” you will need to
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Power Automate Flow: Making the Filter Query Easier
Nick Chin, 07 May 2020
When I’m using Power Automate Flow with “List records” to retrieve records, the Filter Query is the hardest part to get right.This is because there is no friendly editor where you can search each field name and which will tell you how to format it.To make your life easier, you can use the FetchXML B
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How to Configure Age Groupings in Power BI
Nick Chin, 20 April 2020
When designing reports in Power BI, you need to be aware of situations where your visualizations may be hard to read due to the large range of data you have available. For example, the pie chart below shows information segmented by different ages, but each slice of the pie is very small and is diffi
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Dynamics 365 Migrating Power Automate Flows
Nick Chin, 11 March 2020
If you have multiple Dynamics 365 environments e.g. Dev, Test, UAT and Production then you may need to migrate Power Automate Flows.There are two ways to import Power Automate Flows into an environment; using a Package (Package.zip) or using a Solution.Package (Package.zip) You can export and import
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PSA: Dynamics 365 Duplicate Detection Bug Stops Business Process Flow from Initializing
Nick Chin, 04 March 2020
We discovered a strange bug where the Business Process Flow wouldn’t initialize during Quick Create. It was difficult to pinpoint, however we eventually found that within the Unified Interface on the save of the Quick Create form, if it triggered duplicate detection, somehow the dialog would preven
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Back up Dynamics 365 with the Power Platform Admin Center
Nick Chin, 22 January 2020
Microsoft recently released Backup & Restore functionality to the Power Platform Admin center and changed this to the default. This is quite different, so I will give you an overview. If you open the “Backup & Restore” tab in the classic Dynamics 365 Admin Center You will now get this pop-up
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Dynamics 365 Error in Google Chrome
Nick Chin, 15 January 2020
Suddenly on Thursday the 14/11/2019 NZST a customer was having issues with Dynamics 365 when using Chrome, it was freezing and displaying a blank/white tab. Users would need to restart Chrome to load Dynamics 365 again.I was unable to replicate this issue on my laptop, however the users affected we
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