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
Read the full article hereSometimes 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
Read the full article hereDoes 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
Read the full article hereMicrosoft 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
Read the full article hereFor 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
Read the full article hereUntil 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
Read the full article hereIf 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
Read the full article hereWhen 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
Read the full article hereIn 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
Read the full article hereWhen 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
Read the full article hereWhen 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
Read the full article hereIf 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
Read the full article hereWe 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
Read the full article hereMicrosoft 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
Read the full article hereSuddenly 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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