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Microsoft PowerApps and Dynamics 365 OnSelect Example
Arpit Malhotra, 28 February 2017
Microsoft PowerApps provides the ability to users at any level in an enterprise to create fully functional apps without having to write any code or any app development skills. You can use pre-built app templates or start from scratch and connect to your existing services such as Excel, Dynamics 365,
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Application Platform in a nutshell
Arpit Malhotra, 25 January 2017
Microsoft’s business application platform let organizations innovate business solutions faster. It helps them to build and extend modern business applications by composing analytics, user experiences, tasks automation all together using a wide-ranging and integrated set of services. It offers a rich
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Intro to the Bot Framework with Dynamics 365
Jordan Hohepa, 16 January 2017
Since Microsoft’s Build 2016 Conference there has been a huge buzz around Artificial Intelligence Bots and Microsoft’s Bot Framework for developers, and recently I have been diving into the discovery and development of these bots for different platform. Bots aren’t anything new, they’ve been around
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Resolving Cryptography issues with the Dynamics CRM SDK in Azure Web Apps
Jared Johnson, 18 December 2015
When attempting to run applications that use the Dynamics CRM SDK in Azure Web Apps, you can get an exception when the app is trying to connect to CRM that looks like this: “ERROR: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: The data protection operation was unsuccessful. This may have been
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Microsoft Azure API App Invalid Swagger error
Jared Johnson, 02 June 2015
In trying out the new Azure API apps by converting an existing ASP.NET Web API, you can run into this error as soon as you publish your API to azure for the first time and check out the API definition blade: Trying to add the API as an Azure App client can get you nicer errors like: "Found operat
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Move SQL Azure Database to Local SQL Server
Dinesh Niroshan, 13 April 2015
Exporting Azure SQL Database In this post, we are going to look at how we can move a database hosted in Microsoft SQL Azure to a local SQL Server. If you attempt this via the Azure Management Portal, you can export the database into blog storage (.bacpac) and then download it. However, this can be
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Export Test Cases from Excel to TFS
Manjula Chetty, 02 December 2014
There are many testers who prefer to write test cases in excel as it is easier and one can view all the test cases in one single page and then copy it across to TFS. Copying test cases from Excel to TFS one by one is a very time consuming task. The alternative to that would be using Test case Migrat
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Download Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Package files
Jared Johnson, 10 November 2014
With an existing Cloud Service in Microsoft Azure there may be times where you want to take a backup of the current Service or to deploy a copy to another Azure subscription, but you do not have access to the original package used to create the Service. Luckily there is a way to retrieve the package
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM – Windows Server & SQL Server Supported Versions
Greg Olsen, 11 June 2013
This post will provide a quick snapshot of the supported versions of Windows Server and SQL Server for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. This posting will also be a quick reference post for me in the future. Windows Server The following Microsoft Windows Server editions and versions are suppo
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Dynamics CRM 2011 UR12 – Toggle Bing Maps Integration
Roshan Mehta, 07 February 2013
Previously I took you through the new Bing Maps integration as part of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 update rollup 12. This feature gives users a quick view into the location of their customers from process-driven forms with single-click access to the Bing Maps website for a better user experienc
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Step-by-step guide to setup a Dynamics CRM 2011 development environment on Windows Azure – Part 4
Vincent Zhong, 22 August 2012
This blog post is the final part of a series. Hopefully after a long wait you will see the following screen. When it is done, you have the option to start the installer for Reporting Extension for SSRS. I will just tick it as I don’t want to manually locate the installation file for Repo
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Step-by-step guide to setup a Dynamics CRM 2011 development environment on Windows Azure – Part 3
Vincent Zhong, 22 August 2012
This is part 3 of this series. Hopefully after you come back from your coffee break, the status of your virtual machine should say “Running”. I will show you how to connect to it and install Dynamics CRM 2011 in it. * If you logged in your Windows Azure Portal, apart from your vir
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Step-by-step guide to setup a Dynamics CRM 2011 development environment on Windows Azure – Part 2
Vincent Zhong, 22 August 2012
This is the second post in this series. Last week I have showed you how to create a 3 months trial account for Windows Azure and set up the Portal. Today I will continue from where we stopped last time, and show you how to create the virtual machine we need. * The second stage is to create a Virtua
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Step-by-step guide to setup a Dynamics CRM 2011 development environment on Windows Azure – Part 1
Vincent Zhong, 22 August 2012
Last week I was preparing for my Dynamics CRM 2011 Installation Exam. I guess same as most people, I used Virtual Machine as my platform for practicing, specifically Hyper-V. While I was building my Hyper-V virtual machine, I did come up another idea, which is can I set up the same Dynamics CRM 2011
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Preventing Windows Azure Subscriptions from being disabled due to reaching spending limit
Jared Johnson, 16 May 2012
Last month we had our Sitefinity site on Azure go completely down. On checking the Azure management portal, we found that not only was the subscription disabled but our deployment had been deleted! It turns out that the spending limit had not been disabled on the subscription we were using, so onc
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