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How to Connect Visual Studio 2019 to Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Adam Murchison, 14 December 2020
As intuitive as you’d expect this to be, it is not and caused myself a bit of frustration setting this up. Visual Studio 2019 defaults the source control to the widely popular Git source control and our requirement was to set our source control to an on-premise TFS. The first step you need to do is
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How to Easily Debug a Timer Trigger Azure Function Locally
Adam Murchison, 14 August 2020
When trying to run a timer triggered Azure Function locally it is unconventional to wait for the timer to hit or updating the timer to a small amount of time to debug. Instead you can add in a parameter to trigger the function so that it runs instantaneously.Important notes:You’ll need to have the A
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Testing your Azure Function within Azure
Adam Murchison, 08 July 2020
Testing your Azure function from a queue, HTTP request or another trigger can be a pain especially when you’re waiting for the Application Insights to show the log as it can take up to 5 minutes. You can test your function directly within Azure with real-time logging.How to navigate to test/run in A
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Configuring Azure AD B2C Password Complexity
Jordan Hohepa, 19 June 2020
When using Azure Active Directory B2C you can control how your users access, register and manage their accounts for your applications. While configuring Azure AD B2C you have the option to use User Flows or Custom Policies to handle these processes. User Flows make use of the Azure Portal Interface,
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Dynamics 365 XrmTooling Connect with Azure App Registration in C#
Paul Nieuwelaar, 24 April 2020
In this blog post, I’m going to explain how to connect to Dynamics 365 Online from a C# Console App, Azure Function, or any other external application. I’ll be showing how to connect using an Azure App registration. This approach uses a Client ID and Client Secret, in addition to Server URL, instead
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Manually Creating Dynamics 365 Portal Users with an Azure AD B2C Connection
Jordan Hohepa, 10 February 2020
Recently I configured the identity management service Azure AD B2C to handle the Sign Up and Sign In for a Dynamics 365 Portal. When accessed, the Portal will immediately send the Portal User to Azure AD B2C, allowing them to either Sign In with their existing account details or Sign Up by entering
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Updating the execution files of a Microsoft Azure WebJob
Zoe Sands, 15 July 2019
This blog is a continuation of my series on how to create and use WebJobs (available here: pt1, pt2).Requirements change and we all must update our logic at some point. When updating a WebJob this can be done in a few ways, such as using an FTP or alternatively you can use the App Service Editor. Th
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Collecting logging in a Microsoft Azure WebJob
Zoe Sands, 26 June 2019
A triggered WebJob can handle its own logging and can be accessed by selecting your triggered WebJob then selecting logs as shown. Logging in a continuous WebJob is a little trickier. This is because there is technically no endpoint, as soon as it finishes running it runs again. With a triggered We
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Creating WebJobs in Microsoft Azure
Zoe Sands, 24 June 2019
When working in CRM and other database systems we sometimes find that we need to automate pieces of work that cannot be handled within our system. This could be things like synchronizing data between two systems or sending daily notifications to users about work that is with them. In an On-Premise C
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Stopping Azure WebJobs easily with Configuration Settings
Jared Johnson, 12 June 2019
If you have a lot of WebJobs, you may be wanting an easier way to start and stop them without having to push the start/stop button on all of them, or worse for scheduled jobs since you cannot do that with a button press from the UI. There is however an easier way to do this via Application Settings
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Working with the settings.job file of an Azure Web Job
Jordan Hohepa, 27 September 2018
When creating an Azure Web Job, you have the option to create a ‘continuous’ web job or a ‘triggered’ web job. With triggered jobs you can decide whether this should only be triggered manually or be triggered on a schedule. The screenshot above shows a web job which is set to be triggered every 30
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Dynamics 365 Online ADFS Authenticate with User Credentials
John Towgood, 14 September 2018
For a typical setup of a Dynamics 365 Online instance, authentication is done against Azure Active Directory using OAuth2.0 as an authentication method with an access bearer token issued. But occasionally we come across Dynamics 365 Online instance setup against ADFS which involves a two-step proce
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Triggering Scheduled Azure WebJobs via a Dynamics 365 Web Hook
Jared Johnson, 06 April 2018
Web Hooks were introduced in Dynamics 365 V9. In the documentation for Web hooks, it is recommended to use them with Azure Functions, but what if you have existing Azure WebJobs? For example, WebJobs that are designed as a scheduled service to run complex rollup calculations on recently updated reco
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Using a Console Application in an Azure Web Job to Perform Scheduled Tasks
Jordan Hohepa, 11 January 2018
Recently I was tasked with developing a scheduled service which would be hosted in Azure. This service needed to retrieve data from a database and update the corresponding records in a Dynamics 365 instance. For this I decided to go with an Azure Web Job, over other options like Cloud Services and A
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Preventing Idle Timeout in Triggered Azure WebJobs Jobs
Jared Johnson, 15 May 2017
After setting up a Triggered Azure WebJob, you may run into the confusing error message in the logs after running it of “…aborted due to no output and CPU activity for 121 seconds. You may increase SCM_COMMAND_IDLE_TIMEOUT setting to solve the issue”. This is confusing as the SCM_COMMAND_IDLE_TIMEO
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