If you think this tip is great, I’ll take it as a compliment. If you think it’s lame, Joel is the one to blame because he was the one who convinced me to publish it. I like smart quotes (in Word and in Outlook). They make your text look “smart” without too much effort. On […]
Tip #1294: Export solution before running solution checker
tl;dr If you are getting “Couldn’t Complete” message from the solution checker, verify you can export the solution before running the solution checker. That way you’ll be able to see what’s wrong instead of an unhelpful “couldn’t complete” message. Today’s tip is from Andrew Wolfe. Got a tip? Send it to jar@crmtipoftheday.com. Tip I created […]
Tip #1287: Transition to Unified Interface. Now.
THE SITUATIONThe Web Client is likely to be deprecated by October 2019 with a view to be discontinued a year later Dynamics 365 Unified Interface Playbook In the immortal words of Jules: Oh, I’m sorry, did I break your concentration? Yes, the legacy Web Client is going away. Want to know more? Head off to […]
Tip #1286: Synchronize your watches
&tl;dr If you’re using CrmServiceClient and getting what seems to be a valid connection but cannot really use it because of the “The user authentication failed!” error, check the servers’ clocks in your infrastructure. Bo-o-o-oring I have some perfect reasonable code deployed in Azure and that code has been humming along, talking to Dynamics 365 […]
Tip #1266: Sign out of Skype when forced to Teams
Anyone have any idea how to log out of Skype when your only option is to “Go to Teams”? Daryl “Always Raising” LaBar Why would you need to do that? This is my story. I had two Skype accounts: one from my company and another one from, uhm, a partner. I was signed into Skype […]
Tip #1264: Subscribe to AD changes using Flow
My flowbies! I want to trigger a Flow based on someone being added to an Azure AD Group. This doesn’t appear to be possible currently, as the Azure AD connector has no triggers. Am I correct? Andrew Bibby Hold my beer Microsoft Graph API contains the subscription feature where you can create subscriptions where a […]
Tip #1263: Microsoft Flow and Azure outages
Most of you were probably impacted by a most recent Azure outage on May 2 (see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/status/history/). Between 19:29 and 22:35 UTC on 02 May 2019, customers may have experienced connectivity issues with Microsoft cloud services including Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Azure DevOps. Most services were recovered by 21:40 UTC with the remaining […]
Tip #1261: Get BAD & MAD in Hawaii
Is there a plan for new Masterclasses in 2019? These classes seem the way to go to be future proof and finetune our current methods. From the email Good news! We are opening BAD season straight after the Business Application Summit that takes place in Atlanta on June 10-11. At the summit you’ll hear about […]
Tip #1258: Dynamic attribute names in Flow
You know who are the most relentless follow-uppers? Super Simple Flow users, that’s who. Thank you everyone for your answers to my previous question. I have a follow up question. Is it possible to get the value of an attribute off of an entity dynamically instead of declaratively? E.g. instead of blah?[0]?.fullname something like blah?[0]?[someattributenameIgotinapreviousstep] […]
Tip #1257: Learn Compose action in Flow
I wanted to name this tip “Do not use variables in Flow” but then it would have been a click-bait, not a tip. Yesterday we worked our way through the concept of getting an attribute of the first record from the list. The very first step we avoided was to “declare the variable”. Yes, it […]