Tip #1193: When Case attachments exceed your limitations

Use carabiner to connect safety harness

I’m setting up automatic case creation from email in Dynamics 365–what is the expected outcome if someone sends an email to my queue that has an attachment that exceeds my attachment file size limits in Dynamics? A reader Not finding any official documentation about what the expected result should be, I set up a simple […]

Tip #1185: Customize the document grid

Magnifying glass and color grid

I upgraded to server side SharePoint integration and now I don’t see enough detail from the document grid. It doesn’t show me who checked out the file, and I have to open the SharePoint location to see who checked it out. Reader Good news–with server-side SharePoint integration you can customize the grid more than you […]

Tip #1180: Rejiggering the Outlook App

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I dedicate today’s tip to Steve Mordue, who asked me how to do this. Let’s say you have the Dynamics 365 App for Outlook configured against D365 instance A, but you are moving instances and want to use it with instance B. Log in to https://outlook.office365.com/owa/ Click the settings gear in the upper right corner Select Manage […]

Tip #1175: CDS and data object prefix

Long live bacon

Recently we interviewed Evan Chaki, Principal Program Manager for PowerApp and D365 maker experience on CRM Audio. In the conversation, we discussed the dual maker experiences–configuring model-driven apps via web.powerapps.com or via D365 solutions and App Designer. To the question of which maker experience that D365 configurators should use, Evan said that there wasn’t a wrong […]

Tip #1171: You can now configure the Dynamics 365 v9 App for Outlook

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In Dynamics 365 version 9, the App for Outlook is an app module. However, when initially released, this app module was not configurable. Microsoft has introduced the ability to filter the entities included in the app module — this means that if you don’t want users to see certain entities in the set regarding dialog, […]