Dynamics 365 Apps are built on top of Common Data Service Citizenship in IT, 2019 edition If that’s the case, we should be able to install/uninstall Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Apps at will, right? Yes. In theory. In the future. Decoupling Dynamics 365 CE from the underlying platform is a long and painful process. Our […]
Tip #1293: Make case customer a contact
If you use automatic record creation and update rules in Dynamics 365/CDS to create cases automatically from emails, you should know the default behavior is to set the Customer field on the case to the parent company of the email sender and set the contact field to the email sender. This is great for many […]
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 #1285: Dynamics Divorce
We are selling part of our business and want to split our environment into a separate environment and move to another D365 tenant. How do I do that? splitting up Recommendations Here’s my recommendation for splitting on environment into two: Identify the customer and related records that are shared by both groups. These are the […]
Tip #1284: Forms Pro and how to be unprofessional
Here at tip of the day we are quite excited about Forms Pro. If you don’t know, Voice of the Customer will be deprecated in one year, and so you really should be reading Megan’s blog and getting familiar with Forms Pro. You sign in to Forms Pro at formspro.microsoft.com, but once you do, you […]
Tip #1279: Select your region in multi-geo deployments
Today’s tip is from Moez Tounsi (and if you have a tip of your own, email to to jar@crmtipoftheday.com). It is about Dynamics 365 Administration Center (yes, it’s still there – t.j.). Let’s say we have a tenant in EMEA (crm4) with multi-geo activated in it and a couple of Instances in NA others are […]
Tip #1276: Do my Dynamics 365 users need a Microsoft Flow license?
As you move your Dynamics 365 automated process from workflow to Flow, you may be wondering if your users will need to have a Flow license to run the process. First thing you need to know is that most Dynamics 365 licenses include Flow licenses–the main license type that does not include Flow license is […]
Tip #1274: My auto record creation rule isn’t creating cases
Yesterday an old friend stopped me with a question. How old is he? He knows how to update an isv.config file. He had an email enabled queue set up and incoming emails were being created in the queue, but his auto record creation rule wasn’t turning the emails into cases. I asked him to check […]
Tip #1272: A better way to notify
I love my D365 email notifications said nobody Recently I spoke at a conference with Dynamics users, and I asked the group of about 50 people who liked their CRM email notifications. Nobody raised their hand. There are several problems with traditional workflow based email notifications: Everybody gets too many emails. Blanket workflow based emails […]
Tip #1271: Where is my tenant ID?
Every now and then someone from Microsoft may ask you for your tenant ID. In my case it was in relationship to one of the preview programs at experience.dynamics.com insider program. But what is the tenant ID? First, what it is not: It’s not your D365 environment URL It’s not your D365 evironment ID found […]