Tip #1112: Impersonate Azure AD users

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Developers are familiar with the concept of impersonating Dynamics 365 users. It’s easy – all you need to do is to add MSCRMCallerID header to your Web API request, and you’re done (assuming that you have prvActOnBehalfOfAnotherUser privilege). One of the typical scenarios where you’d want to use the impersonation when you have a web […]

Tip #901: Restricting access to your instance revisited

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We’ve been hosting Dynamics CRM/365 instances for our customers since CRM 4 days but lately they have been moving to Dynamics 365 Online in drones (awesome – now I can sleep at night!). Some have been hesitant because we were using geo-restrictions for their instances (implemented in a supported way). Digging into why it was […]

Tip #866: Invite others into your Dynamics 365 instance

Gone are the days when every tenant was sitting in their own little room with multiple instances being the best offer we could hope for. With Azure AD B2B generally available (yay!) we can now all invite Damian “Unleashed” Sinay to poke around our Dynamics 365 instances. Why Damian? Because he was the one asking […]

Tip #720: Thoughts about IP restrictions for your CRM Online logins

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There are almost daily improvements to CRM Online management facilities. Just as we managed to catch our breath after on-demand backup and restore were made available for CRM Online, we now have an ability to put trusted IP rules in place. Even though there were numerous tweets and pingbacks about the article I thought I’d […]

Tip #671: Azure AD is your best friend even if you are on premises

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Your CRM deployment is on premises, as is the rest of your IT infrastructure and services, and your bosses cannot be persuaded to consider Office 365, CRM Online or Windows Azure even for a second. That means you know the pain of discovering that some of the on-premises services, like AD FS, are lagging behind […]