After sometime of doing the research and getting my courage to start recording content for YouTube, I’m pleased to launch a new YouTube Channel called: Power Platform Clinic (https://www.youtub...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2020/10/02/launching-a-new-youtube-channel-power-platform-clinic/
As Microsoft just recently applied the latest update 2020 wave 1 to our instances, which includes an update to the editor to the notes section. Previously, it was using a plain text editor where ...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2020/05/26/spelling-checker-in-the-new-editors-of-unified-interface/
I’ve been recently helping a colleague of mine that has a need to change the SharePoint Document Location’s relative URL, as the folder of the record needs to be renamed. With Unified Interfa...
So, after learning on how to make a PCF control from my previous learning experience. I decided to look for other controls that I can work on. One of them is the TinyMCE/Rich Text Editor control....
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/new-pcf-tinymce-rich-text-editor/
First of all, credit to Sankal Bansal on his New Zealand Version of the similar control with the same provider. I was recently working on a specific task to implement a new Address Autocomplete/V...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2019/10/18/my-first-pcf-control-addressfinder-australian-addresses/
Finally, after quite hectic months with all big events are happening in Melbourne, Australia & Globally (Dynamics 365 Saturday, UG Summit and Global Hackathon), I’m going to finalise this serie...
In the previous post, we have discussed how to configure Azure AD B2C using the Open ID Connect method. One of the challenges that I had in my past experience is that the client has a strict requ...
The second part of the series of the blog post is to leverage the Microsoft Azure AD capability to deliver the authentication capability for the Dynamics 365 Portal. There are 2 parts of the Azur...
I’ve been recently deployed a quite complex Dynamics 365 portal solution involving a custom authentication provider and other features such as Power BI Embedded and SharePoint integration. In t...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/dynamics-365-portal-authentication-series-part-1-the-basics/
Microsoft product team just shared the latest update for Unified Interface in the October 2018 release. This is important especially for those who have started embracing Unifed Interface in their...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/update-to-the-unified-interface-in-the-october-2018-release/
Recently I’ve been experimenting with Microsoft Flow and its counterpart, Logic Apps. A thing that I noticed could become a game changer in designing a business solution these days is that Micr...
Microsoft just announced the October’18 Release Notes from the last week’s Business Application Summit conference at Seattle. The first question that might come up is: Why October, aren’t w...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2018/07/30/business-apps-october-18-release-highlights/
Today I encountered a very weird error when I’m working with my team to create a very simple workflow, on a status update, if the status is equal to a specific status, create a task that is ass...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2018/07/23/troubleshooting-there-is-no-active-transaction-error/
Today I learned a new thing about ExecuteMultipleRequest within Dynamics 365 plugins and/or custom workflow activities. The following article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/custom...
Recently I’ve been exploring the power of Microsoft Business Application Platform. One of the most common requirements that I think we can solve in the Low Code Approach is the scheduled report...
Some time ago, I published a blog post about a tip about using Security Group in Dynamics 365 Online Deployment. And I’ve got a feedback from one of my colleagues where the security group is no...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/gotcha-dont-use-nested-security-group/
The feature of Security Group in the Dynamics 365 Online deployment has been there for a while. However, I often find either people do not understand it correctly or this feature is not being con...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2018/02/07/dynamics-365-online-deployment-tips-set-your-security-group/
Recently, I had a tricky question: Can you create a view that is displaying records that are either owned by a team or the users that are a member of that particular team. EDIT: Jonas Rapp provid...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/fetchxml-trick-cross-entity-criteria-in-a-group-filter/
Recently, I’m working on a demo that I need to skin the Dynamics 365 portal to have a look and feel based on the client’s theme. One of the pages is the dashboard/landing page that showing so...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/dynamics-365-portal-when-the-custom-css-wont-load/
Recently I spent some time working on Virtual Entities, one of the new features in Dynamics 365 v9.0. To learn more about Virtual Entities, you can read the official documentation here and how t...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/just-some-tips-working-with-virtual-entities/
I’m continuing the hidden gems series of the Dynamics 365 v9.0. Today’s topic is about the UI/UX Configuration that is introduced in the Dynamics 365 v9.0. This is not about the “Hub” fea...
The Dynamics 365 v9.0 for the online deployment has become available since a few days ago. I believe we are all excited with this new release. There are major improvements in a lot of areas such ...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/dynamics-365-v9-0-hidden-gems-1-autonumber/
A colleague of mine recently mentioned that one of our clients is complaining about the script errors that keep pop-ing up. It happens even on a new sandbox instance. This issue seems to be a cl...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/hide-the-dynamics-365-script-error-pop-ups/
A quick disclaimer: this article is based on the preview program where the actual might differs. Last week, I spent some more time watching again the recording of the Executive Briefing for Dynam...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/what-matters-with-the-dynamics-365-v9-0/
We, at Barhead has just started our Microsoft Teams journey earlier this month. One thing that we noticed is that by default of standard installation every date/time formatting are in US format....
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/microsoft-teams-tips-to-change-datetime-format/
Today, I passed the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales exam (MB2-717). So, I just would like to share the preparation tips that I’ve done to get this certification nailed down. I came from techn...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/tips-to-prepare-for-the-dynamics-365-exam-mb2-717-sales/
After a few weeks of planning, from the UG Committee, we are pleased to have our Melbourne Dynamics 365 User Group YouTube channel up and running. Special thanks to Sahan Wijayasekera who recorde...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/melbourne-dynamics-365-user-group-youtube-channel/
Recently I passed the Microsoft Dynamics 365 exam on Customization & Configuration (MB2-716). I just would like to share the preparation tips that I’ve done to get this certification nailed dow...
Today, when I navigate to edit one of the Dynamics 365 Online instances, I just noticed a new section that is available on my trial instance: “database encryption settings” So, what can you d...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2017/03/29/managing-dynamics-365-online-encryption-key/
This is another finding from deploying Dynamics 365 PSA. So, during the testing phase, I noticed the test user account could not see WBS link under project entity. The copied security role ass...
Currently I’m in a project where our team is going to roll out Dynamics 365 Project Service Automation for one of our customers. Throughout the project, we’ve learned a lot about this new coo...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/lesson-learned-from-psa-deployment/
Last week I posted my gotcha around Dynamics 365 Outlook App. This weekend I noticed a notification on my phone to update the Outlook app to the latest version. What surprises me is the availabil...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/ios-outlook-add-ins-is-now-available/
Microsoft Dynamics 365 has a shiny new Outlook App. In this post, I won’t discuss the functionality of this Outlook App (for the information about functionality, please use the following articl...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2017/01/27/gotchas-on-dynamics-365-outlook-app-deployment/
Prior to the release of Dynamics 365, we are helped a lot by XrmToolbox to edit the sitemap without the need of editing the sitemap XML manually. However, with the release of Dynamics 365, it se...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/editing-sitemap-in-dynamics-365/
It seems the wait is over for CRM On-Premise customers to get the latest update of Dynamics 365 (Re-branding seems to cause confusions to some of us). Download link: https://www.microsoft.com/en...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/dynamics-365-on-premises-is-released/
Recently I worked on a demo to showcase Dynamics 365 Service (case management) capability. One of the feature that I would like to show is the case routing functionality. I’ve created a simple ...
In the previous part of this series, we have seen the sample implementation and how the code is running against a CRM Online instance. In this post I will show on how to deploy the chat bot to t...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/crm-chat-bot-part-4-deployment-action/
In the part 2 of the series, we have discussed on the concept of how the Bot Framework library is used to assist us building conversational bot. As promised in the previous post, I’m going to s...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/crm-chat-bot-part-3-microsoft-bot-framework-sample-codes/
In the Part 1 of this series we have explored on how to configure the development environment and run the Bot Framework template to get the “Hello World” kind of reply from the Bot. Now in th...
Microsoft quite recently announced the Microsoft Bot Framework on Build Conference 2016. Below is the overview of the vision of Bot Framework from Microsoft: The Microsoft Bot Framework provides ...
Microsoft just announced CRM Ideas portal: https://crmideas.dynamics.com/ideas/. Previously the way we submit our feedback/ideas is through Microsoft Connect: https://connect.microsoft.com/dyna...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/crm-ideas-let-your-ideas-listened/
I just recently re-opened my XrmToolBox to do some Sitemap modification and found out some new plugins are available on the XrmToolBox plugin store. One of it is Ribbon Workbench 2016 beta by Sco...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/ribbon-workbench-2016-beta-on-xrmtoolbox/
Microsoft has suggested developers to start using the new Web API to develop new custom development. As they are planning to deprecate the 2011 endpoints sometime after CRM version 9 (We are on ...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2016/06/09/gotcha-working-with-dynamics-crm-web-api-grammar/
I just recently spun up a new trial instance for practice purpose and noticed a slight difference on the notification bar. Out of curiosity I checked the CRM version, and… My new trial instance...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/dynamics-crm-online-2016-update-1-is-up/
The CRM Support team recently released a new tool to diagnose Dynamics CRM Online connectivity issue. The initial CRM Online scenario is for CRM Outlook Client configuration issues. This diagno...
With the recent updates of Web API in Dynamics CRM 2016 it seems like this RESTful API will be the future of Dynamics CRM API. One of the drawback of REST API is the absence of the service clien...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/json2csharp-converter/
This is a quick post. As recently I just registered for a new CRM Online trial instance for customer demo. I just noticed that there is a new tab called “Service Health” under the CRM Online ...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/crm-online-service-health-per-instance/
XrmToolBox by Tanguy Touzard is my go to tool for lots of Dynamics CRM related productivity. It comes with lots of plugins that is an accumulative effort of the Dynamics CRM community. Recently ...
I recently found out that there is a way to extend the Dynamics CRM trial instance for another 30 days without the need of logging a support ticket. On your Office 365 Admin Portal (https://porta...
https://andz88.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/extending-crm-online-trial-without-support-ticket/
Dynamics CRM 2016 comes with enhancement to the solution mechanism. The most favourite part of it is the patching and cloning, for more information about this, you can see Magnetism Team blog’s...