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Essential Azure for Dynamics 365 Professionals

By Ali | May 10, 2021 by Ali

Since it is becoming more common that the solutions built on Dynamics 365 are hybrid (multiple first-party apps, use Power Apps app, PCF etc) and integration is becoming cheaper and easier (thanks to 100s of connectors), I talked about “Essential Azure for Dynamics 365 professionals” in Power Platform 24 event last week. We looked at a few problem statements (common challenges in D365 projects) and how appropriate Azure products can be used to resolve those…

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Many shades of Dynamics 365 Alert Notifications

By Ali | April 13, 2021 by Ali

Long time ago (read web 1.0 era) there was a time when systems alerts meant sending emails to users. That led to ’email deluge’ with Dynamics 365 (err.. CRM in those times) sending emails to users on every new lead, case or order getting created in the system. Thankfully that time has gone and now we have actually so many smart ways to send alerts that it is sometimes hard to keep tabs with. This…

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How to make a copy of Model-driven Power Apps app?

By Ali | November 23, 2020 by Ali

Working on a new Dynamics 365 project or creating a new (model-driven) Power Apps for your customers? One of the first few things to do is to setup a new app. Particularly in the context of Dynamics 365, this “new app” approach makes a lot of sense as it enables a more personalised and tailored user experience for users while hiding all those features and screens which are not part of the project. Creating a…

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Export CDS data to Data Lake

By Ali | June 12, 2020 by Ali

Export to Data Lake has been one of those reasonably newer Power Apps / Dynamics 365 features which were introduced in the platform but I didn’t get a chance to explore until now. A little bit of a background, until 12 months back the only way to export data from Common Data Service (CDS) or Dynamics 365 to any other data storage was Data Export Service. This add-on still exists and exports data in near…