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2026
Making Dataverse solution imports fast
Why solution imports are slow and what to do about it. Import types, SmartDiff, real benchmark data, and a troubleshooting checklist. Part 2 of a 3-part seri...
Dataverse solution component types
Two architectures for solution components live inside Dataverse. They import differently, diff differently, and show up differently in source control. This i...
2025
Speeding up PCF build with esbuild Permalink
Previously I wrote about optimizations/fixes which you can do to improve PCF build times with the default PCF setup. Since then, Microsoft has added a suppor...
GitHub Organization Management with Entra ID Permalink
We are continuously trying to release some of our internal work as open source in NETWORG. One of the issues with doing so on GitHub however, is the manageme...
Working with Exchange Online distribution groups via REST Permalink
For some time, we have been struggling with the way to programmatically manipulate distribution groups in Exchange Online. The only supported way is via Exch...
Dynamically executing Power Automate flows from client Permalink
In the previous post we looked into using MSAL to obtain a token from Entra and use it to call an API (Microsoft Graph). This time, we will look into using t...
Using Entra authentication in Power Apps PCFs and client scripts Permalink
Following my last article about obtaining tenant ID and UPN in Power Apps, we are going to look into obtaining Entra ID tokens for calling APIs from your con...
All the ways of retrieving user ID, tenant ID, UPN and environment ID in Power Apps Permalink
Whether you’re trying to handle authentication or doing something else, you might need to obtain the current tenant ID or user’s object ID in Entra. There ar...
PCF Dependent Libraries Preview Permalink
Few days ago, Microsoft has silently published docs about a new feature in Power Apps component framework called Dependent Libraries. We are going to look un...
Speeding up PCF build Permalink
At NETWORG we have been extensively using Power Apps component framework which allows us to build custom UI components for Power Apps. Our largest repo with ...
Deagentification of Power Platform environments
I might be the first one to come up with the term “Deagentification”. It is what it says - disabling AI. The following blogpost will show you how to remove C...
2024
Embedding a PowerBI Report into a Form Using Environment Variables
Embedding a PowerBI Report into a Form Using Environment Variables
IDataProtector: ‘Tha Payload was invalid’ - Token cannot be unprotected after a certain time
Ensuring the security of sensitive data within Azure Functions is paramount for maintaining data integrity and compliance. However, encountering errors such ...
2023
Power Automate Delete Trigger - Missing record values
If you are using Power Automate Flow with MS Dataverse Delete trigger and trying to find a way to retrieve attributes value from a deleted record, you are in...
You can’t do that because “… we said so” - Part 1
This is a long overdue article (probably a series) about how corporate IT security is often forcing “security through obscurity” and how it is not helping an...
Entra ID user and group provisioning with Bitwarden
We have been using Bitwarden in our company as a primary password manager. Previously, we were using their directory connector but we decided to switch to SC...
Example of using Power FX SDK, talking to Dataverse and implementing custom functions
The built in permission system in Dataverse is fine for most usecases and offers flexible way of managing access to diferent entities. However, it’s not real...
Selection and filtering in Fluent UI DetailsList
Recently I got my hands on Fluent UI component called DetailsList. It is pretty handy component to show tabular data. There are many options how you can cuso...
2022
Flatten nested arrays
I want to write a follow-up for one of my previous posts Remove variables from apply to each action. I have been using this technique quite a lot and run int...
There was a problem refreshing the dataflow
Lately, I got my hands on Power Apps Power Query Dataflows. It is a pretty handy tool for migrating, transforming, and importing data. I suggest you to try i...
ALM vs. Power Automate
The only way how to achieve proper application lifecycle management (ALM) in Power Platform is to deploy everything through a managed solution. This is espec...
Remove variables from apply to each action
Using variables inside your flows can be quite handy. You can store data in them, update the data, and append it to string or array variables. There is one s...
Calling Approval Follow ups via HTTP calls
Recently, I encountered a case where I needed to send a Follow up via Power Automate Flow, to automatically notify users about pending Approvals. Let’s take ...
Solution import error - processid does not exist
In our last post, I explained how to make a business rule based on related business process flow.
Parallel upsert in Dataverse ends up with HTTP 412
In some of our projects where we synchronize data from other systems, we use the upsert operation, since we keep the same primary ID of the record. After rev...
2021
Hide button on all entities
Lately, I was wondering, if there is a way to hide some buttons through the whole environment. I have been using Ribbon Workbench to hide buttons for specifi...
PowerApps Record URL in combination with App Unique Name
In this blog post, we will showcase how to create a PowerApps Record URL which included App Unique Name instead of App ID. Why The added benefit exists bec...
NTLM Authentication with HTTP Client
In rare cases you will face a system which is secured by NTLM Authentication. It can even expose a REST API. In this blog post, I will show you how to easily...
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For what to use Microsoft Teams mobile app instead of desktop app
Since the recommended way to use Microsoft Teams on your is using the desktop app, most of the users expect some difficulties accessing the app via browser. ...
Hiding rolodex in subgrid
If you want to hide rolodex on your subgrid (the bar on the bottom with whole alphabet), this post is for you. While working with dashboards, one line caught...
2020
Setting SharePoint item-level permissions to Azure AD Group with API
If you want to programmatically set permissions to documents in SharePoint - it is quite simple, just use Microsoft Graph. If you want to set those permissio...
Cross-tenant publisher verification Permalink
Starting in November 2020, Microsoft started limiting applications to which end-users can consent to. The setup is fairly simple if you use a single tenant f...
Custom Connector suddenly unauthorized - Fix/Workaround
You may have encountered an error recently with a Flow in Power Automate that uses custom connectors that require some sort of authentication, in which the f...
Power Automate triggers inside of a loop
As we all probably know, every Flow in Power Automate begins with a trigger and continues with multiple actions, branches and conditions. But have you ever c...
Calling HTTP endpoints via On-premises data gateway
Recently, we have been working on an integration of a customer’s on-premises system with Power Apps. The on-premises system is not accessible from the Intern...
Speed up your PCF push dev deployment
When you develop controsl with PCF tooling, you can make use of pac pcf push command which will push the components to your environment, so you can test it.
Azure Logic Apps SQL Connector strikes again
Working with Azure Logic Apps SQL Connector can be tricky sometimes, especially if you work with datetime and OData queries.
Why doesn’t Microsoft Teams work for Students?
If you happen to be setting up a tenant for a school you my face a problem with Teams, meaning that Teams works for teachers, but not for students.
Best way to consume REST APIs in .NET
Have you ever found a well documented API? Yeah, me neither. But seriously, have you ever wanted to consume an API documented with Swagger or OpenAPI? You ca...
Support Logic Apps Polling Trigger in your .NET Core Web API
Are you familiar with Logic Apps? Have you ever written your custom connector and wondered how to support Polling Triggers in your API? The way is not exactl...
Recover e-mails from user account permanently deleted in Azure Active Directory (Office 365)
Picture this: You need to solve a ticket, where a user needs to be recovered after being deleted. Not a big deal, just access the deleted users from the Offi...
2019
Office 365 Academic Licenses
If you are an administrator for some academic institution and you would like to start using Office 365 you have probably hit a rock of lack of information an...
Troubleshooting 550 5.7.708 error from EXO
From time to time, when you start Office 365 trial with Exchange Online license, after some time you happen to be cut off from email communication and you ge...
Dynamics 365 - Emails: Mailboxes & Queues
Have you ever struggled with the settings in Dynamics CRM when you were setting up mailboxes and queues? Right.
Office 365 domain ForceTakeOver
If you are an Office 365 administrator, I believe that you have experienced this scenario. The situation when you want to add a domain to an Office 365 tenan...
Solution Import Failure Message: Cannot add a Root Component 80
Have you tried to upload your own solution containing a model driven app into your environment, but for some unexpected reason, you got a very non descriptiv...
CDS Solution Development - Best Practices - Tooling
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Integration tests with Table Storage in Azure DevOps
We need database so we need SQL Server. How many times have you heard this nonsense? There are many alternatives to traditional relation databases that are m...
Logic App in a multi tenant environment
Since 2018 I am playing with Logic Apps. All that time I have been thinking about the best approach for authentication and authorization. There are certain s...
Dynamics 365 - Subgrids without relationship
Have you ever wanted to display a view from different entity and there was no straight relationship? Worry not! I finally figured out how to do it. So, let’s...
Conditional groups across different linked entities in FetchXML
In CDS, the Advanced find gives us a great tool for generating FetchXML files, but even it has some limitations that can be worked around. Today we will focu...
Have you ever encountered the Outlook "something went wrong" error, after you switched on Multi-Factor Authentication in Office 365?
If you have seen the screen below, you should definitely continue reading, because I’m gonna share with you very simple solution.
Dynamics 365 - Custom Dialogs in UCI - Part 3
You may wonder why is this part 3 when there is no part 1 and part 2. The reason is simple. Bob Guidinger already covered the introduction to the custom dial...
Getting React and Office UI Fabric work with PowerApps component framework
PowerApps component framework has been in public preview for a while now. While it allows you to create wonderful customizations, you may want to make use of...
Using client_credentials with Microsoft Graph in Hybrid Exchange setup
If you or your customers are running hybrid Microsoft Exchange deployment and you are using Microsoft Graph, you might have noticed that using the client_cre...
Lost access to Linux VM in Azure and no idea what to do? Check this out…
Last week, we have hit a really interesting issue with our Linux machines in Azure. We “somehow” (will be explained later in the post) managed to get complet...
Just In Time Access with SharePoint and Microsoft Flow
When you are managing services which deal with customer’s data, sensitive information etc. you should never allow users to directly access the data. Instead,...
Dynamics 365 Workflow – Why do we activate instead of publishing and why lookups lie
Have you always wondered why we need to activate workflows, when every other component, from entities to forms, needs to be saved and published? Is workflow ...
Internal NuGet feed with Azure DevOps (VSTS)
Imagine you have some tools or a framework you want to share with your company and reuse it on various projects. If you develop your tool in .Net standard, t...
Quick Fix: Microsoft Flow Error - Invalid type. Expected String but got Null.
Hi, today I came across JSON parser error in Microsoft Flow. I used auto-generated schema and everything had been working just fine until a connector I used ...
Making Xrm.WebApi.retrieveRecord Synchronous calls in Common Data Service (D365 fo CE)
With v9 a lot of changed. One of the major changes is client web API, some of calls were made deprecated and some were added. For example, Xrm.WebApi.
SendGrid, forwarding and DMARC policy
We have recently deployed a strict DMARC policy (p=reject; sp=reject) on our domains. While this adds greater security while sending e-mail and prevents spoo...
2018
Quick Troubleshooting Tip: Workflow Activity Exception ‘Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializationException’
System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Type is not resolved for member ‘Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializationException’ If you ever run into this ...
Override the default open behavior of data rows in an entity-bound grid
Hello there, fellow power platform customizers/developers! Have you tried to override the default open behavior in subgrid and failed? What I’ve found in m...
Dynamics 365 9.0 Server (On-Premises) je konečně veřejně dostupný!
Přesně před týdnem byl vypuštěn veřejný build verze 9.0.2.3034 ke stažení. Pro On-Premises prostředí je to velká a zásadní aktualizace, která přináší rozděle...
Logic Apps foreach and variables
Sometimes we need to work with a variable inside a loop section. Whether it’s a precomputation or just a helper variable. Logic Apps allows us to do so. Yet ...
Notes: Adding custom fields to entity maps between Quotes, Orders and Invoices (solution aware)
Finally, it’s the weekend and I have some time to focus on an issue which bothered our team for a few months. As always we wanted to do it the right way so i...
Azure AD Connect, group-based licensing and proxy addresses
We have had the group-based licensing option available in preview for over a year. While this service is in preview, it makes provisioning hundreds of users ...
Assembly Caching Issue in Dynamics 365 V9 - Update Assembly Version of Custom Workflow Steps With PowerShell
As Alex blogged we are currently facing a caching bug of plugin assemblies in Dynamics 365 cloud instances (V9). You can do an in-place upgrade with Plugin R...
Best practices for managing students in Active Directory
For quite a long time, we have been running a local service called SkolniLogin.cz which primarily focused on providing SSO experience for various systems at ...
Co pro nás znamená nový způsob doručení aktualizací Dynamics 365 CE a jak se připravit
Microsoft chce dostat všechny zákazníky v cloudu na poslední (a tu nejlepší) verzi, a tak mění kompletně styl vývoje, podpory a nasazovaní aktualizací na kon...
Unable to in-place update plugin in Dynamics 365 (with build or revision number changed)
UPDATE 19/9/18: It has been fixed in 9.0.2.5 version of Plugin Registration Tool https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.CrmSdk.XrmTooling.PluginRegistratio...
Novinka Common Data Service 2.0 v souvislostech
Pokud to trochu sledujete, ale začínáte se ztrácet v posledních novinkách v oblasti informačních systému Microsoftu, tak určitě nejste sami. Microsoft totiž ...
Remove missing dependencies from solution XML with PowerShell
The import of the solution XYZ failed. The following components are missing in your system and are not included in the solution. Import the managed solutions...
Protip: Assigning section level permissions in OneNote
When you have a OneNote notebook shared with an entire group or site in SharePoint (or with few people in OneDrive for Business) you might want to be able to...
Historie Dynamics CRM / CE / 365 for Sales
Jako základ pro další články a informace o platformě považuji za nezbytné, abych přiblížil historický kontext a vývoj platformy, která dnes stojí za službou ...
Azure AD authentication for SSH
To be honest, managing authentication in Linux for multiple users/admins can be a huge pain. Different companies use various tools - generally, they use a ce...
Setting up ADFS with Azure AD as Dynamics 365 Identity Provider
In previous article, we have looked at the possibility to connect Dynamics 365 on-premise directly with Azure AD, which is on one hand really cool, on the ot...
Představení Azure Logic Apps
Služba Azure Logic Apps zjednodušuje vytváření automatizovaných škálovatelných workflows (pracovních postupů), které integrují aplikace a data napříč cloudov...
Zabezpečte vaše webové aplikace jednoduše pomocí Azure App Service Authentication
Zabezpečte jednoduše vaší aplikaci bez nutnosti většího zásahu do backendu. App Service Authentication vám pomůže zabezpečit váš web nebo mobilní aplikaci. T...
Power Apps Sitemap: Open a specific view from sitemap
You may need to point your sitemap items to a specific table view. You can achieve this by using a special URL in the sitemap sub area with the view’s parame...
Using Azure Active Directory for SSO with Dynamics 365 On-Premise
While Dynamics 365’s documentation is full of articles and tutorials about setting it up with Active Directory Federation Services, there is no mention of us...
Dynamics 365 Reporting Extensions and SQL Server 2017 incompatibility
I came across a strange issue when trying to upgrade CRM deployment to Microsoft SQL Server 2017. Important note: It is not listed as a supported version htt...
Úvod do Microsoft Cognitive Services
Microsoft Azure nabízí spoustu praktických pomůcek, které můžete využít ve vašich aplikací. Mě osobně nejvíce zaujaly „poznávací“ služby, tedy Cognitive Serv...