Microsoft Ignite 2020 took place earlier this week, and there were oodles of new capabilities announced to make any Microsoft 365, Azure or Power Platform enthusiast happy. With this in mind, let's take a look at my top five announcements from the event.

Have you played about with the Power Apps Solution Checker yet? It provides an excellent mechanism to fix common issues with your Dynamics 365 / Common Data Service solution. However, there may be occasions where you need to put time aside to figure out how to fix a recommendation...

As we close out my blog series on exam MB-400, I thought it might be useful to compile all previous posts together into a single location. So if you've been following along or are joining for the first time, I hope this post is useful.

Today, we are looking at the final topic for the MB-400 exam – the Data Export Service - a convenient tool to use when performing simplistic integrations involving Dynamics 365 Online or the Common Data Service. What’s more, it’s dead easy to set up too...

As we start getting to the end to my MB-400 revision notes series, we turn our attention to more obscure topics, involving events, Azure and Webhooks. Although this sounds scary when you first hear it, thankfully, their setup relies on a tool we should all be familiar with...

Often, even subjects that you profess to know deeply can surprise you, as what happened to me recently as I took a nosedive into the Dynamics 365 / Common Data Service SDK and discovered a new method that was familiar, yet different, at the same time.

When developers need to perform complex operations targeting the Dynamics 365 / Common Data Service platform, the Web API provides the best route, using well-established standards that support a variety of programming languages. It’s also a topic you need to be familiar with when tackling Microsoft exam MB-400.

So far in the MB-400 exam series, we've seen the variety of connectors available for Power Apps and Power Automate flows. For situations where you're working with a bespoke API, developers can use custom connectors to provide the same type of functionality and to extend the Power Platform further.

We're back once more with another post in my MB-400 revision note series! And, this time around, we dive into the many capabilities that plug-ins can deliver for developers after tools such as Power Automate or Business Rules have been fully exhausted.

It's all change ahead once more when it comes to Microsoft Business Application certification! New exams are landing soon, and some of the currently available ones will be retired at the end of 2020. In this post, I'll dive in and evaluate some of the detail behind all this.