by The CRM Chap | 19th May 2019 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Dynamics CRM, Sales, Service | 0 Comments

Feature deprecations can often cause some degree of disruption, especially if they involve custom code. Microsoft has recently deprecated the Xrm.Page object for JScript form functions in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement. Find out more about this change and what you will need to do to fix this as part of this week's blog post.

by The CRM Chap | 12th May 2019 | 2015, 2016, Analytics, Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Dynamics CRM, Enterprise, Microsoft Azure, Sales, Service | 0 Comments

Azure Data Factory V2 not just has 1, but three separate connectors that all claim to hook up to Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement/Dynamics CRM! So which connector is the "right" one to use and what differences do they have? With a little help from Alan Partridge, we can clear up any confusion...

by The CRM Chap | 5th May 2019 | DevOps, Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio | 0 Comments

Validating your Azure templates manually can be a challenging task to complete at scale. Fortunately, with the functionality available within Azure Pipelines, this entire process can be fully automated. This post will show you just how easy it is to implement automatic validation an deployment of your Azure templates within a CI process.

by The CRM Chap | 28th April 2019 | Analytics, Microsoft Azure | 0 Comments

When working with Azure templates for the first time, there's always a risk of misconfiguring a setting. All fine when testing, until you realise you have been charged an unexpected amount on your credit card. In this post, I provide an example of this in practice when working with Stream Analytic Job resources.

by The CRM Chap | 21st April 2019 | DevOps, Microsoft Azure | 0 Comments

Working with variables within your Azure DevOps Pipeline can give you a high degree of latitude when planning your software deployments. When utilised as release variables, additional functionality is exposed, allowing you to alter the conditional flow within your pipeline dramatically. In this week's post, we'll find out how to use them in practice.

by The CRM Chap | 14th April 2019 | DevOps, Microsoft Azure, Web | 0 Comments

It's essential to understand the precise behaviour your Azure templates will have when deployed, to avoid any unexpected issues or even data loss that could occur. This week's post will explore an example of why this is so important, involving Azure App Service application settings.

by The CRM Chap | 7th April 2019 | DevOps, Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio | 0 Comments

Getting your Azure Board backlog working correctly may require some tinkering, particularly if you decide to take advantage of certain features after you have begun using the application. In this post, I'll show you how to get the Team Board/Backlog configured to show work items from all sub-areas within your project.

by The CRM Chap | 31st March 2019 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Dynamics CRM, Power BI, Power Platform | 2 Comments

A few years ago on the blog, we saw how it was possible to utilise Fetch XML queries within Power BI. Things have moved on since then and, thanks to the awesome Dynamics community, there is now a way of getting around the issues highlighted in the original post...

by The CRM Chap | 24th March 2019 | Microsoft Teams, Office 365 | 0 Comments

Provisioning licenses as a Microsoft Cloud Solutions provider can be tricky sometimes, as you attempt to match the correct add-on subscription to its appropriate "parent" subscription. In this post, we'll see an example of this in practice when trying to provision a Microsoft Teams/Skype for Business Audio Conferencing license.

by The CRM Chap | 17th March 2019 | Analytics, Microsoft Azure, Power BI, Power Platform, Web | 0 Comments

Depending on the type of data being worked with within Power BI, you may find yourself unable to leverage Power Query to perform any data transformation required. In this scenario, such as when working with Streaming Analytic Power BI datasets, DAX can come to the rescue, and we'll see how in this post.