by The CRM Chap | Sep 13, 2020 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Enterprise, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Platform, Sales, Service
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.
by The CRM Chap | Sep 6, 2020 | Databases, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Platform, PowerShell, Sales, Security, Service, SQL Server, Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
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...
by The CRM Chap | Aug 30, 2020 | Dynamics 365, Integration, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Platform
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...
by The CRM Chap | Aug 23, 2020 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Platform
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.
by The CRM Chap | Aug 16, 2020 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Platform
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.
by The CRM Chap | Aug 9, 2020 | AI + Machine Learning, Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Platform
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.
by The CRM Chap | Aug 2, 2020 | Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Platform, Visual Studio
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.
by The CRM Chap | Jul 26, 2020 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Platform
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.
by The CRM Chap | Jul 19, 2020 | Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Platform, Sales
A relatively new feature within Dynamics 365 Sales is to the ability to generate PDF documents for common entities, via dedicated buttons on forms. But what if you want to disable this functionality? As it turns out, we don't need the Ribbon Workbench to do this…
by The CRM Chap | Jun 21, 2020 | Analytics, Customer Engagement, Dynamics 365, Enterprise, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Platform, SQL Server, Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Azure Data Factory (ADF) remains a massive area for me, and within the projects I'm involved in. Previously, those looking to use ADF to map into Owner or Customer fields in the Common Data Service may have hit a few issues. Thankfully, this is now all in the past.
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