Imagine you have an external system pushing some customer data to your Dynamics 365 environment overnight and sometimes it requires longer than an hour throwing a 401 error. In this article, I'll describe how you can extend the lifetime of the access token used to connect to the Microsoft Dataverse API in order to resolve … Continue reading Extend access token lifetime
Tag: Common Data Service
Microsoft Dataverse Terminology
Last year we saw some naming changes in the Power Platform regarding the Common Data Service, now finally called Microsoft Dataverse. Because I carry on forgetting the terminology π΅, I have written this simple article with the summary table published by Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/data-platform/data-platform-intro#terminology-updates
Restore enviroment backup
The functionality to restore backups in Dynamics 365 CRM / Customer Engagement / Common Data Service has been there for a while now. Have you actually used it in a real project in production? πΆ This week we actually didn't have a choice. We got an issue with a managed solution where neither we could … Continue reading Restore enviroment backup
OrganizationServiceProxy is null
The CrmServiceClient class is a key component of the Xrm Tooling library. This class has two important properties that, as a developer, you may have probably used in many instances: OrganizationServiceProxy and OrganizationWebProxyClient . Depending on the authentication type, these objects may be null. This article explains some of these cases. Let's have a look … Continue reading OrganizationServiceProxy is null
Microsoft Flow CDS connectors
Today you can find three Common Data Service (CDS) connectors in the Microsoft Flow platform (https://flow.microsoft.com). Which one should I use? Microsoft is making an amazing progress on this platform to add new features and improvements. This is probably the reason today we have those few options. Number 3 is very easy to recognise because … Continue reading Microsoft Flow CDS connectors