Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform monthly reading list April 2020

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Dynamics 365 and Power Platform -2020 Wave 1 Topics Global notification using Javascript in Dynamics 365 (Preview)  by @priyesh_wngman7 ...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Power Platform ALM process guidance published and Power Platform Build Tools general available

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Microsoft just published dedicated documentation around Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 . Th...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Quick tip: generate and integrate mock data for Dynamics 365

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If you are doing demos for Dynamics 365 it might be needed to generate mock data - an interesting tool for this is Mockaroo . You can just d...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Easyrepro - UI automation test library for Dynamics 365 and CDS

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With the "One version" update policy of Dynamics 365 (Sales,Customer Service, Field Service,...) it starts making more sense to in...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Resolving xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/pi/.Xauthority on Raspberry Pi

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A couple of weeks ago when I tried to start the Raspberry Pi desktop it threw an error " xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home...
Sunday, May 03, 2020

Quick tip: reload Python modules in Jupyter with the autoreload magic method

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If you are writing your own Python modules and you include them in your Jupyter notebooks you might notice that by default your code update...
Friday, May 01, 2020

Quick tip: change Jupyter notebook startup folder in Anaconda

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This excellent walk through explains how to change the Jupyter notebook startup folder in Anaconda - quick summary of the steps: Generate...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Running the Jupyter stock trading notebooks in Azure Notebooks

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Update October 2020:  Azure Notebooks Preview will be retired from January 15th, 2021 and all user data will be deleted - for alternatives t...

Updates to Dynamics 365 release schedule, unified interface transition and team member license enforcement

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As outlined in Our commitment to customers help ensure business continuit y Microsoft has delayed some of the mandatory upgrades and changes...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Using Power Automate Flows to sent daily RSS digest e-mails of Power Platform documentation updates

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It is quite a challenge to keep up with the rapid updates of the Microsoft documentation on Power Platform but did you know that you can use...

What can you do with the Azure Cosmos DB free tier?

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Beginning of March 2020, Microsoft announced the availability of a free tier of Azure Cosmos DB (see  Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier is now avail...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Things to watch out for when configuring the export of CDS data to Azure Data Lake

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End October 2019 Microsoft announced general availability of the export to Azure Data Lake functionality  (previously called Project Athena)...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Working with multiple time series trading data from Quandl in Jupyter Notebooks

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In the previous example - Using Euronext stock data from Quandl in Jupyter notebooks I downloaded a single dataset from Quandl. But it is a...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform monthly reading list March 2020

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Dynamics 365 and Power Platform - 2020 Wave 1 Topics Routing Rule, Site, Queue Item enhancements added in Unified Client in Dynamics 365 C...

Using Euronext stock data from Quandl in Jupyter notebooks

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The last couple of weeks I have been learning about Python and how to use it for stock and derivative trading. One of the challenges is gett...
Thursday, April 02, 2020

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform monthly reading list February 2020

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Dynamics 365 and Power Platform - 2020 Wave 1 Topics Series of blog posts from  @nishantranacrm    Email template enhancements in Dynamics...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Quick tip: Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams network assessment tool

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To ensure that your network meets the requirements for using Skype for Business or Microsof Teams for audio and/or video calls, you can down...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Generating Azure Application Insight Key in Azure DevOps pipeline

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If you want to generate an Application Insights key in your Azure DevOps pipeline - you can use the the PowerShell code snippet below in a ...
Friday, March 20, 2020

Azure Application Insights for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solution architects and consultants

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A best practice which is quite often overlooked is enabling monitoring and logging capabilities in your applications or solutions. You shoul...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Enabling C# 7.1 in Visual Studio 2017 projects

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Today, when I tried to compile one of the Visual Studio projects in our solution - I received the exception "Feature 'default liter...