Sunday, August 11, 2024

Unmasking hidden issues in Dataverse: the surprising role of event expander operations in System job logs - down the rabbit hole we go

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 As outlined in  Large AsyncOperationBase increase in Dataverse/Dynamics 365 CE: the canary in the coalmine  - an increase in the amount of ...
Saturday, August 03, 2024

Quick tip: Don't bother upgrading very old Raspberry Pi OS version with apt upgrade, just re-install

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A couple of weeks ago, I uncovered an old Raspberry Pi 2 in a drawer and I wanted to try to upgrade the OS to a more recent version. The Ras...

From boring to soaring: why leaders need to master story telling

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"The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller - Steve Jobs" I recently read the Harvard Business Review article : your...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

Dynamics 365 Customer Service optimization resources webinar series from FastTrack team

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 The Microsoft FastTrack team published a series of videos with best practices and guidance for Dynamics 365 Customer Service implementation...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

How to improve your blog posts with Microsoft Copilot

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 Here is a little trick that I found on how you can improve your blogposts with Microsoft Copilot. Use this two prompts: Prompt 1: Read the ...

Quick tip: disable meeting invite notifications in Teams activity feed.

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There is a new (annoying) functionality which  show meeting invite notifications in your Microsoft Teams activity feed. To disable this go t...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

Quick note: Python date and time objects

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In Python, a naive datetime object is one that does not contain any information about time zones or daylight saving time. This means it is u...
Saturday, July 06, 2024

Quick Tip: Azure Synapse Link Troubleshooting Guide

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 If you encounter issues when setting up Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse - the first place to check is the Azure Synapse Link Troubleshoot...
Sunday, May 19, 2024

Quick tip: cheap static website hosting in Azure Storage

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Azure Storage's static website hosting feature provides a serverless solution for serving static content such as HTML and images, direct...
Friday, April 26, 2024

Start CRM development tools from command prompt with Power Platform CLI

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It is important t o keep your Dynamics 365 development tools up to date, in the past I did this by using a PowerShell script provided by Mic...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Power Automate license enforcement - looking at it from a Dynamics 365 CE perspective

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Mid May 2023, a warning popped up in Microsoft Message Center regarding "Non-Compliant Power Automate Flows" -  soon after the mes...

The ABC of AI: Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (RAG) and grounding

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This is the first in a series of blog posts about more advanced generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) concepts which I use as notes t...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform monthly reading list April 2024

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Copilots, AI and machine learning Artificial Intelligence 2023 Playlist by Stanford Online (YouTube)  and Stanford CS229: Machine Learning |...
Friday, February 23, 2024

SQL Server Integration Services Project template available for Visual Studio 2022

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 Since end of 2022, there is also a  SQL Server Integration Services  Project template available for Visual Studio 2022  which you can insta...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Classic Azure Application Insights deprecated on February 29th 2024 - 7 days to go

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 If you missed it - classic Azure Application Insights will be deprecated on February 29th 2024. If you missed the different notification e-...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Procreate 5 handleiding video overzicht

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Lijst van ondersteunende video's bij het boek Procreate 5 Handleiding - tekenen op de ipad (Stefan de Groot, 2020) Hoofdstuk 2 - Gallery...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Running SSIS packages in Azure Data Factory - scaling and monitoring

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Lifting and shifting SSIS packages to Azure Data Factory (ADF) can provide several benefits. By moving your on-premises SSIS workloads to Az...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform monthly reading list November 2023

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 2023 Release Wave 2 Dynamics 365 Customer Service: new dialer experience (preview)  by @D365Goddess New sales capabilities in 2023 release ...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Implementing Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse: gotchas and tips

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Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse allows you to easily export data from a Dataverse (or Dynamics 365) instance to Azure Data Lake Storage Ge...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Near real-time and snapshots in Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse

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The Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse documentation contains a section about Access near real-time data and read-only snapshot data  but it d...