Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform

Microsoft Ignite 2023 – my reflections

This week Microsoft gathered what I can imagine to be an enthusiastic audience to attend Microsoft Ignite in-person in Seattle. In this world of possibilities the event could also be seen online, live as well as on-demand. Not all, but lots of session. In this post I’ll let you in on my reflections after watching on-demand content from the event.

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Dataverse, Dual-write, Power Platform

F&O 💙 Power Platform – Your best buddies

This is part five in a series of posts, you can find the first one here. In the dual-write projects I have been involved in, I have had the possibility to exchange ideas with people both within the projects but outside of the projects as well. Community when at its best, people sharing and are willing to exchanged ideas even though not at the same company. In this post, I’ll highlight the Yammer group dedicated to dual-write and let you in on other good-to-know info and sources of information and inspiration.

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Dataverse, Dual-write, Power Platform

F&O 💙 Power Platform – Database Refresh

This is part four in a series of posts, you can find the first one here. In the dual-write projects I have been involved in, either the customer has been live on the F&O side or it has been a new implementation. Even though new implementation, the F&O side has been further ahead than Dataverse and the introduction of the dual-write synchronization.

Both cases have caused the following difficulties: UAT constantly being updated from production and dual-write settings and sync all messed up. In this post I will share what needs to be done when a db refresh is done on the F&O side and you are running dual-write with a linked Dataverse environment.

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Dataverse, Dual-write, Power Platform

F&O 💙 Power Platform – The ALM Story

This is part three in a series of posts, you can find the first one here. In part two we looked at linking environments together. When you have linked F&O to a Dataverse environment with the purpose to start utilizing dual-write, it’s time to think about your specific integration scenario and what templates to start from. Most likely you will need to make modifications to mappings and create your own table maps.

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Dataverse, Dual-write, Power Platform

F&O 💙 Power Platform – Linking environments

This is part two in a series of posts, you can find the first one here. You might have heard of One Dynamics One Platform. Until we are there, we live with F&O in LCS and in order to utilize the Power Platform integration and e.g. dual-write, we need to handle the linking parts ourselves. In this post I will share my findings related to linking environments into pairs, F&O and Dataverse.

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Dual-write, Dynamics 365, Power Platform

F&O 💙 Power Platform – Where’s my Dataverse DEV?

In a previous post, I gave an introduction to dual-write, one part of the Power Platform integration with F&O. Dual-write provides an OOB infrastructure for setting up integration between Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (F&O) and Dataverse, Dynamics 365 CE apps. In this post, I will let you in on general findings related to this subject and environments in particular.

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MVP Summit, Power Platform

MVP Global Summit 2023 – Visiting Microsoft’s Redmond campus

A few weeks ago Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) and RDs (Regional Directors) gathered in Redmond, Kings County, Washington, 24 km east of Seattle, at the Microsoft Redmond campus for MVP Global Summit. The MVP Program, including the MVP Summit, comes with a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). You will not find any product related content in this post, instead it’s for anyone who is curious about Microsoft’s headquarters, the MVP Summit as an event and what you can do more while in Seattle.

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Dual-write, Dynamics 365, Power Platform

Demystifying dual-write

Lately I have been working with dual-write in different projects. In this post I will give an introduction to the subject from a technical perspective as well as functional and hopefully bring some clarity to what’s behind that magical door. Note that some parts of this post will be outdated when One Dynamics One Platform and unification of admin centers become reality. I will then update with a link to a new post.

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Power Platform

Power Platform Wave Reflections with ChatGPT

The release plans for 2023 Release Wave 1 were made available last week. I wrote about highlights from my perspective in my previous post. As I was writing, I came to think about product news from a broader perspective. How can you stay updated? Is it enough to read the release plans? Where else can you find out what’s new and coming? I asked the popular ChatGPT how to stay updated, read on and enjoy the answer I got together with my own thoughts about it!

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Power Platform, Release Waves

2023 Release Wave 1 Highlights

Today the Release Plans for 2023 Release Wave 1 were made available. This post highlights some of the features presented and we are going to focus on Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate and the cross app capabilities (Finance and Operations 💙 Dataverse). Many features might not comes as news to you, they might have been announced at a Microsoft event last year or even been documented in an earlier Release Plan. Take it for what it is, these plans can be revised and updated, see it as living documentation. Below are the features mentioned in this post. As usual, do take a look at the plans yourself, there are more to take in than what I cover here.

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