Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Library

Scenario: You are willing to work on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Operations  product and want to get your hand dirty with some development. You are hearing so much about this product but never got a chance to work on this MS ERP.  Andre wrote a detailed post on how you can setup a trial environment for MS D365 Finance Operations Solution: With this post I will explain a step-by-step guide on how; to create your own LCS project to deploy a new Tier 1 VM to log on to Azure Portal to access Power Platform environments to create your own power app and use other features to deploy solutions in Power Platform to integrate with Finance Operations NOTE: You would need Azure Subscription to deploy VM First create new domain to perform all above steps - its easy just follow following steps 1. Open this site Office 365 E3  in cognitive mode or as guest and go with Free Trial option 2. Fill in details - you can use your personal email or sign up for a new email account and use t...

Last week I explored very Interesting feature especially for developers where you right click on any field/control on the form and follow these steps. This opens the visual studio in non admin mod, Opens the correct form, and takes you directly at the control in AOT. NOTE: You can only get this feature within Development VM where your browser and Visual Studio are in same machine. I am at 10.0.14 but not sure when this great feature was available first :(

This post focuses on the integration technologies available to have the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Operations data available in Dataverse/Common Data Services/CDS. What could be better then having The biggest ERP system's data in Power Platform. You can Power Portals, Power Apps, Power BI analytical reports, use power virtual agents for inventory closing and year end closing processes, manage expenses and employee/contractors time entry processes, most of these processes can be even without logging to MS ERP (Dynamics 365 Finance Operation) so can safe on license cost too.  Let's see what options are available to integrate F&O data with Power Platform however, this post is dedicated to Virtual Entities.  3 Options available out-the-box to integrate F&O data with Power Platform; 👉  Data Integrator  - Click on link to read more 👉  Dual-Write  -  Click on link to read more 👉  Virtual Entities - MS Tech Talk on Virtual entities   ...

Scenario: There are times when you want to delete an entity from target entity list and when you do so, you face an error message which does not tell you where exactly the entity has been used.  "Entity cannot be deleted while dependent Entities for the processing group exist. Delete dependent Entities for a processing group and try again. " Solution: Browse the environment by appending this part  /?mi=SysTableBrowser&TableName=DMFDefinitionGroupEntity&cmp=USMF   at the end.  For example; if the environment URL is  https://daxture.sandbox.operations.dynamics.com then the complete URL will be https://daxture.sandbox.operations.dynamics.com/?mi=SysTableBrowser&TableName=DMFDefinitionGroupEntity&cmp=USMF Filter for Entity and it will give you the DefinitionGroup where the entity has been added or used in data management import/export projects. Get the DefinitionGroup name and search in the export/import projects under data management and either del...