Using Azure DevOps for Power Platform with a Self-Hosted Agent

There are various organizations that for whatever reason, whether it be trust or security are not comfortable using the Microsoft-hosted agents, and would like to use self-hosted agents within their own corporate environment.

In this article, I will go through the steps of creating a self-hosted agent, and then configuring a pipeline that will move your solution between the different environments.

Configure Azure Service Bus to integrate between CDS and On-Premise SQL database

In this blog post I will demonstrate how to use Azure Service Bus and a Listener application to integrate between the Common Data Service (Dynamics 365 or Power Apps Model Driven Application) and an On Premise SQL Service database.

Dynamics 365 and SharePoint Online Integration – Azure Configuration

The next part of this solution is to configure Microsoft Azure. If you do not have an Azure account, you can create a Trial account of Pay as you go account. If you are a partner or have a BizSpark subscription you get a certain amount of credits per month, which should be more than enough for the type of implementation that needs to be done using Azure.

Dynamics 365 and SharePoint Online Integration – SharePoint

The easiest part of this solution is to configure SharePoint. There is no custom development involved, but just the creation of the document library, the folders, custom lists and the attributes that we want to use for the solution. We will need to start with the creation of the custom lists as they will be used for the creation of the lookup attributes.

Dynamics 365 and SharePoint Online Integration – Overview

Over the past few years we have encountered multiple scenarios where the Out of the Box SharePoint Integration component, did not fulfill the requirements of our clients using Dynamics 365 and SharePoint. Some of these had to do with capturing additional attributes in SharePoint, and sharing similar data across different entities in SharePoint.

Connecting to Dynamics CRM from Console Application – Part II

In a recent article I explained how to establish a connection from a Console application to Microsoft Dynamics CRM On-Premise. In this post, I will cover the same steps on how to connect a Console application to Microsoft Dynamics CRM/365 Online using the Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk and Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector namespaces

Connecting to Dynamics CRM from Console Application – Part I

Recently I have seen a lot of posts on the CRM Community of how to establish connection to CRM using a Console application. In this post I will review the steps of establish a connection. I will focus on CRM On-Premise using ADFS/Claims/IFD, and will provide additional samples on connecting to Dynamics CRM Online in a separate blog article.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Portals Source Code Available for On-Premise Customers

On August 24, Microsoft release the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Portals Source Code. The download contains the self-hosted Portals which are available for Dynamics 365 On-Premise. This will allow your to customize the portals per your requirements and deploy then to Dynamics 365 (On-Premise) as well as Dynamics 365 (Online).