Month: March 2016

{Dynamics CRM + Maintenance Page} How to pull down specific CRM Organization for maintenance in a multi-tenant CRM environment with IFD configured

I know the title of the blog is a bit confusing. So if you are reading this, I would suggest you continue reading this. So first the requirement. Our client had two CRM Organizations in a single installation of CRM. And both the organizations are on IFD. With time one organization because of it more …

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{Dynamics CRM + Web API + Plugins} Can we make Web API calls from Plugins in Dynamics CRM 2016

After my last couple of blogs on Web API, I am being asked this question repeatedly. Can I use Web API from Plugins/ Custom workflows? And I keep on asking back, why do you need that? After all there is the almighty organization service which virtually allows you do anything and everything that you would …

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{Good to Know} Why you should never user USER_ROLES variable in your Dynamics CRM form scripts

Sometimes simple things can give you nightmares and the same happened with one of my colleague. So this is the scenario. My colleague just needed to identify if a user is a particular security role and for that he was using the OOB script – Xrm.Page.context.getUserRoles(). The funny thing is that this method was returning …

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{In Depth} Power BI and Dynamics CRM on-premise–When and how it works?

Microsoft has been focusing recently in Cloud First Strategy for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Every new cool feature you name, you see it in online first. However as with everything, when you focus heavily on one side, some aspects always gets neglected. And big on-premise customers are at the receiving end recently for this. Believe me …

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{KnowHow} How to use Discovery Service Web API of Dynamics CRM 2016

Recently I posted in my blog on how to execute Web API queries from external ASP.NET web application to retrieve data. Details could be found here – https://debajmecrm.com/knowhow-how-to-execute-web-api-calls-to-microsoft-dynamics-crm-from-an-external-asp-net-web-application/. After this post, people has been asking me to how to leverage the Discovery service Web API with Dynamics CRM 2016. And the most common question being …

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Configure your Dynamics CRM as identity provider for an external web application

How common in these days is to land up in a website where you see login via facebook or login via your gmail. Many times for our projects we need to develop a custom asp.net web portal which where users might need to authenticate with Microsoft Dynamics and fetch data. In this example, I will …

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