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Month: June 2018
Getting a SharePoint OAuth Access Token in a Dynamics 365 Web Resource
June 29, 2018 5 Min.To ReadAnd now for something completely different! While I normally talk about Dynamics 365 Portals, we’ve had a few requests recently around SharePoint and Dynamics 365 integration, specifically around uploading documents to SharePoint via a custom interface. I initially thought that it would be a topic well covered on the Dynamics blogosphere but, to my surprise, I couldn’t find a lot out there. So I spent some time figuring it out, and thought I’d share my findings.
Updates to the June 2018 Release of the Portal Capabilities for Microsoft Dynamics 365
June 21, 2018 2 Min.To ReadIn last week’s post I talked about the release of v9 of the Portals, and mentioned that there didn’t seem to be any new features. Since then a new revision has been released (v9.0.6.7), and the release notes have been updated to include three new features.
New Major Version Number and Deprecated Features
June 12, 2018 3 Min.To ReadThe June 2018 release of the Portal Capabilities for Dynamics 365 has a new major version number (v9). Also, in case you missed it (like I did), Microsoft announced in March that a few features are being deprecated.
Resolving Dynamics 365 Portals Provisioning Issues
June 8, 2018 2 Min.To ReadProvisioning a Dynamics 365 Portal is usually a pretty painless experience, but every once in a while something goes wrong. In this post I’ll share our experience when during the provisioning process our Portal gave us the following error: “Error 403 – This web app is stopped.”
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