ENGINEERED CODE BLOG

Power Pages: When to Use (and When Not To)

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Nicholas Hayduk

The growth of Power Pages has been an amazing story. Since being acquired by Microsoft in 2015, the product has gone from a niche add-on for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement to a full-fledged product in the Power Platform. The visibility that comes with getting equal billing to other Power Platform products like Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate means that new people are discovering Power Pages all of the time. However, as with any software product, Power Pages isn’t always a fit, even if your project fall under the category of low code web application development platforms. In this post, I will share what I look for when trying to determine if Power Pages is a fit for a given project.

A Brief History of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Portal: Where We’ve Been, and Where We’re Going

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Nicholas Hayduk

My latest article for MSDynamicsWorld.com was published today. Coming up on the three year anniversary of the first release of Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Portal, I thought it was an appropriate time to review the history, from its inception as Adxstudio Portals, to the acquisition, to where the platform has come, and is going, under the direction of Microsoft.

Portal Options for Dynamics 365 On-Premise Customers

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Nicholas Hayduk

I’ve been asked a few times recently about my recommendations for customers who aren’t using Dynamics 365 Online but still want portal functionality. In this post I’ll present some options and provide my two cents.

New XrmToolBox Plugin to Cleanup After Portals v7 to v8 Upgrade

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Nicholas Hayduk

When using the Microsoft-provided PowerShell scrips to assist with an upgrade from Portals v7 to v8, there are a few known issues that could still leave your data in an undesirable state. We’ve released an XrmToolBox plugin to help address a couple of those items.

Using Microsoft Flow and Uptime Robot to Keep Adxstudio Portals Site Alive

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Nicholas Hayduk

We have an Adxstduio Portals v7 site that’s been causing us grief recently by getting stuck in an error state. The error state is easily resolved by clearing the cache, but this solution required manual intervention. Since the site is currently being upgraded to v8, we didn’t want to invest too much into finding the root cause – it was easier to just kill the cache when the site went down. But what was even easier was using Microsoft Flow and Uptime Robot to do the job for us.

Automatic Cache Invalidation for xRM Portals Community Edition

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Nicholas Hayduk

In a January blog post on upgrading to the xRM Portals Community Edition, I promised to look into automatic cache invalidation. It only took a few months, but I’m finally delivering on that promise.

Upgrading to xRM Portals Community Edition: Lessons Learned

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Nicholas Hayduk

Having gone through the entire process of upgrading a customer from Adxstudio v7 to xRM Portals Community Edition, I’d like to share what I’ve learned so that it might make your upgrade process a smoother experience.

Goodbye Adxstudio, Hello Microsoft Dynamics Portals source code release, new features

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Nicholas Hayduk

My third article for MSDyanmicsWorld.com was just released. It talks about the end-of-life of Adxstudio Portals, the release of the Dynamics 365 Portals v8.3 source code, and some of the new features of that 8.3 release.

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Highlights from D365UG/CRMUG Summit 2017 in Nashville

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Nicholas Hayduk

My thoughts on a fantastic week in Nashville for the D365/CRMUG Summit conference.

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Thoughts on the Release of Portals Source Code and End of Support for Adxstudio Portals v7

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Nicholas Hayduk

There were two major developments in the last few weeks with regards to Dynamics 365 Portals: the source code for the current version of Dynamics 365 Portals was released, and Microsoft announced that support for Adxstudio Portals v7 would end of August 1, 2018.

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