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A Brief History of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Portal: Where We’ve Been, and Where We’re Going
March 13, 2019 < 1 Min.To ReadMy 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
February 7, 2019 4 Min.To ReadI’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
July 19, 2018 3 Min.To ReadWhen 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
July 6, 2018 2 Min.To ReadWe 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.
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Power Pages: When to Use (and When Not To)
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PowerApps Portals: Liquid and JavaScript – Better Together!
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Power Apps Portals: fetchxml Liquid Tag and Entity Permissions
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Power Pages: Adding a Custom Form Modal to List Action Buttons
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