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Virtual Entities and Dynamics 365 Portals – Part 1

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Nicholas Hayduk

One of the great new features available in Dynamics 365 v9 is Virtual Entities, which allow you to represent data from external system as entities without copying or synchronizing data, and often times without any custom code. In this series of posts, I’ll dive into this new feature, with a focus on what it means for Dynamics 365 Portals, and how we can leverage them to create no-code integrations between your Dynamics 365 Portal and other systems.

Diving into new Microsoft Dynamics 365 Portal capabilities and official guidance for upgrades from Adxstudio Portals

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Nicholas Hayduk

My latest article for MSDyanmicsWorld.com was released last week. It talks about the latest release of Dynamics 365 Portals, as well as the release of documentation for the migration from Adxstudio Portals v7 to the Microsoft-hosted v8.

Debugging Dynamics 365 Portals Server-side Code

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Nicholas Hayduk

If you’ve done any work with Dynamics 365 Portals, you’ve probably run into the dreaded “We’re sorry but something went wrong” white screen of death. In this post I’ll share the tricks I’ve used to get more details about the error without contacting Microsoft support.

Incorrect Content Type for JavaScript File in Dynamics 365 Portals

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Nicholas Hayduk

When one of our clients who is using xRM Portals Community Edition wanted to batten down the hatches from a security perspective, we discovered that a core JavaScript file of Dynamics 365 Portals is being served with the incorrect content type.

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.

Capturing Dynamics 365 Portals Interactions in Customer Insights In an Hour or Less – Part 4 – Visualizing Insights Data

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Nicholas Hayduk

In the final post of my series on integrating Dynamics 365 Portals with Dynamics 365 for Customer Insights, I’ll go through the steps necessary to surface the DCI timeline visualization on the Case form in Dynamics 365.

Capturing Dynamics 365 Portals Interactions in Customer Insights In an Hour or Less – Part 3 – Linking Contact Profiles and Portal Interactions

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Nicholas Hayduk

In this post, I’m going to enable the integration between Dynamics 365 Portals and DCI, and create the link between contact profiles and portal interactions.

Capturing Dynamics 365 Portals Interactions in Customer Insights In an Hour or Less – Part 2 – Data Model, Data Source, and Basic Setup

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Nicholas Hayduk

In this post, I provide a brief introduction of the Dynamics 365 for Customer Insights service for those who aren’t already familiar.

Capturing Dynamics 365 Portals Interactions in Customer Insights In an Hour or Less – Part 1

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Nicholas Hayduk

My first in a series of posts on how to configure the integration between Dynamics 365 Portals and Dynamics 365 for Customer Insights.

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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