The days of storing Client ID and secret of your Key Vault in Dynamics are coming to an end. With Power Platform Managed Identity, Dataverse plug-ins can now connect to Azure resources that support managed identity without the need for credentials. Please note that at the time of writing this article, this feature is still in preview and is not intended for production use.
Dataverse Managed Environments Deep Dive:
Managed environments is a set of features that allows administrators to manage Power Platform at scale with more control, less effort, and more visibility.
List of features available with Managed Environments for now (18/09/24) :
A common challenge for developers is the management of secrets, credentials, certificates, and keys used to secure communication between services
One common practice while designing and architecturing authentication for Apps in the Azure Universe is the use of a App Registration as a controlled way to securely access resources in the the Azure universe and it's been for the last years a common pattern in my designs, perhaps yours also!
Dataverse Elastic Tables Deep Dive Tutorial
Said to be the "Super Heros" of the information world, that they're super fast and can store lots of information and that they're a game changer for storing massive loads of data.
I went to undercover what's behind the scenes of this Elastic Tables feature and check if the rumours are fake or not!
When a user is deleted from the Microsoft 365 admin center, the user isn't removed from Dataverse environments in which it is active. Instead, the user's status is set to Disabled in the Power Platform. And you do have the possibility to delete it.
As a consequence many disabled users can pile up in the Power Platform.
With the feature 'Delete Disabled Users' Microsoft has introduced the possibility to permanently delete disabled users from the Power Platform.
Power Platform Dataflow Tutorial Deep Dive
Azure Peering Service for Dataverse:
Requirements for Enterprise cloud services access are constantly evolving in terms of number of connections/users, data payload, multi-region/multi-continent access, ....
To overcome this different types of Enterprise architectures are often used : Geo-Partitioned/Hybrid-Cloud/Global load balancing/CDN architectures.
Microsoft Project Sophia: the AI Analyst
In the past year, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken over our lives. Whether in our private or professional lives, AI has demonstrated the potential to improve everything. Now, have you ever wondered how artificial intelligence can help you solve complex business problems more quickly and easily? If so, you might be interested in Project Sophia, a new way to leverage the power of generative AI for business applications
Dynamics 365 Dataverse TDS endpoint Control Access and rights
Following up on the previous two articles regarding subjects How to access the Dynamics 365 online SQL Server database and Dynamics 365 / Dataverse access SQL Server database from C#, here's a third one that will illustrate how to control access to this endpoint.
