Handle secrets in Azure DevOps

Tue, 05/31/2022 - 14:18 By Mattias Liloia

When creating a ci/cd pipeline for your project, at some point you have to define a connection to your environment. In case of Dataverse, the connection string will contain clientid and client secret values. It's always a good idea to store secret values in a secure place, instead of putting them in clear text into your pipeline definition file (yaml) and potentially pushing them into your code repository.

Azure DevOps provides you a number of possible solutions to address just that:

Dataverse : Excel data import with AI-assisted mapping

Mon, 05/23/2022 - 14:39 By Stephane Pelhatre

Introduction

Microsoft has introduced an enhanced Import from Excel experience for Dataverse, making it easier to bring structured data into existing tables.
The new feature implements AI-assisted mapping. The process is more streamlined, intelligent, and reliable, making it easier to ingest large volumes of data while ensuring better accuracy and contextual mappings.

At the time of writing this article, this feature is still in preview:
Preview features aren’t meant for production use and might have restricted functionality.

CRM Package Deployer Timeout : How to deal with ?

Tue, 03/01/2022 - 13:23 By Mattias Liloia
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When working with CRM Package Deployer, it always does an "Upgrade" process while importing a new solution. Please check out this post to find out more about the different solution update processes:

https://dynamics-chronicles.com/article/alm-and-dynamics-365-solutions-explanation

PCF : Input Formater Regex

Mon, 01/31/2022 - 14:09 By Danny Rodrigue…

PCF : Input Formater Regex 

Introduction

Launched in 2020, PowerApps component framework rapidly changed the entire way to use the Power Platform. In this article, we will take a look into the Input Formatter with Regular Expression PCF!

Developped by Shriram Pophali, this PCF enables to have a variety of controls upon a text field. The controls can be :

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