Signing Up for a Dynamics 365 Trial: The Real Way

For years and years the recommended method - for me at least - of learning and playing around with the latest Dataverse, Power Platform, and D365 features is to sign up for a free trial. To the point that for the last 10+ years I've always just assumed it was common knowledge. And in some … Continue reading Signing Up for a Dynamics 365 Trial: The Real Way

Power Pages Security Unification: What the Web Role & Dataverse Security Role Merge Really Means

If youโ€™ve worked with Power Pages (or its predecessorsโ€”Dynamics 365 Portals, Power Apps Portals, or even Adxstudio Portals), you know that the security story has always had a bit of a split personality. Portal Web Roles on one side, Dataverse Security Roles on the other. In other words, two models, two sets of permissions, two … Continue reading Power Pages Security Unification: What the Web Role & Dataverse Security Role Merge Really Means

How Portals fit into the Power Platform

Ah Portals, our favorite child of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. It's been around for while and people have gotten used to it as a piece of the D365 picture. However, people are starting to pick up on the fact that the Power Platform has a Portal offering too? Is this the same thing? How do Portals … Continue reading How Portals fit into the Power Platform

Portals have come a long way since Adxstudio’s xRM Framework

In case you haven't heard, the Microsoft October 2019 Release plan has some pretty huge news when it comes to Portals - They are going to be put on center stage as a first-class app type along with Canvas Apps and Model-Driven Apps. Starting soon, when you go to web.powerapps.com and go to create a … Continue reading Portals have come a long way since Adxstudio’s xRM Framework

A Closer look at Entity Forms and Entity Lists created by the Create Portal Content Wizard

In my post about the Create Portal Content Wizard, I talked about how easy it is to add content to the portal using point-and-click configuration, and demonstrated that the Wizard creates a whole lot of records in the background for you so that you donโ€™t have to. Itโ€™s like magic! It certainly does beat having … Continue reading A Closer look at Entity Forms and Entity Lists created by the Create Portal Content Wizard