How to add JavaScript to form on load in Dynamics 365
How to add a JavaScript event to a form in Dynamics 365. Step by step guide using the Power Apps admin center.
How to change display language to Power Apps admin center
Step by step how to change the display language in make.powerapps.com.
How to create Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Trial instance?
A step by step guide for creating a Dynamics 365 CE Trial instance.
Using Power Automate to Automatically Move Note Attachment in Dynamics 365 to SharePoint
This post show how you can extract documents from Dynamics 365 to SharePoint. Reasons behind the flow: Issue with storage space in Dataverse. Storage in Dataverse costs money Remove third party applications like Attachment Extractor from MSCRM.ADDONS Prerequisites A SharePoint site is created and accessible to the organization is required If you use standard SharePoint …
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Study preparations for Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900)
Took the Microsoft PL-900 Power Platform Fundamentals exam some time ago and took some notes during the study and thought I share how I studied for the exam. The way I like to learn is to see video lections, examples and hands on practice. So what I did first was to read through the Microsoft …
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How to check if a date is between to dates in Power Automate
This post shows an example of how you can check if a date is less than or more than a specific date or within a time period. A sample use case can be for instance a to check if a case must be followed up in between a time period, a start and end date. …
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Replace special characters in a string with Power Automate
Faced an error regarding special characters while creating a new document location in Dynamics 365 CE with Power Automate Flow. To get some context; the reason behind the flow is to extract attachments related to notes and email from Dataverse and store them in SharePoint to save space in Dataverse. The error occurred when I …
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How to display total count of related entities in Dynamics without Calculated Fields
Have you used calculated fields to show how many open opportunities that are related to an account or related closed quotes? Perhaps experienced the field is not up to date with current related entities? Or maybe just find the calculated field does not look satisfying? Counting related entities can easily be solved by using Javascript …
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[Solved] Resource not found for the segment in Power Automate
Specify the plural name of the entity lookup name and the record GUID to solve the error as shown below.
Color coded directory listing with PowerShell
Creating colorized Directory listing with PowerShell. A modification to Get-ChildItem.
How to troubleshoot name resolution
Many network problems is caused by name resolution, such as a wrong server IP address is return, or a services has not been registered correctly with a DNS server, or not at all, or you forgot that you made changes to your host file. There can be plenty of resons for why name resolution can …
Counting the days with PowerShell
Created a script for counting the days until a set date in the future. To see how many days is left to reach a goal or just to find out how many days there is before Christmas. Just for fun.
Working with bindings on Windows Web Server IIS with PowerShell
Short post today about how you can get, add and remove bindings with PowerShell on Windows Server running IIS (Internet Information Server). I find it more effective to add bindings through PowerShell rather than clicking through the user interface, especially if a website contains a lot of bindings and you have to scroll and look through the list manually to find the binding you want to delete.
How to export Custom Domains from an Azure Web App with PowerShell
Created a simple script for listing and exporting Custom Domains from an Azure Web App.
Adding a backup_filter file to Azure Web App with PowerShell
Need to exclude files from your Web App Backup? Then you can use a file called _backup.filter and add it to the D:homesitewwwroot folder of your app. In this file you specify the files and folders you want to exclude. Further in this post I show you how to add this file to a Web App using PowerShell.
PowerShell script for counting files and folders
Suddenly woke up the other night and got the idea that I should create a script that counts files and folders in my PowerShell repo, and it ended up with the following script.
Creating Azure Web-App backup with PowerShell
Experimented with a backup solution for Azure Web Apps this rainy Saturday. The backup solution I wanted to create consisted of a Resource Group with a Storage Account containing backups from any Web Apps regarding Resource Group they where located in. What I created was a Resource Group containing a Web App, and a Resource …
The FizzBuzz challenge with PowerShell
A couple of nights a go I suddenly got the urge to write the “FizzBuzz” challenge with PowerShell. As I sat there I came up with four different ways to solve it, even tough three of them is quite similar.
Experimenting with PowerShell and role based access control in Azure
Played around with role-based access control this weekend while learning more about Azure and the cloud. Thought I make a short post about the experimentation and some of the learnings a long the way.
What is Role Based Access Control?
Role-based access control (RBAC) facilitates Microsoft Azure delegated resource administration. It helps you manage who has access to Azure resources.
Enabling disk encryption on Virtual Machines in Azure
How to enable “Disk encryption should be applied on virtual machines” recommendation from Azure Security Center.
What is Azure Policy?
Azure policies ensures proper cloud governance by controlling resource deployment, usage and enforcing standards in your Azure Environment.
10 Quick tips for writing better PowerShell scripts
Want to know best practices for creating PowerShell scripts? In this post I give you some of my tips and practices I use when developing scripts. Something to keep in mind when creating scripts is: a script saves time, automation can mean freedom where you get time to do higher value tasks, less time on boring aspects of the job, and more time on valuable tasks that benefits the organization.’
Resource Tagging in Azure
A brief explanation of the concept of tags in Azure, and a few scripts for managing tags. In this post I’m not focusing on how to manage tags manually in the Azure Portal, rather a possible way to manage tags with Azure PowerShell.
What is Infrastructure as Code (iac)?
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) can be described with the following: IaC defines your environments, to include network, servers, storage and other computer resources as a text file, this can be in a form of a script or definition, which is checked into version control and used as the base source for creating or updating environments.
My Visual Studio Code extensions for PowerShell development
Good evening, though I should share some of my Visual Studio Extensions I use for PowerShell development in Visual Studio Code. This post will probably be updated when I find new cool and useful extensions. You probably have a few yourself?
How to get started writing a PowerShell script | From idea to action
When you’re given a task or you have a task you want to automate, what approach do you take? What kind of steps do you do? Let’s say you want to copy files from one directory to another. I will go through this in this post.
10 DNS questions solved with Resolve-DnsName
The Resolve-DnsName cmdlet is a powerful network administration tool command-line tool in PowerShell, used for querying DNS to obtain domain names or IP addresses, mapping or for any other specific DNS Records
Using PowerShell to bulk look up DNS for domain names
How to use PowerShell to bulk resolve DNS information for domain names.
How to control invoice number on Azure
How you can use PowerShell to download invoice information from Azure subscriptions, so that you can verify your credit card bills
Getting started with Azure Resource Management Templates | ARM templates
Tried out Azure Resource Management templates this evening, to learn more about the “Infrastructure as Code” topic. A Resource Manager template is a JSON file that defines the resources to be deployed together through a declarative syntax. A templates can then be deployed via code. I started simple by creating a Resource Group in Azure first and then deployed a Storage Account with Azure PowerShell and an ARM template.
Testing out PowerShell Desired State Configurations
Tested out PowerShell Desired State Configuration this morning, in this post I”m going step-by-step through my first script using “PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)”. The project I created is a simple website to the Default website in my lab environment, running the Microsoft Internet information Services (IIS) Server.
PowerShell script for creating files and directories
Good evening, messed around on the computer the other day, ended up with creating a PowerShell script prompting you to create files and directories.
How to convert IDN Domains to ACE encoding with PowerShell
The other day I needed to lookup a lot of domains regarding changes to DNS. The list was long and contained plenty of IDN (International Domain Name) which contains special characters such as “æøå”. I used the command Resolve-DnsName, and for this to work one must use the ACE-encoded version of the domain to make it resolve. So, this ended with two small scripts that converts domains such as “krøllalfa.no” to “xn—krllalfa-64a.no” and “xn—krllalfa-64a.no” to “krøllalfa.no”
Testing Python and TravisCI
Played around with Python and TravisCI on a cabin trip this weekend, learning more about Continuous Integration, automatic builds and testing of code each time a change is committed to version control.
How to set up Ghost blog on Ubuntu Server in Azure
Good winter morning, thought I make a post on how you can set up a Ghost CMS instance on an Ubuntu server hosted on Azure. Even though it wasn’t the platform I ended up with, there might be someone you might find it useful, so thought I should share it.
How to create shortcuts in PowerShell
Find yourself repeatedly manually accessing often used folders by using cd and tab completion? For instance when you open a new console and have to access a file or folder like the “repo” folder or the “hosts” file. Instead of typing the path each time. I found that creating simple aliases for paths I often use spares a lot of punching.
8 Useful network troubleshooting tools
Good evening folks! This evening I am going through 8 command line tools for you can use to diagnose and resolve many network-related issues. Are you new to networking like me and need a helping hand with troubleshooting? This post goes through 8 command line tools and what purpose their serve, to get you started with network troubleshooting in Windows.
Automatic DNS lookup script for PowerShell
Played around with PowerShell in the spare time during our yearly business trip. This year we went to Tallinn in Estonia. I wanted to automate look up changes for DNS, instead of typing commands like “nslookup” or “Resolve-DnsName” now and then, to see if the DNS cache got updated. This ended with this script.
How To Troubleshoot Network Issues
Of all troubles you can stumble upon with a computer, network issues might be one of the most frustrating. First instinct when an issue occurs is, “Oh, let me Google that”, and your”e opening the browser to find the message “This site can”t be reached” and you feel kind of helpless.
What is DNSSEC and why is it important?
DNSSEC is an security extension to the domain name system (DNS). This makes it possible to check the reply to a domain lookup comes from the original source and lookup remains unchanged. If you’re not familiar with the DNS term on before hand, Let’s start with a simple explanation to understand the aspects of implementing DNSSEC.