Deleting records. There are times where you need to delete records and there are times when you don’t want to delete records. I’m an advocate of only giving responsible users the deletion if I have to give it to users at all. Sometimes, against my better advice, people want to give all users on a certain team the ability to delete records but prevent the from deleting certain records. I’ve had some projects in the past where part of their business processes involved default a

Big changes are afoot in the Dynamics 365 world. Announced today by Mo Osborne, there are changes to the way Dynamics 365 will handle upgrades and bring it in line with other Microsoft products like Office 365. Mo Osborne is the Corporate Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Business Applications Engineering….wow that’s a long job title. What’s changing and why should I care? Firstly, the upgrade cycle is moving away from user controlled scheduled updates, which allows

Ever wanted to embed your PowerApp into a Dynamics 365 Dashboard? No? What’s been stopping you? To be honest, I didn’t know I wanted to do this until the recent CRMUG North West meeting where I saw Chris Huntington face off against Microsoft's own Craig Bird in the battle of the PowerApps. During the presentation it was shown that you can actually embed a PowerApp into a D365 Dashboard and what’s more, it functions. I’ll admit, this might not be the most useful of features bu