Benedikt's Power Platform Blog

Using Map file in ALM

To ensure a healthy code state, a developer needs to ensure that every part of the implementation that is deployed to downstream environments ...

29 days ago

Move to managed solutions

My recommendation, as well as Microsoft’s, is to only use managed solutions for environments other than the development environment. Thi...

2 months ago

Set up Workload Identity federation for ADO Connection

Application ID and client secret were the preferred way of authenticating Azure DevOps (ADO) to a Dataverse instance. For a few months, there ...

5 months ago

How to work with connection References

In one of my older posts, I described how connections and connection references work. I still often get asked how one can properly work with c...

6 months ago

Environment vs. Source code centric ALM approach

When I discuss different Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approaches with colleagues, customers and other community members there is oft...

1 year ago

Why use managed solutions

Every now and then I get asked why someone should use managed solutions. We also had a discussion internally recently because some of our proj...

1 year ago

Improve Solution import time

Microsoft is investing a lot in advancements in the overall Application Lifecycle Management process and capabilities. One area they already m...

1 year ago

Generic TS/JS to open a Custom Page

In the last few weeks, I have created TS/JS functions/snippets for several projects to open a custom Page from a ribbon button within a model-...

1 year ago

Upcoming Licensing enforcement in Power Automate explained

A few weeks ago I saw a message in the M365 Message Center regarding “Non-compliant” flows. Unfortunately, I can’t find the ...

1 year ago

Release 2023 Wave 2 Summary

As I described in one of my previous posts (Explaining “One Version” – Dynamics MDA) Microsoft is releasing two “Waves” of new functionalities...

1 year ago