About me

My name is Lucas Alexander, and I am a Microsoft Dynamics 365 enterprise technical architect at Avanade. I have a wide variety of experience in information systems solution architecture, programming, database administration, requirements analysis and project management. I’m particularly interested in knowledge management, Microsoft Dynamics 365, business intelligence, process automation and the impact of emerging technology trends on business performance. »

Using RabbitMQ as a message broker in Dynamics CRM data interfaces – part 5

This the final post in my five-part series on creating loosely coupled data interfaces for Dynamics CRM using RabbitMQ. In part 3 and part 4 I showed two approaches for building a Dynamics CRM plug-in that publishes notification messages to a RabbitMQ exchange. In today’s post I will show how to create a Windows console application that reads messages from a queue and writes the data to Dynamics CRM. »

Authenticating from a Node.js client to Dynamics CRM via AD FS and OAuth2

Last week I decided to finally take a look at using OAuth2 as an authentication protocol with Dynamics CRM. I wanted to understand how it could enable non-Windows clients to consume CRM data. As it turns out, I was unable to find any documentation or comprehensive code samples for non-Windows clients, so I put together my own Node. »

Using RabbitMQ as a message broker in Dynamics CRM data interfaces – part 4

Welcome back to my five-part series on creating loosely coupled data interfaces for Dynamics CRM using RabbitMQ. In my last post I showed how to build a Dynamics CRM plug-in that publishes notification messages to a RabbitMQ exchange using the official RabbitMQ .Net client library. Unfortunately, that plug-in can’t successfully communicate with a RabbitMQ server if it’s executed inside the Dynamics CRM sandbox, so in today’s post I will show how to achieve the same results with a sandboxed plug-in. »

Using RabbitMQ as a message broker in Dynamics CRM data interfaces – part 3

This is the third post of a five-part series on creating loosely coupled data interfaces for Dynamics CRM using RabbitMQ. Last time I showed how to install and configure a RabbitMQ server to support passing messages to and from Dynamics CRM. Today I will show how to build a Dynamics CRM plug-in that publishes notification messages to a RabbitMQ exchange using the official RabbitMQ . »