Disable and enable Dynamics 365 CE users with SSIS & KingswaySoft

Recently I was asked to set up a process to automatically disable or re-enable Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement users depending on some external data. This ended up being ridiculously easy to do with SSIS and KingswaySoft’s Dynamics 365 Integration Toolkit. Let me show you how it works. In Dynamics 365 CE, you can disable or enable a user record just by setting the value of its “isdisabled” attribute to true or false, so both my disable user data flow and re-enable user data flow do roughly the same thing. »

Building a simple service relay for Dynamics 365 CE with RabbitMQ and Python - part 4

This is the final post in my series about building a service relay for Dynamics 365 CE with RabbitMQ and Python. In my previous post in this series, I showed the Python code to make the service relay work. In today’s post, I will show how you can use Azure Functions to make a consumer service proxy using C# so client applications don’t have to access to your RabbitMQ broker directly, and I will also discuss some general thoughts on security and scalability for this service relay architecture. »

Building a simple service relay for Dynamics 365 CE with RabbitMQ and Python - part 3

In my last post in this series, I walked through the prerequisites for building a simple service relay for Dynamics 365 CE with RabbitMQ and Python. In today’s post I will show the Python code to make the service relay work. As I described in the first post in this series, this approach relies on a consumer process and a queue listener process that can both access a RabbitMQ message broker. »

Building a simple service relay for Dynamics 365 CE with RabbitMQ and Python - part 2

In my last post in this series, I outlined an approach for building a simple service relay with RabbitMQ and Python to easily expose an on-premises Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement organization to external consumers. In this post I will walk through the prerequisites for building this out. I’m assuming you have access to a Dynamics 365 CE organization, so I’m going to skip the setup for that and focus on just RabbitMQ and Python today. »

Building a simple service relay for Dynamics 365 CE with RabbitMQ and Python - part 1

Integrating with external systems is a common requirement in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement projects, but when the project involves an on-premises instance of Dynamics 365, routing requests from external systems through your firewall can present an additional challenge. Over the course of the next few posts, I will show you can easily build a simple service relay with RabbitMQ and Python to handle inbound requests from external data interface consumers. »