A Dynamics 365 local message listener for web client notifications - part 1

One problem that comes up from time to time on Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement projects is how to receive notifications from an application running on a user’s local PC. Although the Unified Service Desk (USD) interface supports a variety of ways for Dynamics 365 to interact with local applications, the out-of-the-box web interface does not. »

Updated Dynamics 365 Configuration Data Mover to support new online regions

About two weeks ago a commenter mentioned that my Configuration Data Mover wasn’t working with UK Dynamics 365 online organizations that had been created since the change to the orgname.crm11.dynamics.com URL structure. I’ve released a new version with an updated SDK reference that has resolved the issue. If you are using an older version of the data mover and you are working with online orgs in a new region, you may want to go ahead and upgrade to the latest version here. »

Automatically executing HTTP POST requests in Dynamics 365 iframes - part 2

Several months ago, I wrote a post that showed how to automatically display the results of an HTTP POST request inside a Dynamics 365 iframe. I was working on a project last week where I was tried to use that approach, but I ran into some problems, so today I will present an updated approach. »

Another approach to complex Dynamics 365 text interfaces using KingswaySoft and XSLT

Last week I posted an approach for generating complex text files from Dynamics 365 with KingswaySoft and XSLT that uses a custom script component to apply an XSL transformation to an XML document generated with the the SSIS XML merge component from the KingswaySoft SSIS productivity pack. After I shared that post, Daniel Cai at KingswaySoft told me the premium derived column component in the SSIS productivity pack can also be used to apply the XSL transformation. »

Generating complex text files from Dynamics 365 with KingswaySoft and XSLT

Recently I needed to build an SSIS package that would generate a delimited text file with multiple sets of related (but different entity) Dynamics 365 records combined in a single grouping. Each record would be on a separate row (with different formats for each record type), and each grouping of related records would have its own header and trailer rows. »