Set Mail / Outlook as the default Email app!
Recently few of our CRM users complained OOB “Email a Link” not working.
Reason:
- Machines default “Email” App was set to “Chrome”
Fix:
- Change default “Email” App to “Mail” or “Outlook” client
🙂
Category: Microsoft Dynamics 365
A failure occurred in CrmSecurity while configuration Mailbox in Dynamics 365
As we know, before we can use a mailbox it has to be approved by either Office 365 Global Administrator or by an Exchange Administrator.
When Server Side Synchronization was released only the Dynamics 365 System Administrator with the Global Administrator role was able to approve the mailboxes.
Later with the service update, the Dynamics 365 System Administrator having an Exchange admin role could also approve the mailboxes.
This requirement for mailbox approval can also be removed.
Navigate to the Administration > System Settings > Email tab and uncheck the Process emails option there.
For applying this change also, the Dynamics 365 Administrator needs to have either a Global Administrator or Exchange Admin role, else we will get the below error.
A failure occurred in CrmSecurity.
User should be a global administrator or exchange administrator to modify approval setting
We can reach the above setting from Settings > Email Configuration > Email Configuration Settings
We can also enable Verbose Logging, to get more details about the mailbox.
Download mailbox details can be used to download details about the mailbox
The Alerts section of the mailbox lists down any errors, warning, or information specific to that mailbox as shown below.
To monitor Server-Side Synchronization, we can also refer the below dashboards within the application.
Server-Side Synchronization Failures –
Server-Side Synchronization Monitoring –
Or Mailbox Usage Dashboard within Dataverse Analytics inside Power Platform Admin Center
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/analytics-common-data-service#mailbox-usage
More on troubleshooting and monitoring Server-side synchronization
Hope it helps..
Search Providers (Preview) in Dynamics 365 Customer Service Hub
The new search provider options in Customer Service Hub allow agents to search for files, documents, or articles outside the current organization.
The option can be found at Service Management > Knowledge Base Management > Search Providers
The 3 different search type supported currently are
- Cross organization search – allows specifying a different organization within the same tenant.
On performing the search within the Case record we can see the results being populated from the Organization configured in the search provider
- SharePoint
Enter the SharePoint URL to be searched.
Below is our SharePoint site, to which users have the appropriate rights.
Specify the SharePoint URL
The result –
SharePoint Search Provide only supports filter by Modified date.
- Microsoft Search Connector
This is for the organizations using Microsoft Search for external data.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/connectors-overview
Get all the details here
Hope it helps..
Advertisements
Knowledge Search Control improvements in Dynamics 365 Customer Service Hub – 2021 Release Wave 1
Knowledge Search control can be configured now in the new form designer, thus eliminating the need to switch to the legacy form designer.
Here we have added the Knowledge search control in one of the custom entities.
To enable Knowledge search control for an entity, either check the option Knowledge Management at the time of creating the Entity
Or for the existing entities enable it from Settings > Service Management > Embedded Knowledge Search
Below is the Knowledge Base Search configuration dialog box for the legacy web client against the new form designer
|
|
|
|
|
Edit default filter selectionsà
Add refinement rules à
|
Configure Automatic Filtering or Search refinement rules allows us to define rules to further refine the search results.
To apply refinement rules, we need to first enable the Relevance Search.
https://nishantrana.me/2021/01/12/improved-search-experience-in-dynamics-365-powerapps/
Out of the box, we can see the below fields that can be used to define the rules
This can be extended to include any lookup field that exists on both the entity where we are adding the control and the Knowledge Article entity.
E.g. we want to define a filter rule on the subject field, for this to work we first need to add the field to Knowledge Article Quick Find View. And also we need to add the field on the form for users to specify a value for it.
On publishing the changes we can see the Subject lookup field appearing for defining the rule as shown below –
The above rule will further filter the result by matching the subject field defined in the record against the KB articles.
This can be turned off by the user – Auto Filter Results (if specified during configuration)
Also, the lookup field configured will be available for the Turn on automatic suggestions field.
Get all the details here
Hope it helps..
Advertisements
Azure AD Conditional Access and Application Users / Service Principal in Dynamics 365
Through Azure AD Conditional Access, we can define and enforce policies regarding access to its cloud resources.
Users who do not comply or are blocked with the conditional access policies defined will get the below error message after login.
The Conditional Access works seamlessly for user accounts.
However, Conditional Access doesn’t apply for the Application users (Azure AD Apps / Service Principals in Azure AD) accessing Dynamics 365 / Dataverse Web API.
Say e.g. we have the following policy defined, which applies to all users on the Common Data Service app.
Blocking access from any location or device platform.
Now if a user tries to access Dynamics 365 App, after login he gets the below message.
Now we have the following application user registered which has appropriate security roles assigned.
Now if we try to consume CRM / DataVerse Web API through the application user – client credentials, we can see it working without any exception
If we check the Microsoft Docs, it mentions all user accounts but not service principals.
Check the below link as well
In case if we are using the ROPC (Resource Owner Password Credential) grant type, we will get the below exception there as we are using an user account (UserPasswordCredential)
More on consuming Dataverse / Dynamics 365 Web API
https://nishantrana.me/2021/01/06/sample-code-dynamics-365-web-api-organization-service/
Hope it helps..
Advertisements
Failed to process metadata description. We ran into a problem publishing the form. Please try again while publishing the form in Dynamics 365
While trying to publish the case form we got the below error –
Error: We ran into a problem publishing the form. Please try again. (SessionID: a000b750-91e2-11eb-9fd2-8fd31814d5b2)
Adding/removing components, refreshing the form multiple times, etc. didn’t help, and we kept getting the error.
Eventually, we switched to classic to make the required changes. There also we got the same error.
However here we got the option to download the log file.
The exception message was –
Failed to process metadata description – Name : Entity Key
An item with the same key has already been added.
As we got the error while trying to add the subgrid, we renamed the subgrid which we were trying to add
Saving the change i.e. new Name and publishing the form this worked successfully.
Hope it helps..
Advertisements
