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MVP’s around the World

Interesting data !

Updated July 3rd: Includes newly registered awardees and awardees who changed category. Added overview of Office Servers and Services numbers over last couple of years.

With the latest annual award cycle, one might be curious which impact it had on the MVP population. I performed a similar exercise last year to compare the impact of the start of the new award cycle. This year, all the MVP’s previously on the January and October cycles were also included in the reviews, making this year the first one where MVP leads and others had to perform the dauntless task of reviewing community contributions of over 3,500 people.

For comparison, I had a look at the public MVP statistics of July 1st against those of June 26th, to exclude significant noise from the monthly awardees. To start, let us first have a look at the total population of MVP’s. From the numbers…

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{Quick Tip} Manage your Entity Forms when your CRM is exposed to Web and Mobile App

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Spoiler alert! Unlike other blogs, I am not going to update you about any new feature. Rather I am going to share my project experience in handling multiple forms designed for your Web and Mobile layouts.

You have exposed you CRM recently to Mobile Apps. When you expose your CRM to Mobile Application development, in most of the scenarios you would end up designing separate forms. Let’s take the example of Account entity. Say you have designed two forms

Account Web Form – This form is displayed to users while accessing CRM to Web
Account Mobile Form – Form displayed to users while browsing CRM on Mobile

And you have your users who will just access CRM through desktop and then some users accessing CRM through both Desktop and mobile.

First of all, as I have been across client locations, I find that some consultants still assume that to expose…

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My Interview at MSDynamicsWorld.com

Check out my interview at MSDynamicsWorld.com

https://msdynamicsworld.com/story/dynamics-crm/microsoft-dynamics-profile-nishant-rana-goes-man-series-cricket-mvp

Thanks MSDynamicsWorld.com and Linda Rosencrance.

Fixed – Invalid Export Business Process Not Activated error while exporting solution in Dynamics 365

While exporting a solution from our DEV, we got the below exception.

As the messages suggests to fix it we need to activate the process (which will create the corresponding entity for the BPF and add the entity in the solution). Or if already created simply add that entity if missing in the solution.

So we Activated the BPF.

Added the BPF specific entity.

Which then allowed us to export the solution.

Hope it helps..

3 Million Views. Thank you!

Today, I reached the milestone of 3 million views in my blog.

Thanks to everyone for reading, commenting and sharing it.

PLAN PROPERLY before using Back and restore and Copy instances in Dynamics 365

Update – 25 June 2018 – Took nearly 20 days to get both the instances up.

Update – 12 June 2018 – Support Engineer has been not been able to resolve either of the support ticket which were raised last Thursday 7th June. One instance is not opening and the other instance is not restored with the backup we had requested. They are unable to find the backup till now.

Recently we tried copying our DEV to one of the TEST instances. The idea was we were upgrading the click dimensions solution in our DEV so we wanted to make sure everything works fine after the upgrade and in case it didn’t we could then again copy it back from the TEST.

We had faced back and restore issues (instance failed) in the past so decided to go the Copy instance way this time.

However, we got the Instance Failed error on the TEST instance to which we were copying DEV to.

Interestingly the Edit, Reset, Delete etc option were still available and we could open the TEST instance (the original, as the copy of DEV had failed) without any issues.

Then we thought of giving a try again and started copy from DEV to TEST again. This time again it failed. And with no option of Edit, Reset, delete etc. and the Instance was also not opening.

The error à

Along with that we also tried Restoring the Backup in one of the other TEST instances, that also expectedly failed.

So basically, we ended up with 2 unusable instances.

A few weeks back also we faced the same with our Dev environment and the only way out was to raise the support ticket with Microsoft. That time it took 5 days for DEV to be restored. Imagine the development activity that came to halt.

Last year also we had faced this issue in Production and had to work with the support team for 16 – 20 hours continuously to get it restored.

So, if we have some critical activity planned like Production Deployment and we are counting on Back and Restore or Copy an instance to rescue us in case anything goes wrong after production deployment, we need to plan for this Instance Failure as well while restoring or copying.

Basically, be ready to raise a support ticket with the highest severity to restore things back, which could take hours or in worst case days and do all the production deployment over the weekend or have enough downtime allocated.

Hope it helps..