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Set Custom Message and disable background processes inside the Administration mode for Sandbox and Production Environment – Power Platform

Recently while trying to enable Administration mode for one our environments, we realized 2 new options.

Background Operations – for disabling any background operations.
Custom Message – define the custom message for the users.

For CRM On-Premise, we used to place a custom HTML page + URL
Rewrite during the maintenance window.

Nicely document here – https://debajmecrm.com/dynamics-crm-maintenance-page/

Login to https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/ with System Administrator role, select the Environment, and click on Edit.

Enable the Administration mode, and set the custom message.

Click on Save to make the change, within a minute or so the process will complete.

And the non-system administrator and customizer users will see the below page with our custom message as shown below.

Get more details –

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/admin-mode

Hope it helps..

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Assign/Remove Security Roles to Users Via Power Automate

The Techie dood

Scenario/Use case:

If there is need to frequently change the security roles of User in CDS environment say a QA person doing role based testing.

Resolution:

You can take leverage of Power Automate to perform this repetitive task.

Before you start further make sure to use a Dataverse Connection that has necessary permission to assign or remove security roles to a user. Like a user with a system administrator role.

Demo:

Step 1:

I am using Three variables here –

FullName – fullname of the system user whose role you want to update
Security Role – it can be a text input also. Here I have used it as dropdown input. The values are the Security Role Names.
Clear Other Roles- Yes/No (if we need to remove all roles before applying the selected Role to the user)

Step 2:In the next step – lets retrieve the roleid using List…

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How to – Find the Subscription ID of your Microsoft products (Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Plan)

Recently we were asked to provide the Subscription Id of the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Plan our organization had purchased.

To find the same, follow the below steps

https://admin.microsoft.com/

Quick reference – Admin Center URL(s) in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Power Platform)

https://nishantrana.me/2020/06/15/admin-center-urls-in-microsoft-dynamics-365-power-platform/

Navigate to Billing >> Your products and select / click on the product.

Copy the id from the URL, which will be the subscription id.

Hope it helps..

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Fixed – ClientErrorAborted while creating flow in Power Automate

Recently while creating a flow in Power Automate we got the ClientErrorAborted error.

Users were having all the required licenses / roles.

And only a few users were getting the error, who were accessing the Power Platform from their VDI.

Eventually, after some analysis, we realized that it was because some of the required services were blocked.

We raised the Microsoft Support Ticket who suggested verifying and if required whitelist the below services.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/limits-and-config#required-services

Whitelisting them fixed the issue for us.

Hope it helps..

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Status Reason filter (Timeline control), Multiline field (Quick View Form) and Improved accessibility for BPF on mobile app – 2021 Release Wave 1

2021 Release Wave 1 for Dynamics 365 adds a new Status Reason filter for the Timeline control.

Activity status reason filter will show the status reasons of all the activities in the timeline. For the total 5 activities in the timeline, the filter shows the corresponding status reasons of all the activities divided among Free, Draft, Pending Send, Not Started status.

Another enhancement is in the way the multi-line text field is rendered within the Quick View Form. Now users do not have to click and scroll on the field to see the full content.

Below is the Quick View Form of Contact within the Account entity.