Tag: Dynamics 365

Sharing a sample code that can be used to delete the instance in Dynamics 365 CE using Online Admin API.

Read the previous post for more details

We basically need to get the instace id and use the HTTP Delete to achieve this

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/rest/api/admin.services.crm.dynamics.com/Instances/DeleteInstance

Production instance needs to be converted to Sandbox before it can be deleted else we’d get the operation not supported error.

The sample code :-

private static void Main(string[] args)
{
var authContext = new AuthenticationContext(Authority, false);
var credentials = new UserCredential(UserName, Password);

// Get the token
_authResult = authContext.AcquireToken(Resource, ClientId, credentials);

Task.WaitAll(Task.Run(async () => await DeleteInstance()));
}
private static async Task DeleteInstance()
{
var httpClient = new HttpClient
{
BaseAddress = new Uri(Resource),
Timeout = new TimeSpan(0, 2, 0)
};

httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("OData-MaxVersion", "4.0");
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("OData-Version", "4.0");
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer",
_authResult.AccessToken);

var retrieveResponse =
await httpClient.DeleteAsync("/api/v1.1/Instances/{instanceGuid}/Delete");

if (retrieveResponse.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var jRetrieveResponse =
retrieveResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;

}
}

Hope it helps..

Suppose, we have just registered an application in Azure Active Directory and trying to acquire the token and get the below error

Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.AdalServiceException: ‘AADSTS65001: The user or administrator has not consented to use the application with ID ‘b2c5028d-57e6-4df7-9940-828e6914948b’ named ‘MyApp’. Send an interactive authorization request for this user and resource.

This is because admin consent is required before the application can be used. This could be granted by global administrator.

One of the ways to do so is through the URL with the specific format as shown below

https://login.microsoftonline.com/[tenantid]/oauth2/authorize?client_id=[appId]&response_type=code&redirect_uri=[redirctURL]&resource=[resourceURL]&prompt=admin_consent

Pasting this URL in the browser will prompt for the credential, login will global administrator and we will be presented with the following consent box

Clicking on Accept will grant the required permission to the application registered.

Hope it helps..

We can use RetrievePrincipalAccess function in Web API to get the access rights of either a user or team on a specific record.

The sample code:

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();

req.open("GET", Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl() + "/api/data/v9.1/systemusers(D38F5B76-C22E-4256-AF90-CFD14B6589BF)"+
"/Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.RetrievePrincipalAccess(Target =@Target)?"+ 
"@Target={ 'accountid': '8CB09F67-EB90-E811-A963-000D3AD1CBD6', '@odata.type': 'Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.account' } ", false);

req.setRequestHeader("OData-MaxVersion", "4.0");
req.setRequestHeader("OData-Version", "4.0");
req.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
req.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (this.readyState === 4) {
req.onreadystatechange = null;
if (this.status === 200) { 
var results = JSON.parse(this.response);
} else { 
Xrm.Utility.alertDialog(this.statusText);
}
}
};
req.send();

Result:

Hope it helps..

Let us take see a simple example of how the installation order of solution and patch works in case of Dynamics 365 CE.

Suppose we have a Solution A with only Account Number field with display name renamed to Account Number from Solution A.

Now this solution is exported as managed and imported into the target environment

Now let us create a new solution which renames this field as “Account Number from Solution B” and then import this as managed in the target environment.

So as expected we’d see the display name renamed to Account Number from B as this solution was installed after the solution A.

Now let us create Patch for the first solution, Solution A and rename the field to Account Number from Solution A Patch and import this patch to Target Environment.

After importing the patch solution in Target Environment

We can open the account record and check for the label of the account number field. Interestingly we will see the value to be “Account Number from Solution B”, which was set by the solution B. So installing our patch for solution A didn’t change it.

It is because the platform still gives precedence to the installation order of the solution and not patch. Although we had the patch installed for Solution A after import of Solution B, putting a patch didn’t change the label for the account number as it is belonged to the solution that was imported before Solution B.

Hope it helps..