Setup demo users

Some years back, I did provide a blog post where you could change some settings on the Contoso demo users and login using the original credentials. Like many other things, there was a change done by Microsoft. As partners and customers, we were not allowed anymore to use the Azure AD credentials from Microsoft Contoso demo users. Microsoft on their turn provided a blog which guides you to reuse the users with credentials from your own Azure Active Directory. Every time I had to deploy a new environment, it took me some time to setup users which I wanted to use for demos or testing. I got the idea to solve this with a script using Microsoft Flow. In this post, I will tell about this and you may download and use it for your own environments.

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2019 wave 2

As you already might have noticed, the software planned for October 2019 is in public preview now. A blog with the announcement had been published some days ago by Microsoft om their Dynamics 365 Blog. Continue to read my post to find out why the featured image has been transformed into a jigsaw puzzle.

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365 Saturday South Africa

On August 17, 2019 there will be a Dynamics 365 Saturday event in Johannesburg, South Africa. This is a free event to learn about different topics related to the various Dynamics 365 applications. The organization asked me as a speaker and for several reasons, I’m willing to speak about various topics.

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Security Diagnostics

When you want to configure or develop custom security in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, you would possibly want to know the menu item name which is being used. There are options to trackback all information in the AOT in Visual Studio. But how to get the information if you don’t have access to Visual Studio and only are able to access the application? This question will be answered in this blog post.

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