Recently, I was involved in investigating a performance issue. The initial thought for the issue was within the standard SysQuery::countLoops() method, but after some more deep dive, the culprit was due to some calculation of virtual fields. In this post, I will elaborate on the purpose and behavior of the SysQuery::countLoops() method and how the performance was impacted by virtual fields.

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During the past years, I have seen a lot of questions about setting up users who are not part of the Azure AD tenant linked to a Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations environment. Usually, there is a simple reply by stating that the Provider field on the User details should be altered to indicate where to authenticate the user. This reply does not cover the licensing requirements, components that require an app registration in Azure AD, and users not part of an Azure AD, but having e.g. a Microsoft Account. With this post, I will provide the full details to correctly enable external users.

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I’m starting this blog about security with the words Less is More! This is a concept about simplicity. In life, we look at certain things in an overcomplicated way or try to make them too advanced. We don’t see it ourselves until someone helps us think in a different direction. When you just start working with Dynamics 365 and the security architecture, you might wonder why you sometimes don’t have the permissions or data visible as you would expect. In this blog, I will share some scenarios and background information where by granting more security roles, the user will have fewer permissions than expected on particular features.

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2022 Release wave 2 plan

Today, Microsoft released the new plans for 2022 release wave 2. These plans will tell you about the short-term investments to be released by Microsoft for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. Microsoft is releasing these plans twice a year to indicate what they are working on. In this post, you will find the links to the 2022 wave 2 plans and some of the highlights mentioned in these plans.

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