Power Apps Developer Plan environments | Power Platform

February 22, 2023 priyeshwagh777 Microsoft PowerApps, Power Platform Admin Center developer environment for power apps, developer type environment in dataverse, power apps developer plan

Developers can now have Environments of their own to test and review Power Apps / Power Automate etc. Here’s how you can get yours!

Learn More about Power Apps Developer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/developer-plan?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5003911

If you are looking to Sign Up for the Developer Plan, you can use this Link: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/developerplan/?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5003911

Create Developer Environment

Given that you are Power Platform Admin Center, you can create a new Environment like so –

Go to Power Platform Admin Center and then Environments (https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments). Click on + New to create a new Environment.

And then you can select the Type
Now, can you check what URL you want to provide and then click on Finish
Then, your environment will be initiated for creation like any other Environment. Notice the type is Developer.
Once created, if you go in the Environment, you can click the Edit to review the Settings for this Environment.
And you can see that the Security Group cannot be added to this Environment.

User’s Environment

If a User wants to create their own environment under the Power App Developer Plan (https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/developerplan/?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5003911), they can go to the Homepage of the Power Apps Developer plan and click on Existing User? Add a dev environment >
Then, you can enter your credentials and you’ll see this page.
Once this is provisioned, you’ll be taken to your Environment and I’ll look like below –
And in the Power Platform Admin Center, the Admins can see that the Environment has been created of Type Developer by SYSTEM.

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Metadata Browser and Entity Metadata Browser in Dynamics 365 CRM | Managed Solution & XrmToolBox

February 8, 2023 priyeshwagh777 Dynamics 365 CE entity metadata browser, metadata browser dynamics 365 crm, metadata browser dynamics crm, XrmToolBox

As new developers for Dynamics 365 CRM, you would need to dive deeper into Dynamics 365 CRM metadata apart from what’s just offered in the Customize Solution.

So, you have

Metadata Browser – Navigating through metadata about entities in the environment.

Entity Metadata Browser – Navigating through metadata inside an entity in the environment.

Get Metadata Browser

Here’s how you can get the official Metadata Browser from Microsoft Learn document itself –

Microsoft Learn Link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customerengagement/on-premises/developer/browse-your-metadata?view=op-9-1?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5003911

On you use the above link, you’ll get these options. For latest Dynamics 365 CRM using v9.2 as well, the one highlighted below should work at the time of writing this post.
You’ll get it in the system.
Given that you are System Administrator or System Customizer and have access to importing Solutions in your organization, you can Import this downloaded Managed Solution in your environment.
Select the Solution file and click Next.
It’ll click Import once it looks good.

And it’ll be done. You don’t need to (and can’t) Publish since it’s a Managed Solution.
And that’s it! You’ll see Metadata Browser in your Solutions.

Using Metadata Browser

Once you import the Metadata Browser and open it up, let’s see how you can use it –

Open the Metadata Browser.
You’ll see 2 options here – Metadata Browser and Entity Metadata Browser.
Metadata Browser has the details of the Metadata on an Entity level i.e. list of all Entities and then their metadata.
Entity Metadata Browser will show the details inside each Entity rather than about the Entity itself. Like Attributes, Keys, Relationships, etc.
In fact, you can get the Entity Metadata Browsing for an Entity from Metadata Browser Page itself by clicking on “View Entity Details” button in the Metadata Browser itself.

XrmToolBox

Another way is to use XrmToolBox’s tools like Metadata Browser but since this is not official by Microsoft, support is not provided and the usage is not warranted –

Login to XrmToolBox and install Metadata Browser plugin if you already haven’t.
Once installed, you can use this
And then you can browse the metadata from XrmToolBox

Quick Tip!
Here’s how you can get the Instance Web API of your organization – Check Metadata of your Dynamics 365 instance in the browser | [Quick Tip]

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Weekly Digest for usage insights | Power Platform Admin Center

February 7, 2023 priyeshwagh777 Power Platform Admin Center Power Platform Admin Center, power platform admin center weekly digest, weekly digest

One of the features in Power Platform Admin Center is that now you can receive Weekly Updates in the form of a Newsletter for the Managed Environments.

Pre-Requisites

Below are the Pre-requisites for enabling Weekly Digest

Tenant-Level Analytics must be enabled in your Power Platform Tenant. Here’s a post to see how you can enable Tenant-Level Analytics – Tenant-Level Analytics in Power Platform Admin Center | For Power Apps and Power Automate
Only Managed Environments Updates are available – Here’s how you can learn more about Managed Environments – Enable Managed Environments in Power Platform Admin Center
Under those Managed Environments, only those Managed Environments will be considered which have been enabled for Weekly Digest. While enabling Managed Environments in the above step #2, ensure this checkbox is marked in order to consider the Managed Environment for Weekly Digest –

Enable Weekly Digest

Given the above Pre-requisites are met, here’s how you can enable Weekly Digest –

Navigate to Tenant Settings in the Power Platform Admin Center (https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/tenantsettings) – Look for Weekly digest. Notice that it is marked with a green icon which indicates that it will only be applicable for Managed Environments.
On the right hand side, you’ll see place to enter email addresses (separated by semicolons) who should receive the Weekly Digest emails.
Power Platform Administrators and Dynamics 365 Administrators only will receive these updates.
Once you entered the email addresses, you can Save those and you’ll see the below message upon confirmation.
That’s it!
And then on a Monday, I saw this in my mailbox!

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Enable Early Access Wave 1 2023 | Power Platform

February 6, 2023 priyeshwagh777 Power Platform Admin Center early access, enable early access, power apps, Power Platform

Like every 6 months, enabling Early Access is one of the best things to look forward to as Microsoft announces Release Plans! So, here’s how you can enable Early Access for Wave 1 2023 if you are new to managing Power Platform environments!

It is recommended to enable Early Access features only for Sandbox environments as it is not GA [General Availability] yet.

Power Platform Admin Center

Given that you are a Power Platform Administrator / Dynamics 365 Administrator, here’s how you can enable Wave 1 2023 access for your Sandbox environment –

Select the Sandbox environment
Then, see the Updates section where you’ll now see 2021 Wave 1 updates available in Off mode.
On the right hand side, you can select the U
Then, enter the Display Name of the environment correctly in order to ensure you are enabling this on the correct environment.
Once you confirm, you’ll see that the Updates have started applying in the background.
And when you click or refresh, you’ll see what’s being Activated in the background based on how your environment is set up.
It takes a few hours based on the environment for the Wave 1 2023 Updates to be applied.

And you’re set! Here’s Microsoft Learn Documentation for Wave 1 2023 for Power Platform / Dynamics 365: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plans/?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5003911

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Publishing Error | Cannot start the requested operation | [Quick Tip]

February 6, 2023 priyeshwagh777 Dynamics 365 CE

At times, there are scenarios where multiple developers are working together in a project and making cosmetic changes to the customization.

The error reads – “Cannot start the requested operation [EntityCustomization] because there is another [PublishAll] running at this moment. Use Solution History for more details.“

And, if there are any Publishing activities going on which was initiated by some other user/developer but others don’t know and they then try to also Publish.

Error

You’ll see the below error, in case you made changes to certain customization and click on Publish Customization

If you click on See Solution History, here’s the URL shortcut for the same – https://[ORGName].[CRMRegion].dynamics.com/main.aspx?forceUCI=1&pagetype=entitylist&etn=msdyn_solutionhistory

And it’ll open up Solution History as below –

What this means?

This means, that there was another Publish operations going on in the background which was running and the current Publish operation need to wait till that one is finished.

Example – If you are publishing Ribbon Button changes from Ribbon Workbench, which looks like this –

So, you must wait for any Publish operation like this to finish.

Or there could also be because some solution is being imported. You can see this in the Solution History

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Block user from signing-in into Microsoft 365 tenant

February 5, 2023 priyeshwagh777 microsoft 365 block sign in, block user in m365, restrict sign in m365

In a certain scenario, you might want to block User from signing into Microsoft 365 entirely at the tenant level. Here’s how you do it

Block Sign-in

Given that you are an M365 Administrator / Global Administrator in Office Portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal), here’s how you can block a User –

Expand the Users in the Admin area, then select Active Users.
Select the user which you want to block. You’ll see the button to Block sign-in.
Click on Block sign-in and it’ll ask for you confirmation.
Once you check it, you can Save changes.
And you can see that the user is now blocked. Takes up to 60 minutes to be released from signed-in devices.
And in the User pane, you’ll see that the User is not blocked and you can then choose to Unblock them.
And when they try to Sign In, you’ll see this on the authentication screen.
And you Unblock by doing the reverse, once blocked, you can uncheck to Unblock and it’ll take up to 15 mins for this to take effect.