Have you ever deployed a Dataverse plugin, only to watch it fail silently or act unpredictably? Most of the time, the missing piece is understanding how to communicate with Dataverse the smart way—using IOrganizationService . In the world of Dataverse, every plugin waits for its turn when something changes. The plugin looks around and wonders, “How do I talk to the database?” That’s when IOrganizationService steps in like a trusted messenger, ready to carry out requests and bring back results. “ Need to create a record? I can handle that,” it says. “ Want to update or delete data safely ? Leave it to me.” It even speaks the secret language of Dataverse messages like Assign and SetState . But it never works alone— IOrganizationServiceFactory brings it to life, deciding whether it should act as the user or as the powerful system account. Working together with IPluginExecutionContext , it always knows who triggered the action, which record is involved, and when to respond. What is IOrgan...

In today’s cloud-driven business environment, Microsoft Dataverse powers Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dynamics 365 by providing a secure and scalable data platform. One of the most critical aspects of managing Dataverse is understanding capacity-based storage. This blog will walk you through what capacity-based storage is, why it exists, its components, and how it impacts your Power Platform environment. What Is Capacity-Based Storage in Dataverse? Capacity-based storage is the storage model used by Dataverse to manage data in the Power Platform. Unlike the traditional per-environment storage model, capacity is: Allocated at the tenant level Shared across all environments Divided into three storage types for optimized performance and cost  Storage Categories in Dataverse Why Microsoft Uses Capacity-Based Storage ? Old Model: Per-Environment Storage Before 2019, Dataverse (then Common Data Service) used environment-based storage: Each environment had a fixed database size Adding ...