Power Platform & Dynamics CE

Solution Checker is a built-in quality assurance and analysis tool in Microsoft Power Platform that helps evaluate Dataverse solutions against Microsoft’s recommended best practices. It scans solution components such as plugins, JavaScript, Power Automate flows, apps, tables, and security roles to identify potential issues related to performance, security, reliability, and maintainability. By using rule-based and static code analysis , Solution Checker highlights risks early in the development lifecycle, helping teams fix problems before deployment. It is widely used by developers, architects, and release teams to improve code quality, reduce technical debt, prevent production issues, and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and upgrade-ready across environments. Rule-based analysis checks “what rules you broke”, while static code analysis checks “what could go wrong in your code without running it”. What is Solution Checker? Solution Checker is a built-in quality and health check...

Managing parallel development and hotfixes in Dataverse means keeping new features and urgent fixe s moving forward at the same time without breaking the system. Because multiple teams often work in different solution layers , it becomes important to separate work clearly using branching, small modular solutions, and structured environments. While feature teams work on future releases in their own branches, hotfixes must be created quickly from the production branch, packaged in focused solutions, tested, and deployed with minimal impact. After a hotfix goes live, it must always be merged back into the development stream so it isn’t overwritten in the next release. With a good CI/CD pipeline, versioning, and clear release governance, organizations can deliver changes safely, avoid solution conflicts, and maintain stability even when several teams are building and fixing at the same time. Working with Dataverse often means several developers, consultants, and teams are customizing the...

On Friday, we decided to shift to a new location because our current home is too far from the office. Traveling every day was taking a lot of time, and it became difficult to manage. After realizing this was our main problem, we finally chose to move out. We planned everything carefully and hired a company to help us shift our household items. Everything was going smoothly until around 11 AM, when lift maintenance work suddenly started. Even though we had informed the building team two days earlier, they were not supportive, which created unnecessary problems for us. After waiting for almost three hours, the service lift became available, and we were finally able to load our items into the truck. Later, due to city traffic restrictions, a “No Entry” zone started at 5 PM, causing further delays. When we reached our new home, the unpacking team did not work properly, and the entire house became extremely messy. It felt like problems were coming one after another, and it was difficult to ...

Users can access Microsoft Azure through several flexible and secure methods, depending on their role, device, and workload needs. The most common entry point is the Azure Portal, a web-based interface where users manage resources visually. For on-the-go access, the Azure Mobile App provides monitoring and basic management capabilities. Developers and administrators often prefer command-line tools such as the Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell, or the browser-based Azure Cloud Shell, which comes preconfigured with all Azure tools. For application development and automation, users access Azure through SDKs, APIs, and Visual Studio integration. Regardless of the method used, authentication and authorization are enforced through Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), ensuring secure sign-in and controlled access to resources. Microsoft Azure provides multiple ways for users to access its cloud services. These access methods depend on the user’s role, the device they use, and the type of work they...

Dynamics CRM Plugin Life Cycle: Optimizing for Scalability means designing plugins in a way that keeps the system fast, stable, and easy to maintain—even as the business grows. A plugin goes through a clear life cycle: it triggers when data changes, runs inside the Dataverse execution pipeline, processes business logic, and returns results. For architects, the goal is to place the right logic in the right stage, avoid heavy or unnecessary operations, and use asynchronous processing whenever possible to reduce load on the user experience. By using best practices—such as separating business logic into helper classes, minimizing database calls, handling errors safely, and avoiding infinite loops—architects can ensure plugins scale smoothly across high-volume scenarios. In simple terms, it’s about building plugins that can handle more data, more users, and more transactions without slowing down the CRM system. When you design plugins in Dynamics 365, you’re not just writing C# code — you’...

The Dynamics 365 Plugin Life Cycle describes the series of steps that a plugin follows when a record is created, updated, deleted, or otherwise changed in Dataverse. In simple terms, a plugin is like an automated rule that wakes up when something happens in the system. As the event occurs, the plugin passes through different pipeline stages— Pre-Validation, Pre-Operation, Post-Operation, and Asynchronous Processing —each with its own purpose. Pre-Validation allows very early checks before the system applies business rules, Pre-Operation lets you validate or modify data before it is saved, Post-Operation triggers after the record is committed to the database, and Async handles background tasks like integrations or long-running operations. Understanding this life cycle helps ensure business logic runs at the right moment, prevents bad data from entering the system, and enables smooth automation and integrations within Dynamics 365. Plugins in Dynamics 365 are pieces of custom code that ...