So this is a little bit embarrassing. I was at HELish Summit in Helsinki, a really good event. The day after, I went to update my website with the session materials so anyone looking to download them could get them. Instead I got “your connection is not private”. My certificate for http://www.nickdoelman.com had expired. My… Continue reading Free SSL/TLS certificates for Power Pages
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Is your Power Pages site secure?
Power Pages is secure. Your configuration might not be. There has been public reporting recently about a data extortion group pulling Dataverse records out of Power Pages sites. The write-ups have been picked up widely, and the framing in a few of them is that Power Pages itself is the problem. It is not. Nothing… Continue reading Is your Power Pages site secure?
Becoming a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
This week’s post is a little different from my usual content. I promise the next ones will get back to being technical. Prefer to watch instead of read? Here is the full video: A question I get asked a lot is: how do I become an MVP? How do I win the award? You have… Continue reading Becoming a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
Power Pages: Tired of filling forms? Use an agent!
Have you heard of AI agents? 🤣 Agents are now popping up everywhere and Power Pages is no exception. The ability to create a site agent that can answer questions based on your site content has been available for a while. A new feature (in preview) has been announced where you can start with a… Continue reading Power Pages: Tired of filling forms? Use an agent!
Power Pages: Stop using the default maintenance mode page!
There are times when you need to do some work on your Microsoft Dataverse backend that could affect users and visitors to your Power Pages website. Things like a data migration, solution imports, or enabling new features. To ensure your visitors won’t get timeouts or weird error messages, a good practice is the put the… Continue reading Power Pages: Stop using the default maintenance mode page!
Power Pages Actions in Visual Studio Code
Two years ago I posted about the features within Visual Studio Code to create assets in Power Pages. Since that time the team at Microsoft has added more features to allow developers to be more productive when extending Power Pages websites using HTML, JavaScript, Liquid, CSS, etc. To be effective using Visual Studio Code, this… Continue reading Power Pages Actions in Visual Studio Code
Power Pages: Site Settings as Environment variables
Currently rolling out to is the ability to configure Power Pages site settings as environment variables. Why is this such a big deal? In Power Pages configuration, much of the Power Pages website configuration is stored in metadata records called site settings. In many cases, these site settings are unique to specific environments, for example,… Continue reading Power Pages: Site Settings as Environment variables
Power Pages: Configure Entra External ID
When building a Power Pages website where you will have external stakeholders signing in, it is highly recommended to use an external authentication provider and not the out-of-the-box forms based login and password. There are different external providers available, provided by Microsoft (Azure AD B2C) and other 3rd party providers (like OKTA). Currently in preview,… Continue reading Power Pages: Configure Entra External ID
Scheduling your Dynamics 365 Update
With the recent announcement that Customer Driven Updates (aka CDU) are now available to upgrade Dynamics 365 to the v9 release (aka July 2017 update, aka October 2017 update, aka February 2018 update) customers might be keen to upgrade their existing Dynamics 365 v8.x instances. This is a little side step from my ongoing “Migration… Continue reading Scheduling your Dynamics 365 Update
Dynamics 365 Attachment Storage Revisited
I recently wrote a couple of blogs regarding the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Attachment Management solution that highlighted the benefits of using Azure Blob storage to hold attachments. I also uncovered an issue when using the Attachment Management solution with Dynamics 365 Portals. The team at Microsoft Labs did not let this go unnoticed and created… Continue reading Dynamics 365 Attachment Storage Revisited
