My thoughts on Dynamics 365, .NET, Azure, PowerShell, and other things too
I was investigating why a cloud service that was supposed to be unused was receiving traffic, and upon looking at the IIS logs I noticed the majority of the requests were coming from a web client using the following user agent:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; GTMProbe 1.0)
The Azure management portal is showing a notification for a scheduled maintenance operation that will cause cloud services to experience a brief outage. I haven’t seen this posted publicly anywhere and wanted to help make this known. I am copying the details as shown in the Azure management portal.
If your cloud service is temporarily unavailable today, it could be due to a maintenance window starting in 1.5 hours from now.
I was recently working on a project where the question arose about how much text can a note hold. The need was for a user to be able to type in text, or copy-paste large amounts of text from another source such as an email. I didn’t have an offhand answer to this question and looked into finding out.
Microsoft held its annual developer-focused Build conference on April 2 – 4, and thankfully all of the sessions were recorded and are available for viewing on their own Channel 9 events page. There are a lot of sessions to watch and learn from (185 to be exact) on a diverse set of topics. I’ve watched a few videos already – it’s … Read more
With the transition of Dynamics CRM Online organizations to the new administrative portal and billing platform, you’ll be assigned an Office 365 account that comes with a domain name in the form of <name>.onmicrosoft.com. This blog post will walk through how to add your own domain to your Office 365 account so that you can use it instead of the onmicrosoft.com one.
CRM Online sometimes has temporary outages, and if it weren’t for applications that repeatedly connect to CRM using its web services, one may not even know they occur. This situation unfortunately recently occurred for one of our clients, and they asked us to look into the problem.