Olena Grischenko Blog
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My name is Olena Grischenko. I was born in Ukraine and live in Australia. I am a Dynamics 365 consultant, working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM from version 1.2, for 15 years. I love blogging, but I don't like the particular tech blogging.
Olena Grischenko Blog
1M ago
As a Power Platform admin, I would like to automate the environment creation at the same time, making sure the environment created could be used to install Dynamics 365 apps in the future.
Power Platform Admin
Create and manage environments in the Power Platform admin center article here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/power-platform/admin/create-environment#create-an-environment-with-a-database
Enable Dynamics 365 apps
Select Yes and make a selection to automatically deploy apps such as Dynamics 365 Sales or Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. You must have an appropriate D ..read more
Olena Grischenko Blog
2M ago
The case
As a Power Platform admin I want to remediate the Default environment to deploy a DLP policy so I could get to the Power Platform maturity level 200 for the Admin and Governance.
Olena
We notified users with non-compliant assets to back up or move their apps and automation, as they are going to break during the remediation. Some of the users got back to me, and we had some happy and unhappy conversations. One case stood out, so I decided to share it with you.
A user contacted us to ask if we could help him to back up assets. His assets appear in our reports as they use a Dataverse co ..read more
Olena Grischenko Blog
3M ago
Issue
I was modifying my custom environment creation automation today. For the security group creation action, I needed to add a System Admin to the security group owners to simplify a user management. The action takes the array like below:
[
"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/24d2bbbb-ae82-4d3e-8520-081231b0edc0","https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/21d2aaaa-ae82-4d3e-8520-081231b0edc0"]
First, I tried appending a System Admin value to the Owners array without making any checks. However, I was getting a Bad Request error suggesting that all item in the array must be unique:
“Objec ..read more
Olena Grischenko Blog
3M ago
In my world being an expert in something and being a dummy in something else is pretty normal. No one knows everything. I am an expert in the Power Platform and Business Applications, but even that area is too big for me, so I continue learning every day.
When I tried to deploy the Power Platform communication site template for my organisation, I encountered multiple issues. They look like silly issues to me now and I am sure 99.9% of you would never struggle with something like this. But I did.
First, I am not a PowerShell expert. Over the past year, I have learned that being a good developer ..read more
Olena Grischenko Blog
4M ago
Extending a warm welcome to the Makers starting on the environment is a wonderful idea, especially as Christmas is approaching. We won’t miss the opportunity to send them some heartfelt greetings.
It’s very easy to do for Managed Environments. If you are not familiar with the concept, this is the idea:
Managed Environments is a suite of premium capabilities that allows admins to manage Power Platform at scale with more control, less effort, and more insights. Admins can use Managed Environments with any type of environment. Certain features can be configured upon enabling a Managed Environmen ..read more
Olena Grischenko Blog
4M ago
As a Power Platform Admin, I would like to efficiently test the CoE Starter Kit Inactivity Processes, so I understand how it works and confirm it meets my requirements without spamming users and makers.
Olena
Introduction
During our initial setup of the CoE Starter Kit, we encountered difficulties in finding a way to disable notifications and automatic emails. Despite configuring some Exchange rules and disabling Flows, we inadvertently activated certain processes that sent notifications to users.
We ended up testing some of the amazing processes without being aware of it, which turned out f ..read more
Olena Grischenko Blog
5M ago
Some time ago I wrote the post: https://wordpress.com/post/msolenacrm.blog/4767
In the post, I was talking about the standard Microsoft connector not meeting my client’s security requirements. Pretty much, I was blocked and searching for a solution.
The only “security appropriate” solution was a custom connector but I didn’t know where to start. I asked my partner to investigate the issue and let me know if we could make a custom connector work the way all the requirements are addressed.
The license consideration
A custom connector requires a Premium Power Automate license.
The Solution
The wo ..read more
Olena Grischenko Blog
7M ago
The solution described in the article is not fully working to the level it satisfies the author. It’s a continuous effort to come up with the best solution that meets both dev and ops requirements.
Me
The problem
I am trying to create a security group using Power Automate using the Microsoft Entra ID connector.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/azuread/#create-group
Microsoft Entra ID is an Identity and Access Management cloud solution that extends your on-premises directories to the cloud and provides single sign-on to thousands of cloud (SaaS) apps and access to web apps you run ..read more
Olena Grischenko Blog
7M ago
Let’s chat about how we got there first.
In my client’s organisation the decision was made to limit Power Platform usage to just Office 365 connectors due to the complexity of the service ownership, time-consuming licensing discussions – it’s complicated! So Power Platform is only allowed as a part of the Office 365 subscription, all users in the organisation are covered by their Office licenses – no Premium, no extra costs. Happy days!
Limiting Power Platform full power is as simple as just not letting people use Premium licenses. Not for the existing stuff, but for future projects. This is ..read more