Mid May 2023, a warning popped up in Microsoft Message Center regarding "Non-Compliant Power Automate Flows" -  soon after the message however disappeared so this got probably missed by the majority of Dataverse and Dynamics 365 admins. This however raised some concerns in the broader Microsoft community ( see Will Power Automate enforcement licensing kill your flows?  and Upcoming licensing enforcement in Power Automate explained ).  To be honest I did not pay a lot of attention since the message apparently vanished in thin air and after consultation with Microsoft su ..read more

This is the first in a series of blog posts about more advanced generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) concepts which I use as notes to myself (check out Why I blog and you might want to consider it as well) Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is an AI framework that enhances the quality of responses generated by large language models (LLMs). LLMs are trained on a massive amount of data and understand statistical relationships between words but lack true comprehension of their meanings. So when faced with specific questions in a dynamic context so that is where RAG comes in. RAG integra ..read more

Copilots, AI and machine learning Artificial Intelligence 2023 Playlist by Stanford Online (YouTube) and Stanford CS229: Machine Learning | Spring 2022 Stanford Online (YouTube) Use Semantic Kernel with Lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric Fabric end-to-end use case: Analytics engineering part 1 - dbt with the Lakehouse by @s_debruyn From Microsoft to global brands, Dynamics 365 Copilot is helping transform customer experiences across service, sales and marketing Accelerate support ramp-ups, handoffs and wrap-ups with Copilot summarization in Dynamics 365 Customer Service Introducing new ..read more

 Since end of 2022, there is also a SQL Server Integration Services  Project template available for Visual Studio 2022 which you can install from the Visual Studio Marketplace. You can install it from the direct download link here or you can search for it in the Visual Studio 2022 extension manager and install it from there ..read more

 If you missed it - classic Azure Application Insights will be deprecated on February 29th 2024. If you missed the different notification e-mails, you can quite easily see the warning if you navigate to an Azure Application Insights resource in Azure Portal. Migration is actually quite easy - you just click on the link provided and this will open up the menu depicted below which allows you to associate your Azure Application Insights resource to a Log Analytics Workspace. The good news is that there are no pricing changes when moving to the workspace-based model.  As indicated ..read more

Lijst van ondersteunende video's bij het boek Procreate 5 Handleiding - tekenen op de ipad (Stefan de Groot, 2020) Hoofdstuk 2 - Gallery Hoofdstuk 3 - Canvas & brushes Hoofdstuk 4 - Teken, veeg, gum en vormen Hoofdstuk 5 - Layers Hoofdstuk 6 - Kleuren Hoofdstuk 7 - Gebaren Hoofdstuk 8 - Actions Hoofdstuk 9 - Adjustments Hoofdstuk 10 - Selecteren en transformeren Hoofdstuk 11 - Snelkoppelingen & Apple Pencil ..read more

Lifting and shifting SSIS packages to Azure Data Factory (ADF) can provide several benefits. By moving your on-premises SSIS workloads to Azure, you can reduce operational costs and the burden of managing infrastructure that you have when you run SSIS on-premises or on Azure virtual machines.  You can also increase high availability with the ability to specify multiple nodes per cluster, as well as the high availability features of Azure and of Azure SQL Database. You can also increase scalability with the ability to specify multiple cores per node (scale up) and multiple nodes per cluste ..read more

The Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse documentation contains a section about Access near real-time data and read-only snapshot data but it does not really explain why you want to use one or the other.  When you open an Azure Synapse SQL Serverless LakeDB in SQL Server Management Studio you see a clear distinction between the two versions of the table data - whereas in Azure Synapse Studio there is no obvious distinction besides the name you will see the "account" table the "account_partitioned" view: Near real time data: external table for all the underlying CSV files exported by the ..read more

 2023 Release Wave 2 Dynamics 365 Customer Service: new dialer experience (preview) by @D365Goddess New sales capabilities in 2023 release wave 2 - helping sellers work smarter Dynamics 365 CRM Wave 2 Release: enhance categorization of knowledge search articles Configure sales Copilot for Dynamics 365 Sales (Preview) by @DianaBirkelbach Technical topics (Configuration, customization and extensibility) Dataverse - use bulk operation messages (MS Learn) -  CreateMultiple and UpdateMultiple are now GA!  Read the small print to see when to use it Dataverse let ..read more

Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse allows you to easily export data from a Dataverse (or Dynamics 365) instance to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS) and/or Azure Synapse.  Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse provides a continuous replication of standard and custom entities/tables to Azure Synapse and Azure Data Lake.  I highly recommend you to view the awesome YouTube playlist Azure Synapse Link and Dataverse - better together from Scott Sewell (@Scottsewell) as an introduction. This blog post provides a number of tips & tricks but is not an exhaustive list - it is highly recommen ..read more