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Secretless cross-tenant dataverse access
Call Dataverse in Tenant B from Azure Functions in Tenant A without storing secrets or certificates; use a user-assigned managed identity and a federated identity credential. The app is multitenant …
Introducing Mermaid to Dataverse Converter
ERDs are great for explaining data models, but they’re usually trapped in dead slide decks. With Mermaid and the Mermaid to Dataverse Converter, your diagrams become source code: versioned, …
What Tinder🔥 taught me about bad Dataverse design
Toxic Tinder traits meet Power Platform red flags in this brutally honest (and slightly hilarious) guide to what not to build.
From duct tape to data discipline
Spreadsheets aren’t a data strategy. Move from duct tape to discipline with trust, ownership, and product thinking.
Still running on spreadsheets: the hidden cost of outdated infrastructure
Why your most “trusted” spreadsheet might be the biggest risk in your organization — and what to do about it.
I'm never going to financially recover from this
Too many Power Platform projects start with the wrong question: “Can we build this without premium licensing?” The real question should be: “What are we trying to achieve?” In this blog post, I break …
How to upload files to SharePoint for Dataverse integration in a Power Apps canvas app
Use Case Recently, someone asked me if it was possible to utilize the SharePoint integration in Dataverse not only from a model-driven app, but also from a canvas app. Challenge accepted! Tl;dr: yes, …
Why your Power Platform service principal doesn't need a Dynamics user_impersonation scope
Auth is hard, for most developers. This is also true when building Power Platform solutions. As I see some blog posts explaining how to use a service principal in Power Platform that contain some …
How to deal with many to many relationships in Dataverse
While building an app that stores data in Dataverse, I came across a not easy to resolve problem. If you already follow me for a bit longer, you may assume that this is about ProvisionGenie, and so I …
ProvisionGenie - an open-source provisioning engine for Microsoft Teams
Once upon a time I teamed up with my friend and partner in crime Carmen Ysewijn. We both work as Power Platform developers and Microsoft 365 consultants, and got both tired of doing the same things …