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Since I am not a developer… especially not an X++ developer I am ususlly not entrusted with access to Visual Studio (this statement was more for dramatic effect but the truth is that I am trying to avoid it to not mess things up).

The main reason for this work around is that in some environments Visual Studio is not set up and to do that would require setting up the correct account, mapping workspaces and a whole lot more. This way is simpler:

Log into the Dynamics Server
Start PowerShell Elevated as Administrator
Run the following command:

K:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\Plugins\AxReportVmRoleStartupTask\DeployAllReportsToSSRS.ps1 -PackageInstallLocation “K:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory”

That will redeploy all of the for Dynamics 365 for Operations

Links:
https://msdax.wordpress.com/2018/04/08/deploying-ssrs-reports-to-dynamics-ax-365/

New Episode: En Liten Podd om IT – Avnitt 252 – Den har inga buggar… Hon säger det I reklamfilmen

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Avsnitt 252 spelades in den 12:e Februari och eftersom författaren Patricia Highsmith hade ca 300 sniglar som husdjur så handlar dagens avsnitt om:

FEEDBACK OCH BACKLOGG:

* David har sovit såligt men är glad ändå. Björn har ett gnälligt tangebord och en gnällig son. Johan har jobbat hemma och hämtat och lämnat barn.

* David har blivit outad att han kötr facebook igen.

* “Saab lanserar molntjänsten Egira”. Läsa lite mer om vad Saab skriver om detta.

* Sverige tog brons i värledns störa cyberförsvarstävning. Länk 1, Länk 2, Länk 3

ALLMÄNT NYTT:

* Veckans “hade otur när…” Lärdomen är kanske att man måste aktivt leta efter den här typen av “kommandomanövrar”. “The error lasted for five years (between February 2, 2015, and January 24, 2020) before it was discovered, Danish media reported last week”

* Murfie är i konkurs och nu har en kille köpt 1 miljon CD-skivor.

* Min är större än din!!

MICROSOFT

* Att man organiserar om Windows klient och hårdvara… kommer det att påverka?

* BONUSLÄNK: Enligt gartner Q3 2018 så såg försäljningen av datorer ut så här

* Surface Duo har fastnad på bild i verkligeten

APPLE

* Apple telefoner får böter för att de gör telefoner långsammare

* Det kommer gå att bundla i iOS appstore och Mac Appstore

* Apple CarKey!! Lite mer info om organisationen CarConnectivity

* Apple watch är ett misslyckande!! (eller kanske inte)

* BONUSLÄNK: https://www.fhs.swiss/eng/statistics.html

* BONUSLÄNK: Statistik över Swiss watchmaking industri from 2001 to 2016 (1 franc är 1.02 dollar)

* BONUSLÄNK: apples försäljning av applewatch under Q2 2019 var 5,1 miljarder USD.

GOOGLE:

* Huawei, Xiaomi Oppo och Vivi kommer skapa ett alternativ till Googles Appstore

* Google maps fyller 15 år, Så därför får appen en ny logga!

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY:

* David: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/se/products/blackmagicmultidock

* Björn: https://www.webhallen.com/se/product/301279-Deltaco-HDMI-Switch-5-1-Fjarrkontroll-Svart

* Johan: https://9to5google.com/2020/02/09/surface-duo-real-world-video/

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* En Liten Podd Om IT på webben

* En Liten Podd Om IT på Facebook

* En Liten Podd Om IT på Youtube

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* Apple Podcaster (iTunes)

* Overcast

* Acast

* Spotify

* Stitcher

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The macro ‘@CurrentIteration’ is not supported without a team context.

Today when writing release notes for my customers latest release I bumped into an issue. I have a query that returns all item in the current Iteration Path with their release notes. The release notes are written in Microsoft Word so I thought that if I could just get the query into Excel it would be an easy “Copy and Past” operation into word.

Fortunately Azure DevOps have just this feature. You simply go to queries, click the three dots negt to the query and select Open in Excel

My query looks like this:

In order to use Open in Excel you first need to install Azure DevOps Office® Integration 2019. After authenticating to Azure DevOps I got an error message… interresting

Turns out the setting @CurrentIteration does not work in Excel… You have to set it to the actual iteration path in order for the Excel Addin to work.

Good to go 🙂

The Azure DevOps UI for Build Pipelines has changed

A quick one today…

I was about to deploy a new package today for a customer… and I could not find it… Apparently the UI for DevOps has changed and it took me a while to find the same place.

The old UI looked like this. You went to Pipelines – Build – [your pipeline] – [The run you wanted] – Summary. Under Build Artifacts you could find the package zip.

Bildresultat för azure devops build pipeline package

Now it looks a bit different. You still go to Pipelines – Build – [your pipeline] – [The run you wanted] – Summary. You find the package artifacts here.

Oh… and there is also another difference. The package used to be ziped an extra time so you had to extract it to be able to upload it to LCS. Now you directly get the deployable package.

That’s it for today… mainly since I tend to forget 🙂

My top 12 items in the Dynamics and Power Platform 2020 Wave 1

Last week Microsoft finally released the complete PDFs with new features of Dynamics 365 and PowerPlatform Wave 1 2020. I browsed through them (all 405 pages of them 🙂 ) to to try to understand where we are going… here are my top 10 12.

Mass deployment of the Warehouse App
This gives an organization the ability to use Microsoft Intune (or your favorite MDM solution) to deploy the warehouse app to mobile devices.
The UI will start adapting to the license the user has assigned in order to make the UI “less complex”. This means that there is no longer a possibility to get by under licensed”.
The new grid now allows you to group rows based on a column and also to easily rearrange the columns.
Tables, Entities and Aggregate measurements can be stored in Data Lagke Storage Gen 2. Prior to this release we were only able to store Aggregate Measurements in Data Lakes.
The ability to embed a Power Automate Flow directly in the UI in Dynamics. This flow can be triggered by the end user. This feature is even cooler since it was suggested on the Dynamics Ideas site.
Azure AD sign-in in the POS client. This could previously only be done using a worker ID
The ability to create a PowerApp directly in Microsoft Teams.
Great improvements for running model-driven apps offline. Really cool since this is geared towards mobile front line workers.
Monitor and get insight into usage of your canvas apps using Azure Application Insights.
Power Apps Test Studio is available in General Availability. This gives you the possibility to automate testing and integrate it into Azure DevOps release and Build Pipelines
Simplified expressions in Power Automate. Instead of having to write a complex expression for a string operation there are ready-made blocks for this.
Copy and Paste in the Power Automate designer (Yay)

As you can see this selection of features are quite tech/IT heavy… There are a LOT more app related features in the Wave 2 release. Look through the PDFs linked below to get a grasp on these.

One thing to note is that this is Wave 1… Not everything in Wave 1 is general available or in some cases even in preview… but it is coming. Something to look forward to.

Links:
https://docs.microsoft.com/sv-se/dynamics365-release-plan/2020wave1/
https://docs.microsoft.com/sv-se/power-platform-release-plan/2020wave1/

New Episode: En Liten Podd om IT – Avnitt 251 – Klipp dig och skaffa ett jobb… eller en powerbank

Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/en-liten-podd-om-it-avnitt-251

Avsnitt 251 spelades in den 4:e Februari och eftersom ett genomsnittsligt cumulus moln väger ca en halv miljon kilo så handlar dagens avsnitt om:

FEEDBACK OCH BACKLOGG:

– Mats sambo hälsar att Björns fru är bra. David har rört sig och har ont nu. Johan har också rört sig och har ont.

ALLMÄNT NYTT:

* Dåligt men taskigt virus

* Disney har släppt teaser trailer under Super Bowl

* Första avsnittet av Picard släpps på Youtube

* Call of duty har samlat in 1,6 Miljoner dollar till Australiens kamp mot bränderna i Australien

MICROSOFT

* No Surface Hub2X, No heroin?

* Men lite extra lagring till en xbox har väl aldrig skadat…

* Ohps. Microsoft Teams går ned, för att ett certifikat inte hade förnyats

* Ett par miljarder är ju pengar det också

* Har vi pratat om Microsoft ignite?

* Jätteliten nyhet men gör att vissa saker blir lite lättare om man gillar RHEL och har egna licenser

APPLE

* Å även äpplen kan ge en massa pengar

GOOGLE:

* Unity lägger till stöd för att utveckla mot Stadia

* Huawei tänker aldrig gå tillbaka till att använda Googles tjänster, men opensource Android är okej

* BONUSLÄNK: Vad är google play services

* BONUSLÄNK 2: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/overview

Andra nyheter:* Nu blir det lättare för företag att köra Yubikeys!!

* Hyr en powerbank

* Glöm inte bort Cyber Security Summit 2020 som kommer vara 11-12 Mars i stockholm, https://www.securitysummit.se/

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY:

* Björn: Vill ha en Yoda morgonrock fast eftersom att den är för barn så blir det Doom Eternal edition istället

* David: Here to slay

* Mats: Warcraft III: Reforged

* Johan: Fungerande Cykel

EGNA LÄNKAR

* En Liten Podd Om IT på webben

* En Liten Podd Om IT på Facebook

* En Liten Podd Om IT på Youtube

LÄNKAR TILL VART MAN HITTAR PODDEN FÖR ATT LYSSNA:

* Apple Podcaster (iTunes)

* Overcast

* Acast

* Spotify

* Stitcher

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Fixing SSO hell in browsers

I work as a consultant and I often help different customers and since all of them insist on me using their Azure AD (and my employer has their own) I am often getting logged in with the wrong account… or rather I was.

My old solution to this issue was to use Incognito/InPrivate mode which means that all Single SignOn cookies are getting erased when you restart the browser. The problem is that if you have multiple browser windows in InPrivate mode then “leak” data. They are not isolated from each other.

The solution is to use Chrome/Edges profile feature to have different personas. Lets get started. I am doing this in Chromium based Edge but it works basically the same in Google Chrome.

In the upper right corner of your browser click your user profile icon.
Click Manage Profile Settings
In the top right corner click “Add Profile”

A couple of good things to know here:
As I said each profile is separate which mean that you can add Chrome Adding separately to each one. If you are using Chrome you can even install different themes in each of them to make it more intuitive to find the correct window. If you, like me, use Chromium Edge each profile can be logged in with a different Microsoft/Azure AD account which means that if you set up the same account profile on a different computer it will sync settings between computers. If you use Chrome you can have different Google accounts.

Using this method means that you will never be logged in using the wrong account (as long as you are good at separating them).

That is it for today

Johan