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.
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 🙂
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.
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).
Finally back for Flow Friday after some much needed rest over the holidays. This week is sort of a proof of concept. There are times when you need to just get a random value. This could be for a lottery or get a random name for the person that should take out the trash this week.
Create an Excel Sheet in OneDrive with a table containing all of the names you need to randomize
Go to Microsoft Power Automate and create a new flow
Since I want it to run automatically I set it on a schedule
Next we read the Excel file and figure out the number of rows
We then create a variable that is a random number between 0 and [number of rows in the table]
I had an issue today with one of my testcases in RSAT. When running it manyally from the RSAT UI it worked but when trying to run it from a PowerShell script I got this error:
Failed to download or overwrite attachment files – Some files maybe in use.
For some reason the test case uploaded duplicate files to Azure DevOps. When I ran the test in RSAT it uses the local file generated from RSAT and everything worked but when I ran it from the console it downloaded the files from DevOps, got the duplicates and for some reason failed.
The solution was to permanently delete the test case from DevOps and resync it from BPM.
Beware that that will give it another ID which will change the order of the tests.
Avsnitt 249 spelades in den 21:a Januari och eftersom en miljon sekunder är elva dagar och en miljard sekunder är knappt 32 år så handlar dagens avsnitt om:
“Vi har i dagarna hört om att karolinska Huddinge har problem med sitt journalsystem. Min fråga är finns det någon frivillig organisation för att hjälpa till när det sker it incidenter typ helgens ?
Nästa fråga, skulle det sjukvården anlita en sådan organisation?
Era tankar/utsvävningar är av intresse.Med vänlig hälsning, Jonas”
I am a developer… in the same was as I am a gamer and a harmonica player… I really, really really want to be one… I am not good at it, but I really want to be one. I have over the years tried my hand at Powershell, Yaml, BAT- files and even good old kix scripts and much lite an amateur golfer I try to tell my self that if I just have the right tool I will really get good at this… (I really want to believe that 🙂 )
When it comes to PowerShell I have been an avid user of PowerShell ISE but since Microsoft is not doing much of anything with ISE anymore and they are pushing VS Code more and more for everything I thought what the heck… This is my noob guide to getting started with VS Code (for someone that has only used ISE).
In this post I will show you how I set it up and I will probably follow up wit other posts on how I got started.
First you need to download and install VS Code itself:
I checked the options Add “Open with Code” action to Windows Explorer file context meny Add “Open with Code” action to Windows Explorer directory context meny Register Code as an editor for supported file types
Finish the install and Launch VS Code
When you start VS Code for the first time it will look like this. To get started with PowerShell there is at least one plugin you will need… PowerShell (unexpected right). This is used for providing snippets and high lighting code
4. Click the small cubes at the bottom of the toolbar on the left
5. Type PowerShell in the search bar, select it and press the small green install
The plugin even makes VS Code look a bit like ISE. I usually set it back to Dark (that is what coders do 🙂 )
That is it for today. I will continue with more tips and tricks for getting started with VS Code.
