Most of us need this in our workflow conditions to check against – to have today’s date handy and then use them in If conditions in workflows. But, the filter in If conditions in workflows don’t let you dynamically select On or after ‘Today’. And when you want to compare to today’s date on selection of On or After, you are forced to enter a date and not dynamically select Today. To overcome this, here’s what you can do to simply store Today’s Date in all records. Calculated Date and Time field So workaround this, you can simply create a new Date and Time type of Calculated field to store the current date and use it in your workflow conditions or wherever you need it. Make sure the type of the field is Calculated and then, Edit the criteria. Select Now() function to set the value of the field. And the final criteria condition will simply look like the below Once you save and publish all your changes, you’ll see that the field is automatically populated with today’s date. Using in Workflow Conditions Now, you can use the same in the workflow conditions as shown below – and you should be able to use this in your workflow conditions which could look like this Hope this quick workaround comes handy!    

Modern authentication in Exchange Online enables authentication features like multi-factor authentication (MFA). Modern Authentication is by default enabled in Exchange Online and Outlook 2013 or later supports Modern authentication. I got this issue from one of my clients that the users are unable to login to Outlook after they enforce Multi-Factor Authentications for the users and as the users were using Office 2016, I haven’t thought of checking the modern authentication and it is already enabled in Outlook 2013 or later. But then it might be the possibility that somehow, they have disabled it. Of course, they were able to login to Outlook mobile as this will always use modern authentications and it doesn’t depend whether you have disabled modern authentication for Exchange Online. There was a workaround to create an App password to login but then why not modern authentication. So, let’s see how I enabled modern authentication through PowerShell. Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell. Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned $UserCredential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session -DisableNameChecking 2. Run the following command to enable Modern Authentication connection to Exchange Online by Outlook 2013 or later clients. Set-OrganizationConfig -OAuth2ClientProfileEnabled $true 3. Some organizations might have the requirement to disable modern authentication connection to Exchange Online by Outlook 2013 or later clients. Run the following command to disable the same. Set-OrganizationConfig -OAuth2ClientProfileEnabled $false 4. To verify that the change was successful. Get-OrganizationConfig | Format-Table Name,OAuth* -Auto I hope the above steps will be able to resolve the issues whenever the user is unable to login to Outlook client with Multi-Factor Authentication.

Mircosoft D365 Project Service Automation is a product that unites technology, processes, and people together in streams such as sales, billing, resourcing and delivery in a company. Thus, a business can scale up high when they use this particular software. They can complete the project on time and within the budget as a result of using this product from Microsoft.  Businesses can accelerate the maturity of their professional services when they use this software. Managing the project becomes easy for the management team and the project managers. Learning and using software is also pretty easy. It does not take a lot of time to master this product.  Here are some details of how this software will help your company: While booking resources, you often don’t pay attention to how much capacity the resource has. Or rather, you are aware, but you want to book the resource anyway (only to change later on, which I don’t recommend.) In that case, if you are trying to overbook a resource out of their capacity, you are treated with this message below – Why this occurs? This is because of the Work Hours defined for the Resource. Rather, what Work Hour Template is assigned to that resource. Now, let’s say, you are trying to book someone for 8 hours on top of their already booked 2 hours If you switch to the Hours view, you’ll see the availability marked by white cells. Grey meaning, unavailable. Remember, this is even said in the error message when you tried to click Book. Alternative Of course you can do this, but you should have a very strong reason to overbook resources. 🙂 Switch to Evenly Distribute Hours to allow the resource to be booked on top of the existing one. And this should be fine, but it will appear in red indicating that the resource is overbooked. Say, 10 hours (on top of already booked 2 hours) – exceeding the 9 hours total limit. Suggested You should rather Propose Book the resource, this way, the booking will exist and won’t bloat the schedule board. And then, you can decide later to do something with it. Front Load – Proposed Now with combination of Front-Load and Proposed, you should be able to Book for only the remaining capacity Evenly Distributed – Proposed With Evenly Distributed Proposed, you should be able to exceed the capacity and even Propose for the full time you want.   Hope this quick tip helps! 🙂  

Businesses can become quite successful when they do things right. 365 Digital Transformation Solutions is one such solution that can help a business to streamline not only their business but also to connect various teams, resources, and staff together. Creating new business value is entirely possible when you integrate this product into your business. A lot of companies from different industries are using this product to transform the way they were doing things in the past.  It is one product that is easy to install and learn. Once it is up and running, there is no need to turn back. It will not only change the way you do things but will change the way your business is performing for better. How Dynamics 365 Can Help Companies Digitally Transform? As a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, we at CloudFronts Technologies are well-versed in the leading Microsoft products. Our mission is to help clients around the world digitally transform their companies by building robust business processes through a range of offerings, such as Power BI analytics, Azure Infrastructure Services, and Dynamics 365 implementation. In this article, we’ll focus on three major tips to help you get started with Dynamics 365. What is Dynamics 365? Dynamics 365 is a cloud-based software suite that features both CRM and ERP solutions in a service-as-a-software (SaaS) format. This makes it particularly useful for: Project service automation Sales Customer service Marketing Financial analytics With its customizable integrations, Dynamics 365 is ideal for interpreting data around your employees and products as well as your customers to discover key insights. Those insights can help businesses refine their processes, empowering employees to work more efficiently, further innovating products, and facilitating more intelligent customer engagement. Streamline Workflows with the Business Process Flow Business Process Flow is a Dynamics 365 tool that allows companies to visualize their business processes as a set of stages. Each stage consists of steps to complete, which can help guide employees through an unfamiliar process. Source: Microsoft The Flow Editor is also a useful feature to show the employee’s progression. It tracks how much time they’ve spent on a task and ensures that they don’t skip crucial steps. This makes the tool particularly adept at instructing remote teams on moderately complex tasks. Integrate Power BI to Visualize Data When it comes to business intelligence, Power BI is unmatched. It’s a comprehensive tool that helps businesses effectively analyze large amounts of data from a wide range of sources and formats, including Excel, Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Salesforce, and more. Source: Microsoft   You can visualize data through interactive reports and dashboards, dragging and dropping elements to suit your needs. This is ideal for tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and keeping up to date on core metrics, whether that be for employees or product.   Improve Customer Engagement Using Cortana Intelligence   By integrating Cortana Intelligence, businesses can process data from various sources to extract actionable insights. The tool is especially convenient for sales and marketing teams because it can predict the products and services that a customer might need based on behavioral data. Source: Microsoft This offers sales reps an opportunity to quickly address customer concerns before they come up. Enhanced customer service, lead identification, and customer data monitoring are all potential use cases to boost customer engagement. Digitally Transform Your Company Using Dynamics 365 With such a comprehensive suite of services and integrations, Dynamics 365 can be an immensely useful tool to transform your business. Contact us now to visualize and harness your data to improve internal workflows, track product performance, and better engage with customers. You can also learn more about best business practices through Clutch’s sister sites: The Still want more tips? Check out our customer success stories for more technical look or contact us today for a consultation!    

These fields which are everywhere but you don’t really pay attention to really mean something worth. So if you feel you want to get hold of someone for modifying a record. Maybe also take a look at Modified By (Delegate) just in case so that the actual user might be someone else who wanted to do another thing on that record. 🙂 Impersonation is one of the basic aspects of a plugin step that you need to carefully design to let another user (usually Admins for most implementations) make the plugin run under their context instead of giving more security roles/privileges to every other new user. Well, the same goes for Created By & Created By (Delegate) also! Modified By Usually, when you update something on a record, the Modified By is updated as expected. But notice that Modified By (Delegate) is not updated. That’s because you are the rightful owner of the record and there’s no other person involved. But what is someone else is modifying the record (who don’t have access to that record)? In that case, the Modified On (Delegate) field is populated with the name of that user. In such scenarios, Modified By (Delegate) the user is the one who caused changes to the record. Why Modified By (Delegate) was populated The reason this was populated was that the record was updated through a plugin by a user who doesn’t have write access to the record. But because the user invoked a plugin which was Impersonating as a User who has rights to the records, the record was successfully updated. And this, the actual user who called the plugin is the one who will be populated in the Modified By (Delegate) field. Hope this quick tip helps!

Customer service is the most important element in today’s business. If you do not take care of your customers well, they will not stay loyal to your brand or products. Hence, you need to do everything possible to provide them with the best service. Unfortunately, these days a lot of companies are struggling with this thing. Dynamics 365 for Customer Service from Microsoft is the best product as it will help you as a business to focus on the right aspect of the business. It will not only streamline the processes in your company but it will help you to become efficient in addressing issues that are of grave concern to the customers. Installing and using this product is easy. Since there are certain things that are confusing. Here is a blog explaining how to tackle a problem you will face. Problem: Whenever we are assigning the new owner to Lead present in the CRM, the Last Date Modified of the Email Activity gets changed to the current date and time when the new Owner is assigned. Now due to this, all the Old Email Activity with other owner get re-posted to the Activity Timeline of the Lead because email activity by default sort by the Last Date Modified. Now, above the situation is happened due to the 1: N relationship present in the CRM between Leads and Email Entity which has “Parental” Type of Behavior. So, when we assign a new owner then some of the fields get modified. Following is a step where you can find Lead to Email Relationship: Go to Solution and find the Lead Entity Click on Lead Entity and then open 1: N Relationship 3. Now open Lead Email Relationship, it will be same as the following:  Now to Change the Current Behavior of the Relationship So, Email Activity should not be re-posted whenever the new owner is assigned to Lead. Step to change the Relationship Behavior: 1. Change the Type of Behavior to Configurable Cascading under the section of Relation Behavior After changing the behavior, change the Cascade All to Cascade none in Assign field. This will not change the owner of the Email Activity as well as the Last Date Modified of Lead’s old Email Activity when Lead is assigned to new Owner. Following is before and after of the configuration has been changed. If we don’t change Relationship behavior, the following is the scenario 1.1 Lead Email Relationship Configuration 1.2 Before assigning the owner 1.3 After assigning a new Owner If we change Relationship behavior, Parental to Configurable Cascading and Assign (Cascading All) to Assign (Cascading None) 1.1 Lead Email Relationship Configuration 1.2 Before assigning the owner  1.3 After assigning an Owner Hope this helps!

While Creating Any Cloud-Hosted Environment in LCS it Is Necessary to create Azure Connector for which ARM(Azure Resource Manager) configuration is necessary. So this article will help you to create Azure Connector. Steps to follow :- Role assignment at the azure portal For Proper Working of Azure Connector make sure you have mentioned role assignment in your azure portal.Visit the Azure portal with the same credential as that of LCS and visit subscription section. Now select Access Control(IIM) In which click on Add Button and select Add Role Assignment. Now Configure the Add Role Assignment field as follows and save those configurations. Authorize link Now Navigate back to LCS in which Project Settings>>Azure Connectors and make sure to autorize link by clicking authorize button. Create Add option for connector Click on Add Button in Azure Connectors section and add Name, Azure subscription Id ,  and Toggle Configure to Azure Resource Manager(ARM) option to Yes. Click on next and Check for the following page Again Click on next move to the next step Upload Management Certificate Download the management certificate Now Upload Downloaded Certificate in Azure portal as follows And upload the certificate Select Region for Connector Navigate back to previous LCS session and Complete setup By selecting required Azure Region Click on confirm and your Azure connector is created and the screen looks as follows  

Customer service, sales, marketing, finance, and operations are the five main pillars of any organization. When you take care of these aspects well, you can easily beat the competition that is out there. Unfortunately, not many companies focus on these elements as they do not know what exactly they need to do to streamline the processes. Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations is the solution or answer that you are looking for to scale up your business.  This product will help you to stay on top of your toes in addressing issues in finance and operations with ease. Your staff is going to become a lot more efficient when they use this product. Installing and using this software is pretty easy.  Here is how you do data fidelity checker: In this blog, I am going to shed some light on a new feature that is already available in the public preview of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Retail. General availability will be sometime in Oct 2019 The statement posting process is used to account for the transactions that occur in Cloud point of sale (POS) or Modern POS (MPOS). This process uses the distribution schedule to pull a set of POS transactions into the headquarters (HQ) The parameters that are defined on the Retail parameters and Stores pages are used to select the transactions that are pulled into individual statements. A retail transaction consistency checker(Validation checker) identifies and isolates inconsistent transactions before they are picked up by the statement posting process. We faced a lot of issues with statement posting. The process often asks you to run a validate store transaction job but still, the statement won’t post. Raising an MS support ticket is the only way to fix this. I believe data fidelity should make the statement posting process more efficient. Fidelity checker does the following: Data fidelity checker will check the data for omissions and anomalies and only those transactions that pass the validation will be included in the statement process. Validate records, gift cards, tax table Fix the transactions by users who are not in line with the auditing purpose.  Also, currently, the statement posting process first reserves the inventory throughout the day as the transactions are carried out. Which is temporary. Then at the end of the day during the statement posting system removes these reservations for inventory created and then creates sales orders, payment journals, and ledger journals in the system. This process is not very efficient because when all the transactions are processed together at the end of the day, it could result in overloading and failure. To address this in future this process will be removed all together. Which means no temporary inventory job will be created. A new job that will run as per predefined schedule will create sales orders, invoice them, and create, post, and apply for payments. The statement document that gets created at the end of the day will only be used to calculate and post any counting variances.

Customers are looking for experiences when they go for shopping these days. They are not planning to use a particular store if they do not get the best experience. In contrast, if a store is providing the best service, customers are very much interested in visiting that store again. If you want to be a successful retailer, you should plan on using Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Retail Management Solution.  When you use this particular product or software, you are not only going to streamline the process but will provide the best customer experience to your customers apart from improving the retail management. You are going to easily scale up your business high when you use this particular software. Activating/installing POS on a new system is a straight forward process. However what I have noticed on several occasions is that connecting the printer with hardware stations can sometimes take too many efforts than the standard defined process. The standard process should ideally work and should not take too much effort to get the POS to work. However in some cases when the standard process does not work, you need to find a workaround to get the things to work. Here in this article I am going to suggest several ways to get your POS to connect with printer if there are printer/peripherals connectivity issues Reinstall latest Monroe CCO OPOS driver and hardware station Make sure to test the connection. The ping should be successful after installing the hardware station Check printer name in printer settings of your system and also in POS hardware profile in F & O Make sure in OPOS ADK App has printer added to it. If not then right click on POS Printer>Add new device>Select printer>Add New LDN(Printer Model name as defined in the printer settings)   If still there are issues, you can try the below steps  Make RetailHwsUser part of the local administrator group To do that first: Open computer manager by right clicking windows start icon 2. Double click on Administrator group 3. And Add the RetailHwsUser 4. Go to users tab  and assign password to this new user profile(RetailHwsUser) 5.  Login as RetailHwsUser and setup the LDN to the printer/device name 6. Now reinstall the hardware station and restart the computer. After restart if it still does not work, Please reinstall the hardware station once more Now you should be able to pair and print the receipts. Most of the time, this works, however,if these steps still don’t work then please raise it to Microsoft support team.

Part 1/4: Using FOR EACH Loop with KingswaySoft Connector for CRM Invoice Integration. Introduction: The SSIS ForEach Loop container will repeat the control flow task for N number of times, which is similar to Foreach loop in any programming language. This concept can be used for Integration of Header and Lines concept like Invoice. Our Scenario: For demonstration purpose, we will consider an Invoice Integration Map for Integration of Invoice and Invoice Details from SQL to Dynamics CRM. In this blog, we will use for Each Loop to Loop over all Invoices present in SQL Server DB and their respective Invoice Details. The Map for Invoice Integration after Completion will look like following after completion. Integrating Invoice Step 1: Create an execute SQL task which will count the Number of Invoices present in SQL Server DB having Ported Status marked as Zero. Create variable CNT having Data Type INT32 with initial value 0 to store the count of Invoices. Configure the following settings for the Control Flow Task. Step 2: Add a Sequence Container and double click on the green arrow to apply a condition as follows to proceed only if there are any Invoices are present in the DB else skip the Sequence Container. Step 3: Add an Execute SQL Task to store the all InvoiceNumbers in object variable. Create variable InvoiceNumbers having Data Type Object to store the InvoiceNumbers. Configure the following settings for the Control Flow Task. Step 4: Add a ForEach Loop Control Flow Task and configure it as follows to Loop over Invoices for Integration purpose. In the Collection Section select Foreach ADO Enumerator for Enumerator type and Rows in the first table as the Enumerator Mode. Create variable InvoiceNumber having Data Type String to store the InvoiceNumber for a single record to be fetched in one cycle. Configure the following settings for the Control Flow Task. Step 5: Add a DFT to Integrate Invoice Header. Note: This is the first part of the 4 part blog series. Here are others: Part 2/4: SSIS Integration Map for Invoice Header from SQL Server to Microsoft CRM Part 3/4: SSIS Integration Map for Invoice Details from SQL Server to Microsoft CRM. Part 4/4: Delete Logic for Invoice in case of Incomplete Integration of Invoice details Logic.