This is a handy guide as often when I'm observing I want to make a note of the seeing and transparency but I always "gut" feel it as 1-5 for seeing and 1-7 for transparency. This gives me a bit more of an objective way to rate it.
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If you're like me, you are often configuring servers and services to use service accounts - a service account is a dedicated Active Directory account that is not used by any users, instead it is used by an application to access network resources. Sometimes I am unsure if I have the right password for the service account (for example, configuring SQL Reporting Services to use an AD account), so it is helpful if I can verify that I have the right username and password.
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Likely near the end of this year (October?), Microsoft will make the new Unified Interface mandatory on all Dynamics 365 Online instances. Until then, we can choose between this new UI and the Classic Web Interface. Here are the steps to do that.
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If you run CRM/D365 on premises you may notice that out of the box the security tokens only last for an hour and then you have to log in again. This is because the default lifetime of the security token for claims-based authentication in Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) is 60 minutes. When I normally set up an on premises installation, I set the token lifetime to be at least 8 hours (480 minutes) so that users will be able to log in when they arrive in the morning and then use CRM uninterrupted until they leave at the end of the day. The next day when they go to CRM, they have to log in again.
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The new Unified Interface for Microsoft Dynamics 365 poses a challenge to users switching from the Classic Web Interface - the Run Workflow option is no longer available. If you use on-demand workflows to help users get things done in CRM, this is potentially an issue.
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Sometimes if you're using older software on newer versions of Windows (ie: Windows 10 or Windows Server 2019), you need to install the .NET 3.5 stack. This is simple to do if you have your Windows installation media - but if you don't, it can be a headache. A simple way around this is to install it using Windows Update.
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Most of the time using your local WSUS server is a very good idea - that means your getting your Windows Updates from a local server on your network. However, sometimes the WSUS server has issues, or it doesn't have the updates you require (I have run into this trying to manually install .NET 3.5 onto some older servers). To bypass the WSUS server is relatively simple.
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I did notice when I looked through the content of my websites is that my "web pages" were more like blog entries than actual web pages. Web pages usually contain unique content that expresses an idea in some decent level of detail. Were you to print out a good web page, it would likely take 6 to 60 pieces of paper to print out. Most of my web pages would only take 1 or 2 - that's why I thought the venerable Web Log (blog) format would be suitable.
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So you're an Office 365 administrator and you've granted yourself, or someone else, "Full Access Permissions" to another user's mailbox — either in Exchange Management Console or in Exchange Admin Center in the Office 365 Portal. You did this because you needed to access the user's mailbox to receive something or work on an issue.
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I was just fooling around with an On Prem installation of D365 and I created a custom app to test out converting the legacy Web Interface application into a Unified Interface application. When I was done testing, I wanted to remove it, but I saw no where in the App Designer to do that.
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