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One of the Nicks is back but Doelman variety decided to take a pill and has gone to greener pastures of the mothership. To fill in the void of his large shoes, George "The Enabler" Doubinski has joined the crew and broken all-Canadian camaraderie.

Both Nick & George are rusty after a long break, so the only hot topic of the day is "Who moved my cheese and is it still cheese?" aka "Power Pages" and "I can do Power Apps portals - do I still have a job?".

Also turns out, logins are like exercise - everyone says they want to and will do it daily but in reality...

Nick Hayduk
@Engineered_Code

George Doubinski
@georgedude

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The Nick's are back after a brief break to bring you the news from the Power Platform 2022 release plans for Power Apps portals.

Nick Hayduk
@Engineered_Code

Nick Doelman
@readyxrm

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The Nicks discuss the Power Platform 2021 Release Plan and how it relates to Power Apps portals, buying a car and Coke vs Pepsi.

Nicholas Hayduk
@Engineered_Code

Nick Doelman
@readyxrm

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Nick and Nick are joined by special guest "Portals Super User" Oliver Rodrigues to discuss portal terminology changes and getting answers on community forums.

Oliver Rodrigues

@BrahmeiroDiary

https://oliverrodrigues365.com/

Nicholas Hayduk

@Engineered_Code

https://www.engineeredcode.com/

Nick Doelman

@ReadyXrm

https://readyxrm.blog

https://365.Training

Oliver's Scottish Summit Session:

Oliver Rodrigues - Power Apps Portals best practices

New portal terminology changes:

Terminology changes in Power Apps portals - Power Apps | Microsoft Docs

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Nick and Nick are joined by special guests Ulrikke Akerbæk and Franco Musso to discuss what "Where's Waldo?" is called in different countries, new portal features and how to build a Power Apps portals that doesn't look like a portal.

Portal Entity Permissions Manager
https://jonasr.app/2021/02/epm/

Power Platform Release Plan 2021 Wave 1
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2021wave1

Ulrikke Akerbæk
@UlrikkeAkerbk
https://ulrikke.akerbak.com/

Franco Musso
@crmbizcoach
https://francomusso.com/

Nicholas Hayduk
@Engineered_Code
https://www.engineeredcode.com/

Nick Doelman
@ReadyXrm
https://readyxrm.blog

https://365.Training

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Colin Vermander @koolin_
Nick Doelman @readyxrm
Nicholas Hayduk @Engineered_Code

Configure Azure AD B2C Provider:
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-apps-portals-configure-azure-ad-b2c-provider-for-portals-in-a-new-way-preview/

JQuery Update:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4594428/portal-9-2-10-x-breaking

AlexaCRM:
https://alexacrm.com/

Portal Connector:
https://www.crmportalconnector.com/

Other links:

https://www.xrmtoolbox.com

https://www.bootstrap-live-customizer.com/

https://github.com/WaelHamze/xrm-ci-framework

https://abvogel.com/2019/08/13/Microsoft.Xrm.DevOps.Data/

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Nick, Nick and Colin practice social distancing and chat from their home offices about MVP summit, Web Forms, Virtual Entities, Local Authentication and other Power Apps Portals stuff.

Show notes:

Colin's post on web forms:
https://colinvermander.com/2020/03/09/power-apps-portals-web-form-ideas-desired-improvements/

Nick Hayduk's Portals Community Call:
https://www.engineeredcode.com/portals-community-call

Nick Doelman's Power Apps Portals online class:
https://powerplatformlearning.newzenler.com?affiliate=rVj6rb

Colin Vermander @koolin_

Nicholas Hayduk @Engineered_Code

Nick Doelman @readyxrm

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Gus Gonzalez started a series of podcasts giving an overview of what he would do if he were the program manager for some of the Dynamics 365/Power Platform products. This the portal edition where Colin, Nick and Nick discuss the new features and options they would add to portals if they were program managers (with unlimited budget and resources)

What is your wish list item? https://ideas.powerapps.com

Our Twitters:

Colin Vermander: @koolin_

Nick Hayduk: @Engineered_Code

Nick Doelman: @readyxrm

CRM MVP Podcast: http://crmmvppodcast.com/

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The Power Platform 2020 Wave 1 release plan has been published! Also announced is the WS-trust and organizationserviceproxy deprecation, which as a big impact on xRM Community edition, Microsoft open source and Adxstudio v7 portals.

Join Nick Doelman, Colin Vermander and new permanent host Nick Hayduk as they discuss these new features and changes.

Release Plan:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2020wave1/

xRM Portals Community Edition Open Issue

https://github.com/Adoxio/xRM-Portals-Community-Edition/issues/123

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Dileep Singh returns to the podcast with an update of the Power Apps Portals General Availability and some hints as to what might be coming in 2020 wave 1. Also discussed is the new Configuration Migration Tool, Forms Pro and Web Forms.

Unified Interface Transition dates Portal: https://runone.powerappsportals.com/

Ideas site: https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/

Colin's blog: https://colinvermander.com/

Nick's blog: https://readyxrm.blog

Nick's Portals Training at Scottish Summit 2020: https://scottishsummit.com/event/nd

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Colin and Nick chat with Ted Pattison about his journey learning Power Apps Portals from a Power BI/SharePoint/Office 365 background.

A great conversation of Ted learns new technology and applies to teach others.

Ted's MVP profile:

https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/10712?fullName=Ted%20Pattison

Ted's training site (check out his classes!)

https://www.criticalpathtraining.com/

Colin's blog:

https://colinvermander.com/

Nick's blog:

https://readyxrm.blog

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In this episode, Nick and Colin discuss the general availability of Power Apps Portals as well as updates from the Microsoft Ignite conference which they are enjoying from their office chairs in Canada.

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Nick and Colin are joined by special guest Eugene Van Staden. Eugene, Colin and Nick discuss building a set of ALM/DevOps tools for PowerApps Portals deployments. Learn about the importance of healthy ALM, the available open-source tools and the challenges of applying automated DevOps to Portal projects.

Show Notes and Links:
Eugene’s contact info: eugenevs@outlook.com
https://github.com/hmdvs - Eugene will eventually post some of his templates and companion app samples there.
2019 State of DevOps Report https://puppet.com/resources/whitepaper/state-of-devops-report
Andrew Vogel’s tools: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Microsoft.Xrm.DevOps.Data.PowerShell/1.3.0
https://github.com/abvogel/Microsoft.Xrm.DevOps.Data
Scott Durow’s Task Runner https://github.com/scottdurow/SparkleXrm/wiki/spkl
Microsoft Doc’s Configuration Data Migration Tool https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/migrate-portal-configuration

Music: www.purple-planet.com

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Today Dileep Singh, Principal Program Manager Lead from Microsoft, joins Nick and Colin to talk PowerApps Portals.

Links:

Introducing PowerApps Portals https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-powerapps-portals-powerful-low-code-websites-for-external-users/
PowerApps Portals Pricing Update https://colinvermander.com/2019/08/29/powerapps-portals-pricing-update/
PowerApps and Microsoft Flow licensing FAQs for October 2019 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/power-platform/admin/powerapps-flow-licensing-faq#will-powerapps-and-microsoft-flow-use-rights-change-for-dynamics-365-applications
PowerApps Portals Release Overview 2019 wave 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NPtZSMH0h4
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dileep-singh-82b57317/

Music:www.purple-planet.com

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Colin Vermander and Nick Doelman dig in to the PowerApps portals announcements--is the something new or the same Dynamics 365 portals that we know and love?

Download the release plan here.

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On this Episode of Refresh the Cache (brought to you by KingswaySoft), Colin and Nick play around with some of the new April ’19 release features.

Discussed in this episode:

CDS Portals

https://community.dynamics.com/365/b/colinvermandermicrosoft/archive/2019/04/17/deploy-a-cds-starter-portal-preview

Portal Maintenance Mode

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/enable-maintenance-mode

OAuth Implicit Grant Flow

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/oauth-implicit-grant-flow

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This episode is brought to you by mscrm-addons.com.

BIO

Megan Walker is a CRM consultant with experience in web design, social media and marketing. She's a passionate blogger, writing about tips, tricks and ideas for non developer geeks.

Show Notes:

This week Nick is joined by Megan Walker where we talk about the best way to a Dynamics 365/Power Platform career is through a degree in Hotel and Tourism management. We also chat about learning and best practices around Dynamics 365 Portals and dive into some of Megan’s recent blog posts and videos.

Links:

http://www.meganvwalker.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/meganvwalker123
https://twitter.com/meganvwalker
https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganwalker/

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In this episode (brought to you by D365UG), Nick and Colin are joined by George Doubinski to discuss the Marketing Portal - did the Marketing Team go rogue? Show notes:
MS Learn:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/get-started-dynamics-365-portals/

Updated April 19 release notes:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/april19/

Marketing Portal
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/developer/event-management-web-application

Bad Masterclass
https://crmtipoftheday.com/masterclass/

Portals Training UG Summit Amsterdam
https://eu.usergroupsummit.com/conference-schedule/academy

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In today's episode (brought to you by D365UG/CRMUG), Nick and Colin take a deep dive into the portals announcements in the Business Applications Platform/D365 April '19 release notes.

Portals get their seat at the table
CDS portals
Enhanced portal diagnostics
Maintenance mode
Submitting ideas for portal enhancements
PowerBI embedded in portals
Marketing and event portals
Integration with content management systems

Links:

April 19 release notes: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/april19/
Marketing Portals: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/developer/event-management-web-application
Colin’s blog: http://colinvermander.com/
Colin on Twitter: @koolin_
Nick’s blog:https://readyxrmblog.wordpress.com/author/nickdoelman/
Nick on Twitter: @readyxrm

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Today Nick and Collin are joined by Nikita Polyakov, Senior Architect with the Microsoft FastTrack group. Nikita talks about his experience working with D365 portals and steps required to be successful with D365 portals.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Skills required to work with portals
Customer challenges with portals
Building domain experience with portals
Setting realistic expectations with portals
Scope of Microsoft support for portals
Using other technologies with D365 portals
When are other portals technologies a better fit than D365 portals?
Microsoft investment in portals enhancements
Designing with the user in mind
Agile portals deployment

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In today's episode of the portals podcast (brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic), Colin Vermander and Nick Doelman talk about how to learn Dynamics 365 Portals

In this episode:

Updates from recent D365 Saturday events
Upcoming events
Training resources for portals

Links:

Microsoft Docs portal documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/administer-manage-portal-dynamics-365
Dynamics Community: https://community.dynamics.com/search#q=portal&sort=&defaultAskForumId=0&pi56441=1&group=57&groupVisible=3
Create a trial: https://trials.dynamics.com
Elaiza Benitez portal tutorials on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=benitezhere+portals
Nick Hayduk's Engineered Code Blog: https://www.engineeredcode.com/blog/category/crm-portals

Got questions about portals for Nick and Colin? Email voice@crm.audio.

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We are back with another episode about Dynamics 365 portals. This week Sheila Shahpari and Nicholas Hayduk join Nick and Shawn from D365 UG Summit in Phoenix.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Portals news
Best practices for portals implementations
Document management and Power BI in portals
Portals vs CMS
New user editing experience
Editing HTML content snippets
Are Canadians too nice?

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Refresh the Cache (brought to you by D365UG) was recorded live from the show floor at Microsoft Ignite! Our guests are Dileep Singh, Sr. Program Manager – Microsoft Portals Team & Smith Codio, Program Manager – Microsoft ISV Success Team. We cover many questions provided to us from listeners such as:

How will portals align to the future of apps/CDS?
What is being done to continue to improve performance?
Is there OData v4 compatibility for entity list OData feeds?
…and more!

Links

Dileep Singh – LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dileep-singh-82b57317/

Smith Codio – LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/smithcodio/

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Welcome to the first ever “collectors edition” of Refresh the Cache - the Dynamics 365 Portals Podcast (brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic)! Microsoft MVPs Nick Doelman and Colin Vermander join Shawn Tabor and talk about

What is "Refresh the Cache" all about?
Who are our hosts?
- The End of ADXStudio v7
- Strategies for migrating
- Simple upgrade
- Refactoring
- Community Portal
October ’18 Release Notes
- Configuration Migration
- Embed PowerBI visualizations
- Restrict Portal access by IP address
- Manage SharePoint Documents
- Simplified Customization
- Self Service portal diagnostics

Upgrading ADXStudio portals v7x to XRM Portals Community Edition

http://colinvermander.com/2017/11/27/upgrade-adxstudio-portals-v7-x-to-xrm-portals-community-edition/

XRMToolbox Portal Records Mover

https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/dynamicscrmtools/archive/2017/06/13/new-xrmtoolbox-plugin-portal-records-mover

Colin’s blog:

http://colinvermander.com/

Colin on Twitter:

@koolin_

Nick’s blog:

https://readyxrmblog.wordpress.com/author/nickdoelman/

Nick on Twitter:

@readyxrm

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