Power Platform & Dynamics Blog by Gustaf

Mostly technical stuff I have run into and want to share
How to reduce SubscriptionTrackingDeletedObject table in CDS/Dynamics 365 – Updated!

How to reduce SubscriptionTrackingDeletedObject table in CDS/Dynamics 365 – Updated!

SubscriptionTrackingDeletedObject is a mysterious table that can grow to a large size in CDS/Dynamics 365 CE instances where a lot of deletion is done. This article will tell you how to change install a tool that allows you to change the retention period of the logs in this table to reduce its size. – UPDATED! Based on some new information I have now updated this article!

Azure guest accounts in CDS/Dyn365

Azure guest accounts in CDS/Dyn365

Azure Active Directory (AAD) has a feature where it allows users of foreign tennants to be granted access to the current tennant. In other word, if you are running contoso.com and a user of northwind.com would like to have access, you can add this user as a guest account in Azure. However, I have found that giving this user access to Dynamics is not fully straight forward, although, it is far from rocket science. In this article I will show how this is done.

TCP Chimney

TCP Chimney

Today I was working with a customer and we have had some weird SSIS intermittent errors where the Native OLE DB / SQL Client was giving me some trouble with really weird errors. Errors like these: CRM service call returned an error: CRM service call returned an error:...

Server Side Sync with Forward mailbox and SMTP

Server Side Sync with Forward mailbox and SMTP

Most often when setting up server side sync, especially in Online environments, Dynamics 365 CE/CDS is connected to Exchange Online. This is rather straight forward. Even in less straight forward cases like On-prem to On-prem or the so called hybrid cases of on-line...

Gustaf Westerlund

Gustaf Westerlund

12xMVP, MSc EE

Working as consultant since version 1.2. Involved in between 150-200 projects. Founder and Principal Consultant at CRM-Konsulterna.