Introduction With the latest release of Power BI, new feature has been added to share the power BI reports as well. Yes, you heard it right, now we can share the Power BI Reports as well to teams and partners. How it works: Go to your workspace and open the report that needs to be shared. Click on the share option. Enter the email address and click on share, if the send email notification option is checked then notification will be send to users. Conclusion: This is a superb feature that is added to power bi, allowing organization to share reports as well with dashboards for detailed information.

Introduction: In this blog we will see how we can deploy SSIS integration package individually using file System Deployment. Steps: Convert the current project to package deployment model. After clicking the project deployment model, the screen will pop up with the compatibility check for all the packages with below screen, click ok if all is good. Below icon and name will be changes for the solution when you click Ok button from above screen. Create your package and test it in visual studio, save your package. Now we go for deployment of package: Capture the path for the package: “D:\PackageDeploy\Package.dtsx” Deploying Package to SQL Server and Configuring it to SQL Agent Job: Create New job Create the Steps in JOB Crete the Step. Select the Step type to SQL Server Integration Services Package Select the Package source type: File System as this is a package Deployment model. Provide the package path Note:  While providing the package path we need to make sure that SQL server can communicate to the path as this will be running inside the SQL server. Execute package and check the Job status: Conclusion: With the above steps you should be able to deploy the SSIS package using package deployment model, there are many more methods to deploy the package, like- by using manifest file, Project deployment models and so on, stay tuned for upcoming blogs.

With Power BI latest release, you can now hide the page in Power BI reports, this page is available while you are developing and when you hide it by right click on the package and selecting Hide Page, then that page will not be available in Reading mode. When you select the Hide page option then the option is checked as hide page. Page is marked as dull colour to show that it is hidden. When you publish this to your workspace then page will not be displayed in reading mode: So, you can technically hide page in your power bi report if you don’t want to use them, but if the user has rights to edit the report then he can change the settings.

Overview Xrm.Panel is a new additional to the client-side scripting in Dynamics 365. This feature is still in preview in the D365 December 2016 update. Panel is a simple static place on your D365 web client which loads a Web Page inside it. Perhaps, the best use of the same could be a Web Chat application implementation. Implementation Simple – I’ve made a JS Web Resource that has a function to call the Xrm.Panel.loadPanel(url, title); method and I’ve invoked the same on change of a Phone Number. Here’s a simple JS snippet I’ve written: oAccountCustomization = { loadPanel: function() { “use strict”; Xrm.Panel.loadPanel(“https://cft89.crm.dynamics.com//WebResources/new_SamplePage”, “Hello”); } }; And redirected it to another HTML page in my own D365. Then, I’ve added this to the onChange of the PhoneNumber on the Account record. And saved and Published the customization. Seeing it work: Now, when I change the Phone Number field on the Account, the slider appears on the right hand side of the page. You can click on the arrow to bring it in focus. Here we go! The Panel is now seen. Remember, this works only on the Web Client.

Introduction: Many of the organizations are using  SharePoint Online in Office 365 as their content management system and it is essential to protect data so that the sensitive data does not slip into false hands. It is here we can use Multi-Factor Authentication and we can do this through Azure AD for that tenant by creating a Dynamics group for ‘External users’ and then create a conditional access policy and apply it to SharePoint Online. Creating a Group for External Users: Login to Azure AD Portal, and go to Azure AD > Users and Groups > All Groups and click New Group. Provide a name and description to this group and  select membership type (Dynamic User). Click Add query -> Create to make the group dynamic. It will take some time for the group to populate. After Group is created, you need to provide Conditional access to this Group. Create a Conditional Access Policy for SharePoint Online: Login to Azure AD Portal, go to Enterprise Application > Conditional Access and click on New Policy. Provide the name to the policy. Under Assignment > Users and Groups, select Include > Select Users and groups > Select, and then chose the group whom you want to provide the policy (External users). Under Assignment, go to Cloud Apps >Include > Select, and then choose the application (Office 365 SharePoint Application). Under Condition, select Condition if you want. Under Access Control, go to Grant and select Grant access and then choose Require multi-factor authentication. At last, toggle the Enable policy switch to ON and click Create. To verify if the policy is created, navigate to Conditional Access and check the policy name and if it is enabled. Wait for few minutes for the policy to take effect, after that you can check by sharing a document from SharePoint to external user. It will ask for authentication (see below image). Conclusion: In this way, you can create a conditional access policy and protect the sensitive data in your SharePoint Online. Hope this will be useful.

TRIM Function has haunted SQL DBA for ages. If you have been using SQL Server for a while, you will totally agree with me over here. In this blog post we will see how the new feature TRIM of SQL Server 2017 works in few simple words. SQL Server DBAs and Developers have always dealt with SQL Strings and the leading and trailing spaces often makes them crazy. Data query may not be at it’s best if there are leading spaces around strings and which are not useful for data comparison and well as storage point of view. In the previous server versions developers used to two different functions LTRIM and RTRIM around the string to get necessary results. However now in SQL Server 2017 we have a new feature introduced which is TRIM(). This function works just like LTRIM and RTRIM together. When you run above script you can see that when we use function TRIM around the string it removes leading and trailing spaces. Trim function is combination for LTRIM & RTRIM, and only available in SQL server 2017. For earlier version, LTrim and RTrim is available.

Introduction: This blog consists of information on how you can find the users having specific privileges and in which role they have the privileges. Solution: Make use of the below Fetch XML to identify who has access to prvReadAccount related to his Role. The fetch can be performed on System User level or for teams. <fetch version=”1.0″ output-format=”xml-platform” mapping=”logical” distinct=”false” > <entity name=”privilege” > <attribute name=”name” /> <link-entity name=”roleprivileges” from=”privilegeid” to=”privilegeid” alias=”pu” link-type=”inner” > <link-entity name=”role” from=”roleid” to=”roleid” alias=”rpu” link-type=”inner” > <attribute name=”name” /> <link-entity name=”systemuserroles” from=”roleid” to=”roleid” alias=”sr” link-type=”inner” > <link-entity name=”systemuser” from=”systemuserid” to=”systemuserid” alias=”srr” link-type=”inner” > <attribute name=”systemuserid” /> <attribute name=”fullname” /> </link-entity> </link-entity> </link-entity> </link-entity> <filter type=”and” > <condition attribute=”name” operator=”eq” value=”prvReadAccount” /> </filter> </entity> </fetch> Response: <fetch version=”1.0″ output-format=”xml-platform” mapping=”logical” distinct=”false” > <entity name=”privilege” > <attribute name=”name” /> <link-entity name=”roleprivileges” from=”privilegeid” to=”privilegeid” alias=”pt” link-type=”inner” > <link-entity name=”role” from=”roleid” to=”roleid” alias=”rpt” link-type=”inner” > <attribute name=”name” /> <link-entity name=”teamroles” from=”roleid” to=”roleid” alias=”tr” link-type=”inner” > <link-entity name=”team” from=”teamid” to=”teamid” alias=”trr” link-type=”inner” > <attribute name=”teamid” /> <attribute name=”name” /> </link-entity> </link-entity> </link-entity> </link-entity> <filter type=”and” > <condition attribute=”name” operator=”eq” value=”prvReadAccount” /> </filter> </entity> </fetch>

Introduction: In the current 8.2 version of D365 PSA, we can only Hard Book a Resource from the Project Team Member View whereas in the v9.0, we can Soft Book from the Project Team Member View from with a few extra clicks. v8.2 – Current There is a button called Hard Book which lets you Hard Book the resource selected as shown below Then, you can plainly Hard Book the resource. v9.0 There is a generic option called as Book in the Project Team Member Associated View On clicking the same, a separate window opens with the selected Resource to Book them Conclusion Soft Booking from Project Team Members Associated View is not possible in v8.2 but is possible in the v9.0 version.

Introduction: You can use alert features in Office 365 to view and manage alerts for your Office 365 organization, including managing advanced alerts as part of Advanced Security Management. Advanced Security Management is available with Office 365 Enterprise E5, if your organization is using another Office 365 subscription, Advanced Security Management can be purchased as an add-on. After purchasing this add-on, you will be able to see Manages Advance Alerts under Alerts in office 365 security and compliance. In Office 365 Security & Compliance, go to Alerts > Manage advance alerts. Choose Go to Advance Security Management.In Advance Security Management portal, you can: Define policies and set up alerts and actions. Know about cloud usage across your organization through reports. Manage third party apps that people in your organization are using with Office 365. Create a new activity policy: From the Control menu of Advance Security management portal, select Policies. Click Create policy, and then select Activity policy. On the Create activity policypage, type the Policy name and Description. You can base a new policy on one of the default templates, if you like, by choosing one in the Policy template drop-down menu. Choose a policy severity and category for this policy. This can help you filter and sort alerts that have been triggered. Choose Activity filtersto set up other actions that will trigger an alert based on this policy. Check Create alert to receive notifications from this policy. Choose Actionsthat should be taken when an alert is triggered to suspend the user or require the user to sign in again to Office 365. When an activity matches a policy, alerts will be generate and notification will be sent to the mail ID enabled for getting alerts (see below screen shot) Email will be coming from this mail id. You can also receive SMS, for the same you must provide contact number. After you got the email notification, you can also view the details and take necessary actions on alert in Portal. You will able to see all the alerts under Alert By clicking on Alert which you got, you can see the details, activity log and take necessary actions on the alert. Conclusion: It is a good practice to set advance alerts which helps in monitoring the user activities by getting alert notifications.  

Introduction: In this blog article, we will see how we can increase simultaneous remote logins for multiple users to a remote connection. This will create different sessions for each login. It is important that we don’t increase simultaneous connection more then required as performance can decrease due to more resource demand for each login. Steps: Run -> gpedit.msc -> enter Administrative Templates -> windows Component -> Remote Desktop Services -> remote desktop session host -> connections Go to Restrict Remote Desktop Services users to a single Remote Desktop Services Session Select Disabled. Click OK Go to Limit number of connections. Select Enabled. Change ‘RD Maximum connections allowed’ to the desired connection allowed.   This will enable 2 simultaneous logins for Remote connection. In case Remote Desktop session host is not installed maximum connections allowed for remote login is 2.