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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a powerful tool. It has many unique features that empower organisations to bridge common business challenges and technology pitfalls that would usually hinder the adoption of a CRM solution. This book sets out to enable you to harness the power of Dynamics 365 and cater to your unique circumstances. We start this book with a no-code configuration chapter and explain the schema, fields, and forms modeling techniques. We then move on to server-side and client-side custom code extensions. Next, you will see how best to integrate Dynamics 365 in a DevOps pipeline to package and deploy your extensions to the various SDLC environments. This book also covers modern libraries and integration patterns that can be used with Dynamics 365 (Angular, 3 tiers, and many others). Finally, we end by highlighting some of the powerful extensions available. Throughout we explain a range of design patterns and techniques that can be used to enhance your code quality; the aim is that you will learn to write enterprise-scale quality code.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Deploying solutions using PowerShell


Similar to the export capabilities, the Microsoft.Xrm.Data.PowerShell commands also offer solution import capabilities using Import-CrmSolution.

This recipe will cover the PowerShell commands to import a solution into Dynamics 365.

Getting ready

Similar to the previous recipe, you will need to install the Microsoft.Xrm.Data.PowerShell module. Check the previous recipe for details on how to install and the prerequisites.

From a Dynamics 365 perspective, you will need the System Customizer or System Administrator role to import solutions into your instance.

Obviously, we'll need a solution to import. In this instance, we'll use a managed version of the solution exported in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Run the Connect-CrmOnlineDiscovery -InteractiveMode command and follow the prompt to connect.
  2. Run the following command:
Import-CrmSolution -SolutionFilePath Packt_managed_0_0_0_1.zip -PublishChanges

How it works...

As in the previous recipe, in step 1, we connected...