Connecting Raspberry Pi using Azure IOT Online Simulator

Hi,

This is my first post in the Azure IOT series….and really excited to share this content.

Have you ever tried a lot to get some hands-on experience connecting devices to Azure IOT Hub. Don’t worry…Microsoft IOT Team had made it so easy so that we can connect to a real device like Raspberry Pi without actually having any physical hardware with you.

This is all possible with Open Sourced Raspberry Pi Online Simulator…with the below link..

https://azure-samples.github.io/raspberry-pi-web-simulator/#GetStarted

Once you open this…you should see the below screen….all you need to enter your IOT Device connection string…

If you check in the above image, you could see that connectionString is highlighted which you need to get from Azure Portal. So lets see how you can get this from Azure portal…

Step 1: Create a free Azure account or if you already have one proceed to next step

Step 2: Create Azure IOT Hub from Azure portal

From the Azure homepage, select the + Create a resource button, and then enter IoT Hub in the Search the Marketplace field

In the results, click Create.

Step 3: Once the deployment is succeeded and your Azure IOT Hub got created, you need to create a device to which you will be connected by navigating as below. Select IOT Devices under Explorers available in the Side pane as highlighted below

Step 4:

Click on New Device as highlighted below

Step 5: Enter Device ID and click on save as higlighted below

Step 6: Now Open your device by click on IOT Devices…and grab the primary connection string..make sure Enable connection to IOT Hub is enabled as below.

Step 7: Now go back to Raspberry PI Simulator and enter this connection string at the place shown in the first image.

Step 8: And finally boom…you will see that the message sent to Azure…and the bulb was switched on.

In the next post, will briefly describe on the Node.js code used and also on the Device SDK’s for Azure IOT so that we can gain more insight.

If you have any further questions on this….please post it here or you can reach out to Community Support on this tool at the below link…

https://gitter.im/Microsoft/raspberry-pi-web-simulator

Hope this helps….

Thank you.

Cheers,

PMDY

Invalid subscription key error when connecting Azure cognitive services Face API

saurabh nijhawan's avatarSaurabh nijhawan's weblog

Recently during an integration scenario with D365 Field services in order to identify if the person making a change to the Customer asset is an employee or not we spinned up an Azure Face API service and on trying to connect it from an Azure function we were getting Invalid key exception.

We were using the Face API client library which defaults to west US endpoint of the service but our service was in EastUS.

Default endpoint:https://westus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/

The solution is to override the endpoint tohttps://eastus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/ which can be done by using another constructor of the FaceServiceClient class

FaceServiceAPIClient = new FaceServiceClient("Face API subscription key", "https://eastus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0");

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Power Apps – Canvas Apps – Unable to obtain access token for resource ‘https://gov.service.powerapps.us/’. A silent sign-in request was sent but no user is signed in. The cookies used to represent the user’s session were not sent in the request to Azure AD

Sachin Bansal's avatarBansal Blogs - Dynamics 365, PowerApps, Microsoft Flows, Power BI

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Power Apps recently introduced sharing capabilities with Guest Users. Upon sharing users were not able to access app because of error “Unable to obtain access token for resource ‘https://gov.service.powerapps.us/’. A silent sign-in request was sent but no user is signed in. The cookies used to represent the user’s session were not sent in the request to Azure AD”.

As we were investigating this issue and reaching out to Microsoft support team, we came to know this is not just for Guest users and because of browser cookie settings. Make sure third-party cookies are not blocked and enabled. You can refer below steps to enable third party cookies:

Microsoft Edge:

  • Go to Settings from right side navigation

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  • Click on Site Permissions in Left side navigation and select Cookies and site data

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  • Make sure options are enabled and disabled as shown below

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  • Go to Settings from right side navigation

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  • Expand Advanced…

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Log Canvas Power App telemetry data in Azure Application Insights | Power Apps

priyeshwagh777's avatarD365 Demystified

Here’s how you can register your Canvas Power App in your Azure’s Application Insights and log telemetry data into Azure.

Some basic info about what all you can see in Application Insights is –

  1. Count of Users who used the app
  2. Events logged, Sessions logged
  3. Device info
  4. Region info

It’s quite simple to set it up! Let’s take a look –

Registering in Application Insights in Azure

First, make sure you do have an Azure Subscription. Let’s look at how you can register an Application Insight record.

  1. Look for Application Insights in Azure in the search bar
  2. Then, among other records, you can register a new one which will identify with your Canvas Power App
  3. Review all that you entered and move ahead
  4. It’ll be deployed pretty quickly within a few minutes unlike some heavy Azure resources
  5. Upon completion, you can navigate to the resource and see the details

    Zoomed…

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Power Automate Cookbook

Hey Power Automate Fans!!,

Have u ever tried to checkout some of the cool examples and recipes developed by Power Automate Community.

If not, please check this out at this link…

Check out this link to submit your flow to the Community cookbook….

Cheers,

PMDY

How to create an app to Scan Receipts

Hi Folks,

Have u ever tried creating an App using Azure Cognitive Services.

Here is an excellent video tutorial on how to create an app to Scan Receipts using Azure Cognitive Services Form Recognizer API from MVP @Vivek Bhavishi..

Additional Resources:
Form Recognizer API Docs – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/form-recognizer/

Form Recognizer API Reference – https://westus2.dev.cognitive.microsoft.com/docs/services/form-recognizer-api-v2-preview/operations/AnalyzeReceiptAsync

Hope you will find it useful…

Cheers,

PMDY

Are you still using WS-Trust Auth and OrganizationServiceProxy…then it is time to change …

Hi Folks,

Microsoft had recently announced on docs.microsoft.com that using WS-Trust authentication security protocol to connect to your Common Data Service had been deprecated.

So what does this mean??

Firstly you need to note that this only applies to client applications that connect to CDS.

It does not impact your custom plug-ins, workflow activities, or on-premises/IFD service connections.

Below are the places where you need to replace them…

If your code uses Username & Password for authenticating with Common Data Service or an application, you are likely using the WS-Trust security protocol.

  • If you are using the OrganizationServiceProxy  class at all in your code, you are using WS-Trust.
  • If you are using CrmServiceClient.OrganizationServiceProxy  in your code, you are using WS-Trust.

Check the following:

  1. If your client applications using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Client.OrganizationServiceProxy:

         Action Required:

        Replace all occurrences of the type OrganizationServiceProxy with  the IOrganizationService interface

      2.                            using CrmServiceClient with the “Office365” authentication type:

          Action Required:

          Switch over to using an OAuth based connection string, Note that LoginPrompt can be set to “never” to simulate the way that the Office 365 behavior worked. Please note that the App ID and Redirect URI should be created in AAD in your tenant.

Few points to note before we conclude:

  • An update to Microsoft.CrmSdk.XrmTooling.CoreAssembly is available for download through NuGet package that includes auto redirect support. This library will redirect an authentication type of Office365 to OAuth.
  • If you were not able to login even using OAuth, check if MultiFactor Authentication/conditional access is enabled, if so consider registering application user (Service Principal) in Azure Active Directory.

 

References:

CDS/CRM SDK – WS-Trust auth and OrganizationServiceProxy Deprecated

Use of Office365 authentication with the WS-Trust security protocol

 

If you still have issue, don’t hesitate to comment here…or reach to community using this link…

Cheers,

PMDY

 

 

 

New Experimental Features in Power Automate

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Aaron Back's avatarDynamics Back Page

Power Automate has introduced some exciting new features that have been long-awaited. These are small changes, but will make creating flows much easier.

Turning on the experimental features

First, you need to make sure you turn on these features. This is done by logging into https://flow.microsoft.com. Then click the gear icon in the upper-right corner and select “View all Power Automate settings”.

Power Automate Experimental Features navigation

Once you select this option you will see a small Settings window pop up. From here, you need to toggle on the “Experimental Features” and then click “Save”.

Power Automate Experimental Features settings

Note: These are experimental features. As noted in the screen shot above, these features could change, break, or disappear. So, there are no guarantees.

What are the new features?

Once you have the experimental features enabled, you will notice a couple of awesome new features.

First, you will notice the labels and field inputs have a different layout…

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Top 100 CRM blogs on the Planet for the year 2020

Hi Folks,

I am extremely happy to share that my blog is 75th in the list of best CRM blogs on the planet ranked by Feed spot.

Thank you for the readers and I will continue to contribute to the community through my blog going ahead.

https://blog.feedspot.com/crm_blogs/

Top 100 image from feedspot

Cheers,

PMDY

Change the Time Zone in Azure VM

Hi,

We recently had to spin up a new Azure VM to run some of our Batch jobs where we need to schedule them to run at specific times in Singapore Time Zone.

But surprisingly when when we VM is provisioned and started…we see the default time zone is set to UTC. Usually by default, every time this would be set to UTC.

In our case, we need to change it to SGT(Singapore Time Zone). The usual way of changing the time zone from Settings–> Time & Language was not possible as this is disabled in our case. But even though it is enabled and changed here, it would be reverted back to UTC when we allocate & deallocate the VM.

So you can use Power Shell Scripts to make this thing work for you. Use below to get all time zones.

Get-TimeZone -ListAvailable

If you want to filter the list, you can do so like

Get-TimeZone -ListAvailable | where ({$_.Id -like “Singapore*”})

Finally for setting the timezone, you can use this cmdlet

Set-TimeZone -Id “Singapore Standard Time”

Hope this helps…

Thank you.

Cheers,
PMDY