Introduction: This blog describes how you can retrieve data from Dynamics 365 CRM/CE Online in an Azure Function, using CRM OData Web API. The CRM Web API has a couple of advantages over the traditional SOAP based approach to interact with CRM. These are rest based services, its easy to use and transport over http protocol , and there is no need to use additional web resources (XrmServiceToolkit ) of SDK (SDK.REST). Here is a detailed documentation on CRM OData Wbeb API. I will be using an Azure Function Application in Visual Studio 2017 to retrieve records from Dynamics 365 CRM/CE, by making use of OData API Endpoint provided by CRM. Prerequisites: Dynamics 365 CRM Online Trial https://trials.dynamics.com/ https://signup.microsoft.com/Signup?OfferId=bd569279-37f5-4f5c-99d0-425873bb9a4b&dl=DYN365_ENTERPRISE_PLAN1&Culture=en-us&Country=us&ali=1 Azure Subscription related to CRM Online instance https://portal.azure.com/ Visual Studio 2017 with Cl