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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...

Logic Apps Logic Apps helps you build, schedule, and automate processes as workflows so you can integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations. To build integration solutions with logic apps, we can choose from a growing gallery of ~200 built-in connectors, such as Dynamics 365, SQL Database, Azure services (Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Table Service, etc.), Office 365, Salesforce, Google, and more. These connectors provide triggers, actions, or both for creating logic apps that securely access and process data in real time. Benefits of using Azure Logic Apps: Out-of-the-box connectors reduce integration challenges Faster development using Logic App Templates Re-usability of the Logic Apps Pay only for what you use Use Case Today, we'll be looking at listing Dynamics 365 records, using Logic Apps, and then performing some processing on the data (sending email to retrieved accounts, storing contact email id in an Array Variable) and finall...