Technical articles on Dataverse, Power Platform, and AI — by Ameed Sheikh at NordTek IThttps://ntit.ai/https://ntit.ai/blog/search-by-principal-poa-shares/https://ntit.ai/blog/search-by-principal-poa-shares/A major update to the Search POA Landscape XrmToolBox plugin — search by principal across all shared entity types, with tabbed results, owner filtering, and decoded access rights.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/agents-need-controlled-apis/https://ntit.ai/blog/agents-need-controlled-apis/AI agents are only as good as the system underneath. Why a controlled API with transactional guarantees is the foundation that makes AI-driven operations work — not just a better prompt.Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/llms-hallucinate-data-is-the-differentiator/https://ntit.ai/blog/llms-hallucinate-data-is-the-differentiator/Same question. Same models. Same documents. I swapped the retrieval engine and every model stopped hallucinating. This isn't a story about model size — it's about chunk quality.Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/rag-security-trimming-making-ai-respect-permissions/https://ntit.ai/blog/rag-security-trimming-making-ai-respect-permissions/Same AI, same knowledge base, same question — different answers depending on who's asking. A hands-on walkthrough of building identity-aware RAG with Azure AI Search, Copilot Studio, and Power Automate.Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/ai-agents-taking-over-ea-as-the-guardrail/https://ntit.ai/blog/ai-agents-taking-over-ea-as-the-guardrail/AI agents are taking over software development. The challenge isn't making software anymore — it's deciding why it should exist and what is truly worth building.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/battle-tested-patterns-crm-plugin-framework/https://ntit.ai/blog/battle-tested-patterns-crm-plugin-framework/Reviving an 11-year-old Dynamics CRM plugin framework — built from pure SDK study — and blending it with everything I've learned since. What survives a decade of platform evolution?Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/ai-doesnt-simplify-it-amplifies/https://ntit.ai/blog/ai-doesnt-simplify-it-amplifies/AI doesn't reduce work — it intensifies it. The 'Human I' keeps connecting dots while AI holds the context. That's both the gift and the challenge.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/enforcing-flow-action-naming-power-automate/https://ntit.ai/blog/enforcing-flow-action-naming-power-automate/Default action names like Compose_2 and Get_items create silent technical debt. Here's how I built a custom governance layer using Dataverse plugins, a Custom API, and configurable detection rules.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/pipeline-governance-gate-power-platform/https://ntit.ai/blog/pipeline-governance-gate-power-platform/How to wire a pre-export governance gate into Power Platform Pipelines — so solutions with non-compliant flow actions never reach higher environments.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/late-night-engineering-governance-power-platform/https://ntit.ai/blog/late-night-engineering-governance-power-platform/Late-night weekend session building a custom governance layer for the Power Platform ecosystem. POC tonight, production tomorrow.Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/dataverse-solution-layer-trap/https://ntit.ai/blog/dataverse-solution-layer-trap/When you remove a field from a managed solution but it keeps coming back, you've hit the solution layer merge trap. Here's what's happening and how to fix it.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/mcp-agents-when-to-combine/https://ntit.ai/blog/mcp-agents-when-to-combine/MCP is how tools expose capabilities. Agents are how AI decides what to do. They're complementary, not competing — the value is in knowing which combination fits which problem.Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/schema-source-of-truth-dataverse/https://ntit.ai/blog/schema-source-of-truth-dataverse/How an AI-augmented MCP tool turns Dataverse schema exploration from days of clicking into seconds of conversation.Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/dataverse-column-prefix-fix/https://ntit.ai/blog/dataverse-column-prefix-fix/When columns are deployed with the wrong publisher prefix in a managed solution, you can't just rename them. Here's the five-step recovery process.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/stateless-tool-to-cognitive-partner/https://ntit.ai/blog/stateless-tool-to-cognitive-partner/How I built an AI-augmented workspace — and why 'design for continuity' changes everything when working with AI.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/backend-engineering-to-power-platform/https://ntit.ai/blog/backend-engineering-to-power-platform/How professionals transitioning from .NET and Azure backgrounds can develop the right mental model for Power Platform, Dataverse, and Dynamics 365 CE.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/http-triggered-power-automate-cicd/https://ntit.ai/blog/http-triggered-power-automate-cicd/HTTP trigger URLs are generated at runtime, not deploy time. Here's a pattern to resolve them automatically in your release pipeline.Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/architects-greater-impact/https://ntit.ai/blog/architects-greater-impact/Software architects don't build the car — they design the factory that builds the car. That distinction is where the real strategic value lies.Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/booking-saas-d365-integration/https://ntit.ai/blog/booking-saas-d365-integration/A low-code solution story — how Azure Data Factory, Power Automate, and Dataverse were used to build an asynchronous integration that reflects booking and contact data into CRM timelines.Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/dynamic-calendar-canvas-app/https://ntit.ai/blog/dynamic-calendar-canvas-app/A proof-of-concept for a dynamic calendar built in Canvas Apps Custom Pages, connecting to an external Node.js API via custom connector.Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/graph-api-azure-managed-identity/https://ntit.ai/blog/graph-api-azure-managed-identity/How to grant Microsoft Graph API permissions (like User.Read.All) to an Azure Managed Identity when the portal doesn't offer the option.Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/d365-unified-routing-nutshell/https://ntit.ai/blog/d365-unified-routing-nutshell/A practical breakdown of Unified Routing in D365 Customer Service Workspace — workstreams, intake rules, classification, queue routing, and diagnostics.Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/power-platform-pipelines-github/https://ntit.ai/blog/power-platform-pipelines-github/A two-pipeline approach integrating Power Platform's ALM pipelines with GitHub for solution versioning, automated builds, and controlled deployments across environments.Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/custom-alm-power-platform-github/https://ntit.ai/blog/custom-alm-power-platform-github/Building a custom Application Lifecycle Management solution for Power Platform integrated with GitHub Actions, PAC CLI, and Power Automate.Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/d365-tds-sql-endpoint-dotnet-core/https://ntit.ai/blog/d365-tds-sql-endpoint-dotnet-core/How to query Dataverse tables using SQL via the TDS endpoint from an Azure Function, using OAuth 2.0 with Service Principals.Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/search-shared-data-crm-entities/https://ntit.ai/blog/search-shared-data-crm-entities/An XrmToolBox plugin for querying the PrincipalObjectAccess (POA) entity — the central table where CRM maintains sharing and access permissions.Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://ntit.ai/blog/tracing-plugins-d365/https://ntit.ai/blog/tracing-plugins-d365/A comprehensive framework for detailed logging of plugin and custom workflow activity execution in Dynamics CRM/D365, solving the 'Ping-Pong' problem in complex implementations.Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT