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Notes from the night shift.

What actually happens inside a Dynamics 365 estate when something goes wrong, and how to find it faster. Written from the work of building Flow Trace.

Governance
A standard nobody checks is a wish.

Turn every rule into a check that runs against every flow, and make waivers decisions, not shrugs.
Full note · 5 min
Releases
Version numbers differing across environments is normal. A hand edit in Test is not.

Before a release, compare the layers, not the version numbers.
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Triage
Dataverse can't tell you which flow changed a record. Something has to.

Trace by record, not by flow: every run that touched the ID, in order.
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Notes from the night shift.

A standard nobody checks is a wish.

Version numbers differing across environments is normal. A hand edit in Test is not.

Dataverse can't tell you which flow changed a record. Something has to.