Guides · 119
What are you trying to do?
Fix a problem
2The error or symptom in front of you, and the fix.Dataverse
Dataverse for Teams is retiring: upgrade your environments before they're deleted
Dataverse for Teams environments are deprecated — unupgraded ones were suspended on September 15, 2026 and are decommissioned on October 30, 2027. How to find yours, upgrade them to Dataverse, and what the upgrade changes.
Dataverse
Design your first Dataverse schema
Table names you can't change, an ownership setting you can't undo, and a lookup that reveals names to people who shouldn't see them. The decisions to get right before you create your first Dataverse table, worked through on a real example.
Choose a tool
1Decide before you build.Dataverse
Dataverse or SharePoint lists? An honest comparison
SharePoint lists are free with Microsoft 365 and quick to start. Dataverse costs more and does far more. Where each one wins, where lists quietly break down, and how to decide before you build.
Design patterns
1Structures that hold up as things grow.Dataverse
Security roles, business units and teams without the tangle
Dataverse security is powerful and easy to get into a knot. A pattern for roles, business units and teams that gives each person exactly the access they need, stays readable as the organisation grows, and avoids the one mistake you can't undo.
Measure
1Know whether it's working.Dataverse
Data quality KPIs: completeness, duplicates and freshness
Every report and agent built on Dataverse is only as good as the rows underneath it. Four KPIs that show whether the data can be trusted, how to measure each one, and which Dataverse features stop the problems at the source.
Quick reference
1Error codes, limits and cheat sheets to keep open.Dataverse
Dataverse access cheat sheet: privileges, access levels and 'missing privilege' errors
How Dataverse decides whether someone can see or change a row, what each privilege and access level really grants, and the fix for every common access error, from 'missing privilege' to 'can't open the environment'.