Do you know about the OJS / OPS Dataverse plugin?

It enables the integration of #OpenJournalSystems and #OpenPreprintSystems with a #Dataverse repository, allowing authors to submit #ResearchData associated with their manuscripts during the submission process to the #journal or #preprint server.

Article, community call recording, and news: https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/article-about-the-dataverse-ojs-ops-3-integration-plugin/97697

The plugin itself: https://github.com/lepidus/dataversePlugin/

#Interoperability #FOSS #OpenData

Dataverse Security: "Team Ownership." Stop assigning records to Users. Assign them to Teams. If a user leaves the company, you don't have to reassign 10,000 records. You just remove them from the Team. Think long-term.

#AdminTips #Dataverse #BestPractices

Dataverse "Elastic Tables." 📉 If you are storing millions of log rows in a standard table, you are burning storage credits. Use Elastic Tables. They are backed by Azure Cosmos DB, handle massive scale, and cost way less for high-volume ingestion.

#BigData #Dataverse #Architecture

If you are still using ILMerge to merge DLLs into your plugin package, stop. 🛑 Dataverse has supported "Dependent Assemblies" (Nuget packages) for a while now. It makes your CI/CD pipeline so much cleaner. Modernize your dev workflow.

#ProCode #Dataverse #DevOps

One more Microsoft licensing change for 2025!🥳 This time, the use of Dataverse MCP Server for agentic scenarios outside Copilot Studio gets new license requirements. Developers especially are gonna love this: https://licensing.guide/dataverse-mcp-server-licensing-requirements/

#Dataverse #PowerPlatform #CopilotStudio #Dynamics365

BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) is officially dead. 💀

As of Jan 2026, the push to Customer-Managed Keys (CMK) is mandatory for enterprise encryption. If you are still advising clients to use the old BYOK pattern for Dataverse, you are architecting technical debt. Update your security specs.

#Dataverse #Security #Encryption

Dataverse Security Roles are hierarchical. If a user is in a Business Unit, they can't see data in the Parent BU unless you give them specific read depth. Visualizing the BU hierarchy on a whiteboard is the only way to stay sane during security setup.

#Security #Dataverse #AdminLife

Dataverse "Virtual Tables" are underrated.

Why replicate data from SQL into Dataverse if you don't have to? Virtual tables let you CRUD data sitting in SQL without moving it. Less storage cost, real-time access. Work smarter.

#Dataverse #Architecture #PowerPlatform

My dedicated website for all things Microsoft licensing (Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Copilot) has now been launched. Introducing: The Licensing Guide.

https://jukkaniiranen.com/2025/12/spirit-of-the-licensing-guide/