Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector for Amazon AppFlow - Amazon AppFlow

Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector for Amazon AppFlow

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a portfolio of business applications for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM). If you're a Microsoft Dynamics 365 user, your account contains data about your business, such as your products, customers, business units, and more. You can use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data from Microsoft Dynamics 365 to certain AWS services or other supported applications.

Amazon AppFlow support for Microsoft Dynamics 365

Amazon AppFlow supports Microsoft Dynamics 365 as follows.

Supported as a data source?

Yes. You can use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data from Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Supported as a data destination?

No. You can't use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data to Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Before you begin

To use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data from Microsoft Dynamics 365 to supported destinations, you must meet these requirements:

  • You have a Microsoft account, and you've used it to sign up for Microsoft Dynamics 365. Your Microsoft Dynamics 365 account contains the data that you want to transfer.

  • In the Microsoft Azure portal, you've created an app registration for Amazon AppFlow. The registered app provides the client credentials that authenticate Amazon AppFlow when it accesses the data in your account. For the steps to register an app, see Register an application with the Microsoft identity platform in the Microsoft Graph documentation.

  • You've configured your registered app with the following settings:

    • In the authentication settings, you've added a platform, and you've set the platform application type to web. You've configured the platform with a redirect URL for Amazon AppFlow.

      Redirect URLs have the following format:

      https://region.console.aws.amazon.com/appflow/oauth

      In this URL, region is the code for the AWS Region where you use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data from Microsoft Dynamics 365. For example, the code for the US East (N. Virginia) Region is us-east-1. For that Region, the URL is the following:

      https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/appflow/oauth

      For the AWS Regions that Amazon AppFlow supports, and their codes, see Amazon AppFlow endpoints and quotas in the AWS General Reference.

      For the steps to add a platform and set the redirect URL, see Add a redirect URI in the Microsoft Graph documentation.

    • You've created a client secret. For the steps to create one, see Add a client secret in the Microsoft Graph documentation.

      Notes
      • When you connect Amazon AppFlow to your Microsoft Dynamics 365 account, you provide the client secret value. You don't provide the client secret ID.

      • At the time that you create the client secret, you must store it's value somewhere that you can access later. After you leave the page where you create the client secret, Microsoft Azure never shows the value again.

    • In the app manifest, you've edited the following attributes to have a value of true:

      • "allowPublicClient": true,

      • "oauth2AllowIdTokenImplicitFlow": true,

      • "oauth2AllowImplicitFlow": true,

      For more information about these attributes, and for the steps to configure the app manifest, see Azure Active Directory app manifest in the Microsoft identity platform documentation.

    • In the API permissions settings, you've set the following configurations:

      • The app permits the user_impersonation permission for the Dynamics CRM API.

      • The app permits the User.Read permission for the Microsoft Graph API. For information about this permission, see the Microsoft Graph permissions reference in the Microsoft Graph documentation.

      • You've turned on the option to grant admin consent. For more information, see Admin consent in the Microsoft identity platform documentation.

Note the following values because you'll need them when you connect Amazon AppFlow to your Microsoft Dynamics 365 account:

  • The application (client) ID of your registered app.

  • The directory (tenant) ID of your registered app.

  • The client secret value (not the client secret ID) of your registered app.

  • The service root URL of your Dynamics 365 instance. You can find this value in the Developer Resources page in the Dynamics 365 web application. For information on how to access this page, see Developer resources page in the Dynamics 365 documentation.

    The service root URL has the following format:

    https://instance-id.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.2/

    You don't provide this URL to Amazon AppFlow directly. Instead, you provide segments of it for the fields Custom authorization code URL and Instance URL.

Connecting Amazon AppFlow to your Microsoft Dynamics 365 account

To connect Amazon AppFlow to Microsoft Dynamics 365, provide details from your registered app in Microsoft Azure so that Amazon AppFlow can access your data. If you haven't yet configured your Microsoft account for Amazon AppFlow integration, see Before you begin.

To connect to Microsoft Dynamics 365
  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon AppFlow console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/appflow/.

  2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Connections.

  3. On the Manage connections page, for Connectors, choose Microsoft Dynamics 365.

  4. Choose Create connection.

  5. In the Connect to Microsoft Dynamics 365 window, enter the following information:

    • Custom authorization code URL — From your service root URL, the segment instance-id.api.crm.dynamics.com.

    • Client ID — The application (client) ID of your registered app.

    • Client secret — The client secret value (not the client secret ID) of your registered app.

    • Instance URL — From your service root URL, the segment https://instance-id.api.crm.dynamics.com.

  6. Optionally, under Data encryption, choose Customize encryption settings (advanced) if you want to encrypt your data with a customer managed key in the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

    By default, Amazon AppFlow encrypts your data with a KMS key that AWS creates, uses, and manages for you. Choose this option if you want to encrypt your data with your own KMS key instead.

    Amazon AppFlow always encrypts your data during transit and at rest. For more information, see Data protection in Amazon AppFlow.

    If you want to use a KMS key from the current AWS account, select this key under Choose an AWS KMS key. If you want to use a KMS key from a different AWS account, enter the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for that key.

  7. For Connection name, enter a name for your connection.

  8. Choose Connect.

  9. In the window that appears, sign in to your Microsoft Dynamics 365 account, and grant access to Amazon AppFlow.

On the Manage connections page, your new connection appears in the Connections table. When you create a flow that uses Microsoft Dynamics 365 as the data source, you can select this connection.

Transferring data from Microsoft Dynamics 365 with a flow

To transfer data from Microsoft Dynamics 365, create an Amazon AppFlow flow, and choose Microsoft Dynamics 365 as the data source. For the steps to create a flow, see Creating flows in Amazon AppFlow.

Supported destinations

When you create a flow that uses Microsoft Dynamics 365 as the data source, you can set the destination to any of the following connectors: