CRM 2011 Plugin for Create Email not triggering on Pre-validation - dynamics-crm

I'm relatively new to the CRM SDK, and I'm trying to write a plugin to alter From/CC fields of an email on Create. It seems when this is registered in Pre-operation, the ActivityParty collection cannot be modified(though things like subject and body can be modified), and this post recommended setting the pipeline stage to Pre-validation.
When I do this the plugin no longer gets triggered. I know this because when remote debugging, breakpoints are only hit when pre-operation is selected. Also, when not remote debugging, none of the other changes get implemented in the plugin code.
Does anyone know what might be preventing this plugin from executing?

When you register plugin on Create message fields To, CC, BCC will be empty. Try register on DeliverIncoming / DeliverPromote messages

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Change of Status in Dynamics CRM 2016 8.1

I have written code that is supposed to help us automate some specific cases. It will create a addresstag for the customer and change the status of the case to "Address Tag Sent".
All this works as intended, but for some reason the status of the case is changed back to "New".
As you can see here there is an event called "Activate" that changes the status.
I haven't found what this event is or why it occurs. I have gone through all the Workflows we got, all processes, all code (As good as I can) and spent a good amount of time trying to google it but I still come out empty handed.
Is there someone who might know what this event is? Or maybe got any idea how to access/modify it?
'Activate' will essentially re-activate any record and put the statuscode back to the default statuscode\status reason - I am guessing your default is set to 'New'.
I would investigate in these directions:
Since “changed by” showing as “CRM migration account”, this maybe an ETL job like SSIS, or Scribe which is syncing data changes from outside integration
Maybe the same service account is used by plugin, to reset the StateCode and StatusCode on some business logic
Is there some Business process flow stages available in your form, as I see “Service stage” attribute in audit before that, there may be logics coupled with that
Verify the dependencies of statecode attribute in customizations to see any SDK steps or workflows referencing that. Check in your code repos and check with any long timers in your project for any business logics implemented in the past.

Custom Field Alert in TFS 2015

The question is the following:
I have a custom Requester field in TFS work items. It contains a valid TFS user name.
Is it possible to send an email to the person specified in this custom field, when the item changes a state?
In other words:
Requester = [Me]
Send email on State change
From the following questions :
1) “[Me]” variable for custom field alerts in TFS 2013
2) How to create custom Field with transition workflow in TFS
I figured out that custom fields (such as Requester) do not have = and <> operators. They have only Change, Change to, Change from. Thus it is not possible. (You can only observe the changes made to the custom fields)
Has anybody seen, herd or implemented a solution to this? Maybe a custom plug-in?
Thank You in advance!
You're looking at a server side event handler to achieve this.
Intercept the Work Item changed event
Check if the change was a
change in state
If it is, then email the address listed in the
Requester field.
There are couple of old projects on codeplex which should get you up and running but you'll need to update for TFS 2015 (and test with any updates you apply later)
Email alerts for TFS
TFS Work Item Watcher
There is a feature that just popped into VSTS that makes this a little slicker
Follow a Work Item
Although you would get notified on all changes rather than just state change
The feature was added in TFS "15" (not the same as TFS2015, see Brian Harry's blog post)
The feature is not enabled publicly yet, but there is a feature flag that you can turn on by changing a value in the team foundation registry to enable it - because it's not public yet you will have to contact Microsoft for instructions,
I have provided my email in the blog post
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rihamselim/2016/09/07/enabling-alerts-for-custom-fields-in-work-item-alerts/

Why does Dynamics CRM 2013 plugin fire twice on owner change?

I have a simple plugin for a custom entity that is set to trigger on Update of my custom entity. It is registered in the Post Operation stage. I have noticed some strange behaviour when I make changes to the Owner field of the record in addition to other standard fields (e.g. text boxes, dates etc).
The plugin fires the first time and the only attributes that come across in the image are all the regular fields. The owner field does not come across.
The plugin then fires again, but the Depth property of the context is still only one (i.e. the plugin is not getting triggered by changes made in the plugin code). In this run of the plugin, the attribute that come across is only the Owner field.
My theory is that because the owner fields are 'special', the CRM is doing two different requests - one to change the regular fields, and then another request for changing the owner via an AssignRequest. However, I cannot find any 'official' documentation for this behaviour.
Can someone explain why this is happening?
I am running Dynamcs CRM 2013 UR2
The Update event fires during the Assign event. So if an assignment takes place your plug-in will execute. The same is true for SetState - if you activate/deactivate a record an Update event takes place. These items are not documented in the SDK.
A good practice is to use Attribute Filtering on your Update plugin so it only fires for the fields it is concerned about - this will, assuming it is isn't looking at the owner related fields, avoid it firing twice. If you have logic specific to record ownership you would put it in a plugin that is registered on the Assign event.
I was not able to find official documentation about this, but I think Assign message is what you are looking for (if the entity is user-owned. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328576.aspx. I would strongly recommend that you specify Filtering Attributes if you are registering a plugin on Update message. You could also debug your plugin and inspect MessageName property of plugin context and see what message gets triggered. I hope this helps.

Overriding plugin behaviour in SonarQube 4.0

I'm trying to modify the behaviour of the NewIssuesEmailTemplate in SonarQube 4.0. I want to put richer information into the generated emails. It looks as if everything I need is put in the Notification by IssueNotifications.
What I want to know is if it's possible to override the fact that NewIssuesEmailTemplate is the handler for Notifications of type "new-issues".
I'm going to hazard that this can be done by creating a new plugin that overrides the specific behaviour of CorePlugin, and making sure that this gets loaded first, but I don't really know how to go about it.
Has anyone done anything like this before? I don't seem to be able to find any hints to get me started.
You cannot change the fact that NewIssuesEmailTemplate is the handler for notifications of type "new-issues".
All you can do is to add new channels or dispatchers using the extensions available in the notification API. You can check how this is done by the Core Email plugin.

Automatically email the recent changes for a particular build in Hudson

Is there any way to send an email in Hudson which has the list of recent changes in that build?
For example
Trigger a build and if you go recent changes there we have some recent changes. Once it is success, the email should have the list of the changes that happened in that particular build. After this, say the next build fails (build fail email will be triggered), but it records the changes and these change lists also should be included in next successful build.
You'll first need to install the Email-ext plugin for Hudson.
Inside the project configuration, under Post-build Actions click the Email Notification and Editable Email Notification checkboxes. Instead of having the Content be $PROJECT_DEFAULT_CONTENT you'll want to use a different token. Those are described when you click the help icon (?) for Content Token Reference.
Specifically to your example, add (or edit if it exists) the trigger for Success. Change the Content of the success email to use the token ${CHANGES_SINCE_LAST_SUCCESS, reverse, format, showPaths, changesFormat, pathFormat}. The different options are explained in the reference. If you just want the defaults, simply use ${CHANGES_SINCE_LAST_SUCCESS}

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