How to bulk update Contact records without any changes in production environment?

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Hello,

How can I bulk update Contact records, e.g. 2000 records, but do not change any thing? The purpose of this process is to trigger flow and take "disable Contact fields sync to Outlook" effect.

Any suggestions and approaches are welcome and appreciate.

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Pradeep Rai 5,487 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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RE: How to bulk update Contact records without any changes in production environment?

Locked fields refers to read only. correct? If yes then power automate will trigger and Bulk Updater will work for the read only field.

Also, I tried on one of the null field of my account entity with bulk data update. As a result my power automate trigger.
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RE: How to bulk update Contact records without any changes in production environment?

Thank you Leah,

Now my questions are same as that asked Predeep.

Appreciate your answer.
Pradeep Rai 5,487 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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RE: How to bulk update Contact records without any changes in production environment?

You can try Because in the end nothing is going to update. Bulk Updater Just make the record dirty which will help us to trigger our custom logic like power automate.
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RE: How to bulk update Contact records without any changes in production environment?

Thank you Pradeep.

That's a great tool. As your experience, when I use Bulk Data Updater, can I select a LOCKED field in the Form to update? Or select a field value always is NULL to update?

Thanks again.
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Leah Ju Microsoft Employee on at

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RE: How to bulk update Contact records without any changes in production environment?

Hi partner,

I agree with Pradeep Rai, you can use Bulk Data Updater in XRMToolBox to achieve your goal.

Here is more information about this tool, if you are not familiar with it, you can refer to.

(1) Introduction of the Bulk Data Updater:

https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/Cinteros.XrmToolBox.BulkDataUpdater/

(2) You can refer to the following link to know how to use the Bulk Data Updater tool:

https://carldesouza.com/updating-bulk-data-using-the-bulk-data-updater-in-xrmtoolbox/

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Pradeep Rai 5,487 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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RE: How to bulk update Contact records without any changes in production environment?

Hi,

Please Bulk Data Updater in XRMToolBox as shown below:

In this plugin we have action named as Touch as shown below:

This action does not update anything. This will help you to trigger the Power Automate.

I tried for account entity and it triggered the power automate.

Hope this helps.

Thank You,
Pradeep Rai.

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