Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 2022-08-26


Show Notes

What’s New in Power Platform:

* Lots of new goodies in the Build Tools and CLI – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-version-of-power-platform-build-tools-and-a-feature-packed-update-of-power-platform-cli/
* Power FX Error Handling (preview) – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-fx-error-handling-graduates-to-preview/
* Bringing cloud Flow capabilities to Power Automate Desktop (preview) – https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/preview-of-sharepoint-cloud-actions-in-power-automate-for-desktop-introducing-cloud-connectors-in-desktop-flows/
* Other PAD updates in this release – https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-automate-for-desktop-august-2022-update/
* When to use which marketing engine – https://community.dynamics.com/365/dynamics-365-fasttrack/b/dynamics-365-fasttrack-blog/posts/realtime-vs-outbound-marketing-journeys
* Auto delete unused Dataverse for Teams environments – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/inactive-teams-environment
* Make Apps from APIs automatically – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/automatically-create-a-power-app-from-a-rest-api/
* More connectors – https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/2-new-verified-connectors-and-10-updates-released-in-july-2022/
* Android Mobile App for Power Automate is GA – https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-power-automates-newest-android-mobile-app-version-is-now-generally-available/
* Get a copy of Dataverse data in SQL – https://community.dynamics.com/365/dynamics-365-fasttrack/b/dynamics-365-fasttrack-blog/posts/adf-template-to-copy-dataverse-data-to-azure-sql-part-1
* Surface Dynamics records in Microsoft Search (SharePoint, Bing, etc.) – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/search-and-find-dynamics-365-records-with-microsoft-search/
* Declare Cloud Flows that run in the context of an app – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/powerapps-powershell#associate-in-context-flows-to-a-power-app

What’s New in HR/Retail/BC/Project:

* HR 10.0.29 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/human-resources/get-started/whats-new-changed-10-0-29
* Lite Project August 2022 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/project-operations/pro/whats-new/whats-new-aug-2022-lite
* Non-Stock Resource based Projects August 2022 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/project-operations/whats-new/whats-new-aug-2022-resource-based

What’s New in F&SCM:

* Supply Chain 10.0.29 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/supply-chain/get-started/whats-new-scm-10-0-29
* Finance 10.0.29 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/finance/get-started/whats-new-changed-10-0-29

What’s New in Solution Updates:

* Core Service Scheduling to 9.0.22073.1005
* Cloud for Sustainability Data Model to 2.2.0.51
* Insights App Platform to 1.0.0.1
* Flow extensions to 1.3.3.1
* Sustainability Manager to 2.2.0.51
* Process Mining to 1.2.1.3
* Agent Productivity Tools to 9.2.22082.1003 then 9.2.22074.1005
* App Profile Manager to 10.1.22082.1013 then 10.1.22074.1012
* Enterprise Sales to 9.0.22082.10003 then 9.0.22074.10001
* Sales Insights to 9.0.22081.10001
* Field Service to 8.8.71.55
* LinkedIn Sales Navigator Integration to 3.0.1.1270

2 Places you can look to find out some of the details of these updates:

* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/released-versions/
* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/webapi/reference/solutions?view=dataverse-latest

Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 2022-08-12


Show Notes

What’s New in Power Platform:

* Dataverse Business Events – https://community.dynamics.com/365/dynamics-365-fasttrack/b/dynamics-365-fasttrack-blog/posts/microsoft-dataverse-business-events
* Collaboration Apps (preview) – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/bring-microsoft-365-collaboration-to-your-model-driven-apps/
* PVA gets lockbox (preview) – https://powervirtualagents.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-preview-of-power-virtual-agents-customer-lockbox-support/
* July independent connectors – https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/10-new-independent-publisher-connectors-in-july-2022/
* Making all Canvas Apps in Solutions (preview) – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/creating-canvas-apps-as-dataverse-solutions-by-default-preview/
* Power Automate new mobile app on Android (preview) – https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-public-preview-of-power-automates-newest-android-mobile-app-version/
* New Model-Driven App grid control (preview) – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/inline-editing-modern-browsing-and-more-with-the-new-power-apps-grid-control/
* New sequence designer (preview) – https://community.dynamics.com/365/b/encloud9dynamicss365crm/posts/new-sequence-designer-in-dynamics-365-sales-is-now-available-for-early-access
* Fusion-Dev Architecture Patterns – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/browse/?products=power-platform

What’s New in CE:

* Viva Sales (preview) – https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/announcing-microsoft-viva-sales-public-preview-the-future-of/ba-p/3586178

What’s New in HR/Retail/BC/Project:

* Commerce updates 10.0.29 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/commerce/get-started/whats-new-commerce-10-0-29

What’s New in F&SCM:

* Tax Calculation service documentation – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/finance/localizations/global-tax-calcuation-service-overview
* Platform Update 10.0.29 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/get-started/whats-new-platform-updates-10-0-29
* Deprecated features in Platform – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/get-started/removed-deprecated-features-platform-updates
* One Platform – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2022wave2/finance-operations/finance-operations-crossapp-capabilities/one-dynamics-one-platform

What’s New in Solution Updates:

* Project Operations to 4.44.0.22
* Project Service Core to 1.0.44.22
* Service Scheduling to 9.0.22071.1004 then 9.0.22093.2006
* Flow Extensions to 1.3.2.10
* Process Mining to 1.2.1.2
* Field Service to 8.8.70.26
* Marketing to 1.85.2012.0
* Dual-write Core to 1.0.36
* Guides to 700.4.0.1
* Omnichannel for Customer Service to 1.5.16.8464
* Productivity Tools to 9.2.22072.1007
* App Profile Manager to 10.1.22072.1008
* Enterprise Sales to 9.0.22072.10001
* LinkedIn Sales Navigator Integration to 3.0.1.1260

2 Places you can look to find out some of the details of these updates:

* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/released-versions/
* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/webapi/reference/solutions?view=dataverse-latest