Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 08-16-2019


Show Notes

What’s New in Power Platform:

What’s New in CE:

What’s New in Talent/Retail/BC:

What’s New in F&O:

What’s New in Solution Updates:

How do I operationalize things?

Featured Content:

  • Configuring and using the business card scanning feature (reminder on how to turn on Preview Features)

Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 08-02-2019


Show Notes

What’s New in Power Platform:

What’s New in CE:

What’s New in Talent/Retail/BC:

What’s New in F&O:

What’s New in Solution Updates:

Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 06-21-2019


Show Notes

What’s New in Power Platform:

What’s New in CE:

What’s New in Solution Updates:

How do I operationalize things?

  • Overview of Power Platform Governance Starter Kit

Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 06-07-2019


2019-06-07

What’s New in Power Platform:

What’s New in CE:

What’s New in Talent/Retail/BC:

What’s New in F&O:

What’s New in Solution Updates:

Featured Content:

  • Configuring Analytics and Other Preview Features in Talent

Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 2019-05-24


Show Notes

What’s New in Power Platform:

What’s New in CE:

What’s New in Talent/Retail/BC:

What’s New in F&O:

What’s New in Solution Updates:

How do I operationalize things?

Featured Content:

  • New experience in setting up LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 2019-05-10


Show Notes

What’s New in Power Platform:

What’s New in CE:

What’s New in Talent/Retail/BC:

What’s New in F&O:

What’s New in Solution Updates:

How do I operationalize things?

Featured Content:

  • Working with updated Assistant in CE, including making your own custom cards

Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 2019-04-26


Show Notes

What’s New in Power Platform:

What’s New in CE:

What’s New in Talent/Retail/BC:

What’s New in F&O:

What’s New in Solution Updates:

Featured Content:

Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 2019-04-12


Show Notes

What’s New in Power Platform:

* Flow now connects to Azure Key Vault, can utilize Data Gateway Clusters, and gets nice improvements in Flow Checker – https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-flow-is-integrated-in-azure-iot-central-and-more/
* Dataflows go GA with some nice improvements (PBI Desktop update now reflects that also) – https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-power-bi-dataflows-general-availability/
and https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-april-2019-feature-summary/
* Dataflows get Auto ML capabilities for citizen developers to leverage AI for greater insights from their data – https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/creating-machine-learning-models-in-power-bi/
* Canvas PowerApps got some nice delegation enhancements for lookups, Today/Now, and AddColumns when using Common Data Service connector – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/delegation-enhancements-for-lookups-today-now-and-addcolumn
* Nice tweak to canvas PowerApps creator experience to increase your design space by closing the tree view – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/increase-your-canvas-space-by-closing-the-tree-view/
* CE now allows embedded canvas apps to interact with the host form bidirectionally – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/embedded-canvas-apps-can-now-navigate-refresh-and-save-the-host-form/
* Canvas PowerApps makers who love their semicolons rejoice! – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-smallest-feature

What’s New in CE:

* Open Data Initiative expands from 3 to 15 core contributors – https://news.microsoft.com/2019/03/27/adobe-microsoft-and-sap-announce-new-open-data-initiative-details/
* Enable Unified Interface Only for CE as default experience – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/admin/enable-unified-interface-only
* Mobile offline for CE is back! (in Public Preview for now) – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2019/04/01/stay-productive-always-with-mobile-offline-for-dynamics-365-for-customer-engagement-apps-public-preview/
* CE gets Profile Cards in Unified Interface (have to wait for platform version 9.1.0.4203 (expected early May) and enable them in System Settings) – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2019/04/03/introducing-profile-cards-in-dynamics-365/ and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/admin/enable-profile-card
* Customer Insights is now GA – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2019/04/03/microsoft-dynamics-365-customer-insights-is-now-generally-available/
* CE Nonprofit Accelerator Update – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2019/04/04/dynamics-365-nonprofit-accelerator-a-community-solution-to-drive-social-impact/
* CE User timeout settings will be defaulted to nothing after this weekend –  https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2019/04/10/release-notes-for-user-session-timeout-management/
* Nice evolution in AI for Customer Service – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2019/04/11/announcing-new-capabilities-in-dynamics-365-customer-service-insights/
* Solution Packager update (v9.0.3.1) to allow Canvas PowerApps and Flows and PCF components to be part of solutions it handles – https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.CrmSdk.CoreTools/
* CE Product Visualize is now available in the IOS App Store
* CE Remote Assist Mobile is now available in the Android Play Store

What’s New in Talent/Retail/BC:

* For Talent – Attract, new feature to “Apply with LinkedIn” – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/no-audience/2019/04/01/dynamics-365-for-talent-now-supports-apply-with-linkedin/
* Preview Features of Retail 10.0.2 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/April19/dynamics365-retail/planned-features
* Initialize Retail Scale Unit – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/deployment/initialize-retail-channels
* What’s New in Talent – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/talent/whats-new-talent-april-2-2019
* Talent Tips Tuesday from Tom Elliott – https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=%23TalentTipsTuesday

What’s New in F&O:

* Preview Features 10.0.2 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/fin-and-ops/get-started/whats-new-changed-10-0-2
* Acceptance Testing – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/perf-test/acceptance-test-library
* Preview Features of Update 26 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/fin-and-ops/get-started/whats-new-platform-update-26
* Project Sales Orders for T&M Projects – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/financials/project-management/project-sales-orders
* Push B2B Users to Azure Active Directory – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/sysadmin/implement-b2b
* Removed or Deprecated Features 10.0.1 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/migration-upgrade/deprecated-features
* Personalize the User Experience – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/fin-and-ops/get-started/personalize-user-experience
* F&O Project Mobile App – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/financials/project-management/project-mobile-application-overview
* CustomerSource and PartnerSource are down until April 17th. Alternate links are provided on the splash page of the sites.

What’s New in Solution Updates:

* Core CDS for Apps solution update to 9.1.0.3452 – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4493081/service-update-34-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-9-1-0
* Core CDS for Apps solution update expected this weekend to 9.1.0.3653 – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4493767/service-update-36-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-9-1
* Project Service UCI Solution update to 3.6.0.67 – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2019/03/29/release-notes-for-project-service-automation-update-release-6/
* Channel Integration Framework solution update (fixes issue with multiple business units) to 9.0.1.121 – you have to update this one manually from AppSource, it doesn’t show up in Admin Center for some reason
* Project Service Automation solution update to 3.6.0.68 – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/no-audience/2019/03/29/release-notes-for-project-service-automation-update-release-6/
* Field Service solution update to 8.6.0.183, then again to 8.6.0.274
* CE Portals version 9.1.4.29 GA Release (early adopter release of the same was covered in last episode) – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4496222/portal-capabilities-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-version-9-1-4-29-releas
* Adobe Sign solution update to 8.0.0.3
* Dynamics for Talent solution update to 6.177.0
* LinkedIn Sales Navigator solution update to 2.3.0.9
* PowerApps Checker solution update to 1.0.0.97, then 1.0.0.99
* Sales insights add-on (AI for Sales) solution update to 9.0.1.7051

Featured Content:

* Good quick read highlighting the value of a common data model for standardization when ingesting heterogeneous data into a data lake – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/value-data-estate-steven-guggenheimer/
* Great explanation of the evolution of CDS – https://survivingcrm.com/2019/04/the-real-common-data-service-emerges/
* Great explanation of the power of CDS as a development platform – https://aka.ms/why-cds

Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 2019-03-29


Show Notes

What’s New:

* PowerApps update – SharePoint Online document libraries now show up uniquely – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sharepoint-online-document-libraries-now-supported/
* Canvas PowerApps based on CDS – Display names and GUIDs are permanent – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/display-names-and-guids-for-canvas-apps-graduate/
* Responsive canvas PowerApps – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/craft-app-height-and-width-expressions-to-create-responsive-canvas-apps/
* Flow is now embedded in IoT Central – https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/what-s-new-in-azure-iot-central-march-2019/
* Flow brings adaptive cards to Microsoft Teams and better connectivity to business process flows in the Common Data Service – https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/adaptive-cards-for-microsoft-teams-microsoft-flow-us-government-now-available/
* Check out Microsoft Forms Pro – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/2019/03/18/microsoft-forms-pro-public-preview-is-now-available/
* CE Marketing spring-release preview updated – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2019/03/19/dynamics-365-for-marketing-spring-release-preview-now-updated-with-expanded-features/
* Enable an Accessibility-friendly email client for CE – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/admin/deploy-email-unified-interface
* Streamlined sign in for CE mobile apps on iOS – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2019/03/25/email-based-sign-in-for-dynamics-365-for-phones-and-tablets-ios/
* Data masking in CE Omni-Channel Engagement Hub Chat – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/omni-channel-engagement-hub/administrator/data-masking-settings
* Deprecation of CDS 1.0 for Talent
* Broadbean integration to Talent – https://community.dynamics.com/365/talent/b/dynamics365fortalent/archive/2019/03/26/dynamics-365-for-talent-now-supports-broadbean-for-job-distribution
* Alerts in F&O as Business Events – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/business-events/alerts-business-events
* What’s New or Changed in March for Talent – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/talent/whats-new-talent-march-20
* Configure continuous updates in LCS – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/lcs/2019/03/16/configuring-lcs-for-continuous-service-updates/
* LCS March Updates – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/lcs/2019/03/16/lcs-march-2019-release-2-release-notes/
* Prepare Business Central for the April update – https://community.dynamics.com/business/b/businesscentraldevitpro/archive/2019/03/27/scheduling-your-spring-2019-upgrade-for-business-central
* Deploy BC and NAV with Azure SQL Managed Instance – https://community.dynamics.com/business/b/businesscentraldevitpro/archive/2019/03/06/dynamics-365-business-central-and-azure-sql-managed-instance
* Business Central API’s available for Microsoft Graph – https://community.dynamics.com/business/b/businesscentraldevitpro/archive/2019/03/04/announcing-business-central-in-microsoft-graph
* Watch the Business Application virtual launch live – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/2019/03/21/watch-the-live-stream-of-the-business-applications-virtual-launch-event/
* CE Gamification Solution quarterly update to 2019.3.15
* Core CDS for Apps solution update to 9.1.0.3056 – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4490933
* Core CDS for Apps solution update expected this weekend to 9.1.0.3254 – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4491897/service-update-32-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-9-1-0
* AI for Sales Solution update to 9.0.1.7050
* Dynamics Portals early upgrade release to 9.1.4.29 – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4496222/portal-capabilities-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-version-9-1-4-29-releas
* CafeX Live Assist Solution update to 3.4.0.1

How do I operationalize this?

* Deploying a POS in Retail – watch the video

Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 2019-03-15


Show Notes

What’s New:

* CE Possible challenges with IE – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2019/03/02/unified-interface-internet-explorer-11-browser-update-issue/
* CE Field Service – how to set up and use 3D models to help technicians – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/field-service/3d-viewer
* If you use Unified Service Desk for CE, make sure you start testing with this public preview build (4.1) – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/usd/2019/03/08/public-preview-of-unified-service-desk-4-1/
* Autonumbering for CDS for Apps makes it to administration console – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/autonumber-fields-are-now-supported-by-the-modern-entity-designer/
* Follow the data from ingestion through prep steps to end user consumption repository with data lineage for Power BI dataflows – https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-data-lineage-experience-for-dataflows/
* How to easily configure dependent drop downs in Canvas PowerApps – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/configure-easy-dependent-drop-downs-in-powerapps/
* Flow gets custom response options for Approvals – https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-custom-response-options-for-approvals/
* F&O Update 24 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/fin-and-ops/get-started/whats-new-platform-update-24
* F&O KB’s for Update 24 – https://fix.lcs.dynamics.com/Issue/Details?bugId=287129&qc=6daf0a1b735f67d827cf6f643a2ef482dc0d66a220ce23ba6f3cba32ece56015
* Preview Features for Update 25 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/fin-and-ops/get-started/whats-new-platform-25
* F&O One Version Service Update FAQ – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/fin-and-ops/get-started/one-version
and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/lifecycle-services/oneversion-overview
* Synchronize inventory, products, and adjustments from Field Service to Finance and Operations – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/supply-chain/sales-marketing/synchronize-inventory-adjustments and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/supply-chain/sales-marketing/synchronize-products-inv-unit
* Preview Features Retail Version 10 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/retail/get-started/whats-new-10-0-1
* March Talent Updates – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/talent/whats-new-talent-march-5
* LCS March Update – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/lcs/2019/03/04/lcs-march-2019-release-1-release-notes/
* PowerApps Checker solution update to 1.0.0.74
* Sales Insights solution update to 9.0.1.7044, then 9.0.1.7045, then
9.0.1.7047
* Adobe Sign solution update to 8.0.0.1
* Talent solution update to 6.162.0
* Dynamics Marketing solution update to 1.35.1026.0 (reminder to update from Applications area)
* Portals Base and Community Solution update to 9.1.2.2
* Field Service Solution March Update to 8.5.0.345 – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2019/03/07/release-notes-for-field-service-version-8-5-0-345/
* Project Service Solution March Update to 3.5.0.40 – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2019/03/12/release-notes-for-project-service-automation-update-release-5/
* Core CDS for Apps solution update to 9.1.0.2648 – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4489612/service-update-26-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-9-1-0
* Core CDS for Apps solution update expected this weekend to 9.1.0.2851 – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4490262/service-update-28-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-9-1-0
* Nifty solution for CE to enable proximity-based suggestions in mobile app – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/geoffreyinnis/2019/03/13/lightweight-geospatial-in-dynamics-365-for-phones/

Featured Content:

* Build proximity-based suggestion app for CE