Crm Audio -- The Dynamics 365 Podcast

In this episode, Shawn (@crmhobbit) and Sarah (@SarahJND) talk about how to access Public Preview features within Dynamics 365 Field Service as well as how to enable the new Schedule Board, currently in Public Preview. Watch this episode on the CRMHobbit YouTube channel (demo enabling the new Schedule Board at the 9:30 mark) : https://youtu.be/gohUVmO5vKc How to install preview features for Dynamics 365 Field Service: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dyna... How to preview the new schedule board in Dynamics 365 Resource Scheduling: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dyna... Shawn Tabor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crmhobbit Shawn's blog: https://crmhobbit.com Sarah Jelinek on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SarahJND Sarah's blog: https://sarahjelinek.com

Colin, Nick H and Nick D (CNN) chat with MVP Jim Novak about tools used when working with Power Apps portals projects.   Jim Novak is a Technical Architect with deep experience with Dynamics CRM/xRM and custom .NET application development working in projects for the United States government, education and healthcare industries.   Twitter: @crmdevjim Website: https://futurezconsulting.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesnovak/ Other links: https://www.xrmtoolbox.com https://www.bootstrap-live-customizer.com/ https://github.com/WaelHamze/xrm-ci-framework https://abvogel.com/2019/08/13/Microsoft.Xrm.DevOps.Data/

At Build 2020, Microsoft highlighted Microsoft Teams as a platform, and announced lots of new enhancements to the integration between Power Platform and teams, including making it easier to build Power Automate flows for Teams and integrate model-driven apps with Teams, and more easily publish Power Virtual Agents with Teams. https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2020/05/27/spotlight-on-teams-as-a-platform-at-virtual-microsoft-build-2020/#12ce03631f14 On today's episode of CRM Audio, Shawn Tabor and Joel Lindstrom talk about why Teams+Power Platform matters, and how embedding apps within Teams can remove friction from user adoption of Power Apps. We also revel in our recent victory in the Power Platform Virtual Pub Quiz.

In this episode, Shawn & Sarah talk about the pandemic and how it has affected opportunities to present to the community.   Sarah discusses a virtual session she held at D365UG Focus on optimizing Customer Service implementations and the blog article that supports it: https://sarahjelinek.com/2020/05/19/create-a-case-with-the-email-body-in-the-case-description-field-in-dynamics-365/

This is a special episode of CRM Audio with MVP's Gus Gonzalez, Neil Benson, and Joel Lindstrom. In this episode we dig into what the role of solution architect means and how it has changed in Power Platform projects with the shift to agile deployment methodologies. This episode is being simultaneously released on their podcasts, the CRM MVP Podcast and Scrum Dynamics, and I encourage you to subscribe to both. See full show notes at https://customery.com/50.

This episode is brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic. Today we are joined by return guest Sean McNellis, Principal PFE with Microsoft.  Topics in this episde Changes to the pfe PowerShell libraries and .Net Core Service protection throttles and the reason for them Tips for building future friendly code and limiting API calls Covid-19 driving digital transformation and decoupling things that have always been combined and driving low-code for business agility. Changes in the maker experience

Nick, Nick and Colin practice social distancing and chat from their home offices about MVP summit, Web Forms, Virtual Entities, Local Authentication and other Power Apps Portals stuff. Show notes: Colin's post on web forms: https://colinvermander.com/2020/03/09/power-apps-portals-web-form-ideas-desired-improvements/ Nick Hayduk's Portals Community Call: https://www.engineeredcode.com/portals-community-call Nick Doelman's Power Apps Portals online class: https://powerplatformlearning.newzenler.com?affiliate=rVj6rb Colin Vermander @koolin_ Nicholas Hayduk @Engineered_Code Nick Doelman @readyxrm

This episode is brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic and D365UG. This week we talk with Emma D'Arcy all about what it means to deal with Imposter Syndrome and how it does indeed get better! Shawn & Emma talk about their own struggles and how the Dynamics Community has helped them not only overcome, but flourish and help to elevate others. They also talk a little bit about cats... Emma D'Arcy on Twitter: @tattooedcrmgirl Emma's Imposter Syndrome session from Scottish Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh9NaNsvDxE Check out the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Txc9kMYnEAI

This episode is brought to you by Inogic and their new Kanban Board for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. James Phillips recently wrote a blog post "Our commitment to customers to help ensure business continuity" where he detailed plans to delay mandatory end of support and deprecation deadlines to remove pressure from customers and partners during this stressful time. 2020 Wave 1 will still be released in April, but mandatory updates will be delayed until May or June. Team member license enforcement is delayed until September, and deprecation of classic UI is delayed until late autumn US. Joel Lindstrom, George Doubinski, and Shawn Tabor discuss these delays and what they mean to you, as well as the following topics: virtual MVP summit update Goodbye Outlook client (again) and parity with App for Outlook Remote assist and remote assit guides Backup and restore (as long as you don't use SalesForce) Component libraries PCF controls vs components Links: Salesforce discontinues data recovery services: https:/

In today's episode of ProdCast, (brought to you by Inogic), Matthew Anderson and Joel Lindstrom share their tips for working from home and review some recent updates to their favorite productivity tools, including on how PowerPoint can help improve your speaking skills through AI. Discussed on the show: Uplift desks Jabra GN PowerPoint Coach To-Do "My Day" view Quickly create tasks from Outlook Web 

This episode is brought to you by Inogic and their new Kanban Board for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Wave 1 2020 for Power Platform and Dynamics 365 is right around the corner. In today's episode, Joel Lindstrom and Shawn Tabor cover what you need to know and how to prepare for the update. Topics covered: Team member license enforcement Dynamics 365 Sales Product visualize Dynamics 365 Customer Service Dynamics 365 Field Service Dynamics 365 Marketing Power Apps Power Automate Check out the deck from this presentation  at https://ptdrv.linkedin.com/h80j3i2

This episode is brought to you by Inogic and their new Kanban Board for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. The coronavirus COVID-19 has changed the technology world. People are working remotely, conferences are canceled. On this podcast, we talk about the changes to D365UG Summit Barcelona, MVP summit, and other conferences. To help organizations combating the crisis, Microsoft is making the premium push notification adapter for Power Apps available for free to all users, and they have also released a new template targeted at Crisis Communication. Find out more at https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/crisis-communication-a-power-platform-template/.  Shawn Tabor just lead a hackathon, but it wasn't for adults. Shawn talks about how a class of fifth-graders used Power Virtual Agent to educate about climate change and fire safety. We are only about a month away from the release of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2020 Wave 1. We talk about what is new with Field Service, sales forecasting, and team member l

Gus Gonzalez started a series of podcasts giving an overview of what he would do if he were the program manager for some of the Dynamics 365/Power Platform products.  This the portal edition where Colin, Nick and Nick discuss the new features and options they would add to portals if they were program managers (with unlimited budget and resources) What is your wish list item?  https://ideas.powerapps.com Our Twitters: Colin Vermander: @koolin_ Nick Hayduk: @Engineered_Code Nick Doelman: @readyxrm CRM MVP Podcast: http://crmmvppodcast.com/

This episode is brought to you by Inogic. Check out their new Kanban visualization for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Learning is important. Joel has started a bi-weekly LinkedIn newsletter about learning--why it is important to be a life-long learner, choosing a learning goal, and tools to help learning. On the podcast we discuss our learning goals. Matthew Anderson has also been pursuing certification, and he talks about his strategies for learning and test-taking. Other topics in the episode: Smart pens: Neo Smart pen and Moleskine Pen +. https://www.amazon.com/smartpen-N2-Bluetooth-Digital-Smartphones/dp/B00ST8GT8W/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Neo+smartpen&qid=1582039395&sr=8-4 Edge collections: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/08/20/collections-now-available-microsoft-edge-preview/ Microsoft certification poster that shows the intersection of all Microsoft certifications: http://aka.ms/TrainCertPoster Taking certification exams: how to read the questions and scenarios to optimizing finding

The Power Platform 2020 Wave 1 release plan has been published!  Also announced is the WS-trust and organizationserviceproxy deprecation, which as a big impact on xRM Community edition, Microsoft open source and Adxstudio v7 portals. Join Nick Doelman, Colin Vermander and new permanent host Nick Hayduk as they discuss these new features and changes. Release Plan: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2020wave1/ xRM Portals Community Edition Open Issue https://github.com/Adoxio/xRM-Portals-Community-Edition/issues/123  

This episode is brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic and D365UG. This week we are re-joined by MVP Sukrut Parab and Sr. Architect Satish Panwar to talk about what you need to know about ALM best practices for a Dynamics 365 F&O deployment. Phases of ALM Why you need to use a good ALM process Manual vs. automated deployments Automated testing Can ALM work with other systems than DevOps? Common mistakes Common environment and deployment strategies Useful links:  Build and Test Automation -https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/perf-test/continuous-build-test-automation  Sys Test Framework -https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/perf-test/testing-validation Azure dev ops Auto upload of package - https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/newdynamicsax/posts/first-azure-devops-task-released Azure dev ops task to deploy code - https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/newdynamicsax/posts/azure-devops-task-to-deploy-cod

This episode is brought to you by D365UG. Sara Critchley joins Shawn Tabor to talk about customer service (after they finish talking about food). Why is customer service important? How has customer service in Dynamics 365 changed in recent years? Where should you start? The changing world of omnichannel. Why can't Flow Joe get any balsamic vinegar kettle crisps in Canada? Please join the conversation and tell us what you think. What have your best and worst customer service experiences been? Where do you start in a Dynamics 365 customer service deployment? Follow Sarah Critchley: Sarah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcritchley/ …and check out her blog at: https://www.crmcat.co.uk/ …and her YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ_qeQBj6-nQtALIWRBbqCQ

Dileep Singh returns to the podcast with an update of the Power Apps Portals General Availability and some hints as to what might be coming in 2020 wave 1.  Also discussed is the new Configuration Migration Tool, Forms Pro and Web Forms. Unified Interface Transition dates Portal: https://runone.powerappsportals.com/ Ideas site: https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/ Colin's blog: https://colinvermander.com/ Nick's blog: https://readyxrm.blog Nick's Portals Training at Scottish Summit 2020: https://scottishsummit.com/event/nd

It's the final Power Platform Brief of 2019.  Bringing updates on Microsoft's Power Platform including connectors for components, improved unified interface, Teams domination and an interview with Yesflow co-founder Scott Millwood.  

This episode is brought to you by D365UG. Today we have a F&O focused episode with MVP Sukrut Parab and Sr. Architect Satish Panwar Discussed in this episode: How the F&O update process works Delaying updates Managing updates during a deployment Feature Management Workspace Dual Write Printing enhancements in F&O Links: Sukrut Parab https://www.linkedin.com/in/sukrut-parab-534ba1a/ https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/365operationswithsukrut Satish Panwar https://www.linkedin.com/in/satish-panwar-3a79863/ https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/365fobyspanwar