Author: Dian Taylor
D365 Customer Service: Configure Knowledge Search Filters & Default Authoring Language
These are another couple of the new features of the 2021 Release Wave 1 that finally became available in my region around April 23rd! As you might know, before this update administrators were not able to configure filters for knowledge base articles, which makes it tricky if you have added your own custom fields to the knowledge article table. (For example I added fields to the case table and knowledgeRead More
Post Adaptive Card to a Teams Channel on Opportunity Win
After playing around with adaptive cards a bit this weekend, I have decided that this is actually one of my favorite things to use when posting messages to Microsoft Teams or Outlook! First let me explain what adaptive cards are and how we can use them in different applications. Adaptive cards are built from JSON and that content can then be rendered inside a host application like Microsoft Teams, Outlook,Read More
D365 Field Service Simplified Setups
It’s April and this means that 2021 Release Wave 1 production deployments have started! Not all of the features mentioned in the documentation have been enabled yet because the features for this release wave will be released from April 2021 through September 2021. The features that will go GA in April might not have been installed in your production environment yet because his actually happens on a schedule and dependsRead More
Microsoft Teams calls in D365 Sales(Preview)
I was pleasantly surprised last week when I noticed a new section when I navigated to the app settings area in Dynamics 365 Sales. I noticed there is now an item on the sitemap under the General Settings section called ‘Teams calls (preview)’. I was very curious what this was so I started to dig a little and found that this setting allows us to embed the Microsoft Teams dialerRead More
2021 Release Wave 1: D365 Field Service Inspections
Previously I wrote a series of articles on the new features in 2021 Release Wave 1. The first article I wrote was about the updates and new features in Dynamics 365 Sales, part 2 was about what’s new in Dynamics 365 Customer Service and part 3 of the series was about Dynamics 365 Field Service. I also wrote a separate article on the new Technician Locator in Dynamics 365 FieldRead More
Dynamics 365 & LinkedIn Sales Navigator New Features 2021
It’s been a while since I wrote a post on this, but there are some new features with LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Dynamics 365 Sales that are coming, or have already been pushed to your environments. In this article I am not going to cover all the new features in LinkedIn Sales Navigator, I am focusing on the changes related to the integration with Dynamics 365 Sales. Even if thereRead More
D365 Field Service: Technician Locator
This is another feature of 2021 release wave 1 which is currently in preview. There is a little bit of setup for this one so instead of adding this to my previous article 2021 Release Wave 1 | Part 3, I wanted to write a separate article to go over the setup and talk about how it works in the application. The technician locator allows Field Service organizations to sendRead More
Dynamics 365 – 2021 Release Wave 1 | Part 3
It’s that time of year again! Starting February 3rd we are able to get early access to some of the new features and updates in Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform! I am writing a series of articles on what is new and what is coming in this release. Previously I wrote an article on generic features and updates for Dynamics 365 Sales which you can read here, and anRead More
Dynamics 365 – 2021 Release Wave 1 | Part 2
It’s that time of year again! Starting February 3rd we are able to get early access to some of the new features and updates in Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform! I am writing a series of articles on what is new and what is coming in this release. Last week’s article was about generic features and updates for Dynamics 365 Sales which you can read here. In this articleRead More
Dynamics 365 – 2021 Release Wave 1 | Part 1
It’s that time of year again! It’s February and that means that we are able to get early access to some of the new features and updates in Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform! I will be writing a series of articles on what is new and what is coming in this release. In this article I will be discussing generic features and updates for Dynamics 365 Sales. Just forRead More
