Author: Dian Taylor

Dian Taylor is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM) Presales Engineer - Director at RSM. She is a seasoned pre-sales consultant specializing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM) since 2011. In the past Dian has been involved in solution designing, implementing, configuring and customizing several complex scenarios in various industry sectors. D365-CE modules: Sales, Custer Service, Marketing, Field Service, Project Service Automation.
 

Field Service: Send email with resource pic

If you are using Dynamics 365 Field Service to schedule resources that go onsite to perform work, you probably would have the need to send notification emails to your customer when the resource is on their way. Maybe you want include the picture of the resource so they’ll know what the resource looks like. This could be very helpful for home care type of work, where a nurse get scheduledRead More

Receive a weekly summary email of new D365 Opportunities using Power Automate

Have you or any of your customers ever had the need to schedule the automatic sending of emails? In this article I am going to discuss how we can user Power Automate to send out emails on a scheduled basis with information about Dynamics 365 records. This could be very handy in many scenarios, think about sending employees a list of their timesheets for the past week, or sending thisRead More

Interactive Experience Dashboards

In this article I am going to talk about interactive experience dashboards in Customer Service. These dashboards were introduced to us as part of the interactive service hub in the customer service area. I can’t tell you how much I like them, and honestly I think they are kind of a hidden gem, specially since they have been around for a while! They have similarities with ‘regular’ Dynamics 365 Dashboards,Read More

Setup Mailbox for Automatic Case Creation in Unified Interface

In the past I’ve written an article on how to setup and configure a support mailbox in exchange where customers can send emails to if they have an issue that needs to be resolved. We were able to use the automatic record creation and update rules (ACR) in the legacy interface to configure the logic to create a case record for the email that came in. I’ve tried to setRead More

Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 2 | Part 5

In July 2020 the release notes for wave 2 came out for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform and on August 3rd we were able to enable these features for early access. I’m writing a series of articles on these new features. Previously I wrote about generic updates and the updates in Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Service and in last week’s article I wrote the first halfRead More

Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 2 | Part 4

In July 2020 the release notes for wave 2 came out for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform and on August 3rd we were able to enable these features for early access. I’m writing a series of articles on these new features. Previously I wrote about the updates in Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Service. In today’s article I’ll discuss Dynamics 365 Field Service features and updates. ThereRead More

Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 2 | Part 3

In July 2020 the release notes for wave 2 came out for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform and on August 3rd we were able to enable these features for early access. In last week’s article I wrote the first half of enhancements and new features for Dynamics 365 Customer Service. If you haven’t read that article yet, you can do so here. In today’s article I’ll discuss the secondRead More

Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 2 | Part 2

In July 2020 the release notes for wave 2 came out for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform and on August 3rd we were able to enable these features for early access. If you want to see the list of early access features you can access them here. In the next few weeks I am going to write a few articles where I’ll do an overview of the updates andRead More

Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 2 | Part 1

In July 2020 the release notes for wave 2 came out for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform and on August 3rd we were able to enable these features for early access. If you want to see the list of early access features you can access them here. In the next few weeks I am going to write a few articles where I’ll do an overview of the updates andRead More