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.
 

2023 Wave 2 Release Notes: D365 Sales

Today is a very exciting day, because Microsoft just published the release notes for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform! I had a chance to look them over and I am working on another series on the new features and updates that are part of this release. I will start the first part of this series with Dynamics 365 Sales. Keep in mind that at the time this article was written,Read More

Copilot for Dynamics 365 Sales(preview)

I’m sure you have all heard of the new Copilot feature that Microsoft announced in March of this year. Essentially, Copilot is an AI-powered productivity tool that uses natural language processing and machine learning to understand users’ requests and provides personalized recommendations, tips, and assistance. This means that users can ask Copilot questions and get instant answers, guidance, and suggestions to help them work more efficiently. Copilot is designed toRead More

Smart Org Chart (preview)

Most people who have worked with Dynamics 365 Sales before probably know about the org chart capabilities in the application. If you’re not familiar, the name already explains it. We can show the organizational structure of an organization as an org chart, by moving the related account contacts around which visualizes the hierarchy of all the people related to an account in Dynamics 365. The smart org chart feature completelyRead More

Enhanced Case Experience in D365 Customer Service

In the last 3 articles I wrote, I discussed a whole bunch of new PCF controls that became available for Dynamics 365 Customer Service. In this article I am going to discuss the new Enhanced Case Experience in Dynamics 365 Customer Service. This enhanced experience introduces two brand new case forms for the Customer Service Workspace app, and you’ll notice that all the controls I discussed in my previous articlesRead More

D365 CS: Spice up your case forms with new controls! | Part 2

In my last article and the article before that, I discussed a few of the new PCF controls that became available for Dynamics 365 Customer Service. In this article I am going to wrap up this topic and discuss the remaining PCF controls that you can add to your custom or out of the box case forms in the Customer Workspace app. You might have thought that I covered aRead More

D365 CS: Spice up your case forms with new controls!

If you read last weeks article, where I talked about the new 360 customer component which came out as part of 2023 release wave 1. I also talked about how you can use and configure this component in conjunction with cases in Dynamics 365 customer service. The Microsoft documentation has this component listed under Dynamics 365 Customer Service, so it might be the case that we can’t use the componentRead More

D365 Customer Service: Customer 360 Component

In today’s article I am going to discuss yet another feature that was part of 2023 release wave 1 which is called the Customer 360 component. This component allows system administrators or makers to display details of a customer field on a case record. We already had the ability to do that by using a quick view form, but by using this control makers can configure which fields to showRead More

Copilot for Dynamics 365 Customer Service

I am sure you have heard all about Microsoft’s new AI capabilities called ‘Copilot’ that is coming to other Microsoft software besides Dynamics 365! In a previous article I discussed some of the Viva Sales Copilot features like the ability to have AI create email responses for customers based on Dynamics 365 data and Microsoft 365 data. (If you haven’t read the article or seen the video you can doRead More

D365 Field Service: Trades

Another feature for Dynamics 365 Field Service that is part of 2023 release wave 1 is the ability to use trades to group services together. There are a lot of benefits to using trades in D365 Field Service, but before I get into that, let me first explain what trades represents in Dynamics 365 Field Service. As you probably already suspected, trades are the types of services that your organizationRead More