Author: Dian Taylor
D365 Field Service: Not-to-exceed values
This month there are a bunch of features that are part of 2023 Release Wave 1 that will roll out. One of them is the not-to-exceed functionality in Dynamics 365 Field Service. This is functionality we have been waiting for and I am excited that it’s finally rolling out! I’ve had some prospects in the past who were interested in this type of functionality and I ended up building thisRead More
Build Power Virtual Agent topics with GPT
There were so many announcements this month and most of them were around Microsoft’s new offering called Copilot. Microsoft Copilot is a new product that helps end users be more productive by providing personalized assistance and support within the Microsoft 365 suite of applications. Essentially, Copilot is an AI-powered tool that uses natural language processing and machine learning to understand users’ requests and provide personalized recommendations, tips, and assistance. ThisRead More
Viva Sales: Administrator Settings
I wrote two articles about Viva Sales back in August of last year, when it first became available in preview. If you haven’t read those articles, you can read part 1 here and part 2 here. Viva Sales has been generally available since October of 2022. Since the release, there have been some enhancements to Viva Sales. Last week I wrote an article about the new suggested email replies capabilities,Read More
Viva Sales: Suggested Email Replies
I am sure you’ve heard of Viva Sales, which was launched by Microsoft last year in October of 2022. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s definitely time you learned about it! Microsoft Viva Sales is an application that makes selling easier. It works with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams to automatically record and view information about customers in a customer relationship management (CRM) system (Currently Viva Sales works withRead More
Power Virtual Agents: Conversation Booster(preview)
Microsoft announced a new amazing preview feature for Power Virtual Agents yesterday, which you can try out today! If you are aware of how Power Virtual Agents (and most chatbots) work, then you know that usually, when a chatbot encounters a question or response that it doesn’t know how to answer, it can only ask the user to rephrase or connect to a human agent. But now, with the newRead More
2023 Release Wave 1: D365 Customer Service | Part 2
On January 25, 2023 the release notes for 2023 Release Wave 1 were made public, so I took the opportunity to thoroughly review the documentation to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the upcoming features. Please note that these notes are a constant work in progress, meaning that some of these features might be removed at some point in time, and others might get added so I would definitelyRead More
2023 Release Wave 1: D365 Customer Service | Part 1
It’s that time of year again! On January 25, 2023 the release notes for 2023 Release Wave 1 were made public, so I took the opportunity to thoroughly review the documentation to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the upcoming features. Please note that these notes are a constant work in progress, meaning that some of these features might be removed at some point in time, and others mightRead More
2023 Release Wave 1: D365 Sales Release Notes | Part 2
Last week I published part 1 of my series on 2023 Release Wave 1. There are so many features and updates for Dynamics 365 Sales alone, which is why I decided to split the article for D365 Sales into two parts. If you haven’t read the previous article, you can do that here. Last week I dove into the documentation and decided to do read through of all the featuresRead More
2023 Release Wave 1: D365 Sales Release Notes | Part 1
It’s that time of year again! On January 25, 2023 the release notes for 2023 Release Wave 1 were published! I dove into the documentation and decided to do read through of all the features to (hopefully) give you a better understanding of what’s coming in this wave. Please note that these notes are a constant work in progress, meaning that some of these features might be removed at someRead More
Schedule weekly email with quote details and hyperlink | Part 2
Last week I wrote part 1 of my article on how you can use Power Automate to automatically send a weekly email with data from Dynamics 365 Sales, or Dataverse. If you haven’t read the article yet, I would suggest doing that first. You can access the article here. In today’s article I am going to finish building the Power Automate flow. Last week we left off at the ‘ListRead More
