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.
 

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

Schedule weekly email with quote details and hyperlink | Part 1

In todays article I am going to explain a specific requirement and show you how we can use power automate to satisfy this particular requirement. A few months ago I had to demonstrate a scenario where sales people needed to get a reminder for outstanding quotes they needed to follow up on. The sales people would create quotes on a daily bases, but not all quotes would be completed ‘allRead More

Modernized Case Grids

You might not have noticed due to the holidays last month, but another 2022 Wave 2 feature that is part of Dynamics 365 Customer Service went into general availability in December! A nice little holiday present from Microsoft! This feature gives customer service agents and managers access to relevant information regarding cases. I am sure you’re familiar with the ‘regular’ case grid, which is a list of case records, configurableRead More