Category: D365 Customer Service

 

Access Dynamics 365 data in Teams meetings (Preview)

Microsoft is investing more and more in the integration between Microsoft Teams and Dynamics 365 which I believe sets Dynamics 365 even further apart from the competition. I’m sure you are familiar with some of the features we have access to today, like the ability to view Dynamics 365 data from within Microsoft Teams or the ability to access a Teams chat from within Dynamics 365, but there are aRead More

D365 Customer Service: Swarming using Teams(preview)

Anyone who attended Microsoft’s Business Application Launch event has seen the new swarming functionality in Dynamics 365 Customer Service. This feature is currently in preview, but you can start testing it in your sandbox environments very soon! This feature takes advantage of the Microsoft Teams integration with Dynamics 365 Customer Service. So first… let’s discuss what this feature does! Swarming, or case swarming is a streamlined approach, allowing users toRead More

Customer Service Admin Center App: Quick Setups

I wrote a high level overview on this app in early March as part of my series on 2022 Release Wave 1, at which time this app was still in preview. If you haven’t heard about this app, this is a new app that is part of this release, which consolidates the administrative experience from different apps into one. This will make it a lot easier to configure Dynamics 365Read More

Power Automate: Copy and paste image field in D365

In this article I am going to discuss how you can copy the data inside an image field from one record to the image field of another record. This could come in handy in different ways but what I am trying to accomplish here is to show related ‘hobby’ data on a contact record in Dynamics 365. In the example I am using for this article, I want to showRead More

Modern Advanced Find in D365

As most of you are probably aware of by now, as part of 2022 Release Wave 1 Microsoft is replacing the legacy advanced find feature with a brand new upgraded version. This is very big news, since we’ve had the legacy advance find for a long time and it’s never really been upgraded! One of the questions that I heard from the community kept coming up as people heard aboutRead More

2022 Release Wave 1 | Part 3: D365 Customer & Field Service

This is my third article on what’s new in 2022 Release Wave 1. In this article I discussing some of the most important features that are mentioned in the release notes for Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Field Service and what they mean for end-users and administrators. I was able to install the early access features on 1/31 in my sandbox so I could test some of these new featuresRead More

Microsoft Teams embedded chat | Part 2

In late October of 2021 I wrote an article about one of my favorite new features in Dynamics 365. Yes, you guessed it, I am talking about the Microsoft Teams integration with Dynamics 365. In particular, I am referring to the embedded chat within Dynamics 365. This functionality allows users to access Microsoft Teams chats directly from within Dynamics 365 and even allows users to link chats to Dynamics 365Read More

Command Bar designer for model-driven apps(preview)

Most of you who have needed to customize buttons in the command bar in Dynamics 365 found out that this is not something that we can do by using any of the configuration tools that come with Dynamics 365. I’ve been pulling my hair out on many occasions until I found the ribbon workbench created by Scott Durow (one of the nicest people I have ever met!) which is partRead More

Ad-hoc Power Bi reporting in Dynamics 365 (preview)

In this article I am going to discuss yet another preview feature! I have to say I am super excited about this one because this feature allows users to pull up an ad-hoc Power BI report, without having to actually build a power bi report! HUH? I know that sounds strange right? How can you visualize data in Power Bi without building a report? We are all familiar with showingRead More

Collaboration in model-driven apps

It’s time for another article on a preview feature! I am very excited about this one because this feature brings functionality that we are already familiar with from other Microsoft applications to model-driven PowerApps! This means we can take advantage of this in Dynamics 365 as well! Awesome! Great! So what is it!!!? I’m sure you might have worked in a document in Microsoft 365, maybe an excel sheet orRead More