Category: Release Wave

 

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

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

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

Power Virtual Agents: Question Options Deep Dive

Since the public preview of the updated version of Power Virtual Agents became available last month, I have been hitting PVA hard. Meaning any time I had availability I was working in Power Virtual Agents trying to uncover as many secrets as I could! If you a frequent visitor of my website, you might have noticed that the last 3 articles were all about the new experience in PVA andRead More

Power Virtual Agents: Creating adaptive cards with PowerFX

The last three articles I wrote were about the new advanced authoring canvas in Power Virtual Agents, which is in preview today. In the first article I showed you an example of how we could query data from Dynamics 365 customer service and feed those rows back into Power Virtual Agents so that we can use these values with a question (You can access that article here). In the articleRead More

Power Virtual Agents: Creating basic cards with PowerFX

The last two articles I wrote were both about the new advanced authoring canvas in Power Virtual Agents, which is in preview today. I showed you an example of how we could query data from Dynamics 365 customer service and feed those rows back into Power Virtual Agents so that we can use these values with a question (You can access that article here). The customer can then pick anyRead More