Category: Release Wave
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
2022 Release Wave 1 | Part 2: D365 Sales
It’s that time of the year again where we all get to feel like kids at Christmas as Microsoft has just published the release notes for 2022 Wave 1. In this article I am going to discuss some of the most important features that are mentioned in the release notes for Dynamics 365 Sales and what they mean for end-users and administrators of the Dynamics 365 Sales application. I installedRead More
2022 Release Wave 1 | Part 1: Generic Updates
It’s that time of the year again where we all get to feel like kids at Christmas as Microsoft has just published the release notes for 2022 Wave 1! In this article I am going to discuss some of the features that are mentioned in the release notes for Power Apps and what they mean for end-users and administrators of Dynamics 365. I installed the early access features on 1/31Read More
Resurfacing the Jump Bar in Dynamics 365
There are a lot of new features and functionality that come with each new release of Dynamics 365, but sometimes Microsoft doesn’t just add new features, sometimes they remove functionality that has been part of the application for a long (or not so long) time. They might feel that folks don’t use any of those things anymore, or they might attempt to ‘clean up’ the application or give users moreRead 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
Simplified Dataverse search configuration
I am not sure if you heard yet that Relevance Search has been renamed to Dataverse Search? I actually realized it the other day when I tried to turn off Relevance Search for one of my Dynamics 365 environments, when I couldn’t locate the option to turn off Relevance Search. This option had been replaced by the option to turn off Dataverse Search instead and this is when it hitRead More
Microsoft Teams embedded chat
Finally it’s here: Microsoft Teams embedded chat in Dynamics 365. I have waited a long time for this functionality to become available as I am sure many of you have as well! Today this feature is in preview as part of 2021 release wave 2. This might not be available in your environment when this article comes out, but that just means you will have to wait just a littleRead More
