Category: Release Wave

 

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 This option had been replaced by the option to turn off Dataverse Search instead and this is when it hitRead More

New Power Apps Designer & Collapsible Groups

Microsoft just keeps rolling out new features as part of 2021 Release Wave 2 and this is another one that I am very excited about. With this release Microsoft created a new Power Apps designer that will make it even easier for app makers to configure existing apps and create new apps from scratch! Now keep in mind, this is not a form designer, we will still design our formsRead 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

Field Service Mobile App for Windows

I am super excited to write about this preview feature for Dynamics 365 Field Service! I knew this was in the works, but I was waiting anxiously for this item to go to public preview so we can start using it and see what it’s all about! You already know what I’m talking about if you read the title of this article: the field service mobile app for windows isRead More

Preview: In-App notifications for Model Driven Apps

For this week’s article I am going to discuss a feature that has been in public preview since July 22nd of this year. You are probably wondering what these in-apps notifications for Model Driven Apps are, since we already have the ability to create push notifications using Power Automate. Well, the difference here is that push notifications are only sent to mobile devices, and therefor they won’t be visible forRead More

2021 Release Wave 2 | Part 4: D365 Sales

It’s September and that means that we have the ability to install the early release features of 2021 Release Wave 2 in a sandbox environment for testing! For the folks who are not familiar with Microsoft’s release cadence, Microsoft Power Platform and Customer Engagement apps (Dynamics 365 Sales, Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Dynamics 365 Field Service, Dynamics 365 Marketing, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, etc.) deliver two major releases per year which occurRead More

2021 Release Wave 2 | Part 3: Field Service

It’s August and that means that now have the ability to install the early release features of 2021 Release Wave 2 in a sandbox environment for testing! For the folks who are not familiar with Microsoft’s release cadence, Microsoft Power Platform and Customer Engagement apps (Dynamics 365 Sales, Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Dynamics 365 Field Service, Dynamics 365 Marketing, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, etc.) deliver two major releases per year which provideRead More