‘Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.’ –Benjamin Franklin.

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

Using Power Automate conditions with Power Virtual Agents

In this article I am going to discuss a scenario where I need to pass data from Power Automate to Power Virtual Agents, but the data I’m passing will depend on the outcome of a condition. If you’re not familiar with conditions, conditions are statements that you can use in Power Automate. (Similar to check conditions in workflows). The condition will either be true or false, and therefore below theRead 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

2021 Release Wave 2 | Part 2: Customer Service

We have arrived in 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 perRead More

2021 Release Wave 2 | Part 1: Generic Updates

It’s August can that means the Microsoft Holidays are here because we now have the ability to install the early release features of 2021 Release Wave 2 in a sandbox environment for testing! I call this time of year ‘the Microsoft Holidays’ because I always feel like a little kid that gets to unwrap her presents during the holidays! For the folks who are not familiar with Microsoft’s release cadence,Read More

Deal Manager Workspace(preview)

I was lucky to have access to the deal manager workspace private preview a couple of months ago, but since July 2021 this feature, which is part of 2021 Release Wave 1, is in public preview and started to roll out across all the regions! (If you want to see if this is enabled for your region you can check that here, you’re looking for build 9.0.21072, which is comingRead More