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

Post Adaptive Card to a Teams Channel on Opportunity Win

After playing around with adaptive cards a bit this weekend, I have decided that this is actually one of my favorite things to use when posting messages to Microsoft Teams or Outlook! First let me explain what adaptive cards are and how we can use them in different applications. Adaptive cards are built from JSON and that content can then be rendered inside a host application like Microsoft Teams, Outlook,Read More

D365 Field Service Simplified Setups

It’s April and this means that 2021 Release Wave 1 production deployments have started! Not all of the features mentioned in the documentation have been enabled yet because the features for this release wave will be released from April 2021 through September 2021. The features that will go GA in April might not have been installed in your production environment yet because his actually happens on a schedule and dependsRead More

Microsoft Teams calls in D365 Sales(Preview)

I was pleasantly surprised last week when I noticed a new section when I navigated to the app settings area in Dynamics 365 Sales. I noticed there is now an item on the sitemap under the General Settings section called ‘Teams calls (preview)’. I was very curious what this was so I started to dig a little and found that this setting allows us to embed the Microsoft Teams dialerRead More

2021 Release Wave 1: D365 Field Service Inspections

Previously I wrote a series of articles on the new features in 2021 Release Wave 1. The first article I wrote was about the updates and new features in Dynamics 365 Sales, part 2 was about what’s new in Dynamics 365 Customer Service and part 3 of the series was about Dynamics 365 Field Service. I also wrote a separate article on the new Technician Locator in Dynamics 365 FieldRead More

Dynamics 365 & LinkedIn Sales Navigator New Features 2021

It’s been a while since I wrote a post on this, but there are some new features with LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Dynamics 365 Sales that are coming, or have already been pushed to your environments. In this article I am not going to cover all the new features in LinkedIn Sales Navigator, I am focusing on the changes related to the integration with Dynamics 365 Sales. Even if thereRead More

D365 Field Service: Technician Locator

This is another feature of 2021 release wave 1 which is currently in preview. There is a little bit of setup for this one so instead of adding this to my previous article 2021 Release Wave 1 | Part 3, I wanted to write a separate article to go over the setup and talk about how it works in the application. The technician locator allows Field Service organizations to sendRead More

Dynamics 365 – 2021 Release Wave 1 | Part 3

It’s that time of year again! Starting February 3rd we are able to get early access to some of the new features and updates in Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform! I am writing a series of articles on what is new and what is coming in this release. Previously I wrote an article on generic features and updates for Dynamics 365 Sales which you can read here, and anRead More

Dynamics 365 – 2021 Release Wave 1 | Part 2

It’s that time of year again! Starting February 3rd we are able to get early access to some of the new features and updates in Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform! I am writing a series of articles on what is new and what is coming in this release. Last week’s article was about generic features and updates for Dynamics 365 Sales which you can read here. In this articleRead More

Dynamics 365 – 2021 Release Wave 1 | Part 1

It’s that time of year again! It’s February and that means that we are able to get early access to some of the new features and updates in Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform! I will be writing a series of articles on what is new and what is coming in this release. In this article I will be discussing generic features and updates for Dynamics 365 Sales. Just forRead More

Assign SLA based on Case creation time

A few weeks ago I received a question from someone who asked me if it was possible to assign an SLA to a case based on the time of day a case was created. For example if the case was created in the morning between 8AM and 11:59AM it would get the ‘Morning SLA’ attached, and if it was created betweem 12PM and 5PM it would get the ‘Afternoon SLA’Read More