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

D365 Field Service: New Schedule Board

Microsoft has redesigned the schedule board for field service. Partners and customers were able to sign up for a private preview of the new and improved schedule board a few months ago, but now the preview has gone public. Keep in mind that a preview is not yet ready for production, as it will have limited capabilities during this time. Other things to consider: during this preview the only languageRead More

SLA’s in the Unified Interface

Some people might not have noticed that SLA’s (service level agreements) didn’t just move from the legacy interface to the unified interface. There were also a few updates to SLA’s and the way we can configure them in Dynamics 365 Customer Service has slightly changed. Before I get into that, let me first explain what SLA’s are and how they are used. What are SLA’s? Service level agreements allow organizationsRead More

Sales Accelerator (Preview)

Today’s article is about Sales Accelerator, which is a preview feature that is starting to roll out this week in the US for Dynamics 365 Sales. This is another feature that will be part of Dynamics 365 Sales Insights. Please keep in mind that preview features are not complete yet, and they are not meant for production use. Microsoft makes preview features available so we can take a look andRead More

D365 Assistant for Teams (Preview)

Most of you have probably heard of the Sales Insights assistant in Dynamics 365 (aka Relationship Assistant) which is part of the free Sales Insights features in Dynamics 365 Sales. The assistant displays action cards through out Dynamics 365 with information about data in Dynamics 365 and Exchange. These action cards give the sales user several different types of insights, for example a reminder about an upcoming meeting or aRead More

Dynamics 365 & LinkedIn Sales Navigator | Part 2

Most of you probably have heard of the integration between Dynamics 365 Sales and LinkedIn Sales Navigator, but don’t exactly know how everything works. Last week I wrote about the technical side of things, how to set some of this stuff up, how to enable some of the features, synchronization, etc. (If you haven’t read that article yet, you can do that here.)In this article I am going to focusRead More

Dynamics 365 & LinkedIn Sales Navigator | Part 1

Most of you probably have heard of the integration between Dynamics 365 Sales and LinkedIn Sales Navigator, but don’t exactly know the details on how everything works, which is why I decided to write 2 articles on the topic. Keep in mind I am not going to cover all the features in Sales Navigator, I am only going to cover what’s available through this integration. Configuration There are two placesRead More

Premium Forecasting

I have written an article about forecasting before which you can read here. Some things have changed since then and there has been some added functionality. So I figured I would write another article discussing some of the enhancements that are now available in Premium Forecasting. Keep in mind that in order to take advantage of these features you need to have a Sales Insights license. The features that areRead More

Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 1 | Updates

I wrote a total of three articles on the 2020 Release wave 1, which can be found on my blog. There were a few things that didn’t work in my environment at the time I wrote the previous articles, which meant that I couldn’t really report on them. Some of these items have been fixed after working with Microsoft support so I wanted to write another article regarding those items.Read More

Reassign leads on zip codes

Last week I received a very interesting requirement during one of my discovery calls, which I’m sure many of you have heard before or maybe even wanted to implement yourself! The sales manager wanted to assign leads based on the zip code of the lead. They explained to me that each zip code would be assigned to one rep and that sales reps have multiple zip codes assigned to them.Read More

Power Virtual Agent Introduction

In this post I am going to do a high level overview of Microsoft’s Power Virtual Agent application. As you probably already know, Power Virtual Agent is Microsoft’s version of a no-code to low-code chat bot. The great thing about this application is that it makes is really easy for anyone to create a chat bot without having to work with a developer. Lets take a look at the componentsRead More