Top 3 Themes for Dynamics 365 in 2018
What were the biggest news and announcements from 2018 for the Microsoft Business Applications ecosystem? Here’s my top 3 picks.
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Playbooks for Dynamics 365 Activity Templates
In my previous post I explored the current Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement solution update practices and used the Playbooks feature as an example. Here’s a quick overview of what the actual Playbooks offer. The official MS documentation, “enforce best practices with playbooks”, gives you a list of what the initial October ’18 release of Playbooks […]
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Keeping Dynamics 365 Apps Up to Date
We’re living in the “post-October” era where many of the new Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement features promised in the Oct ’18 Release are materializing into the live environments. Not all of them, though, since that space train carrying the Business Applications release bits has been scheduled to run from October 2018 to March 2019, as […]
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Ignite 2018 & The Power of Microsoft’s Platform
Just like last year, I was fortunate to be able to escape the chilly Finnish autumn weather to sunny and warm Orlando this September, to attend the Microsoft Ignite 2018 conference. This time my visit to Florida did not contain a whole lot of sunlight, though, as my stay in that region was focused strictly […]
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Unified Experiences in October 2018 Release
The October ’18 of Microsoft Business Applications is going to bring a whole bunch of exciting features, spread across the huge stack of products and apps that either make up or operate on the Power Platform. Much of them will be specific to an area that only some of the users or developers work with […]
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The End Is Near for Dynamics 365 (Customer Driven) Updates
Have you been administering organizations running on the online version of Dynamics CRM / Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement for a while now? If so, you will be familiar with this screen: That is essentially CDU in flesh. CDU of course stands for Customer Driven Update, the process through which Microsoft has allowed online customers to […]
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Winter in July: Release Notes for Next Dynamics 365 Version
While I’m over in Finland enjoying the biggest and longest heatwave ever, some of my fellow MVPs and Dynamics 365 community members were attending the first ever Microsoft Business Applications Summit this week on the other side of the globe in Seattle. As much as I would have enjoyed sitting in cold & dark conference […]
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Unified Interface Form Design Notes
It’s been around a year since Microsoft announced that Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement would be moving from the world of separate web, mobile and Outlook clients into a single Unified Interface (or UCI, as in “Unified Client Infrastructure”). At that time I made a prediction that this level of shift in the client technology would […]
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Card Forms and List Views in Unified Interface
Since the beginning of time, meaning early days of MS CRM, we’ve grown accustomed to the fact that record fields in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement can be presented either via entity forms or entity views. The entity form shows the editable fields of a single record, whereas the entity view gives us a list of […]
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Business Application Platform at Microsoft Build 2018
Build is the lead event for all things developer related in the Microsoft ecosystem. This year was the first time that the Business Applications side of MS’s stack also had dedicated tracks in the event agenda. While I didn’t attend the event myself (the Elisa Microsoft developer community was of course represented in Seattle), I […]
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Exploring CDS for Apps Platform Licensing (PowerApps)
When Microsoft originally made the Spring 2018 release announcement for Business Applications products and essentially promoted XRM to be the Common Data Service for Apps, they didn’t yet disclose the finer details about how the CDS for Apps license model would work outside the Dynamics 365 Apps and Plans that we’re familiar with. On May […]
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Discussing Spring 2018 Highlights at CRM Rocks
The amount of new information that was launched upon the world in the 2018 Spring Wave for Microsoft Business Applications was overwhelming, to put it short. When you’ve got a 245 page release notes document that covers not just the Dynamics 365 stack of CRM and ERP apps but also related platform functionality like PowerApps […]
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