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Mark & Iain have a chat with Tricia Sinclair & MVP Antti Pajunen about D365 Saturday Scotland

The release notes for April '19 of Microsoft Business Applications is now available for download. In this episode of CRM Audio (brought to you by D365UG), we review the April '19 release notes. Topics discussed in this episode: General reaction to the release notes D365 for Marketing D365 for Sales Seamless CPQ integration Sales forecasting D365 for Customer Service Case resolution extensibility Flow based SLA's USD support for Chrome Omni-channel Engagement Hub Field Service Embedded iot visualizations Device provisioning Self service scheduling via portal Variable resource locations Multiple resource work orders Mixed reality enhancements Portal enhancements CDS Portals Power BI embedded in portals External data in portals Portal maintenance messaging Bi-directional data synchronization between CDS and F&O George's favorite F&O feature

Today Mark & Iain chat with Jim Novak. Jim & Mike are running the D365 Saturday Boston event Tickets and Speakers are here http://365saturday.com/dynamics/boston-2019/

In this episode (brought to you by KingswaySoft), we discuss the challenges faced by customers who try to build a greenfield Dynamics 365 business application with in-house developers without guidance or direction from an experienced consulting partner or individual. While there is development involved when building complex systems there is a learning curve that must be taken into consideration. Project teams that attempt to learn the Dynamics platform and meet project deadlines tend to get their experience at the customer’s expense. Topics discussed in this episode Software development skill sets are merely prerequisites .NET development teams tend to focus on making it work without understanding platform capabilities .NET developers tend to build Dynamics applications like a .NET application .NET developers tend to build systems that are hard to upgrade or migrate to the cloud .NET developers tend to build up a lot of technical debt in the learning process Guidelines for mitigating the .NET devel

This episode is brought to you by D365UG. Today on the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Jonas walk through what is involved in creating a plugin for the XrmToolBox. Topics discussed in this episode: Technologies you need to know The VisualStudio XTB Template PluginBase/PluginControlBase Async helper methods Setting up Debug Configuration XTB interfaces Daryl's Inability to memorize an e-mail address Developer Documentation URL: https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/documentation/for-developers/  

Next week on CRM Audio: Daryl LaBar and Jonas Rapp tell you how to get started developing for the XrmToolBox Stephan Smith talks about the instant developer fallacy Neil Benson interviews Mark Christie on Scrum Dynamics (what's haggis?) CRM Audio episode 105 Thanks for listening!

In this episode (sponsored by Maplytics by Inogic), hosts Britta Rekstad and Matthew C. Anderson discuss the Power platform from the perspective of people with a background in Dynamics CRM / Dynamics 365. Discussed on the show Makers / Citizen Developers / Admins Matt's Maker experience at Microsoft Matt's PowerApp-Launching Bookmarklet project on GitHub Common Data Service (for Apps and Analytics) The Common Data Model Definition of PowerApps over time Power BI Power BI & More 46: Dynamics 365 interactive charts and dashboards Microsoft Flow episode and continued development Mashup potential of Power platform components Listener feedback - don't sell OOB auditing short! What's on your mind? Have a question you'd like answered on a future podcast? Submit one by visiting implementthis.org

This episode is brought to you by mscrm-addons.com. When you are writing, blogging, podcasting, or some other creative endeavor, one of the most difficult things can be coming up with ideas for content and translating those ideas to a presentation or article. In today's episode, Matthew Anderson and Joel Lindstrom discuss techniques that they use to create content. Topics discussed: Finding ideas from your life experiences Overcoming common fears Self-imposed deadlines Minimum level of proficiency Stages of competence Being comfortable with what you don't know Outlining a topic Being authentic Links: Scrivner https://www.literatureandlatte.com

Mark & Iain Chat with Rosie Brotherwood, Ana Demeny & Mark Smith (NZ365Guy) about a range of topics and their upcoming session at Dynamics 365 Saturday Scotland

In this episode (brought to you by D365UG), Joel Lindstrom and Ulrik Carlsson discus what you need to know about Interactive charts and dashboards in Dynamics 365 Unified Interface. Topics discussed in this episode: What can you do with interactive dashboards that you can't do with classic UI dashboards? Drill down filters Dashboard date filters Single vs. multiple streams Entity level dashboards Number of widgets on a dashboard Specifying color of option set values in charts Advanced chart editing limitations Got feedback or suggestions for a future episode? Email voice@crm.audio

In this episode (brought to you by D365UG), Joel Lindstrom and Ulrik Carlsson discus what you need to know about Interactive charts and dashboards in Dynamics 365 Unified Interface. Topics discussed in this episode: What can you do with interactive dashboards that you can't do with classic UI dashboards? Drill down filters Dashboard date filters Single vs. multiple streams Entity level dashboards Number of widgets on a dashboard Specifying color of option set values in charts Advanced chart editing limitations Got feedback or suggestions for a future episode? Email voice@crm.audio

In this episode (brought to you by KingswaySoft), we discuss data integration strategies and considerations when building Dynamics 365 systems. Integration is a very significant topic when it comes to more complex and intricate systems that require interaction with other corporate systems. When we migrate and deploy systems to cloud environments, we must take even more care as the consequences of poor decisions become more severe.   Topics discussed in this episode Considerations for choosing between data replication versus direct query integration strategies What is the data volume? What is the data velocity (of change)? What are the data freshness requirements? Forecasted cost of CRM database storage? Challenges of the direct data query pattern from Dynamics online to on-premises assets Network Latency External team dependencies (security/network teams) Corporate policies and guidelines Integration patterns for cloud and on-premises Architecting data to live as close to Dynamics as po

Mark Christie & Iain Connolly chat with Ryan Maclean, Reece Campbell and Microsoft MVP Jonas Rapp about their upcoming sessions at #D365SatSco

Happy New Year! This episode is brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic. This is our final "best of 2018" episode, and today we present our top episode of 2018. In CRM Audio 78, Charles Lamanna, General Manager for the Microsoft Business Applications Platform, answered our questions about what D365 and PowerApps coming together with the Common Data Service really means. Topics discussed in this episode: What does the new release of CDS mean for Dynamics 365 customers? What does the new release of CDS mean for PowerApps users? How does the new release simplify integration with Finance and Operations? Will ISV’s be able to extend the integration templates? How does PowerQuery fit in? Does CDS fulfill the vision of “naked XRM?” How does the CDS/Power Apps/Dynamics convergence account for security? How should customers decide if an app scenario is model-driven or canvas? Get in touch with Charles Email: chlama@microsoft.com Twitter: @clamanna This episode is a production of Dynamic Podc

Mark Christie chats with Janet Robb, Lucy Muscat and Sara Lagerkvist about the upcoming Dynamics365 Saturday event in Glasgow

This episode is brought to you by DocumentsCorePack from mscrm-addons.com. It's the holidays, and at CRM Audio we are taking some time off, but while we are gone we wanted to revisit some of our best episodes from 2018. In this episode, we were joined by Shilpa Sinha, Microsoft Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Business Applications and Srihari Srinivasa, Microsoft Product Manager for Outlook integration. From Business Apps Summit: Why you should move to Unified Interface and how to do it by Shilpa Sinha Topics discussed with Shilpa: Hybrid experience for Unified Interface power users Advanced find Merge Bulk edit Sharing Hybrid and side-by-side experience Opting out of hybrid experience Should new deployments roll out Classic UI or Unified Interface Is Classic UI being deprecated? Topics discussed with Srihari: App for Outlook roadmap Configuring the Outlook app on version 9 Delegate tracking on version 9 Changing the category name and color for the category based tracking This episode is

This is our last new episode of 2018 (brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic). This week we will be republishing our top episodes from 2018 while we are off for the holidays. We will be back in January with new episodes. Did somebody say Ben Vollmer? Topics discussed in this episode: CRM Audio news New form experience Solution checker New view experience Event management portals Revisiting our Flow comments in episode 26 Ben Vollmer song Holiday wish list This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the  CRM Audio network of podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Player.FM, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher, or YouTube. You can also listen via our app on iOSor Android.

In this episode (brought to you by D365UG), Ulrik and Joel discuss some questions that Ulrik got from recent presentations at Extreme365. Leveraging Dynamics 365 security in PowerBI FetchXML vs oData for deep queries FetchXMLData limits Option sets and the value of the CDS connector Reporting on Dynamics 365 user adoption Got feedback or suggestions for a future episode? Email voice@crm.audio. This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the  CRM Audio network of podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Player.FM, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher, or YouTube. You can also listen via our app on iOSor Android.

In this episode (brought to you by D365UG), Ulrik and Joel discuss some questions that Ulrik got from recent presentations at Extreme365. Leveraging Dynamics 365 security in PowerBI FetchXML vs oData for deep queries FetchXMLData limits Option sets and the value of the CDS connector Reporting on Dynamics 365 user adoption Got feedback or suggestions for a future episode? Email voice@crm.audio.

This episode is brought to you by MSCRM-Addons.com. Sometimes design patterns can impact performance and usability in your Dynamics 365 solutions. Microsoft has recently released a solution checker to help identify patterns in your common data service solutions that negatively impact performance reliability. Today Aengus Heaney, Senior Microsoft Program Manager joins us to talk about the solution checker. What is solution checker What kind of patterns does it identify Identifying false positives What kind of solutions does solution checker support? What regions can use solution checker? When should you run the solution checker? Scheduling and automating the solution checker Links:  Make Higher Quality Apps with Solution Checker: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/make-higher-quality-apps-with-solution-checker/   Got feedback or suggestions for a future episode? Email voice@crm.audio. This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the  CRM A