Crm Audio -- The Dynamics 365 Podcast

Nick, Nick and Colin practice social distancing and chat from their home offices about MVP summit, Web Forms, Virtual Entities, Local Authentication and other Power Apps Portals stuff. Show notes: Colin's post on web forms: https://colinvermander.com/2020/03/09/power-apps-portals-web-form-ideas-desired-improvements/ Nick Hayduk's Portals Community Call: https://www.engineeredcode.com/portals-community-call Nick Doelman's Power Apps Portals online class: https://powerplatformlearning.newzenler.com?affiliate=rVj6rb Colin Vermander @koolin_ Nicholas Hayduk @Engineered_Code Nick Doelman @readyxrm

This episode is brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic and D365UG. This week we talk with Emma D'Arcy all about what it means to deal with Imposter Syndrome and how it does indeed get better! Shawn & Emma talk about their own struggles and how the Dynamics Community has helped them not only overcome, but flourish and help to elevate others. They also talk a little bit about cats... Emma D'Arcy on Twitter: @tattooedcrmgirl Emma's Imposter Syndrome session from Scottish Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh9NaNsvDxE Check out the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Txc9kMYnEAI

This episode is brought to you by Inogic and their new Kanban Board for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. James Phillips recently wrote a blog post "Our commitment to customers to help ensure business continuity" where he detailed plans to delay mandatory end of support and deprecation deadlines to remove pressure from customers and partners during this stressful time. 2020 Wave 1 will still be released in April, but mandatory updates will be delayed until May or June. Team member license enforcement is delayed until September, and deprecation of classic UI is delayed until late autumn US. Joel Lindstrom, George Doubinski, and Shawn Tabor discuss these delays and what they mean to you, as well as the following topics: virtual MVP summit update Goodbye Outlook client (again) and parity with App for Outlook Remote assist and remote assit guides Backup and restore (as long as you don't use SalesForce) Component libraries PCF controls vs components Links: Salesforce discontinues data recovery services: https:/

In today's episode of ProdCast, (brought to you by Inogic), Matthew Anderson and Joel Lindstrom share their tips for working from home and review some recent updates to their favorite productivity tools, including on how PowerPoint can help improve your speaking skills through AI. Discussed on the show: Uplift desks Jabra GN PowerPoint Coach To-Do "My Day" view Quickly create tasks from Outlook Web 

This episode is brought to you by Inogic and their new Kanban Board for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Wave 1 2020 for Power Platform and Dynamics 365 is right around the corner. In today's episode, Joel Lindstrom and Shawn Tabor cover what you need to know and how to prepare for the update. Topics covered: Team member license enforcement Dynamics 365 Sales Product visualize Dynamics 365 Customer Service Dynamics 365 Field Service Dynamics 365 Marketing Power Apps Power Automate Check out the deck from this presentation  at https://ptdrv.linkedin.com/h80j3i2

This episode is brought to you by Inogic and their new Kanban Board for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. The coronavirus COVID-19 has changed the technology world. People are working remotely, conferences are canceled. On this podcast, we talk about the changes to D365UG Summit Barcelona, MVP summit, and other conferences. To help organizations combating the crisis, Microsoft is making the premium push notification adapter for Power Apps available for free to all users, and they have also released a new template targeted at Crisis Communication. Find out more at https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/crisis-communication-a-power-platform-template/.  Shawn Tabor just lead a hackathon, but it wasn't for adults. Shawn talks about how a class of fifth-graders used Power Virtual Agent to educate about climate change and fire safety. We are only about a month away from the release of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2020 Wave 1. We talk about what is new with Field Service, sales forecasting, and team member l

Gus Gonzalez started a series of podcasts giving an overview of what he would do if he were the program manager for some of the Dynamics 365/Power Platform products.  This the portal edition where Colin, Nick and Nick discuss the new features and options they would add to portals if they were program managers (with unlimited budget and resources) What is your wish list item?  https://ideas.powerapps.com Our Twitters: Colin Vermander: @koolin_ Nick Hayduk: @Engineered_Code Nick Doelman: @readyxrm CRM MVP Podcast: http://crmmvppodcast.com/

This episode is brought to you by Inogic. Check out their new Kanban visualization for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Learning is important. Joel has started a bi-weekly LinkedIn newsletter about learning--why it is important to be a life-long learner, choosing a learning goal, and tools to help learning. On the podcast we discuss our learning goals. Matthew Anderson has also been pursuing certification, and he talks about his strategies for learning and test-taking. Other topics in the episode: Smart pens: Neo Smart pen and Moleskine Pen +. https://www.amazon.com/smartpen-N2-Bluetooth-Digital-Smartphones/dp/B00ST8GT8W/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Neo+smartpen&qid=1582039395&sr=8-4 Edge collections: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/08/20/collections-now-available-microsoft-edge-preview/ Microsoft certification poster that shows the intersection of all Microsoft certifications: http://aka.ms/TrainCertPoster Taking certification exams: how to read the questions and scenarios to optimizing finding

The Power Platform 2020 Wave 1 release plan has been published!  Also announced is the WS-trust and organizationserviceproxy deprecation, which as a big impact on xRM Community edition, Microsoft open source and Adxstudio v7 portals. Join Nick Doelman, Colin Vermander and new permanent host Nick Hayduk as they discuss these new features and changes. Release Plan: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2020wave1/ xRM Portals Community Edition Open Issue https://github.com/Adoxio/xRM-Portals-Community-Edition/issues/123  

This episode is brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic and D365UG. This week we are re-joined by MVP Sukrut Parab and Sr. Architect Satish Panwar to talk about what you need to know about ALM best practices for a Dynamics 365 F&O deployment. Phases of ALM Why you need to use a good ALM process Manual vs. automated deployments Automated testing Can ALM work with other systems than DevOps? Common mistakes Common environment and deployment strategies Useful links:  Build and Test Automation -https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/perf-test/continuous-build-test-automation  Sys Test Framework -https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/perf-test/testing-validation Azure dev ops Auto upload of package - https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/newdynamicsax/posts/first-azure-devops-task-released Azure dev ops task to deploy code - https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/newdynamicsax/posts/azure-devops-task-to-deploy-cod

This episode is brought to you by D365UG. Sara Critchley joins Shawn Tabor to talk about customer service (after they finish talking about food). Why is customer service important? How has customer service in Dynamics 365 changed in recent years? Where should you start? The changing world of omnichannel. Why can't Flow Joe get any balsamic vinegar kettle crisps in Canada? Please join the conversation and tell us what you think. What have your best and worst customer service experiences been? Where do you start in a Dynamics 365 customer service deployment? Follow Sarah Critchley: Sarah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcritchley/ …and check out her blog at: https://www.crmcat.co.uk/ …and her YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ_qeQBj6-nQtALIWRBbqCQ

Dileep Singh returns to the podcast with an update of the Power Apps Portals General Availability and some hints as to what might be coming in 2020 wave 1.  Also discussed is the new Configuration Migration Tool, Forms Pro and Web Forms. Unified Interface Transition dates Portal: https://runone.powerappsportals.com/ Ideas site: https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/ Colin's blog: https://colinvermander.com/ Nick's blog: https://readyxrm.blog Nick's Portals Training at Scottish Summit 2020: https://scottishsummit.com/event/nd

It's the final Power Platform Brief of 2019.  Bringing updates on Microsoft's Power Platform including connectors for components, improved unified interface, Teams domination and an interview with Yesflow co-founder Scott Millwood.  

This episode is brought to you by D365UG. Today we have a F&O focused episode with MVP Sukrut Parab and Sr. Architect Satish Panwar Discussed in this episode: How the F&O update process works Delaying updates Managing updates during a deployment Feature Management Workspace Dual Write Printing enhancements in F&O Links: Sukrut Parab https://www.linkedin.com/in/sukrut-parab-534ba1a/ https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/365operationswithsukrut Satish Panwar https://www.linkedin.com/in/satish-panwar-3a79863/ https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/365fobyspanwar

We're back! The Power Platform Daily Brief is now just the Power Platform Brief.  We'll continue to focus on the news and updates related to all thing Microsoft Power Platform and we're still talking to the interesting people who make this community great. In this episode, we discuss the death of Talent, new connectors, Unified Interface scheduling and we talk to John Gravely about his new business, SalesSpark.

Time for another personal productivity and effectiveness podcast  (brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic), and the goal of this episode is “limit your WIP (work in progress). With due credit to Personal Kanban, WIP is a concept from Kanban that refers to the number of things that you are working on at any one time. In your personal life, it can be easy to say yes to too many things and overestimate your capacity. This can increase your stress level and make you ineffective, and result in poor quality output. This ties into re-evaluating what you are currently doing, as your priorities may change over time. Something that is low value now might be higher value tomorrow. This is one of the reasons we have changed our focus and release cadence at CRM Audio—by reducing the number of series and episodes we are producing, we can hopefully increase quality and value of the output. We also discuss some of the latest updates to some of our favorite productivity tools. OneNote desktop is back from the dead, and Matthe

Colin and Nick chat with Ted Pattison about his journey learning Power Apps Portals from a Power BI/SharePoint/Office 365 background.   A great conversation of Ted learns new technology and applies to teach others. Ted's MVP profile: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/10712?fullName=Ted%20Pattison Ted's training site (check out his classes!) https://www.criticalpathtraining.com/ Colin's blog: https://colinvermander.com/ Nick's blog: https://readyxrm.blog  

In today's episode (brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic), we are joined by Sean McNellis, Principal Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. Sean has worked for Microsoft since the release of CRM 1.0, and in this episode, Shawn talks about proven practices that he is using with enterprise customers. Topics discussed in this episode: What is a PFE How has Sean's job changed with the move to the cloud? The impact of canvas apps and Power Automate flows on enterprise customers Why you need a Center of Excellence (COE) for business applications success Modern integration patterns Simplifying integrations with Azure Service Bus Reliability with Azure Service Bus Traffic Manager vs. plugin Best practices vs proven practices Managed vs unmanaged solutions How unmanaged solutions are like water damage CI/CD and process automation Sean's Powershell libraries and PowerShell cmdlets Why you need to use Application Users Dealing with API limits Links: CRM in the field blog: https://aka.ms/crminthefield Is it worth the tim

This episode is brought to you by Power Platform UG. Microsoft is giving away Surface earbuds to one lucky listener–register at https://aka.ms/PodcastSweepstakes for your chance to win. This is our last episode from Microsoft Ignite 2019, and today we talk with Vivek Bavishi (That API Guy) about what it means to be a #PowerAddict and best practices for development of Power Apps. Topics discussed on the show: What is the story behind #PowerAddicts Are there any requirements to be a #PowerAddict? Does Vivek have a developer background? Learning how to work with api’s and how he became That API guy How Power Platform can change your career Does using Power Platform in your day job reduce the desire to work on Power Apps on nights and weekends? What Power Apps does Vivek use himself every day? When should you use CDS in your Power Apps? Limitations in CDS connector Does Vivek focus more on Power Apps or Power Automate? Should you start learning the Power Platform with Power Apps or Power Automate? Experimental,

This is our second episode recorded at the Microsoft Ignite podcast center. Today's guest is Stephen Siciliano, Principal Group PM for Power Automate. MVP Jerry Weinstock also joins us to discuss his white paper "A guide to building enterprise-ready flows."  During Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced the rebranding of Microsoft Flow as Power Automate. During this episode, we delve into the rebranding of the platform and some best practices for Power Automate flows. Reminder: Microsoft is giving away Surface earbuds to one lucky listener–register at https://aka.ms/PodcastSweepstakes for your chance to win. This episode is brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic. Show notes: What is Power Automate? Power Automate in one sense is a new name for what we know and love as Microsoft Flow. We decided that now was the perfect time to make it part of the Power family, along with Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agent. What was the thought process behind the name change? Another factor driving the change was the intro