Dynamics 365 weekly reading list 11/23/2016

The big storm of announcements about Dynamics 365 has passed but still some interesting tidbits of information and new tools were released in the previous weeks:

• Dynamics 365 (CRM) scheduled workflows using Microsoft Flow
• Choose between Flow, Logic Apps, Functions and WebJobs in Azure
• Reflecting on Dynamics 365
• AngularJS demo solution for Dynamics CRM
• Getting started with Dynamics 365 PowerApps
• White Paper: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 Service Pack 1 Performance Benchmark on Azure Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas)
• Dynamics 365 Site Map Designer
• Monitor your Dynamics 365 (online) instance with Organization Insights (Youtube – 00:02:20)
• Activity Management Enhancements in Dynamics 365 (v 8.2)
• PowerApps and Microsoft Flow: Is Microsoft putting traditional software developers out of business
• No, Common Data Service is not the new XRM
• Common Data Model (CDM) Entity Reference document
• Bot framework – solving business problems with the Microsoft Bot Framework – describing an interesting scenario using Microsoft Flow, Dynamics 365, Office 365 and other Azure components.
• Why my action is not available through the Web API
• 3 benefits of Knowledge Articles in Dynamics 365
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Developer Toolkit (public beta 1)
• Calling Microsoft Flow from Power Query and Power BI
• Project Service Automation in Dynamics 365 – what are your options?
• Moving Dynamics CRM Business Process Flows with multiple branches
• What does Adobe Marketing mean for Dynamics
• Role of PowerApps, Flow and Common Data Model in Dynamics 365
• Creating a PowerApps Mobile Application with Dynamics CRM in 1 hour

Previous edition – Dynamics 365 weekly reading list 11/05/2016

Ignite 2016 slidedeck and video downloader

 

Microsoft Ignite is one of the biggest Microsoft conferences in the year with over 700 different sessions over the course of 5 days so it is quite impossible to attend all sessions. Luckily Microsoft provides a recording of most of the sessions on Channel 9 | Microsoft Ignite 2016 and for those of you who would like to get an offline copy of all the different sessions as well as the PowerPoint decks – take a look at  the Powershell script – Ignite 2016 slidedeck and video downloader  - if you want to download only the powerpoint decks you can use the command  -  .\Ignite2016Downloader.ps1 -NoVideos -DownloadFolder d:\Ignite2016 ,  this is already 12,5 GB.

Here’s my watchlist for the next couple of weeks:

• Business application platform roadmap, strategy and packaging(BRK2271)
• Evolve with Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform and online (BRK2161)
• Review CRM Implementations best practices (BRK3243)
• Integrate with Microsoft Exchange Future Strategies (BRK3308)
• Achieve productivity excellence with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Office 365 (BRK3265)
• Optimize connectivity to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online(BRK3310)
• Dive Into the Microsoft Common Data Model (BRK3315)
• Enable agile enterprise connectivity anywhere using Microsoft integration (BRK2308-TS)
• Dive into Microsoft Flow, create automated workflows between your favorite apps (BRK3311)
• Dive into PowerApps, building apps that mean business without writing code (BRK3326)
• Build cloud-first enterprise integration solutions with logic apps (BRK3342)
• Gather intelligence in Dynamics CRM with Power BI and Cortana Intelligence (BRK2163)
• Essentials of Application Lifecycle Manager for CRM (BRK2168)

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Dynamics 365 weekly reading list

 

Welcome to the first edition of the Dynamics 365 weekly reading list – with the official “release” of Dynamics 365, Microsoft took an important step in providing an integrated cloud platform which combines CRM and ERP. Follow this blog for your weekly reading list about the Dynamics 365 platform.

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 – Now generally available
• Dynamics 365 – What’s new – information about the upcoming December 2016 release
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 editions and licensing
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 home
• Dynamics 365 app for Outlook is coming soon!
• Helping customers accelerate their digital transformation with intelligent business applications
• Dynamics 365 – Purpose-built for you and your business (Youtube)
• Common Data Service is now generally available! – CDS encompasses the CDM (Common Data Model) which provides a mechanism to unlock data which is used in the different Dynamics 365 apps and which will allow for easier integration – see Announcing the general availability of the PowerApps Common Data Service. Although GA there are still some things which need to be clarified as outlined in CDM: New data model for the common good?
• Project Service Automation for Dynamics 365 (Youtube)
• Tap the power of Dynamics 365 directly from Microsoft Outlook (Youtube)
• Sell effectively with Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Youtube 00:02:17)
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 First Look Highlights (Youtube 00:02:03) and all other recordings – Microsoft Dynamics 365 First Look
• Highlights and reactions: Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Dynamics 365 -  Acquisitions that made the cut, or didn’t
• Dynamics 365 – getting into the flow of things
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 : the what, when and why

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