Dynamics 365 monthly reading list November 2018

Technical topics (Configuration, customization and extensibility)

• Dynamics 365 FastTrack Architect bootcap – security, scale groups, releases and some technical stuff
• How to create realistic test data for your CRM project and why you should
• “Sorry something went wrong while initializing the app” – Outlook CRM app error after upgrade to Dynamics 365 9.1
• Connect Power BI to Common Data Service
• Microsoft Flow – Business Process Flows from a traditional CRM perspective
• Microsoft Ignite 2018 Event Recap – PowerApps & Microsoft Flow
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Online Deployment – MB2-715 study notes
• Microsoft’s Common Data Model – what users – not just Dynamics 365 users  need to know
• Demo scenario using Dynamics Customer Engagement with the Titanic demo set
• CDS and data object prefix
• Dynamics 365 architecture: examining record status and flagging strategies
• How to override out of the box buttons behavior in Dynamics CRM
• Upgrade to new Xrm client API object model (v9) smoothly using XrmToolBox plugins
• Personalizing custom entity icons with Metro Studio
• Using PowerApps to support warehouse processes in Dynamics 365 F&O
• Solutions for image rendering problems in Dynamics 365
• Power Platform Administration Center
• Using PowerApps and Flow with Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations – Part 1

Topics for Dynamics 365 CE business analysts, project managers and power users

• Embedded Intelligence with Email engagement in Dynamics 365
• Using marketing lists to enhance advanced find in Dynamics CRM
• Using Microsoft Flow with Excel to publish data to Dynamics 365 ( Youtube 00:34:00)
• Dynamics 365 – Consumption vs licensing

LearnAI: Enterprise Knowledge Mining bootcamp training material

I recently stumbled upon this interesting training material https://azure.github.io/LearnAI-KnowledgeMiningBootcamp/ . It explains how to built an enterprise search solution by applying knowledge mining to business documents like contracts, memos, presentations and images and expose these using a bot.  You will use Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Bot Framework, Azure Functions, etc..

Dynamics 365 Saturday Belgium slidedeck on Dynamics 365 and bots

Dynamics 365 Saturday Brussels 11/2018 - Dynamics 365 and chatbots from Joris Poelmans

Dynamics 365 Organization Insights revamped - welcome Common Data Service App Analytics

I’m a big fan Dynamics 365 Organization Insights and I have been using for more than a year now  since it was released in February 2017.   Organization Insights provides a number of key statistics about the usage, activity and quality of service (failing API calls, plugin execution failures, etc…) for your Dynamics 365 (online) instance.  A couple of weeks ago Microsoft moved the Organization Insights functionality to the new Power Platform Admin Center . You will find the Organization Insights dashboards by selecting Analytics in the left navigation bar and selecting Common Data Service for Apps.  The analytics for Common Data Service for Apps provides more detailed information and also allows you to filter and download the information in CSV format. The filter functionality allows you to select the specific instance for which you want to see information as well as see define a time frame for which you want to see information.

Please remember that the new Power Platform Admin Center is currently still in preview, so you might stumble upon some quirks but overall I like it a lot. For more information read the Microsoft documentation at Use the Organization Insights Solution to view metrics about your instance