Dynamics 365 and Power Platform monthly reading list March 2023

 Power Platform and Dynamics 365 release 2023 wave 1

• Test engine to support model-driven apps (Public Preview May 2023)
• Make solution export source code repository friendly (Public Preview March 2023)
• Dynamics 365 Wave 1 2023: Top 10 features that you need to know! by @LisaCrosbie 
• Power Platform Wave 1 2023:  Top 10 features that you need to know! by @LisaCrosbie
• Virtual tables creation wizard now in Public Preview
• The new look for model driven Power Apps is available now in preview
• 2023 Release Wave 1 YouTube Playlist 

Technical topics (Configuration, customization and extensibility)

• Zero to Hero 2022 - Power Platform Governance and ALM by @thevictordantas
• How does Power Automate flow cope when a lot of actions are executed? by @timopertila
• Using Azure Key Vault to store secrets for use in environment variables and flows
• Introduction to Pipelines for Power Platform (YouTube)  by @rezadorrani and Build your first pipeline with Power Platform pipelines by @laskewitz
• Setup pipelines in Power Platform (Microsoft Learn)
• Signing up for a developer plan for Power Virtual Agents
• Power Platform build tools and Azure DevOps
• Pipelines in Power Platform is Generally Available (GA)
• Azure App Service Patterns and Features for the Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Adding a filter for lookup columns made easier with advanced lookup
• Every Azure Synapse Analytics Engineer Needs to Know this Essential Dataverse Feature - Synapse Link (YouTube)
• Power BI Dynamics 365 Sales templates with Scott Sewell
• Dataverse Environments for everyone - new developer plan - Power CAT Live by @topness
• Connections and connection references explained by @BergmannBene
• Model-driven apps: how to use the side pane to show custom html by @temmy_raharjo
• Enable managed environments in Power Platform Admin Center by @priyesh_wngman7

Topics for Dynamics 365 Business Applications Platform consultants, project managers and power users

• Sales forecasting increase accuracy with AI predictive forecasting by @inogic
• Add voice mail to your call queue management
• Microsoft and Futurum research: Discover insights to create experiences that customers love
• Guidance on Sales Hub and custom model driven apps
• Create a Digital Contact Center in seconds with the Customer Service free trial

Creating a Dataverse instance in a specific Azure region using Power Apps Admin PowerShell module

One of the prerequisites if you need to setup Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse is that the Dataverse/Dynamics 365 environment must be created in the same Azure region as the Azure Data Lake storage account. 

So, if you know that you will be using Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse functionality and you want to avoid opening a support ticket for moving your environment (see Quick tip: finding the Azure data center for your Dynamics 365/Online environment for more details), you will need to create the Dataverse instance in the correct region. 

Unfortunately, this is not possible using the standard user interface but luckily you can use the Power Apps admin PowerShell module (Microsoft.PowerApps.Administration.PowerShell)

I am not sure in which version the functionality was added to enable creation of a Dataverse environment in a specific Azure region was added so if you already installed this PowerShell previously I would recommend updating to the latest version using the update-module command.

When using the New-AdminPowerAppEnvironment command you can specify the location and region you need (for example -LocationName "europe" -RegionName "westeurope"). For a list of supported environment locations and regions you can run Get-AdminPowerAppEnvironmentLocations

References:

• Get started using the Power Apps admin module
• Provision Dynamics 365 CRM and Dataverse environments on specific region and datacenter

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform monthly reading list February 2022

2022 Release Wave 1

• 2022 release wave 1 plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform now available
• 2022 Release Wave 1 - First impressions by @CarinaMClaesson
• 2022 Release Wave 1 - Top 10 in 10 minutes (Youtube) by @LisaCrosbie
• Co-presence notification now in Preview for Dataverse and Dynamics CRM
• Release 2022 Wave 1 Summary by @BergmannBene
• Modern advanced find with enhanced view management in model-driven apps
• Modern advanced find test drive by @jukkan

Technical topics (Configuration, customization and extensibility)

• Use of new configuration page UI in Power Apps solution
• Using Entity Extraction AI model with Dynamics 365 CRM/Power Apps - Part 2
• Using PCF Gallery Code components in your environment by @CRMHeidi
• Service tags now available for Power Platform
• Dynamics 365 FastTrack Architecture Insights : Power Platform & Dataverse security strategy best practices by @HenryJammes
• Dynamics 365 FastTrack Architecture Insights: Create real-time and contextualized Power BI reports in your apps by @HenryJammes
• How to free up file usage - Dataverse Storage Capacity (Dynamics 365/CRM)
• Connections and connection references explained

Topics for Dynamics 365 Business Applications Platform consultants, project managers and power users

• Building big apps in small steps with low-code
• Premium auto capture in Dynamics 365 CRM
• Zero-party data is more valuable than ever for customer experiences
• Dynamics 365 composable approach enables rapid deployment of a supply chain control tower
• 5 ways CRM can help you succeed in a customer experience economy
• Dynamics 365 drives improvement in manufacturing supply chains
• 3 characteristics to look for in a Dynamics 365 migration partner
• Use a performance dashboard to optimize seller activities
• Achieving on-going leadership buy-in for Dynamics 365 projects
• 10 benefits of using Sales Accelerator in Dynamics 365 Sales
• Achieving successful B2B selling in the digital era
  
• Customer case: Rabobank selects Power Platform as its default development platform for internal process automation
• Improve seller productivity with a sales cadence

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform monthly reading list January 2022

2021 Retrospective

• Looking back at 2021 - Power Platform Edition by @carinamclaesson
• Dynamics 365 & Power Platform 2021: Top 10 in 10 minutes by @lisamcrosbie
• Year 2021 in Power Platform by @jukkan

Technical topics (Configuration, customization and extensibility)

• Create mobile apps with Power Apps (preview)
• Large migrations to Dynamics 365 - lessons learned by @crmgustaf 
• Incorrect  (Dataverse) API optimizations recommendations by Microsoft
• What's new and planned in Customer Service 2021 Wave 2 
• Round up of the Ignite announcements for Power Apps!
• Preview : Using Microsoft Teams chat in Dynamics 365
• Exclusive sneak peek at the new multi-tab Panel (side panes)
• Load data in Dynamics 365 using Azure Copy Data Activity tool
• PowerFx Kernel for .NET Interactive Notebook and Playwright Dataverse Notebook by @RajYRaman  - definitely something on my todo list to take a look at.
• Tools to help you be a super system admin: XrmToolBox
• Analyzing your Dataverse environments using Application Insights
• Where should I put my data in Azure?
• Dataverse plugin telemetry with Azure Application Insights
• Power Apps and delegation - don't trust solely on the yellow triangle
• Using entity extraction AI model within Dynamics 365 CRM/Power Apps - Part 2
• Typescript for Dataverse mentoring - November 2021 playlist (Youtube) by @DanzMaverick

Topics for Dynamics 365 Business Applications Platform consultants, project managers and power users

• Tag incoming emails with AI Builder
• Ad-hoc Power BI reporting in Dynamics 365 (Preview) and Visualize data in model-driven apps with Power BI (Preview) | Power Apps Blog - you can also provide feedback on Power BI quick reports in model-driven Apps
• Revolutionizing the future for sellers in Dynamics 365 Sales
• Introducing Microsoft Customer Experience Platform: a solution for connected customer experiences
• Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Teams - the blueprint for cross-organization collaboration
• Enhancement in Email Template
• Achieving personalized engagement in B2B organizations
• Microsoft Ignite recap: Dynamics 365 news and announcements you may have missed
• Microsoft Teams - embedded chat in Dynamics 365 Sales/Customer Service
• Microsoft named a leader in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Engagement Center
• Microsoft Mechanics - Power Apps Updates | Pay-as-you-go model, standalone mobile app packages & Azure Integration - interview with Charles Lamanna (Youtube)
• Announcements for Power Apps at Ignite recording by @ClayBWesener
• Power Platform | Raise of the Citizen Data Analyst
• 6 ways AI-based personalization is improving the customer experience

CRMUG Belux Webinar - Accelerate your Power Platform journey using Power Accelerate

Join CRMUG Belux on November 20th at 12:00 CET for a free webinar to learn about the Power Accelerate ISV solution (https://www.poweraccelerate.com)  which accelerates your Microsoft Power Platform journey and makes modernization onto the Microsoft Power Platform fast and seamless.

No preregistration required - join us by clicking this Power Accelerate webinar link on Friday November 20th or download the Outlook calendar reminder for the Power Accelerate webinar.

Agenda:

• Introduction 
• Power Accelerate solution overview
• Power Accelerate solution demo
• Learn about the free private preview program

Speaker: Bert Wijns, Co-founder of the Power Accelerate ISV solution - Experienced subject matter expert guiding enterprise customers, implementation teams and partners through implementations of the Microsoft Power Platform. 

Improve your quality assurance using the Power Platform webinar

On November 3th, the Realdolmen Power Platform team organizes a free webinar on how you can leverage Power Apps, Power Automate and Power  BI to support quality assurance processes.

Improve your quality assurance using the Power Platform webinar registration link (November 4th  - 14:00-15:15 CET) .

Session description: With low-code platforms being a trendy topic of 2020, chances are that this isn’t your first invite for a webinar on this topic. But how about a real use-case in action? Let us show you a practical approach on how to combine the ease of use of the Power Platform with common Quality Assurance tasks. We take you through the process of digitizing a paper process for quality assurance, automating manual tasks to optimize efficiency and displaying interactive overviews for audit purpose.

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform monthly reading list August 2020

Technical topics (Configuration, customization and extensibility) 

• Dynamics 365 - the cost of manual deployments
• Power Apps with Azure Application Insights (Youtube 00:39:52)
• Power Automate Dynamics 365 connector deprecation
• Power Platform Developer Saturday recordings
• The power of Dual Write (Youtube 00:52:35)
• Querying date intervals in the Common Data Service by @rappen
• Creating a flow which triggers where regarding field = lead by @benhosk
• Dynamics 365 - Problems with managed solutions out of sync versions
• Enable send direct email button in Unified Interface
• Find Created On date of solution components in solution layers
• Configure display activites in UCI with the card form by @inogic
• BPF Flow step as a trigger in CDS (current environment) connector
• Securing your HTTP triggered flow in Power Automate
• Access flow run history within a record in Dynamics 365/CDS by @LinnZawWin
• PowerApps Collections Cookbook
• Load data from SQL on premise to CDS using Power Platform dataflows

Topics for Dynamics 365 Business Application Platform consultants, project managers and power users

• Power Apps Licensing explained (Youtube) by @LisaMCrosbie
• Planning a Power Apps project
• Improve sales productivity and remote selling with sales accelerator
• T-Mobile manages company wide initiatives and more with Power Platform
• Imagine, build and deploy solutions with Microsoft Power Platform
• PowerApps the truth about $10 by @stevemordue
• Enrich  customer data with brand and interest affinities with Dynamics 365 Customer Insights
• Modernizing the non-conformity management tool with Microsoft Power Platform
• Telstra citizen developers automate processes with Power Apps in Microsoft Teams, giving millions of minutes back to the business