Show Notes
What’s New in Power Platform:
- Another win for CDS as a data source for Canvas PowerApps – Owner, Customer, and Regarding can now be set – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/owner-customer-and-regarding-for-canvas-apps/
- Power Platform Provisioning and Administration is getting easier (storage capacity details for one) – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/provisioning-and-administration-is-getting-easier/
- Making PowerApps “components” easier to share with others along with a couple of free downloadable components you can use – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/import-components-from-cloud-apps/
- Working with time fields from Common Data Service in Canvas PowerApps just got more sophisticated – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/time-zone-independent-fields-for-canvas-apps/
What’s New in CE:
- If you’re using Universal Resource Scheduling (Field Service or Project Service), here’s a list of the latest Enhancements and Bug Fixes – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2019/05/14/enhancements-and-bug-fixes-in-universal-resource-scheduling-urs-version-3-7-0-70/
- Nice update to Layout – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2019/05/16/may-update-of-dynamics-365-layout-provides-new-learning-features-other-improvements/
- If you haven’t already updated your CE Marketing app to April release, you’ll be updated on June 15 – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2019/05/16/microsoft-is-updating-all-customers-to-the-april-2019-release-of-dynamics-365-for-marketing/
- If you use CE Field Service and haven’t moved to UCI version, do it by February, 2020 (only 9 months away) – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2019/05/17/announcing-end-of-life-for-field-service-online-legacy-versions-by-february-2020/
- Deprecation of Unified Service Desk 3.2 and lower versions, and features – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2019/05/21/deprecation-of-unified-service-desk-3-2-and-lower-versions-and-features/
- CE and Microsoft Project – Project Service Automation (PSA) roadmap – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2019/05/22/the-future-of-dynamics-365-for-project-service-automation-psa/
- CE and model-driven PowerApps modern view designer is now generally available (with some nice new toys) – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-the-new-view-designer/
- Woohooo! Finally, we can add existing PowerApps and Flows to solutions – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/alm-at-scale-new-features-and-automation-capabilities/
- Portal Capabilities Release 9.1.5.27 is going in for normal (not pre-release) portals this weekend. No solution update, but portal-side updates go in – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4502889
- Announcing (in Preview) saves in one platform will simultaneously save in the other one at the same time once configured (Dual-Writes!) – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-dual-write-preview/ with detailed instructions https://aka.ms/dualwrite-docs
- Ability to manage security by AAD Security Groups or Office Groups went live May 20! (We talked about it last show, but here’s the URL again) – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2019/05/01/using-azure-active-directory-groups-to-manage-an-users-app-and-data-access/\
What’s New in Talent/Retail/BC:
- What’s New in Talent – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/talent/whats-new-talent-may-13-2019
- New Call Center Autocharges – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/retail/get-started/whats-new-10-0-3
What’s New in F&O:
- Updates For 10.0.3 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/fin-and-ops/get-started/whats-new-changed-10-0-3
- Expense Reports Reimagined – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/financials/expense-management/ExpenseWorkspaceNew
What’s New in Solution Updates:
- Core CDS Platform update to 9.1.0.4632 – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4499770/service-update-46-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-9-1-0
- Core CDS Platform update expected this weekend to 9.1.0.4832 – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4500725/service-update-48-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-9-1-0
- Prospect to Cash solution update to 1.15.0.5
How do I operationalize things?
- Video showcasing upcoming enhancements to doing DevOps more easily on Power Platform and CE Apps – https://mybuild.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/77093
- Video highlighting using Dataflows and the Common Data Model to help make it easier to unlock the secrets of your data without needing a data science degree – https://mybuild.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/77087
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