Dynamics Fortnight Fridays Episode for 2023-05-19


Show Notes

What’s New in Power Platform:

* Dataverse Synapse Link in Delta Lake format (preview) – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/azure-synapse-link-delta-lake
* Improvements to Power Pages designer – https://powerpages.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-up-your-site-creation-with-new-design-studio-capabilities/
* Offline in Canvas Apps with a switch (preview) – https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-public-preview-of-canvas-built-in-offline/
* Details of how Copilot works within security boundaries – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2023/05/12/how-copilot-in-microsoft-dynamics-365-and-power-platform-delivers-enterprise-ready-ai-built-for-security-and-privacy/
* New Power Platform Developer Blog – https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/
* May release of COE Kit is out – https://github.com/microsoft/coe-starter-kit/releases/tag/CoEStarterKit-May2023
* Must-read description of what’s available today and how we got there – https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1636062794805219031-dynamics-365-application-modernization-on-microsoft-azure
* Power Pages template editing (preview) – https://powerpages.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/low-code-editing-of-web-templates-from-the-design-studio-now-available-in-public-preview/
* Good advice on security role configuration related to PAD permissions – https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-platform-custom-security-role-for-power-automate-for-desktop-rpa-the-guide-for-admins/

What’s New in CE:

* Improvements in Contact management in Sales – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2023/05/10/boost-your-sales-business-with-smart-organization-charts/
* Knowledge Favoriting – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2023/05/05/get-quick-access-to-your-most-used-knowledge-articles/

What’s New in HR/Retail/BC/Project:

* Business Central updates – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plan/2023wave1/smb/dynamics365-business-central/planned-features
* Updates for Guides – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plan/2023wave1/guides/dynamics365-guides/planned-features
* Supply Chain Center updates – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plan/2023wave1/supply-chain-center/microsoft-supply-chain-center/planned-features

What’s New in F&SCM:

* Split billing in Finance – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2023/05/15/split-recurring-contract-billing-across-multiple-customers/
* External printing in F&SC – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2023/05/12/printing-labels-using-external-service-with-dynamics-365-warehouse-management/
* New API for Order management fulfilment – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2023/04/28/calling-intelligent-order-management/
* Financial Tags – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2023/04/26/financial-tags-flexible-reporting-and-analytics-capabilities-without-the-overhead-of-dimensions/
* New PowerApps/Operations documentation – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/power-platform/overview

What’s New in Solution Updates:

* Marketing to 1.94.2009.0
* Enterprise Sales to 9.0.23041.10005 then 9.0.23043.10002
* Sales Insights to 9.0.23051.10001
* Flow Extensions to 1.5.0.1
* Power BI Extensions to 1.0.0.75 then 1.0.0.76
* Intelligent Order Management to 1.0.0.6305
* Cloud for Retail FLW to 1.0.0.635 then 1.0.0.655
* Virtual Connectors in Dataverse to 9.0.0.1174
* Wrap to 202302.2.906.13
* Field Service to 8.8.91.36
* Service Scheduling to 9.0.23044.1004
* Release Schedule for F&SC proactive quality updates – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/fin-ops/get-started/quality-updates-schedule

3 Places you can look to find out some of the details of these updates:

* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/released-versions/
* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/webapi/reference/solutions?view=dataverse-latest
* Customer Insights – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-insights/whats-new-customer-insights

Featured Content:

* Don’t miss Build next week – https://build.microsoft.com/
* Bart recently joined an episode of the Digestible Dynamics Podcast –
https://shows.acast.com/the-digestible-dynamics-podcast/episodes/how-to-leverage-the-one-microsoft-cloud-for-d365