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Microsoft Bookings

Microsoft Bookings is a free app from Microsoft for scheduling and managing appointments. It is aimed at small businesses. It is included in in Office Business plans but as of Nov 2017 it can be added to any Office 365 tenant as a free add-on, look for the Business Apps (see this article for more …

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Waiting for a page to be retrieved – Dynamics add-in for Outlook

Describes issues with the add-in for Outlook not showing web pages and showing a “waiting for page” message. Sep 2018 – Dynamics web pages don’t show in Outlook build 16.0.10730 or later Back in Nov 2017 (see below), I documented an issue with the CRM add-in not showing web pages and getting stuck on “Waiting …

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Clearing out Trace records

Dyanmics 365 maintains Trace records for troubleshooting things like Server-Side Sync. Inspired by this article, https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crminthefield/2017/11/06/is-dynamics-365-server-side-sync-filling-up-your-database/ I have started using Bulk Delete to clear out older Trace logs. I use the criteria Level = Information or Warning.

Dynamics 365 for Talent

Managing recruitment, onboarding, development of staff. See https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/talent/capabilities/ Includes: Attract, Onboard and Core HR apps. The Attract and/or Onboard apps are available without Core HR. See https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/talent/overview/ for pricing. Available with full or team members subscription license. Minimum purchase: 5 full subscription licenses (this can include Dynamics 365 Plan or Unified Operations Plan – which …

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All change for Dynamics 365 editions

Well according to Steve Mordue (https://stevemordue.com/dynamics-365-kicking-hornets-nest/) and Jason Gumpert at MSDynamicsWorld (https://msdynamicsworld.com/story/microsoft-dynamics-365-adjust-smb-focus-composable-solutions-away-editions) it seems that Microsoft is going to get rid of the Enterprise and Business edition distinction. Instead all the apps in Dynamics 365 will be available for purchase in any combination – or that is my understanding. If this does come to pass …

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Field Service

Date Event 01 Apr 2018 Microsoft will no longer support the legacy FieldOne Add-on (v5.x or earlier) after April 1, 2018. 01 Feb 2018 Microsoft will no longer host legacy FieldOne on Azure or AWS after February 1, 2018      

Document Management Entities

Record types involved in Document Management Entity Purpose SharePoint Site A SharePoint site Document Location Point to a SharePoint document library or folder. These can be created automatically by Dynamics 365/CRM SharePoint Site SharePoint site records can use an absolute URL or a relative URL. For an absolute URL, the URL points to a site …

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Entities related to Goals

The following entities are used in Goals: Display Name Schema Name Purpose Rollup Query goalrollupquery Defines the set of records that apply to the goal, if not using records owned by the user Goal Metric metric Defines what is measured Rollup Field rollupfield The field to use for measuring progress (in-progress) or meeting target (actual) …

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