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In this episode (brought to you by D365UG), Ulrik and Joel discuss some questions that Ulrik got from recent presentations at Extreme365.

• Leveraging Dynamics 365 security in PowerBI
• FetchXML vs oData for deep queries
• FetchXMLData limits
• Option sets and the value of the CDS connector
• Reporting on Dynamics 365 user adoption

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Sometimes design patterns can impact performance and usability in your Dynamics 365 solutions. Microsoft has recently released a solution checker to help identify patterns in your common data service solutions that negatively impact performance reliability.

Today Aengus Heaney, Senior Microsoft Program Manager joins us to talk about the solution checker.

• What is solution checker
• What kind of patterns does it identify
• Identifying false positives
• What kind of solutions does solution checker support?
• What regions can use solution checker?
• When should you run the solution checker?
• Scheduling and automating the solution checker

Links:

Make Higher Quality Apps with Solution Checker: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/make-higher-quality-apps-with-solution-checker/

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Listener Seth T. Bacon asks what is Microsoft's position on third-party developed tools. To answer the question, Daryl and Jonas invited Matt Barbour from Microsoft to answer the question:

Controls and constraints at the api level

Will Microsoft make community tools obsolete in the future?

Will Microsoft offer open sourceable tools?

How community-developed tools affect Microsoft roadmap.

Does Microsoft monitor third-party tools?

Early-bound vs. late-bound debate

In this episode (sponsored by mscrm-addons.com), hosts Britta Rekstad and Matthew C. Anderson discuss the easy to use (non-developer) methods to get data into Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and the Common Data Service for Apps.

Discussed on the show

• Import methods
• File types
• Import process
• Working with exceptions
• Relational data import

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In this episode (brought to you by KingswaySoft), Stephan Smith discusses the System Partitioning Strategy and the challenges of managing global deployment scenarios. As the number of enterprise customers adopting Dynamics grows, we’re beginning to see an increased number of large-scale global system deployments. In order to accommodate geographically distributed users, we need to consider system architecture strategies that can meet the performance expectations of business stakeholders and users.

Shawn Tabor and Scott LeFante discuss company experience with the 9.1 update and what the automatic update cadence really means. Then Sarah Jelinek and Shawn talk about Dynamics 365 for Talent and what it means for field service.

Talent is now in CDS

Licensing requirements

Using Talent with PowerApps and Microsoft Forms

Managing skills and skills gap analysis

Talent integration with F&O

Managing contract employees and seasonal positions

This episode is brought to you by D365UG.

In today's episode, Katherine and Will talk about reporting options for Finance and Operations.

• When should you use Finance/Management Reporter?
• When should you use Power BI?
• Difference between reporting in Customer Engagement and F&O
• Statutory reporting
• Discussing reporting with clients
• Reporting when moving from another ERP
• Reporting on revenue recognition
• General ledger reporting
• October 2018 enhancements for F&O
• Integration with Field Service and Project Service
• Integration templates

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In this episode, Dermot and Neil discuss how to optimise Scrum teams on a Dynamics 365 project.

 

Todd Mercer, from MD Financial Management in Ottawa Canada, asks “What to do motivate a team to operate at peak capacity for a long period of time? For enterprises that can’t afford a dedicated product owner or scrum master, what roles do you see pair up on part-time basis?”

This episode is brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic.

A few episodes ago we discussed personal mission statements. In this episode, Matthew Anderson talks about his personal mission statement and techniques he found to get to the why.

In this episode:

• Frying turkeys
• Personal mission statements revisited
• Essentialism
• "Personal philosophy" vs. "mission statement"
• How do values fit in with mission statement?
• Detect vs. invent
• Bland and concrete mission statement
• Leaving room for new experiences in your concrete mission statement
• What has Matthew stopped doing in light of his mission statement?
• Is TSA Precheck productive?

Links:

• Franklin Covey mission statement builder: https://msb.franklincovey.com/
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown

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In this episode (brought to you by KingswaySoft), Business Applications MVP and winner of the ARN Women in Technology award Elaiza Benitez joins Shawn and the Dynamics Guys to talk about Microsoft Flow. Elaiza's fantastic #WhatTheFlow vlog series is a go-to source for Dynamics people learning Microsoft Flow