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In this episode (sponsored by D365UG/CRMUG), hosts Britta Rekstad and Matthew C. Anderson discuss why native charts still matter in Dynamics 365 and model-driven PowerApps.

Discussed on the show

• How they are different from Power BI charts
• Users vs. Admins
• Security and Sharing
• Where charts are used
• Solution Awareness
• CRM Chart Guy
• XrmToolBox Advanced Chart Editor
• Power BI and More Podcast (CRM Audio)

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In episode 14 (sponsored by Maplytics by Inogic), Neil Benson gives a behind-the-scenes peek into ‘Orientation Week’ in his Dynamics 365 project kicking off this week.

Orientation Week (O-Week) is designed to on board two Scrum teams so that they can start delivering the Dynamics 365 workstream of an enterprise programme as quickly as possible. Neil talks through some of the planned O-Week activities and provides his assessment of some of the project’s risks and strengths.

This episode is brought to you by KingswaySoft.

As your Dynamics 365 environment grows, performance can be a challenge. Stephen Smith has worked on multiple very large Dynamics deployments, and in this episode, he talks about concurrent user and process issues that can arise in very large deployments and how to avoid them.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Social media strategy
• LinkedIn posts vs articles
• Should consultants code?
• Dynamics 365 performance
• Performance challenges for large vs. small environments
• The common ancestor concurrency issue
• Speed of development vs. scalability
• The time Stephan brought D365 Online async service down

This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the  CRM Audio network of podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

This episode of At Your Service is brought to you by Resco.

Shawn & Scott discuss migrating to the Unified Interface and some great resources to review before you take the leap!

Welcome to the first ever “collectors edition” of Refresh the Cache - the Dynamics 365 Portals Podcast (brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic)! Microsoft MVPs Nick Doelman and Colin Vermander join Shawn Tabor and talk about

• What is "Refresh the Cache" all about?
• Who are our hosts?
• • The End of ADXStudio v7
  • Strategies for migrating
  • Simple upgrade
  • Refactoring
  • Community Portal
• October ’18 Release Notes
• • Configuration Migration
  • Embed PowerBI visualizations
  • Restrict Portal access by IP address
  • Manage SharePoint Documents
  • Simplified Customization
  • Self Service portal diagnostics

 

Upgrading ADXStudio portals v7x to XRM Portals Community Edition

http://colinvermander.com/2017/11/27/upgrade-adxstudio-portals-v7-x-to-xrm-portals-community-edition/

 

XRMToolbox Portal Records Mover

https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/dynamicscrmtools/archive/2017/06/13/new-xrmtoolbox-plugin-portal-records-mover

 

Colin’s blog:

http://colinvermander.com/

 

Colin on Twitter:

@koolin_

 

Nick’s blog:

https://readyxrmblog.wordpress.com/author/nickdoelman/

 

Nick on Twitter:

@readyxrm

It's time for another episode of CRM Audio (brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic).

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Business Applications Developer (BAD) Masterclass North America--register here
• Outlook app is now configurable
• Dynamics 365 v9 Unified Interface navigation changes
• Dynamic help for solution import problems
• Dynamics 365 v9 On Premise
• George is getting out of the hosting business
• Find out where you can see us live at Microsoft Ignite

Tool review:

• Github vs. Bitbucket
• Gitlab vs. Github
• GitKraken

 

In this episode (sponsored by KingswaySoft), hosts Britta Rekstad and Matthew C. Anderson discuss the usage of Actions and Child Workflows in the Dynamics 365 platform.

Discussed on the show

• Getting familiar with Actions in Dynamics 365
• Actions and Child Workflows
• Example using notifications
• What's different about an Action
• Visibility to end users
• Action Buttons (preview feature)

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On this week’s At Your Service, the AYS team answers questions from the Listener Mailbag! Sarah talks about USD 4.0 release and the team discusses the new USD Accelerator from Neil Parkhurst! Plus, congratulations are in order for Agnes from Resco.net for her recent nuptials! Filling in is Andrew in the Resco Minute with some great content about their amazing support team!

Sprint planning is the topic for Scrum Dynamics episode 13, sponsored by D365UG. Host Neil Benson covers all the aspects of sprint planning for Dynamics 365 projects:

What is sprint planning and when does it take place?

Who attends sprint planning, and what to do if the product owner can’t make it?

How long is sprint planning?

What happens during sprint planning? Sprint goals, sprint backlog forecasting, Dynamics 365 feature design.

What’s needed for sprint planning?

In this episode (brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic) Matthew and Joel follow up the recent episode about attending conferences and look at productivity as a conference presenter:

• Finding a topic for your presentation
• Preparing the content for your presentation
• PowerPoint tips
• Presentation delivery tips

We also follow up on our recent episode about reading nonfiction with a discussion of why you should read fiction, and how reading fiction is different than reading nonfiction.