CRM Rocks

Episode 114: Markus Erlandsson and Heidi Neuhauser have a chat with Phil Topness from Microsoft about Power CAT. Phil starts with explaining what Power Customer Advisory Team is, and what they do. Who the customer is for CAT and how they do what they do.

Bio

Phil is irrationally excited about applying technology to help people better do what they need to do. He helps the world’s largest organizations maximize their results from Microsoft Power Platform as part of the Power Platform Customer Advisory Team (CAT) at Microsoft.

Links

https://aka.ms/powercatlive

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/starter-kit

Managed Environments For Easier Governance

Episode 114: Markus Erlandsson and Heidi Neuhauser have a chat with Michael Roth and Malin Martnes about Dataverse vs SharePoint as a data source in power apps. Michael starts with how he comes from SharePoint and M365 world and reaches out for help on Power Apps, to find help in Malin Martnes.

Bio

Michael demonstrates achievable quick wins and focuses on an overall strategy to sustainably implement the concept of continuous citizen development throughout the organisation.

Malin works as Head of Dynamics 365 at Knowit in Oslo, Norway, she works with Dynamics 365 CRM, Marketing, Human Resources, and the Power Platform

Links

https://www.matthewdevaney.com/the-complete-power-apps-functions-list/

PNP Community Samples:  https://pnp.github.io/powerplatform-samples/

https://nordicsummit.info/

https://malindonosomartnes.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/malinmartnes/

https://www.michaelroth42.com/

https://twitter.com/MichaelRoth42

Episode 113: Markus Erlandsson and Heidi Neuhauser have a chat with Lisa Crosbie from Barhead Solutions about custom pages. They discuss what custom pages are, how you can use them and how they differ from canvas apps.

Bio

Lisa has a contagious enthusiasm for low code technology and making it possible for anyone to get started with Power Platform and Dynamics 365.

Lisa has taken a career journey from being a Dynamics 365 customer and a business user doing unspeakable things with Excel, to an evangelist for Microsoft Business Applications, educating customers and helping solve problems for people just like who she used to be. Lisa loves getting people excited about this awesome technology, opening new possibilities, and giving back to this community that has given her so much, learning and sharing together every day.

She is a YouTuber, podcaster, blogger and speaker.

Links

Lisa’s explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFCXX36220

Scutt Durow so what? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL21XV1CIgk

Known issues: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/model-driven-apps/model-app-page-issues

Reza Dorrani, How to build Responsive Power Apps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o2L0DADzKQ

Blog: https://lisacrosbie.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/lisacrosbie

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-crosbie/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LisaCrosbie

The UP Podcast: https://theUPPodcast.com

Episode 112: Markus Erlandsson talks to Neil Benson from Customery about Agile CRM, where Neil shares how he makes estimates, handles tricky situations reduces fears of changes. He also talks about how customers can be good product owners.

Bio

Neil’s on a mission to help Microsoft customers and partners build agile business applications. He’s well known for his LEGO inspired content in his videos, training courses and even his podcast cover art. He’s been building Microsoft business apps since 2006, using Scrum since 2008 and a Microsoft MVP since 2010. Neil lives in Brisbane, Australia where he enjoys family days out and making pizza.

Links

Amazing Apps podcast: https://www.amazingapps.show/111

Customer Academy school: https://customery.com/crmrocks ($50 discount for CRM Rocks listeners).

Customery Academy YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/customeryacademy

Agile Applications User Group https://aka.ms/agileappsug

Neil Benson on LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/neilbenson

Neil Benson on Twitter https://twitter.com/customery

Free Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps course https://customery.academy/courses/foundations

Episode 111: Markus Erlandsson and Heidi Neuhauser have a chat with Kylie Kiser from Hitachi. They discuss what kind of security horror stories all three of them has experienced. Kylie shares the story of sharing and how it did impact performance, Heidi shares the story about creating a new security role, and they all discuss if backs, Data Loss Prevention or conditional access can help.

Bio

Kylie Kiser is a Power Platform enthusiast who has been working with Microsoft technologies for over 10 years. She is passionate about the community and shows this through blogging, presenting, and hosting events. She leads a thriving user group based in Washington, DC. Kylie is also a three-time Microsoft Business Applications MVP!

Links

https://kyliekiser.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylie-kiser/

https://twitter.com/KylieKiser

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt7jIvOwE4mHsr1Tjk1jj3w

Power 24, security:

https://www.xrmvirtual.com/meeting-details/?id=72c88951-5293-ec11-b400-000d3a14da7f

Dynamics con: https://dynamicscon.com/submissions/?query=Kylie%20Kiser

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Modernized Business Units in Microsoft Dataverse

Team security Inheritance

Old Behavior: https://blog.crmguru.co.uk/2013/06/25/security-roles-and-teams-in-crm-2011-an-inconvenient-half-truth/

New Behavior: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/security-roles-privileges#team-members-privilege-inheritance

Help Ukraine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andriibutenko/ or https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andriibutenko_wonderful-people-of-greenville-spartanburg-activity-6904032086173261824-eyz6

Episode 110: Markus Erlandsson and Heidi Neuhauser have a chat with Nancy Tandy from Microsoft. They discuss learning opportunities on Microsoft Learn, certification process, Learn TV and Chuck Norris jokes. Nancy starts with listing some of the learning offerings from Microsoft, then she goes more into details about Learn TV and what content is made available there Nancy continues to explain what the most popular topics are on Learn

Bio

Nancy Tandy is a Sr. Business Strategy Manager at Microsoft. Nancy has 20 plus years of integrated marketing management experience including developing marketing strategies, driving product launches, events and large-scale campaigns.  She has been at Microsoft for over 15 plus years.

Links

 Get started at www.microsoft.com/learn

Blogg https://aka.ms/MicrosoftLearnBlog

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/dynamics365/

Chuck Norris and Dad jokes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF6CMwMyNuM

https://twitter.com/njtandy

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancytandy/

Episode 109: Markus Erlandsson and Heidi Neuhauser talks to Nick Doelman from Microsoft about Portals and the last year news for Power Apps Portals. From enablers such as Web API, PCF components and CLI to multiple portals, data verse search and progressive web apps.

Bio

Nick has recently joined Microsoft as a senior content developer focused on developing content for Power Apps portals, he is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Dynamic Communities All-Star award winner. Nick is a trainer, consultant, speaker, podcaster, and blogger focused on the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 and a former Microsoft Business Applications MVP.

Links

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/portals/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/portals/web-api-overview

https://pcf.gallery/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/portals/power-apps-cli

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2021wave2/power-apps-portals/relevance-search-integration-portals

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Apps-Ideas/idb-p/PowerAppsIdeas

https://jukkaniiranen.com/2021/08/did-power-apps-really-leak-your-customer-data/

https://365.training

https://readyxrm.blog/2021/11/30/what-is-a-progressive-web-app/

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Apps-Ideas/Share-Landing-Page-Configuration-from-Dynamics-365-for-Marketing/idi-p/1398843

https://readyxrm.blog

Episode 108: Markus Erlandsson talks to Nick Hance from Reenhanced about Robotic Desktop Automation and RPA, and how you can automate most things that don’t have an API. Nick starts by explaining what Robotic Process Automation (RPA) means and part of its history. He continues to talk about attended vs unattended and what the difference is, how you can use it to automate your tasks and be more effective.

Bio

Nick is heavily focused on WordPress and the Microsoft Power Platform and is the author of two Power Automate connectors, Gravity Forms, and Power Form 7 (for Contact Form 7). He’s aiming to make using WordPress with Power Apps & Power Automate, pleasant, profitable, and enjoyable.
Nick is an accomplished software developer and president of Reenhanced, a company that has reviewed and tagged each and every one of the 585 Power Automate connectors at connectorreview.com.

Links

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/introduction

www.reenhanced.com

www.connectorreview.com

https://xkcd.com/1205/, Is It Worth the Time?

Episode 107: Markus Erlandsson talks to Mike Hartley about accessibility and how you can get a bigger audience by considering it. Mike starts by explaining what the term accessibility is and how it differs from usability, he then continues to explain screen readers and contrast, as well as tab orders, canvas apps portals and model-driven apps, and what to avoid the most obvious accessibility issues, by actually checking.

Bio

Mike is newly awarded Microsoft MVP and a big advocate and user of the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365 stacks, including the Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate and Data verse particularly) and Office 365.
Founder and co-host of The Things We Don’t Talk About podcast and frequent blogger, speaker and advocate of Mental Health and Accessibility. Believing in Capability, not Disability and Accessible By Design solutions and events.

Links

https://a11yproject.com

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Apps-Ideas/Set-FocusBorderColor-to-the-same-as-HoverBorderColor-by-Default/idi-p/1329194

https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikebhartley/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hart365

Website/Blog: https://hart365.co.uk

Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/Hart365