Field Service: Trying it out (Part 2)

  There are a couple of things about Resource Scheduling / Field Service I learned today which may be worth sharing, so here we go: 1. For those who want to try Field Service on-premise If you already have access to the customer source, you can download Field Service files from this link: https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/Global/365Enterprise/downloads/product-releases/365fieldservicedownloads#DownloadLink There… Read More »

Gartner peer insights: Microsoft vs Salesforce vs SAP

Normally, I don’t like participating in any kind of Dynamics vs SalesForce vs Oracle vs .. discussion, since, in my mind, those are all great products, and the success of every particular implementation depends more on the skills and experience of the team working there than on the product itself. So the purpose of this… Read More »

Field Service: Trying it Out

I never, actually, tried the Field Service before – just never had to.  You might say that’s so much for being an MVP, eh? And you would probably be right, but, to my excuse, Ottawa is still using on-prem version of Dynamics almost exclusively. It’s a bit of an on-premise enclave here – Microsoft is… Read More »

Synchronizing access to Dynamics data from external applications

What if you had to synchronize access to Dynamics data from the external applications/components. Maybe there is a scheduled process that’s scheduled to run nightly on different servers, and that’s supposed to process that data, or maybe there is a multithreaded application that’s using multiple threads.. Whatever the case is, imagine that you need to… Read More »

Dynamics 365, Power Apps, or is it the same now?

Just registered a new Dynamics 365 trial (v9.0.2) today, and could not help but notice something about it: Huh? I thought I was using Dynamics 365? Well, it might be a little bug there, but it’s also a clear indication of what’s coming and what’s described in the Power Apps blog: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powerapps-spring-announce/ The two platforms… Read More »

Configuration Data Manager – version 1.0.4.0

Another update for Configuration Data Manager is available: http://www.itaintboring.com/downloads/ConfigurationData_managed.zip Here is what’s included into this update You can use “Configuration Data” button to open the tool: There are two new dataset configuration parameters: When “Create Only” is selected, only new records will be imported to the destination environment. Sometimes, we don’t need to update existing… Read More »