May is approaching and do you know what that means!? Microsoft Build is around the corner! In case you have not registered yet, navigate to the event site, Microsoft Build, and get it done. It’s a hybrid event with possibilities to attend live in Seattle (to a cost) or online (free of charge). The session planner is available so you can already start browsing and planning what sessions to attend. Attending live in Seattle gives you the chance to hear the news first as well as attending lots of more sessions and you get all the benefits that comes with networking. Examples of interesting sessi ..read more

This week the Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event for 2024 Release Wave 1 was held. A launch event marks the start of the roll out of a new wave. New features are presented in demos and customer stories are showcased. I watched it late evening here in Sweden, after it was sent (happy to be able to do so). In case you missed it, you can watch it on-demand now as well. Personally, I always find it interesting to see how the different products and services are presented at the official events. Overall you get a feeling for what’s ahead and what main areas Microsoft are investing in. Surp ..read more

In my previous post I wrote about what I was missing in the Microsoft official documentation when it comes to Copilot. With AI capability being introduced in each and every product & feature, I can imagine the planning, introduction and updates of Copilot chapters to be quite some work.  In this post we’ll look at what chapters there are and focus on where to point people looking for Copilot learning resources. We’ll start in Microsoft Learn, after all, that’s the go-to place, right? But we’ll also have a look at other sources of information. Where to find the answers? General descri ..read more

In my previous post I had Copilot(s) on my mind and shared my thoughts as I was looking into what’s what in the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem. In this post we will look at how the concept of Copilots looks in the official documentation, Microsoft Learn. Is the official documentation up to date? Lot’s of hits for Copilot! Let’s first check what happens if we search for Copilot. The Microsoft Learn teams have been busy, 2282 hits. What if I filter on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform? 292 hits. What’s Copilot? Can I find out what is Copilot? Not easily. There are chapters describing overall what i ..read more

A post dedicated to Copilots. When did we hear about it for the first time? Have you followed how the concept has evolved? What’s what? I recently had to delve into this myself and I thought I might as well write down my thoughts in a post. So here it is! One or several Copilots? The headline to this post probably already reviled it, in Microsoft context, we are not just talking about one Copilot, we are talking about a whole ecosystem. Even though there is a product called Microsoft Copilot it does not mean that is the one and only. Let’s look at the definition. Definitions are always fun. Du ..read more

This week Microsoft gathered what I can imagine to be an enthusiastic audience to attend Microsoft Ignite in-person in Seattle. In this world of possibilities the event could also be seen online, live as well as on-demand. Not all, but lots of session. In this post I’ll let you in on my reflections after watching on-demand content from the event. Before we look at highlights from my perspective, here’s the link to the Microsoft Ignite 2023 Book of News. If you take a closer look to it from a BizApps perspective, there’s not much under the Power Platform chapter, in there you’ll find one menu i ..read more

This is part five in a series of posts, you can find the first one here. In the dual-write projects I have been involved in, I have had the possibility to exchange ideas with people both within the projects but outside of the projects as well. Community when at its best, people sharing and are willing to exchanged ideas even though not at the same company. In this post, I’ll highlight the Yammer group dedicated to dual-write and let you in on other good-to-know info and sources of information and inspiration. The Yammer group Learning about dual-write if more fun when doing it together with ot ..read more

This is part three in a series of posts, you can find the first one here. In part two we looked at linking environments together. When you have linked F&O to a Dataverse environment with the purpose to start utilizing dual-write, it’s time to think about your specific integration scenario and what templates to start from. Most likely you will need to make modifications to mappings and create your own table maps. What’s ALM and what to think about related to dual-write? In which should you do your changes to the table maps? How to get your changes to the other environments? That we will loo ..read more

This is part two in a series of posts, you can find the first one here. You might have heard of One Dynamics One Platform. Until we are there, we live with F&O in LCS and in order to utilize the Power Platform integration and e.g. dual-write, we need to handle the linking parts ourselves. In this post I will share my findings related to linking environments into pairs, F&O and Dataverse. Note! Managing F&O environments is about to move from LCS to PPAC (Power Platform Admin Center), i.e. the environment provisioning part will change. This post is written based on how the setup has ..read more

In a previous post, I gave an introduction to dual-write, the OOB infrastructure for setting up integration between Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (F&O) and Dataverse / Dynamics 365 CE apps. In this post, I will continue demystifying dual-write and this time we will dig a bit deeper under the surface and I will let you in on general findings related to environments. Note! Managing F&O environments is about to move from LCS to PPAC (Power Platform Admin Center), i.e. the environment provisioning part will change. The findings below are based on how the setup has been done “the old ..read more