Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Monthly Update-Feb/March 2023
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ReportTurns out if you blink February is over! And with that, welcome to the "February-March" monthly update for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform! Regardless of month, find previous monthly updates, check out our update briefing webcast when you get a chance, and review the services our team has to offer! Catch you on the radio!
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Featured News
2023 Release Wave 1 Plans For Power Platform And Dynamics 365
Key milestones for 2023 Release Wave 1
- January 25th, 2023 | Release plan available in English language.
- February 21st, 2023 | Release plans available in 11 additional languages.
- February 6th, 2023 | Early Access features is available.
- April 1st, 2023 | General availability.
- General Availability Regional deployments will start on April 1, 2023. Check the schedule HERE
- North America GA deployment will start on Friday, April 21, 2023 to Sunday, April 23, 2023
HOW TO TRACK FEATURES UPDATES
- START WITH THE RELEASE PLANNER
- Use the Release planner for Dynamics 365 to start and select your specific application.
- Use the release planner for Power Platform
- Use the Release plan page FOR DETAILS
- Dynamics 365, for Power Platform and for Industry Cloud
Early Access Features in 2023 Release Wave 1
GUIDANCE
Check the early access features that will impact user experience and enabled by default in APRIL 2023 at GA –
- Test and validate new features and capabilities that will be a part of the 2023 release wave 1, coming in April, before they get enabled automatically for your users.
- Early access features are enabled by default in April 2023 at GA.
- Early access features are available from February 3rd, 2023.
- Check out the early access features for Power Platform HERE
- Check out the early access features for DYNAMICS 365 HERE
- POWER PLATFORM ADMINISTRATOR – SEE HOW TO ENABLE EARLY ACCESS FOR ENVIRONMENT HERE
Planned Features in 2023 Release Wave 1
Microsoft Customer Success Day
We are excited to announce the first ever global, digital Microsoft Customer Success Day event! This FREE event is sponsored by Microsoft and will be held online on March 16, 2023.
Deprecation and Service Retirements
Review, Plan, Prioritize Remediation Efforts
Deprecation Power Apps & Power Automate | Deprecation Power Apps portals | Deprecation Canvas Apps | Deprecation for Power Platform Apps
Deprecated features in Dynamics 365 Sales
Deprecated features in Dynamics 365 Customer Service
Deprecated features in Dynamics 365 Field Service
Deprecated features in Universal Resource Scheduling
Removed or deprecated features in Finance and Operations apps
Dataverse OData v2.0 Service will retire on APRIL 30, 2023
- We plan to remove the Dataverse OData v2.0 Organization Data Service on April 30,2023.
- The Organization Data Service was deprecated with Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement v8.0 in favor of the Web API, an OData v4.0 service.
Model-driven app controls deprecation (2023 Release Wave 1) APRIL 2023
With the upcoming 2023 release wave 1 these controls for model-driven apps will be deprecated:
auto-complete, input mask, multimedia player, number input, option set, and star rating.
Why is this needed?
- We will be introducing new Fluent controls which have better usability, accessibility and dark mode support.
Some admin apps are deprecated in APRIL 2023
With the release of the Customer Service admin center app that consolidates admin experiences across the Customer Service suite, we announce that the following admin experiences will be deprecated and support will end in April 2023.
More information: Get started with Customer Service admin center
Omnichannel for Customer Service agent-facing app to be deprecated
The Omnichannel for Customer Service agent-facing app will be deprecated as of April 1, 2023. We recommend that you migrate your omnichannel configuration to Customer Service workspace.
Product Updates
Viva Sales
What is Viva Sales?
- It is a seller super companion app that brings together data from Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Teams app…) and CRM systems allowing sellers to improve customer experience, increase productivity, and gain valuable AI-insights into their customers – all in the flow of work.
What’s New in Viva Sales – January 2023
Improved CRM Admin experience:
- Manage admin settings and learn more from the Viva Sales app in Teams
- Customize how contacts, opportunities, and accounts show up across Viva Sales
Click HERE to learn more in details.
What’s New in Viva Sales – February 2023
Improved Sellers experience
- Communicate more effectively with AI-generated email replies
- Streamline customer discovery and understanding with Live People Cards
- Get AI-powered meeting summaries for even more Teams meetings
Click HERE to learn more in details.
Virtual tables creation wizard
Now in public preview, You can create virtual tables from SharePoint and SQL without any code, and without leaving the maker portal.
Making Dataverse available for all makers
Working with Dataverse is now becoming easier with ‘Developer environment’ that comes with premium capabilities, without any additional cost. Developer environment is great place for you to build and run the apps with Dataverse in your own personal space, without restriction and then eventually share and deploy to production environments. Developer environment honors tenant’s default DLP policy and hence a secure place for makers to start the experience while honoring their organization policy.
Call Dataverse actions directly in Power Fx
We are excited to announce direct access to Dataverse actions in Power Fx formulas as an Experimental release.
- As a part of the Power Fx language, authors can now directly invoke a Dataverse action within a formula
- A new Power Fx ‘Environment’ language object that authors can add to their app enables access to Dataverse actions. It is available with Power Apps release version 3.23022.
- Without this feature, it has been common for authors to use Power Automate to call Dataverse. However, calling Dataverse directly from Power Fx provides significant performance benefits (and ease of use) and should be preferred for direct transactional reads and updates.
Your ultimate sentiment analysis solution!
In this video, you’ll learn in 1 minute how using Power Automate and Microsoft Teams can be integrated with AI Builder’s sentiment analysis prebuilt model to automatically detect the sentiment of incoming emails.
The ability to integrate AI Builder’s sentiment analysis prebuilt model with Microsoft Teams will enable you to prioritize which emails to respond to first and avoid getting bogged down by emails that may not require immediate attention.
Learning Corner
Server-Side Synchronization Series Part 5: Automatic Incoming Email Promotion
This fifth part of the Server-Side Sync blog series will focus on user correlation methods not including in-reply-to.
Customers could experience an issue that causes emails to track into Dynamics 365. This is a direct result of a user making modifications to their personalization settings within Dynamics 365 that causes all emails within their respective inboxes to be created in Dynamics 365 and be visible to others within the organization.
This has a significant privacy risk and can violate laws in several countries depending on the email contents.
Learn more on that issue and how to prevent it in this part 5.
Capture Which Pages Site the Portal User Signed Up With
Sometimes you run into a scenario where you have multiple sites in a single environment, but you have a business requirement to record which site the end user signs up through.
Because authentication methods are reusable between the multiple sites, it can be tricky to know where they originated from.
See how to capture it from the link below-
Power Pages Collapsible Tabs
Occasionally as we are building Power Pages, we find that the Forms can become too long for our customers. In Dynamics, we currently have the ability to break the content up by tabs. Back in the day, CRM had collapsible tabs. While Pages doesn’t have this feature out of the box, there is a quick method with JavaScript that will allow you to automatically create collapsible tabs. You will want to ensure that all Tab labels on the form are visible else your results may vary.
Learn how to make it works, through example.
Introducing Microsoft Cloud Services Browser Favorites / Bookmarks
Microsoft offers several cloud-based services. As the set of services has grown, so has the set of URLs for the respective admin centers, admin portals, home pages, and makers portals.
This often ends with committing the frequently used service URLs to memory. If you happen to work across multiple clouds, the list can become large.
Learn tips from the link below for a better experience
Creating a Dataverse Instance in the Desired Location
Creating environments in the Power Platform Admin Center is easy, you just need to provide a name, a type, decide if you want a database or not, chose if you want to pay-as-you-go and a region. This last choice is the one that is covered in this blog.
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