Simplify your Windows 365 Enterprise deployment with the updated Windows 365 deployment checklist

Simplify your Windows 365 Enterprise deployment with the updated Windows 365 deployment checklist

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We’re excited to announce that we’ve just released an updated Windows 365 deployment checklist in the Microsoft 365 admin center (MAC).   


 


What is Windows 365? 


Windows 365 is a cloud-based Desktop as a service (DaaS) solution that automatically creates a new type of Windows virtual machine for your customer, known as a Cloud PC. A Cloud PC is a highly available, optimized, and scalable virtual machine that provides customers with a rich Windows desktop experience. Cloud PCs are hosted in the Windows 365 service and is accessible from anywhere, on any device (Learn more about Windows 365).  


 


Windows 365 deployment is made to be simple (to see an end-to-end deployment overview, visit Overview of Windows 365 deployment). However, we understand that our customers have unique and complex environments.  


 


What is the Windows 365 deployment checklist?  


To help you integrate Windows 365 with your existing enterprise environment, we’ve compiled learnings and best practices from the Microsoft 365 FastTrack Team, which has worked with hundreds of enterprise customers. We’re excited to offer these in an updated Windows 365 deployment checklist experience as part of the Advanced Deployment Guides in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. This checklist will guide you as you plan, deploy, and scale Windows 365 in your environment.  


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The Windows 365 deployment checklist guides admins through the considerations around Azure basics, identity, networking, licensing, management, security, applications, and end user experiences that are applicable to their deployment configuration. Admins can assign tasks for each area to the responsible stakeholders and define a target date of completion. Admins can also see a summary view with an overall status to track progress against their timelines. 


 


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How can I access the Windows 365 deployment checklist?  


To access the Windows Enterprise 365 checklist, visit this link or directly at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2251210. 


 


Additional Resources:  


New on Microsoft AppSource – Office apps

New on Microsoft AppSource – Office apps

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We continue to expand the Microsoft AppSource ecosystem. For this volume, 52 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:


 

























































































































































































































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AdvAIsor: AdvAIsor from Tendencias Consultoria Integrada is an AI tool for text creation, proofreading, and translation. This LLM-powered add-in for the Microsoft Office suite brings enhanced proofreading and translation experience for your documents, with maximum integration. Through a docked dashboard, get quick, easy, and dynamic access to all features with just one click.


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AI Perfect Assistant for Microsoft 365: Powered by ChatGPT, AI Perfect Assistant from OOO enhances Microsoft Word and other Microsoft 365 applications to help users with tasks such as ghostwriting, translation, and summarizing text. With AI Perfect Assistant, you can generate stunning PowerPoint slides, reply to messages in Outlook and Teams, craft elegant documents in Word, and more.


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aMail: From Asite Solutions, aMail is a Microsoft Outlook plugin and add-in that connects your inbox and the Asite Cloud. This customizable email management tool enables users to save emails and attachments in project folders on Asite, providing a secure and central filing cabinet for project-related correspondence.


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Anagrams by Frameable: A simple yet competitive word game for Microsoft Teams, Anagrams by Frameable presents a team-building activity for before meetings get started or any time during the workday for engaging activity between coworkers. Combine letters to guess the word blanks collaboratively, competitively, or just on your own.


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Atlan: Get effortless metadata enrichment and lineage impact analysis in bulk with this Atlan Technologies add-in for Microsoft Excel. This integration allows you to document descriptions, certifications, ownership, tags, and announcements for columns and any list of upstream or downstream assets right from Excel and sync it all to Atlan with a single click.


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BlueCargo: This AI-powered add-in for Microsoft Outlook analyzes and recoups per diem fees directly from your inbox. After a user opens a per diem invoice attached to any email, BlueCargo analyzes the invoice, audits your per diem charges, and finds any potential savings. BlueCargo includes templates for presenting supporting evidence in dispute emails.


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Blueink: Blueink is a secure, cloud-based e-signature solution that allows you to prepare, send, track, save, and download important documents and contracts for electronic signatures using Microsoft Teams. Blueink’s certificate of evidence provides a detailed audit trail of the entire signing process, including the document, the signers, and the IP address of the signer.


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Carousel Pro: Prakash Software Solutions’ Carousel Pro elevates your Microsoft SharePoint experience with interactive storytelling through eye-catching animations and seamless integration. With this powerful tool, you have the freedom to infuse life into your site’s homepage and other pages, effortlessly engaging your audience and delivering information in a captivating format.


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ClearContract: ClearContract offers AI-powered contract analysis to help reduce legal risk, helping in-house counsel and contract managers analyze incoming contracts by highlighting missing clauses and clauses that are deviating from the market standard. ClearContract frees up time for legal departments while reducing and streamlining contract risk.


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Corcentric Platform Add-in for Word Online: This Corcentric add-in features contract clause libraries and template management to improve the editing workflow of contract documents in the Microsoft 365 online. version of Microsoft Word. Users can collaborate directly on files without having to download and re-upload to the Corcentric Platform, and changes will be integrated into the final negotiated contract.


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Data Simulator: Turn to Prakash Software Solutions’ Data Simulator for Microsoft SharePoint data testing and development. The SharePoint List View Data Simulator Command Set is your passport to a hassle-free, efficient data generation experience in which you can handpick columns, set record counts, define data types, and impose numeric boundaries.


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dokublick Add-In: Digital document management is made easy with this offer from Buhl Data Service. dokublick is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that automatically stores all documents and receipts in digital folders, giving users an overview of documents and access from anywhere at any time.   


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Domo: The Domo app allows you to find cards and datasets you have access to within the Domo platform. When discussing data in a Microsoft Teams chat or meeting, users can easily find and post Domo data without leaving Teams. Additionally, all KPI cards you post will display a snapshot of the data.


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Don’t Interrupt: From Hootware Limited, Don’t Interrupt is a powerful tool designed to enhance productivity and work-life balance while using Microsoft Teams. With a subset of our full features, users can easily enable or disable Don’t Interrupt and manage overrides directly within Teams.


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Donut: This offer from Donut Technologies makes strategic connections in Microsoft Teams to achieve common goals and better outcomes. Donut will pair everyone on the team and send a message prompting them to connect — they can open a chat or video call in Teams or find a time to meet using the Teams calendar.


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ELIGO eVoting: ELIGO eVoting by ID Technology is a secure election management platform that digitizes and automates the entire process. Catering to public and private organizations, ELIGO eVoting meets legal requirements, ensuring legally valid election results. Microsoft Teams users will benefit from an integrated voting experience that’s secure and anonymous.


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Enjo: From Troopr Labs, Enjo is a full-stack generative AI toolkit purpose-built for support teams. After being added to Microsoft Teams, Enjo assists in the resolution of employee requests by deeply embedding generative AI capabilities into your existing support workflow. Enjo understands user intent and retrieves relevant information from across all knowledge sources to craft human-like responses.


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farBooking: From FAR Networks, farBooking helps users better organize their work, both remotely and in person, via Microsoft Outlook and Teams. Give your employees the ability to connect with colleagues, find spaces, desks, and resources, and increase productivity, all from one platform. A farBooking account is required to use this app.


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GanttPRO App: GanttPRO from DPM Solutions is an online project management tool based on Gantt charts that transforms work through seamless collaboration without having to leave Microsoft Teams. Intuitive and visually appealing, GanttPRO has a short learning curve so even new team members can start working on a project in 10 to 15 minutes.


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HGC UC Talk: From Deltapath Limited, HGC UC Talk allows you to call anywhere from Microsoft Teams with HGC Softphone or the HGC Mobile App. Outgoing calls launch the HGC UC Softphone or HGC UC Mobile App. A subscription to HGC UC Softphone or HGC UC Mobile App is required.


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HiHello Email Signatures: Email signatures from HiHello allow organizations to ensure that every email sent presents a professional and consistent brand experience. Admins can create custom email signatures and instantly deploy them to everyone at your company for a consistent, beautiful email experience.


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Jambo: Jambo for Microsoft Outlook enables fast and easy creation of new communication records for your Jambo projects, saving you time and effort. When you send emails, this add-in lets you easily log the interaction.


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JobPts for Outlook Add-In: Designed to seamlessly integrate colleague appreciation into your email workflow, the JobPts add-in for Microsoft Outlook lets you choose the recognition type, recipient, and message with just a few clicks.


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KeeperAI: The KeeperAI add-in for Microsoft 365, Teams, and Outlook enables you to build meaningful connections within your virtual workspace. KeeperAI does this by helping you understand colleagues’ personalities and soft skills. This add-in requires a KeeperAI account.


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Lexter.ai: The Lexter.ai assistant for Microsoft Word empowers lawyers with AI-driven features enabling them to optimize daily practices. Lexter.ai simplifies the creation of legal documents, saving time and effort, while also providing enhanced search capabilities within its internal document repository.


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Macroplot Link for Excel: Economists, macroeconomic analysts, and financial analysts can use Macroplot Link for Excel to easily import time series data FRED, New York Fed, BIS, World Bank, WITS, and ECB. It also supports national sources from Uruguay (BCU, INE, BEVSA, DNA), Argentina (BCRA, datos.gob.ar), and Brazil (BCB).


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Maileva: Available in French, Maileva by Docaposte supports fast preparation of shipments for La Poste, France’s universal postal service provider. Maileva can take care of printing, preparing, and delivering traditional mail to the post office or send your registered mail 100% electronically.


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mybrand.center: This add-in from RGN Brand Identity Services simplifies the selection and integration of uploaded and tagged assets from the mybrand.center application. With a paid subscription, users gain access to a beautiful library of branded images to effortlessly enhance Microsoft 365 documents.


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News Scroller: This web part by Prakash Software Solutions turns your Microsoft SharePoint site into an engaging, information-rich hub. Enjoy dynamic, customizable, and interactive new updates that will captivate readers.


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Overview by Frameable: This simple dashboard for Microsoft Teams surfaces your most important chats, channels, files, meetings, and ongoing calls. Save valuable time with a view of new messages, calls, and meetings, all on one page. Unlock total flexibility to add, move, or hide columns to fit your work style.


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Peliqan.io: Paliqan.io syncs your data from business applications such as CRM, ERP, finance, and accounting tools into Microsoft Excel, centralizing it into a data warehouse. Get a complete view of your customers, products, and invoices, and analyze further and build reports with just a few clicks.


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Pixel Art: This app from Digital Inspiration creates stunning pixel art using Microsoft Excel. Simply upload an image and watch as it’s transformed into a grid of colored pixels within your spreadsheet.


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ProFile – Large File Exchange: This solution from Mevitco lets you send and receive large files that aren’t suitable for email. It features integrated and self-updated antivirus protection, configurable file extensions, and native Microsoft Entra ID integration. There’s no file size limit, and transfers auto-retry when connections are lost.


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Rowsie AI: Rowsie helps you understand, build, and update Microsoft Excel modes with ease. Ask it anything about your spreadsheets, from model logic to deciphering complex formulas. Rowsie can craft formulas, clean up formatting, and even build new models from scratch.


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Seleam: This fixed assets management platform manages physical assets and consumables. By providing accurate tracking and reducing waste, Seleam helps enterprises optimize spending. Employees can even view and manage fixed assets assigned to them and request repairs, apply for new assets, and initiate asset handover.


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Sidekick: A companion app to the XOPS Control Center, XOPS Sidekick gives employees contextual notifications through Microsoft Teams channels from the XOPS platform delivering Autonomous IT. Sidekick gives you a heads-up for your action items and takes care of the rest.


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SigningCloud eSign: This solution from Securemetric Technology lets you securely sign and manage documents in Microsoft Teams. Sign documents from almost any device and keep track of the signing process. Once signing is complete, download a tamper-proof, digitally signed document via Teams.


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Simply Stakeholders for Outlook (Restricted): Simply Stakeholders from Darzin Software creates a comprehensive record of all your stakeholder engagements so you always know who important stakeholders are, and who has been meeting with and talking to them.


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Skills Copilot: Skills Copilot by Lake Union Solutions lets you record your professional skills, acquire new skills, and set career goals, it provides access to more than 98,000 skill definitions and 1.25 million job-to-skill mappings. Use it to find skilled coworkers, learn about different roles, and access training resources.


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SMS2GO: Send and receive SMS messages from Microsoft Outlook with SMS2GO by CIM-Mobility. It features message scheduling, templates, and the ability to send to users in more than 150 countries.


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Sortino: Investment bankers and institutional investors use Sortino to automatically build fully linked comparable companies analysis, DCFs, 3-statement models, and more. It extracts and analyzes data from many sources such as company financials, SEC filings, earning call transcripts, news, and market data.


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Squadify: More than just an opinion poll or engagement tool, Squadify analyzes, tracks, and develops teams to drive optimal outcomes in performance. It spotlights issues to remove barriers to team success quickly, and translates them into clear, actionable insights that enable constructive conversations and drive results.


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Swarm Phishnet: Swarm Phishnet from Autnhive is an integrated email and data transfer security platform that combines multiple layers of protection and verification to safeguard your communications. Its primary goal is to detect fraud and phishing attacks while protecting data during transfer.


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Tall Emu CRM: The Tall Emu CRM add-in lets you view, edit, and upload all your document templates directly into Microsoft Word. Give your business documents a cohesive, branded look and feel by editing logos, information, and layout.


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TR Legal Communication Hub: Streamline your team’s approval process with the TR Legal Communication Hub from Thomson Reuters. It enhances collaboration and efficiency with quick and easy approval management right in Microsoft Teams. Say goodbye to decision making delays and endless emails.


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Trusty: Trusty makes referrals easy, allowing any member of your organization to refer talent from their network or share personal referral links to boost your brand and communicate open positions. Trusty helps your recruiting team by automating many daily tasks like announcements, referral campaigns, and more.


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Viva Announcements to SharePoint Connector: Cloudwell’s solution will help you stay informed and updated with a seamless announcements experience, bringing announcements from Microsoft Viva Connections into your SharePoint intranet as a web part.


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VOXO Meet: Arrange online meetings efficiently with the VOXO Meet add-in for Microsoft Outlook. Designed for VOXO platform users, it automatically creates an online meeting room for every calendar event and email, no more manual scheduling or scrambling to set up online meeting rooms.


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Waybook: Waybook lets you bring all your training, onboarding, documentation, and best practices together in one place. Assign team members policies they’re responsible for and empower employees with a searchable Waybook knowledge base available anywhere using Microsoft Teams.


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WellB: The WellB platform infuses moments throughout the workday with curated content that empowers and rejuvenates. It brings together global content creators to provide desk optimized exercises, mindfulness tools, and more. The world of wellbeing is now available within Microsoft Teams.


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XM Fax (CA): Send faxes securely, directly from Microsoft Teams with XM Fax from OpenText. XM Fax eliminates mishandling of sensitive information by allowing users to manage document transmission without leaving Teams; no printing or device switching required. Faxes are encrypted, with centralized traceability for easier audits. Optional zero-retention settings further ensure document protection.


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XM Fax (EMEA): Send faxes securely, directly from Microsoft Teams with XM Fax from OpenText. XM Fax eliminates mishandling of sensitive information by allowing users to manage document transmission without leaving Teams; no printing or device switching required. Faxes are encrypted, with centralized traceability for easier audits. Optional zero-retention settings further ensure document protection.


* DMC On Demand Tool * New Microsoft 365 Campaigns

* DMC On Demand Tool * New Microsoft 365 Campaigns

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Digital Marketing Content (DMC) OnDemand works as a personal digital marketing assistant and delivers fresh, relevant and customized content and share on social, email, website, or blog. It runs 3-to-12-week digital campaigns that include to-customer content and to-partner resources. This includes an interactive dashboard that will allow partners to track both campaign performance and leads generated in real time and to schedule campaigns in advance

NEW CAMPAIGNS


NOTE: To access localised versions, click the product area link, then select the language from the drop-down menu.



 


MICROSOFT AI CLOUD PARTNER PROGRAM


The world and how we work are rapidly changing. The opportunities for Microsoft partners—whether you build and sell services, software solutions, or devices—are significant. The capabilities that are required by our customers are evolving, and our partner programs are changing to meet that demand.

The Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is focused on simplifying our programs, delivering greater customer value, investing in your growth in new ways, and recognizing how you deliver customer value. Check out links below to learn more:



 


PROGRAM & GETTING STARTED RESOURCES


If you’re still new to DMC, you can find program decks with links to recorded demos here. This collection of resources expands all of our digital services.


 


FEATURES & FUNCTIONALITY 


If you’re just returning to DMC or just want a quick recap of the updates we’ve made, you can find them under ”Program Updates” of the Resources section in DMC, which can also be found by clicking the help icon on the top right.


 


In addition to English, the DMC user interface now supports additional languages. To update, go to your profile, click the edit button on the top right, and then select your preferred language from the drop down menu in the “your information” section.


 


 


CONNECT WITH US


If you’d like to speak with someone directly, please join our monthly office hours on January 4, 2024 (occurs the first Thursday of each month.) We offer morning and evening (PST) sessions to accommodate different time zones.


 


 


FEEDBACK AND SUPPORT


We’re always working on making DMC a better experience for you. If you have 5 minutes to review your current experience with DMC, we’d love to hear your thoughtsNOTE: All submissions are anonymous, so please reach out to us if you need support, or join our office hours the first Thursday of each month.   


What’s new in Dynamics 365 Field Service Mobile app in 2023 Wave 2 

What’s new in Dynamics 365 Field Service Mobile app in 2023 Wave 2 

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Earlier this year, we’ve introduced the public preview of Field Service Mobile’s refreshed user experience. As this year comes to a close, we are excited to announce a new set of updates to further enhance this new user experience. 

Agenda View Update 

The Agenda View is the main landing experience for frontline workers using Field Service Mobile. In this wave, we are continuing to add to this experience to make it easier for your technicians to see and manage their bookings. In this wave, enhancements to the Agenda view include: 

  • Bi-directional scroll of up to 90 days of bookings in the past or future. 
  • Date separators that help your technicians better see the bookings of each day. 
  • Makers can configure the data that gets shown in each row through existing view configuration experience. 
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These improvements will give your technicians more visibility and control over their schedule, and help them plan their work more effectively. To learn more about this feature, go here.  

Configurable List View 

Another heavily used part of Field Service Mobile is the list view. To improve the item browsing experience for your technicians, the team has built from the ground up a new mobile-first list view for the new Field Service Mobile experience: 

  • Makers can choose up to five columns per table to display in the mobile list view. 
  • The icon in the list view is removed, saving limited mobile screen real estate. 
  • List view has smoother scrolling and is more performant with in-built lazy load. 
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These new capabilities will improve the productivity of your technicians by enabling them to see more data and at higher density on their mobile devices. To learn more about this feature, go here

Copilot Work Order Summary and Update 

To empower frontline workers with the latest AI advances, we’ve brought the power of Copilot to Field Service Mobile! With these new features, your technicians can both quickly get up to speed on a Work Order or update it using a speech-first Copilot experience.  

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To learn more about this groundbreaking experience, see Experience the power of Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service in the mobile application – Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog

How to try this? 

These are some of the features that we have delivered in the latest wave of the Field Service Mobile app. We hope that you will try them out and share your feedback with us. To enable these features, log in with an admin account and turn them on in the settings section in Field Service Mobile. Enable the “New Mobile Experience” and “Copilot for New Mobile Experience” options. For more information, please visit our documentation page here.   

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Thank you for choosing Dynamics 365 Field Service Mobile app. We are committed to delivering the best mobile service experience for you and your customers. Stay tuned for more updates and enhancements in the future. 

We hope that these new enhancements in Field Service mobile will make your work even more productive. We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions on how to improve the product. Please feel free to leave comments in the Dynamics 365 Community Forum or Ideas portal. Thank you for using Field Service Mobile! 

The post What’s new in Dynamics 365 Field Service Mobile app in 2023 Wave 2  appeared first on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog.

Brought to you by Dr. Ware, Microsoft Office 365 Silver Partner, Charleston SC.

Error Logs for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server (Preview)

Error Logs for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server (Preview)

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We’re thrilled to announce the public preview of the Error Logs feature for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server! This feature empowers you to gain direct access to MySQL error logs, significantly enhancing your troubleshooting capabilities and providing transparency and independence in managing your database environment.


 


Note: The Server Logs feature, including Error Logs, is available for all new servers created after November 14th, 2023. For existing servers, this feature will be made available after their next scheduled maintenance estimated to be performed in January 2024.


 


Key Benefits


Key benefits associated with the Error Logs feature include:



  • Efficient troubleshooting: You can maintain MySQL error log files under Server Logs feature and download them for up to 7 days, enabling efficient issue identification and resolution.

  • Enhanced security: You can use Error Logs to proactively detect and respond to unauthorized access attempts, failed login attempts, and other security-related events.

  • Increased transparency: Enabling exposure of MySQL error logs in the Azure portal allows for a user-friendly interface to monitor your workload and troubleshoot issues.


 


Enabling the Error Logs feature:


To enable the Error Logs feature, perform the following simple steps:



  1. In the Azure portal, navigate to your instance of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server.

  2. On the Monitoring tab, select Server Logs.

  3. On the Server Logs page, select the Enable and Error Logs checkboxes, and then select Save.
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Alternatively, you can enable Error Logs by configuring the following server parameters via the Azure portal or Azure CLI:



  • error_server_log_file: This server parameter, when set to ON, allows you to expose error logs as downloadable files from the Azure portal and Azure CLI.

  • log_output : Setting the value to FILE will enable the Server Logs feature on your MySQL flexible server. 


 


Conclusion


Gain enhanced transparency, troubleshoot with ease, and proactively secure your database environment by leveraging the Error Logs feature. You can learn more about the feature, including limitations during public preview, in our service documentation.


 


We invite you to explore and provide your valuable feedback as we continue to refine this feature. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment below or reach out to us at AskAzureDBforMySQL@service.microsoft.com.


 


Happy troubleshooting!