Microsoft Ignite Continued

• Sessions to watch
  • Demos of the new Dynamics 365 and Teams capabilities: Dynamics 365 and Teams: Overcoming Distractions to Build Stronger Customer Relationships
  • Demos of the new admin features including granular DLP controls: Enhancing the Admin experience with Power Platform Governance
  • Get across the new Customer Journey Orchestration announcement: Driving personalized interactions across the customer journey

• New and enhanced Power Platform governance and admin capabilities – Power Platform blog: Solve IT governance and admin challenges with new features for Power Platform
• New Industry clouds for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Non Profit, as well as the more general big announcement and focus from Microsoft on Industry solutions – https://news.microsoft.com/industry/
• Microsoft Ignite 2021: Top 10 in 10 Minutes – Lisa’s video on YouTube
• Summary of announcements from Ignite 2021: Microsoft Ignite Book of News

Power Platform Related  

• A couple of things being deprecated, specifically support for using IE and D365, and changes to the headers and footers coming later in the year – Important changes (deprecations) coming in Power Apps, Power Automate and customer engagement apps – Power Platform | Microsoft Docs
• Approvals in Teams updated with new features – Power Automate blog post

Staying Motivated

• Your Mental Health Toolkit – BBC – Headroom – Your Mental Health Toolkit
• Headspace – Meditation and Sleep Made Simple – Headspace
• Strava – tracking and planning routes to walk, run or bike – Strava | Run and Cycling Tracking on the Social Network for Athletes

Events

• Scottish Summit – Already planning for 2022! – Scottish Summit – Microsoft Cloud Community Event (scottishsummit.com)
• Check out 2021 recorded sessions – https://www.youtube.com/c/ScottishSummit
  • Lisa Crosbie – Intelligent CRM: Introduction to Dynamics 365 Sales Insights – Lisa Crosbie – Intelligent CRM: Introduction to Dynamics 365 Sales Insights – YouTube
  • Megan Walker & Amey Holden The Ultimate Marketing Showdown – Megan Walker & Amey Holden The Ultimate Marketing Showdown – YouTube
  • Victor Dantas – PowerApps Portals – Deep Dive – Victor Dantas – PowerApps Portals – Deep Dive – YouTube
  • Franco Musso – Be a Portal Rebel and Break the Mould – Franco Musso – Be a Portal Rebel and Break the Mould – YouTube
  • Lisa Clark – How starting a podcast got me through a pandemic – Lisa Clark – How starting a podcast got me through a pandemic – YouTube
  • Rishona Elijah – Bot the Builder: Can a Power Virtual Agent do it? Featuring Microsoft Teams – Rishona Elijah – Bot the Builder: Can a Power Virtual Agent do it? Featuring Microsoft Teams – YouTube
  • Michelle Wong – Make The Impossible Possible: Create Amazing 3DGames with Mixed Reality in Power Apps – Michelle Wong -Make The Impossible Possible: Create Amazing 3DGames with Mixed Reality in Power Apps – YouTube
  • Éric Sauvé – Prenez le robot par les cornes avec Power Virtual Agent – Not Yet Live
• Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event – Tuesday 6th April – Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event – Register
• Microsoft Certification Saturday –  Saturday 10^th April – Microsoft Certification Saturday 2021 – Power Community
• Power Apps Developer Bootcamp –  Saturdays – 15^th, 22^nd, 29^th May – Power Apps Developer Bootcamp 2021 – Power Community

Fun Stuff

• Lisa – Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovich – Rivers of London on Goodreads
• Megan – Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones – Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear

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