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We welcome Amey Holden back to blogging after smashing an Ironman 70.3 and she came back with great topic about SMS & Consent. We also have a special guest: Carl Cookson 🍪 usually does Power Platform, but his Mockaroo Data Munger is a great fit for CX, because nobody wants “John Doe 1–10” in their demos anymore. 😉

Dynamics 365

Rethinking Voice of the Customer

Questions whether surveys and NPS are sufficient to understand customer satisfaction and explores more behavior-driven approaches to customer feedback.

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Why Winning AI Search Isn't Enough

Appearing in AI-generated answers is insufficient to convert B2B buyers without strong messaging, trust and supporting evidence.

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D365 Contact Center

Contact Center Intelligence

AI-driven capabilities for contact centers, including conversational agents, quality assurance and analytics, without requiring organizations to replace their existing platforms.

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Meet the Conversation Harness: Building Conversational Agents in Copilot Studio

A Copilot Studio experiment with a customer-facing orchestrator and specialist sub-agents, including voice/chat configuration and deployment to Dynamics 365 Contact Center.

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D365 Customer Insights

Björn's pick of the week

Sync Text Message Replies STOP and START with Contact Point Consent in CI-J

How Power Automate can synchronize STOP/START replies with Contact Point Consent, preventing unnecessary delivery failures and improving consent accuracy.

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Pauline's pick of the week

What's New in Customer Insights – Journeys: Three Updates From My Colleagues Worth Your Time

Peter rounds up three recent Customer Insights - Journeys updates from colleagues that are worth your time, covering practical tips and new capabilities.

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Dynamics 365

Enhancing Dataverse Views with Custom Icons, Tooltips & Visualizations

Explores ways to make model-driven app grids easier to read using visual indicators and contextual information.

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PPTB - Mockaroo Data Munger

Generating realistic sample Dataverse data with configurable fields and reusable datasets. Very useful for your demos and test environments — no longer using John Doe 1-10.

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From quick schedule fixes to automated planning with Scheduling Operations Agent

Looks at how the Scheduling Operations Agent moves Field Service planning from reactive, one-off schedule fixes toward automated, proactive resource planning.

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D365 Sales

Dynamics 365 CX MCP Server – Sales: Bringing headless CRM to supported AI experiences

Exposes Dynamics 365 Sales data through a headless MCP server, so supported AI tools and agents can read and act on CRM data without switching into the Dynamics 365 interface.

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