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      <title>Notice: "Microsoft Lystavlen" is moving</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/lystavlen/notice-microsoft-lystavlen-is-moving</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 09:52:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesper Osgaard,]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[The "Microsoft Lystavlen" TechNet blog has been around for almost 8 years, with the some of the...]]></description>
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The "Microsoft Lystavlen" TechNet blog has been around for almost 8 years, with the some of the first articles providing tips and tricks for BPOS and Office 365 - and later on with more focus on CRM and Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement!

The blog isn’t going away, but it will be moving to a new platform. You can find it on the Dynamics Community site: <a href="https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/microsoftlystavlen">https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/microsoftlystavlen</a>

All new content will be published on the Community site, so update your bookmarks and turn on notifications for the new site. If you're using the RSS feed, you can also find that on the new site and here: <a href="https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/microsoftlystavlen/rss">https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/microsoftlystavlen/rss</a>

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      <title>How to build a segment off of a static marketing list</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/lystavlen/how-to-build-a-segment-off-of-a-static-marketing-list</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2019 09:28:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesper Osgaard,]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Segments is the starting point of customer journeys in Dynamics 365 for Marketing. The segment...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/segmentation-lists-subscriptions">Segments</a> is the starting point of <a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/lystavlen/2018/02/14/interactive-customer-journey/">customer journeys</a> in <strong>Dynamics 365 for Marketing</strong>. The segment builder is a very powerful tool to build even the most complex dynamic segments.

However, I often get asked how to build the most simple segment - a segment built off of a static marketing list.

This will enable scenarios like those where a seller (perhaps working in <strong>Dynamics 365 for Sales</strong>, which also provides access to the marketing lists) can add a contact to a marketing list, in order to include that contact in customer journeys.
<h3>#1 Create a static marketing list</h3>
Create a static marketing list in the <strong>Dynamics 365 for Marketing</strong> app (or the <strong>Sales</strong> app),  and add a couple of contacts to the marketing list

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<h3>#2 Create a segment</h3>
Navigate to <strong>Segments</strong> (1) and delete the default profile (2)

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Expand the profile drop-down
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Pick <strong>Marketing List </strong> (we will target a named marketing list)
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Expand the property drop-down and select the <strong>Name</strong> property
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Expand the operator drop-down and select the <strong>Is</strong> operator (or maybe Contains)
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Type the name of your Marketing List (1) and then click <strong>+Add</strong> (2)
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Expand the profile drop-down
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Select the relationship <b>Marketing List &lt;-&gt; Contact (listmember_list_contact)</b> to return the contacts in (the members of) the named marketing list
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<strong>#3 Publish</strong>
Segments won't populate before they're published (Live).
Name your segment (1) and <strong>Go Live</strong> (2)
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Wait a few minutes, refresh the screen, and see your contacts added to the segment
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We now have a segment to handle the members of a static marketing list. Sellers can add more contacts to the list if they need them included in a customer journey.

Below I've added a third contact (Ava Rich) to the marketing list "Zoo" and after about 30 minutes the marketing list has been synched with the insights cloud and the segment is updated

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Thank you.

<strong>See also</strong>
<ul>
 	<li style="list-style-type: none">
<ul>
 	<li>Working with segments - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/segmentation-lists-subscriptions">link</a></li>
 	<li>Marketing segments vs. marketing lists - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/segments-vs-lists">link</a></li>
 	<li>How to Build a Segment of Repeat Website Visitors in Dynamics 365 for Marketing - <a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/lystavlen/2018/12/04/how-to-build-a-segment-of-repeat-website-visitors-in-dynamics-365-for-marketing">link</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
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      <title>Comparison: Dynamics 365 for Marketing and ClickDimensions</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/lystavlen/comparison-dynamics-365-for-marketing-and-clickdimensions</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2019 14:48:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesper Osgaard,]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Until 2018 customers in need of marketing automation with their Dynamics 365 had to opt for...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Until 2018 customers in need of marketing automation with their Dynamics 365 had to opt for third-party solutions, like ClickDimensions.

Now many Dynamics 365 customers are looking at <a href="https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/marketing/overview">Dynamics 365 for Marketing</a> to turn prospects into business relationships, for reasons like cloud architecture, intelligence, performance, vendor strategy and more.

The features in Dynamics 365 for Marketing are abundant - and with hundreds of developers working on the app, and the value from infused intelligence, its just getting better and better.

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To help you do a high level comparison of Dynamics 365 for Marketing and ClickDimensions, I've put together the below table. For a more detailed look at the capabilities of Dynamics 365 for Marketing I encourage you to take a look at the <a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/lystavlen/tag/dynamics-365-for-marketing/">20 or so blog posts</a> I wrote on the topic.

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Notes
<ol>
 	<li>Roadmap Fall 2019</li>
 	<li>Roadmap Fall 2019</li>
 	<li>Find more leads with AI-driven insights embedded inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing
Marketing organizations can leverage the power of Customer Insights to create and act upon strategic segments. Dynamics 365 Customer Insights (in Preview) - <a href="https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/customer-insights">link</a></li>
 	<li>Cloud architecture/Embedded intelligence
- D365 for Marketing: Disconnected from Dynamics 365 and built entirely on dedicated high-performance Azure microservices. Marketing insights derived from interactions data stored separately in Azure services.
- CD: Same cloud infrastructure as Dynamics 365, everything in the transactional system. Reporting and analytics dashboards run off of interactions and transactions stored in Dynamics 365. Can affect performance.</li>
 	<li>3rd Party, eg TeleSign - <a href="https://www.telesign.com/resource/press-releases/telesign-sms-messaging-integrates-with-microsoft-dynamics-365-for-marketing">link</a></li>
 	<li>Social Post introduced with April 2019 release (<a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/social-posting">link</a>) , Social Listening in Market Insights - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/ai/market-insights/overview">link</a></li>
 	<li>Roadmap Fall 2019</li>
</ol>
See also:
<ul>
 	<li>Release Notes - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes">link</a></li>
 	<li>Roadmap - <a href="https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/roadmap/marketing">link</a></li>
 	<li>AI, eg Predictive Lead Scoring and Customer Profiling - <a href="https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/overview">link</a></li>
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      <title>Email Reaction Time in Dynamics 365 for Marketing - First Look</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/lystavlen/optimal-sending-time-in-dynamics-365-for-marketing-first-look</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:39:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesper Osgaard,]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you (like I) opted in for the Early Access to the April Release you can already now take a peak...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color: #000000">If you (like I) <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/marketing-preview-features">opted in for the Early Access</a> to the April Release you can already now take a peak into some of the upcoming features, eg "email reaction time" - a new feature to display how quickly a contact reacts to messages arriving at different times.</span>

<span>Simply navigate to a contact who recieved an email in one of your customer journeys (1), click the <strong>Insights</strong> tab (2) and then click <strong>Optimal Sending Time</strong> (3) to display a bar chart "Email reaction time"</span>

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<div><span>Understanding the "Email reaction time" bar chart</span></div>
<ul>
 	<li>The horisontal axis is "Time of delivery (hour of the day)" - the time of day the mail(s) was delivered</li>
 	<li>The vertical axis is "Reaction-time score (higher is better)" - the reaction score for the delivery times (average, if more than one mail)</li>
 	<li>The bar(s) are the average reaction score for each delivery time - a high score indicates a fast reaction time.</li>
</ul>
<div>In the above example the contact Jesper Osgaard received an email around 4PM and was pretty fast to open the email. This helps you understand when to send emails to this contact.</div>
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      <title>Social Posting from Dynamics 365 for Marketing - First Look</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/lystavlen/social-posting-from-dynamics-365-for-marketing-first-look</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2019 10:35:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesper Osgaard,]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Social posting
With the upcoming April 2019 release of Dynamics 365 for Marketing you can create...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Social posting</h2>
With the upcoming April 2019 release of Dynamics 365 for Marketing you can create social content for multiple channels and schedule social posts to hit the web in sync with your overall campaign.

This lets you synchronize audience communication across channels using a single platform.

Social posting is enabled by a new outbound activity that can use dynamic content when posting on social media sites, starting with Twitter. We will be adding more channels over time.
<h3>First Look</h3>
As a very first look into this great new capability try navigating to <strong>Social Posts</strong>, click <strong>New</strong> and setup a social post
<p style="padding-left: 30px"><strong>Note</strong>: you must authenticate your Twitter account under <strong>Settings</strong> -&gt; <strong>Advanced Settings</strong> -&gt; <strong>Social Configurations</strong> before you can post via Dynamics 365 for Marketing)</p>
Give the post a name, pick the social channel (in this early release the only option is Twitter), type your message and select the scheduling (eg. <strong>Post Now</strong>)

When done click <strong>Save &amp; Close</strong> to save and close plus post the message

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You can verify the post has been posted in <strong>Active Social Posts</strong> view

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..as well as on your Twitter account

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<h3><strong>Early Access</strong></h3>
You can test out the new capabilities well in advance of April if you desire so, via the new Early Access program.

You can opt-in for the April 2019 early access in your tenants <a href="https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments">Power Platform Admin Center</a> - navigate to <strong>Environments</strong> &gt; (your instance for testing recommend a SANDBOX) &gt; <strong>Settings</strong> &gt; <strong>Updates</strong> (the below screenshot reflects the fact that I've opted in already - if you haven't opted-in already, then this is where to do it)

<strong>Important</strong>: you can only revert the opt-in by <strong>resetting</strong> the instance - which is why I highly recommend trying the early access out on a <strong>sandbox</strong> instance)
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This is only the beginning of the social capabilities in the Dynamics 365 for Marketing - the app that just gets better and better and better.

<strong>See also</strong>
<ul>
 	<li><span>Activate and use preview features for April 2019</span> - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/marketing-preview-features">link</a></li>
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      <title>How to Spot Negative Comments in NPS Surveys</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/lystavlen/how-to-spot-negative-comments-in-nps-surveys</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesper Osgaard,]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dynamics 365 Voice of the Customer (VoC) lets you create and send out surveys, so that you can get...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Dynamics 365 Voice of the Customer (<a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/designing-voc-surveys/1-customer-engagement-with-voc-overview">VoC</a>) lets you create and send out surveys, so that you can get valuable feedback about your products or services.

Using the Net Promotor Score <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter">(NPS</a>) question type in VoC you can capture a respondents satisfaction based on the likelihood that he or she will recommend the product or services to a friend, and automatically categorize the respondent into one of three categories (promoter, passive, or detractor).

But what if you are looking for more detail – eg. comments to the NPS score, and whether those comments can be seen as positive, neutral, or negative? A respondent might be a promotor in terms of the NPS, but still has a negative comment you’d need to pay attention to.

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Using the <strong>Long Answer</strong> question type and <strong>NPS Comment</strong> response mapping field in VoC you can ask the respondent to add a comment to the NPS score he/she gave and map the answer to the <strong>NPS Comment</strong> response mapping field.

Using <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/frequently-asked-questions">Microsoft Flow</a> you can then send the answer (raw text) to the <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/text-analytics/overview">Text Analytics API</a> in Azure Cognitive Services to analyze the answer for clues about positive or negative sentiment. The API returns a sentiment score between 0 and 1 for each answer, where 1 is the most positive.

Finally, again using Microsoft Flow you can populate a field on the Survey Response record to hold the sentiment score.

All in all you’ll be in a position to spot if a respondent to a NPS survey (regardless of NPS Score) submits a negative comment.

Steps to spot negative comments in a NPS survey
<ol>
 	<li>Sign up for Text Analytics – <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/text-analytics/how-tos/text-analytics-how-to-signup">link</a></li>
 	<li>Get endpoint URL and Access Keys for calling the Text Analytics API – <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/text-analytics/how-tos/text-analytics-how-to-access-key">link</a></li>
 	<li>Setup up a survey with NPS question, Comment, and response mapping</li>
 	<li>Setup a Flow to analyse the NPS comment and return the Sentiment score</li>
</ol>
For step 1 and 2 above I’ll just refer you to the links in the documentation (see above) – and focus more on step 3 and 4 in the rest of this blog post.

&nbsp;
<h3>Setup up a survey with NPS question, Comment, and response mapping</h3>
Create a new survey

From the <strong>Survey Parts</strong> task pane drag a <strong>Net Promotor Score</strong> (1) field and a <strong>Long Answer</strong> (2) field on to the page

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Edit the header and question texts

Map the Long Answer field to the <strong>NPS Comment</strong> response mapping field

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Publish the survey.
<h3>Setup a Flow to analyse the NPS comment and return the Sentiment score</h3>
Create a new flow from blank, with a trigger of a Dynamics 365 record created (2)

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For <strong>Organization Name</strong> point to your Dynamics 365 organisation (1), for <strong>Entity Name</strong> select <strong>Survey Responses</strong> (2) and then click <strong>+ New step</strong> (3) to start defining the next step

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The next step is an action to send the NPS Comment to the Text Analytics Service

Search for sentiment (1) and then select <strong>Detect Sentiment (preview)</strong> (2)

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If this is your first time using Text Analytics you'll need to enter the endpoint and access key from step #1 and #2 above

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For the <strong>Text</strong> to analyze select the <strong>NPS Comment</strong> field in the Dynamics content drop-down (1) and then click <strong>+ New step</strong> to start defining the next step

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The next step is a Dynamics 365 action to update a record, ie. write the sentiment score returned from the Text Analytics API back to the Survey Response record (we will just write the value into the the response mapping field <strong>Generic Number 20</strong> for simplicity)

Type dynamics (1), select <strong>Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement</strong> (2), and then <strong>Update a record (preview)</strong> (3)

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For the <strong>Organization Name</strong> select your Dynamics 365 organisation (1), for the <strong>Entity Name</strong> select <strong>Survey Responses</strong> (2), for the <strong>Record Identifier</strong> select <strong>Survey Response</strong> (3)

Then click <strong>Show advanced options</strong> (4), scroll down to the <strong>Generic number 20</strong> field (5), and select the <strong>Score</strong> field (6)

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Scroll down to the bottom and click <strong>Save</strong> to save and activate your flow.
<h3>Testing the Flow</h3>
In VoC, open the survey, click the anonymous link in your survey (1), fill out the questions (2&amp;3) and then click <strong>Submit</strong> (4)

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Still in VoC, navigate to <strong>Survey Responses</strong> and check out the sentiment score (held in the Generic number 20 field in this example). In this example the comment has resulted in a score close to 0 (zero) indicating a negative sentiment.

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I hope you will find good use of the combined capabilities of Dynamics 365 Voice of the Customer, Azure Cognitive Services, and Microsoft Flow.

<strong>See also</strong>
<ul>
 	<li><span>Voice of the Customer for Dynamics 365</span> - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/dyn365-voice-of-customer/">link</a></li>
 	<li>What is Text Analytics - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/text-analytics/overview">link</a></li>
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      <title>The Brand New Org Chart in Dynamics 365</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/lystavlen/the-brand-new-org-chart-in-dynamics-365</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 10:06:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesper Osgaard,]]></dc:creator>
      <guid
        isPermaLink="false">https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/lystavlen/?p=16795</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The brand new Org Chart in Dynamics 365 lets you maintain external organization charts for your...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The brand new Org Chart in Dynamics 365 lets you maintain external organization charts for your accounts. You can build a hierarchy for existing accounts or use it as a starting point for adding contacts to a new account.

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The org chart leverages a hierarchical relationship between an accounts contacts (<a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/lystavlen/2014/10/02/how-to-enable-hierarchy-to-contacts-in-dynamics-crm-2015/">you will need to set the hierarchical relationship up</a>) and the control lets you
<ul>
 	<li>see contact cards</li>
 	<li>collapse and expand branches</li>
 	<li>drag and drop contacts to new positions in the hierarchy</li>
 	<li>zoom in and out</li>
</ul>
The Org Chart is accessed from the commandbar of an Account - click <strong>Open Org Chart</strong> (1) to open the org chart.

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You can click any contact and see the contact card

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If you've <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/linkedin/integrate-sales-navigator">set up LinkedIn Sales Navigator integration</a>, you'll be able to see the the LinkedIn Sales Navigator info for the matched contact in the details panel too

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You can easily collapse and expand branches
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The direct reports under the right most contact now collapsed
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You can easily drag and drop contacts to new positions in the hierarchy
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The contact has now moved to a new direct manager
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For larger org charts you can zoom in and out (using the scroll wheel on your mouse) to get an overview of the depth and breadth of the org hierarchy

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<h3>Creating New Org Charts</h3>
When you add a new account obviously there are no associated contacts for the account. When you click the <strong>Open Org Chart</strong> button, the org chart will open with the below placeholder. You can begin adding contacts and building the hierarchy by double clicking the plus (<strong>+</strong>) button (1) to open a task pane

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In the task pane you can either search for an existing contact, or add a new one. Click the <span><strong>+ New</strong> (1) to open up a quick create form, where you can enter the details of the new contact and save him/her</span>
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Click <strong>Save</strong> (1) to save/create the new contact
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To add the new contact to the Org Chart click <strong>Add</strong> (1)
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The new contact is now added to (and is the only contact in) the org chart. Double-click the contact to start adding direct reports (or a manager)
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Lets just add two existing contacts as direct reports to the new contact
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When done adding direct reports click <strong>Save</strong> (1) to add the contacts to the Org Chart
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<span>The chart will update to reflect the changes</span>
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<span>For existing accounts with one or more contacts, but no established hierarchy, by default everyone will be on the same level. You can then start dragging contacts into their hierarchical positions as shown in the example above</span>
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With the new org chart it's easier than ever to maintain an overview of the organisation hierarchy in your accounts.

<strong>Note</strong>
<ul>
 	<li>To leverage the Org Chart you need to configure a Hierarchical Relationship for contacts - <a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/lystavlen/2014/10/02/how-to-enable-hierarchy-to-contacts-in-dynamics-crm-2015">link</a></li>
</ul>
<strong>See also</strong>
<ul>
 	<li>Leverage the power of LinkedIn in Dynamics 365 - <a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/lystavlen/2018/07/31/leverage-the-power-of-linkedin-in-dynamics-365/">link</a></li>
 	<li>Microsoft Relationship Sales - <a href="https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/sales/relationship-sales/">link</a></li>
 	<li>Manage Org Charts for Accounts - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/sales-enterprise/live-org-chart">link</a></li>
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      <title>How to Build a Segment of Repeat Website Visitors in Dynamics 365 for Marketing</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/lystavlen/how-to-build-a-segment-of-repeat-website-visitors-in-dynamics-365-for-marketing</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:04:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesper Osgaard,]]></dc:creator>
      <guid
        isPermaLink="false">https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/lystavlen/?p=16655</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Dynamics 365 for Marketing is a rich app to support your marketing automation purposes. You can...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/overview">Dynamics 365 for Marketing</a> is a rich app to support your marketing automation purposes. You can build customer journeys, segments, emails, landing pages, events and more. See these <a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/lystavlen/tag/dynamics-365-for-marketing/">blog posts</a> for more.

Dynamics 365 can also collect information about how your website(s) is used by its individual visitors. To enable the feature, Dynamics 365 generates JavaScript code that you must add to each page that you want to monitor (usually an admin would do this site-wide by using your CMS system) - read more <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/track-online-behavior">here</a>. The tracking capabilities combined with the rich <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/create-segment">segment building</a> capabilites of Dynamics 365 for Marketing opens up for an useful automation scenario - building a dynamics segment of repeat web site visitors.

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In this demo we'll set up tracking on a web site and build a segment to capture repeat visitors.
<h3>TO SET UP TRACKING</h3>
<ol>
 	<li>Copy the URL of the website your contacts visits to the clipboard
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 	<li>Navigate to <strong>Marketing</strong> -&gt; <strong>Websites</strong> and create a new website record</li>
 	<li>Paste the URL for the clipboard into the <strong>URL</strong> field (1) and hit <strong>Save</strong> to generate the tracking script (2)</li>
 	<li>Copy the tracking script to the clipboard</li>
 	<li>Note the URL of the website record, especially the id to the right (3) - you'll need that when setting up the segment
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 	<li>Navigate to the admin interface of website your contacts visits (1)</li>
 	<li>Open the <strong>Header</strong> (2) of the Website</li>
 	<li>Paste the tracking script at the top of the Header (3)
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</ol>
<h3>TO BUILD THE SEGMENT</h3>
<ol>
 	<li>Navigate to <strong>Marketing</strong> -&gt; <strong>Segments</strong> and create a new segment</li>
 	<li>On the <strong>DESIGNER</strong> tab select <strong>Contact</strong> (1) and then <strong>Link between WebsiteVisited interaction and contact</strong> (2)
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 	<li>Specify Conditions for <strong>Having count</strong> (1) and <strong>Sliding window</strong> (2), respectively how many visits and during what period. I'll use greater than zero for the first just for demo purposes (if the segment was to be a true repeat visitors segment obviously I'd use greater the one for <strong>Having count</strong>)
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 	<li>Select the <strong>WebsiteVisited</strong> field (1) and then the <strong>WebsiteId</strong> property (2)
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 	<li>Paste the website record ID from the above SET UP TRACKING bullet #1 into the value field (1)  - see also: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/marketing/segments-interaction#find-record-ids"><span>Find record IDs</span></a>
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 	<li><strong>Save</strong>, <strong>Check for Errors</strong> and <strong>Go Live</strong> with the segment - the segment is empty for now
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</ol>
<strong>TO TEST</strong>
<ol>
 	<li>Open another browser</li>
 	<li>Log into eg Mail as a user matching a contact in your Marketing</li>
 	<li>Open a new tab in the browser</li>
 	<li>Visit the website from above
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 	<li>Now navigate to <strong>Marketing</strong> -&gt; <strong>Segments</strong> and verify new segment member is added as expected
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 	<li>For what its worth - you can also navigate to the contact and verify that the website visits is tracked for the contact
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</ol>
So now you've seen how you can track website visits and build segments based on those. You can have a dynamic segment sitting there just waiting for contacts to visit you website and then take automated action via Customer Journeys.

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      <title>Be Prepared with the New Playbooks in Dynamics 365 for Sales</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/lystavlen/be-prepared-with-the-new-playbooks-in-dynamics-365-for-sales</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:38:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesper Osgaard,]]></dc:creator>
      <guid
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      <description><![CDATA[Playbooks
Dynamics 365 for Sales is introducing Playbooks, a new capability to help you automate...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Playbooks</h3>
Dynamics 365 for Sales is introducing Playbooks, a new capability to help you automate repeatable sales activities and respond to external events.

In the age of the customer, buyers have the upper hand in the relationship with sellers. With nearly limitless access to information, they can dictate their own customer journeys, rather than follow a predefined business process. It is thus important to move from a reactive process-driven data repository on systems of record to proactive and predictive event-driven guidance engines that can suggest next best actions and surface relevant sales activities to successfully respond to external events.

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Playbooks provide users with guidance on recurring tasks in which consistent actions are expected. Playbooks can also contain best practices based on practices that have worked in similar situations before.

If a decision maker and top champion of the product leaves the organization in the middle of a deal, this can become an event with the potential to jeopardize the entire commercial transaction.

With Playbooks, however, automation can trigger a play that creates a set of tasks and activities needed to remedy the situation. A task to reach out to current contacts at the customer account and identify the new stakeholder could be immediately followed by an introductory phone call to better understand the new stakeholder’s priorities. This carefully crafted orchestration of activities ensures that the new decision maker is successfully identified and turned into a new champion for the product so that the deal can be salvaged.

The new capabilities released allow organizations to:
<ul>
 	<li>Configure Playbooks against any Dynamics 365 entity</li>
 	<li>Define the set of tasks and activities to automate once triggered</li>
 	<li>Track the status progress of running Playbooks against their outcome, successful or not</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demo intro</h3>
We will create a playbook to handle a scenario in which an opportunity goes Cold. This <em>can</em> be automated, but in this example, I'll focus more on the manual scenario.

To get started we'll create a new Playbook category, and then a new Playbook template (related to the Opportunity entity). The playbook will create a phone call activity and an appoinment activity to in attempt to heat up the opportunity again. Having created the playbook, going forward we can launch the playbook from any opportunity record using a new <strong>Launch Playbook</strong> command in the commandbar
<h3>Demo steps</h3>
Navigate to <strong>App Settings</strong> (1) and then <strong>Playbook categories</strong> (2) to open the <strong>Active Playbook Categories</strong> grid
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In the <strong>Active Playbook Categories</strong> grid click <strong>New</strong> (1) to open the <strong>New Playbook category</strong> form
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In the <strong>New Playbook category</strong> form fill out the <strong>Name</strong> and (optional) <strong>Description</strong> fields (1) and then click <strong>Save &amp; Close</strong> (2)
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Navigate to <strong>Playbook templates</strong> (1)
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In the <strong>All Playbook Templates</strong> grid click <strong>+New</strong> (1) to open the <strong>New Playbook template</strong> form
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In the <strong>New Playbook template</strong> form fill out the fields
<ol>
 	<li><strong>Category</strong>. Select the category for which you want to create the playbook template. Think of category as an event or an issue that you want to address using this template.</li>
 	<li><strong>Name</strong>. Enter a descriptive name for the template.</li>
 	<li><strong>Track progress</strong>. Select whether to track the progress of the playbook by creating the activities under a playbook, which is in turn linked to the record type the playbook applies to.
For example, if you have a template created for an opportunity, and you set <strong>Track Progress</strong> to <mark>Yes</mark>, all playbook activities are created <mark>under the playbook</mark> that is launched from the opportunity record in the following hierarchy: Opportunity record → playbook record → activities.
If you set this to <mark>No</mark>, the playbook activities are created <mark>directly under the opportunity record</mark> in the following hierarchy: Opportunity record → activities.</li>
 	<li><strong>Estimated duration (days)</strong>. Enter the estimated duration in days to indicate the time it may take to complete the playbook template once launched</li>
</ol>
Click <strong>Save</strong> (5) to create the Playbook template record

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In the Playbook Template form you'll see a couple of sections to handle which entities to target with the playbook, and which activitites to create when the playbook is launched.
<ol>
 	<li><strong>Select record types that this playbook applies to</strong> - in this section the <strong>Available for</strong> box lists all the entities that are enabled for using playbooks. Select and move the record types to which the current playbook template applies into the <strong>Applies</strong> to box.</li>
 	<li><strong>Playbook activities</strong> - in this section, select <strong>Add Activity</strong>, and then select the activity you want to create.</li>
</ol>
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We will select <strong>Opportunity</strong> (1) and then add a couple of activities (2)
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When you click <strong>Add Activity</strong> in the <strong>Playbook Activities</strong> section, a drop down with activity types (task, phone call, appointment) is displayed.

Select eg <strong>Appointment</strong>, to open a task pane <strong>Quick create: Playbook appointment</strong>

In the<strong> Quick create: Playbook appointment</strong> task pane, fill out the below fields (1), and then select Save (2) to save the appointment activity:
<ul>
 	<li><strong>Subject</strong>. Type a short description of the objective of the activity</li>
 	<li><strong>Description</strong>. Type additional information to describe the playbook activity</li>
 	<li><strong>Relative start date (days)</strong>. Enter the number of days in which the activity must start. This date is <mark>relative</mark> to when the playbook is launched</li>
 	<li><strong>Relative start time</strong>. Enter the time of day when the activity must start</li>
 	<li><strong>Relative end date (days)</strong>. Enter the number of days by which the activity must end. This date is relative to when the playbook is launched</li>
 	<li><strong>Relative end time</strong>. Enter the time of day when the activity must end</li>
 	<li><strong>Priority</strong>. Select the priority of the activity</li>
</ul>
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The appointment activity is now listed in the <strong>Playbook activities</strong> section (1). Click <strong>Add Activity</strong> (2) and then <strong>Phone Call</strong> to create a phone call activity

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In the <strong>Quick create: Playbook phone call</strong> task pane fill out the below fields (1), and then select <strong>Save</strong> (2) to save the phone call activity
<ul>
 	<li><strong>Subject</strong>. Type a short description of the objective of the activity</li>
 	<li><strong>Description</strong>. Type additional information to describe the playbook activity</li>
 	<li><strong>Relative due date (days)</strong>. Enter the number of days in which the activity will be due. The number of days is <mark>counted from the launch date of the playbook</mark>. This field is available only for task and phone call activities</li>
 	<li><strong>Relative due time (hours)</strong>. Enter the time when the activity will be due</li>
 	<li><strong>Duration</strong>. If you’re creating a task or a phone call, select the duration for the task or phone call activity</li>
 	<li><strong>Priority</strong>. Select the priority of the activity</li>
</ul>
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The phone call activity is now listed in the <strong>Playbook activities</strong> section (1).

You must publish a playbook to make it available for your users. Click <strong>Publish</strong> (2) to publish the playbook

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Once the Playbook is published we can open an opportunity and find a new <strong>Launch playbook</strong> command in the commandbar (1). Click the command button to display the <strong>Playbook templates</strong> dialog

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In the <strong>Playbook templates</strong> dialog select the playbook you created (1) and click <strong>Launch</strong> to launch the playbook

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To see the activities created navigate to the playbook template, click the <strong>Monitoring</strong> tab (2) and verify that a playbook list entry with two activitites is created (as expected) - note also that regarding column shows the name of the opportunity ("Social Engagement"). You can double click the playbook list entry (3) to navigate to the playbook record
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On the playbook form you'll find sections for the playbook record, including the associated opportunity (1) and activities (2)

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You can also navigate to the <strong>My Activities</strong> list and find the activities there.
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I hope this example has inspired you to explore how Playbooks can help you successfully respond to external events. Enjoy.

<strong>See also</strong>
<ul>
 	<li>Enforce best practices with playbooks - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/sales-enterprise/enforce-best-practices-playbooks">link</a></li>
</ul>
<strong>Note</strong>
<ul>
 	<li>The playbook capability is currently available only in the Sales Hub app in Dynamics 365 (online). It is being released with Dynamics 365 for Sales application version 9.0.1810.4006 or later and the server version 9.1.0.0263 or later, as part of weekly release of the product to individual geographies</li>
 	<li>The playbook capability is currently enabled on five entities: Lead, Quote, Opportunity, Order, and Invoice</li>
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      <title>Make the most of the new Dynamics 365 App for Outlook</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/lystavlen/make-the-most-of-the-new-dynamics-365-app-for-outlook</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2018 11:49:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesper Osgaard,]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Everybody loves Outlook. Most of our daily communication and planning takes place in Outlook. Some...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Everybody loves Outlook. Most of our daily communication and planning takes place in Outlook. Some argue that Outlook is the first thing you open when the day begins, and the last thing you close when the day ends.

Many of us also work with business relations (customers, prospects, contacts, accounts, etc) on a daily basis. Track the emails we receive/send to our business relations, create and update leads, opportunities, cases and so on.

It has always been very attactive to Microsoft users that you can work with Dynamics 365 (CRM) directly in Outlook. Afterall its where many spend most of the day. You dont have to switch apps to accomplish what you need to do. App switching is time consuming.

In many years this capability was handled by a COM Add-In - in the recent years our recommendation has been to leverage the zero footprint Dynamics 365 for Tablets and Phones app, now called the <strong>Dynamics 365 App for Outlook</strong>.

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With the introduction of the <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/admin/about-unified-interface">new unified User Interface</a> (UI) in Dynamics 365 (CRM) the user experience has become even better. The new UI is highly performing, responsive and very userfriendly.

The <strong>Dynamics 365 App for Outlook</strong> leverages the new UI. You can literally work with the best of Dynamics 365 (CRM) without leaving Outlook. The best of both worlds.

As an example I can click a mail I just received in Outlook, and then click the <strong>Dynamics 365</strong> icon in the ribbon (1) to open the <strong>Dynamics 365 App for Outlook</strong>.

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The <strong>Dynamics 365 App for Outlook</strong> opens in a task pane to the right (you can change the widht of this task pane, and the UI will adopt beautifully to the new width).

In this example I see the mail is tracked to an an opportunity "Social Engagement" (1), I see the contact information for the sender (2), the account information (3) - and much much more if I scroll down or click the records in the app. I can create, read, update, and delete records and activities right there in Outlook.

If I click the sitemap icon (4)....

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... I'm presented with the Out-of-the-Box (OOB) sitemap for the app. I can navigate to see <strong>Dashboards</strong> (1). Thats it for the OOB sitemap.

Probably you will want more options for the sitemap as you start working with the app - eg the ability to easily navigate to the Accounts, Contacts, and Opportunities lists.

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Luckily its pretty straight forward to edit the sitemap of any Dynamics 365 app with the new PowerApps app. In the rest of this blog post I'll show you how.

Open Dynamics 365 in a browser, click the Application Navigator in the upper left (1) and then click <strong>PowerApps</strong> (2)

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In PowerApps click <strong>Apps</strong> (1), click the (...) menu in the <strong>Dynamics 365 App for Outlook</strong> (2) and then <strong>Edit</strong> (3) to open the <strong>App Designer</strong>

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In the App Designer click the <strong>Edit</strong> icon (1) in the Site Map to open the <strong>Sitemap Designer</strong>

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In the Sitemap Designer click <strong>Home</strong> (1), click <strong>Components</strong> (2), and then drag a <strong>Group</strong> (3) onto the canvas (4)

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Name the Group, eg "Sales" and then drag three subareas (2) on to the canvas (3).

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For each subarea specify Type=Entity and point out the desired entities (eg Accounts, Contacts, and Opportunities)

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After I Save and Publish Customizations, I head back over to Outlook and open the <strong>Dynamics 365 App for Outlook</strong> again.

I now have the new group "Sales" in the sitemap (1). The app now suits my daily work tasks even better.

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I can easily navigate to eg the <strong>My Active Accounts</strong> list (displayed in a grid)

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If I decrease the width of the <strong>Dynamics 365 App for Outlook</strong> task pane the responsive UI adapts beautifully to display each record in a card.

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I hope this fantastic app will add value to your daily work in Outlook.

<strong>See also</strong>
<ul>
 	<li>User Guide - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/outlook-app/dynamics-365-app-outlook-user-s-guide">link</a></li>
 	<li>Deployment - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/outlook-app/v8/deploy-dynamics-365-app-for-outlook">link</a></li>
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