Manage Email Bounces on Lead or Contact Views & Forms in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys

Manage Email Bounces on Lead or Contact Views & Forms in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys

How can we manage email bounces in Customer Insights - Joruneys? How about a last bounce date and reason on each Lead/Contact with email delivery issues? Oh and a way to track if remedial email address update action has been taken or not since the last bounce. Sure!

A simple two step Power Automate flow, some new fields and a classic workflow will get you up and running in no time. But it means no more excuses on poor delivery rates!

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Time Zone Labels in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys Events

Time Zone Labels in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys Events

There is a magical The ‘Event time zone’ field in Dynamics 365 which is used for Events in Customer Insights - Journeys. Technically speaking in the background it all works great, the time is correctly converted to UTC and shows as expected for calendar invite timings etc BUT the actual name of the GMT offset time zone e.g. ’(GMT+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney’ is hellishly wordy and it’s only correct for half the year in any region that uses daylight savings… doh!

Why do I care?

When you include this in your email to show the event time zone of the event, it doesn’t look too smart! This post will show you how to create a simple Power Automate flow to generate a correct and neater time zone label for all your events that can be used in event communications, with style.

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‘Distribution List’ Emails and Appointments with Power Automate

‘Distribution List’ Emails and Appointments with Power Automate

Automating the creation of Dataverse Activities to lists or groups of contacts. This post shows you how to build power automate flow that does the magic behind the scenes of the custom page in my last post ‘Distribution Lists’ in model-driven apps.

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‘Distribution Lists’ in model-driven apps

‘Distribution Lists’ in model-driven apps

Send group emails and appointment invitations to Contacts in model-driven apps and Dynamics 365 using Distribution Lists. This custom page allows you to browse and select one or many distribution lists, review the contacts who belong to those lists, then create an appointment or an email (and the type of recipient - To, CC or BCC) with the click of a button.

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