This session covers the SQL Server Agent, with its Jobs and Alerts, along with newer features like Database Mail and Extended Events (which is replacing Profiler). You can use SQL Jobs to schedule SQL Scripts and Database Maintenance Plans. Alerts can notify you when jobs or maintenance plans fail. Extended Events can help troubleshoot and improve performance. Profiler preceded Extended Events but hasn’t advanced since 2008. What are some pros and cons of using the independent SQL Server Management Studio with any version from SQL Server 2008 through 2019.

Learning Objective: Know how to have SQL Server send you an email when a backup job fails.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

Level: Intermediate

In D365FO there are many different options for inventory costing models…but what do they all mean?  In this session we will dive into the different options to review how your inventory is costed for each model along with the pros/cons of the model.  We will use demonstrations in D365 along with theoretical-based calculations to explore these options.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with beginner and intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

In this session, we will review the most common security related mistakes companies make when upgrading or implementing Dynamics CRM. From who owns security, to who should implement it, and everything in between, we will provide proven project approaches that can keep your company off the security gotcha list.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with beginner-level knowledge of the subject area.

Discuss perceived barriers for women in the workforce, learn how to prepare yourself to be chosen for a leadership role and invited into the boardroom, and gather tips to seize opportunities to set yourself up for success!

Level: Basic

You have critical business information in multiple places, but are you using the available APIs to consolidate data points together in a way to foster new insights and good decision making? We’ll walk through the process of accessing APIs and getting data from disparate sources. Do you really need to be a developer? What are things you need to consider when working with web services? What about working with Excel, Jet Reports and other reporting tools? We’ll feature practical examples of the power of Web Services and how to make your data useful so you can take action. 

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

Level: Intermediate

In this session, we will look at 26 Power Apps tips (one for each of the 26 alphabets!) that will help make app makers create apps with better performance and user experience!Session Level: Basic

In this session, we will be breaking down the common cost components involved in manufacturing: how do we set these up, but more importantly, how do we utilize these to our advantage during in the manufacturing process? Suitable for accountants and non-accountants: anyone who has an interest in the cost makeup of a typical production run. How do we best use the tools available within Business Central, even those that you may already be familiar with, and hopefully a few more, to maximize our analysis potential. 

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

Level: Advanced 

Manufacturers rely on key reports to provide them with actionable insights. Reports such as capacity utilization, costing, and work load are just a few that need to be on your dashboard. PowerBI helps you combine data from multiple sources and quickly process mountains of data into meaningful and useful information. 

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

Level: Intermediate 

System performance is one of the most impactful elements of any ERP system – so why are you not prioritizing it?  Join us to remove some question marks about how to actually execute the performance testing that you’ve been avoiding within Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain.The content of this session is geared toward an audience with beginner to intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.

Session description to come soon!

Session Level: Basic

As 2020 progresses, finance departments are tasked with becoming leaders in digital transformation by creating resilient organizations that can manage business disruption in AP and procurement processes and prepare for unknown challenges that lie ahead. These initiatives will be crucial in determining which businesses will bolster productivity, enable a remote workforce and drive growth and which will fall behind. Attend this solution showcase to learn:•    How Dynamics users are using digital transformation in the “new normal” to achieve a truly touchless invoice management process•    The importance of automation in establishing visibility and control of cash flow, DPO, and liabilities across all entities globally•    Why finance organizations are leveraging cloud-based automation for accounts payable as a priority in 2020 for ensuring continuity across their organization•    The importance of leveraging Microsoft’s Preferred Solution to meet the needs of your existing ERP(s), while being flexible enough to support your operational requirements through upgrades and changes

Newly or recently assigned as sys admin? Overwhelmed by the Unified Client Interface (UCI)? Trying to solve new business requirements? During this live-environment demonstration, let’s explore some confidence-boosting basics and exchange ideas to supercharge user adoption. You’ll see in action the Maker portal, personalized settings for you and your users, themes, helpful view features, UCI transition tips, data management best practices, and automation with processes and flows.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with beginner-level knowledge of the subject area.

What is Power Apps and why should you care?  

This introductory session will help those who probably heard of Power Apps, but maybe you haven’t had a chance to use it. 

Learn the basics as we build an app from scratch to replace a classic problem:  a shared spreadsheet.

Session Level: Basic

Do you have critical customer data in multiple databases? Are you looking to consolidate true customer profiles and use machine learning capabilities to drive predictive sales, marketing, or service? This ‘CI in 60’ session will give you the ins and outs of using Customer Insights across multiple data sources, as well as provide a glimpse into the power Customer Insights provides organizations of any size.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.

Accounting professionals from all over the country discuss how automating their ERPs like NAV and GP has enabled their teams to meet the new challenges of 2020.

Including Panel members:

•Dave Sackett, CFO of ULVAC Technologies
•Larry Solano, AP Manager of Wounded Warrior Project
•Jeff Moir, Corporate Controller of Pebble Beach Company

D365FO’s most important setup is accounting’s Inventory posting profiles. We will review the input and output of the setup and give some examples of how a bad setup can have long lasting financial effects. There is an absolute wrong and right way to do this! We will also provide attendees with a cheat sheet to insure success.

Deliverable: Session Attendees will be provided with…

     • Power Point documentation on setup and troubleshooting.

     • Master Cheat Sheet – This guarantees perfect setup and gives you a template for success.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with beginner to intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

In this session, learn how to create flows that run flawlessly and handle unexpected errors. 

See demos of best practices for building enterprise-ready flows. 

Learn the life cycle development of a flow: planning, designing and making, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and maintaining. 

At the completion of this session, you’ll understand the principles, practices, methods, and patterns for designing flows that will make you the Flow Master at your organization and the envy of your peers!

Session Level: Basic

Explore how to adopt the Power Platform at scale across a large organization, and discuss how administrators, architects, and program/project managers can govern, manage, and operate the Power Platform in service to their business-focused customers. 

The discussion will include an overview of the current state of the platform, and dive into several of the tools and techniques used to manage and govern the platform, including the Power Platform Adoption Framework and the Center of Excellence (CoE) model.

Session Level: Intermediate

This session will focus on the new feature of Wave Label printing in D365FO and the ability to print both Case and Pallet level SSCC compliant labels from the system.  In this session we will review the setup needed for printing and then demonstrate the ability to print different labels for different customers.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with beginner-level knowledge of the subject area.

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

This session is focused on the education of administering, adopting, and promoting the Power BI platform for an Enterprise solution. 

Join us to learn about adopting a framework for your BI team to govern and manage content in Power BI, utilizing Workspaces for BI Collaboration and organization of Report content, creating a Power BI Admin team who maintains and defines the intent of Workspace environments, establishing naming conventions for content (Dashboards, Reports) for End Users, methods to help support and educate end users to adopt Power BI, and creating an internal BI Support Site.

Session Level: Intermediate

Join our Velosio experts to learn how to best leverage the Microsoft Power Apps to meet your business requirements. With Power Apps, you can automate and enhance processes, collect and connect data, and create actionable insights. If you have been thinking about getting started with Power Apps, or even wondering what it can do for your organization by reviewing real-life applications, you will not want to miss this insightful session. Join Rod Donovan, Velosio’s Power Apps and Power Platform expert, as he discusses 10 Power Apps use cases implemented with real clients. He’ll share business needs and problems and how the team applied Power Apps to solve them, as well as available templates, tools, and outsourced resources you can use to get up and running quickly with the power of the Power Apps.

Join your DSLUG community to kick off Community Summit with important new updates, new feature overviews and awards.  Be the first to hear the Microsoft Dynamics SL product updates and road map delivered by Jeff Suwyn, Microsoft Dynamics SL Product Manager. Don’t miss this important session for all Conference attendees, focusing on the future direction of your User Group and your Dynamics SL product — and be ready for a great time along the way!

Learn Amazon terminology, get an overview of the various Amazon portals, and learn about integration possibilities with NAV/BC that will automate and streamline your sales, fee payments, and reporting on Amazon mfg/supply chain/admin/integrations. 

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

Level: Basic 

In today’s business climate, where the focus increasingly is on remote work and digital solutions, user adoption has never been more important. ClickLearn ensures the success of any Microsoft D365 CE implementation or upgrade project by enabling authors to deliver more and better content for training and documentation. In this session, where we unveil a whole new user experience, you will see how you can record your processes and with a single click, produce a complete e-learning portal in 45 languages with step-by-step instructions, virtual assistance, e-learning, and process videos. You can use the virtual assistant to guide your users from within your live solution.  

You will also see how the Replay function lets you automatically update any existing content (including screenshots) to reflect updates to Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement – including any third-party applications. This feature is particularly relevant for large, global organizations because you can also use it to automatically create language versions of your content with a single click.

While you know you need the tool, the headaches and politics you have to maneuver through just to get a solution can be daunting. The last thing you want is for the onboarding to drag on and suck more time from your team, ultimately decreasing morale.

It’s a Classical problem, lots of time spent on lists of data in Excel – adding formulas, formats, filters, totals.  Then, after you add a New Wave of data everything has to be updated again?  Jazz things up with an Alternative method.  Use Excels Tables and eliminate your Blues.  Swing into this session and find out about Slicers, Timelines, Filters and other .  Don’t be a Punk and miss out.

This session is geared for an audience with an intermediate skill set.

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.