Helping Hand Questions for PL-600

Scenario: Information about each machine produced must be transferred to Dynamics 365 Field Service.

Use the Microsoft Dataverse connector when connecting to the Microsoft Dataverse used for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Service Automation.

Office 365 Users lets you access user profiles in your organization using your Office 365 account. You can use the Use the connection in your Power Platform app.

Dataverse is part of the Microsoft 365 collaboration and productivity tools. Using federation, applications can connect to Dataverse using the same system user identities and credentials available in an Azure Active Directory based network.

Scenario:

Users must be active employees of Fabrikam.

Quality inspection app: Fabrikam is evaluating Microsoft Power Platform to determine whether it can meet the company’s requirements for a manufacturing defect and quality inspection solution. Each machine produced must be subjected to a quality inspection at various points during production. Each machine must undergo a more extensive quality inspection before the machine can be shipped to the customer.

Box 1: Schedule board

The Dynamics 365 Field Service schedule board provides an overview of resource availability and bookings you can make.

Box 2: Azure IoT Central connector

Information about each machine produced must be transferred to Dynamics 365 Field Service.

The difference between IoT hub and IoT central is that IoT is an application platform that simplifies the creation of Internet of Things solutions. IoT central helps to reduce the challenges of implementing IoT development, operations, and management. IoT Central is a fully managed Software as a Service solution.

Note: There are three ways you can use to connect IoT-enabled devices into the Field Service solution:

Connected Field Service for Azure IoT Central

Connected Field Service for Azure IoT Hub

Connected Field Service for non-Azure IoT providers using the extensible IoT provider framework

Box 1: Schedule board

Note: The Dynamics 365 Field Service schedule board provides an overview of resource availability and bookings you can make.

When you’re looking at the schedule board for the current day, you’ll see a blue line that indicates the current time of day. You can also see a picture of all the resources listed on the schedule board. To quickly view contact information for a resource, hover over their name to view the contact card.

Box 2: Azure IoT Central connector

Azure IoT Central makes it easy to connect, monitor, and manage your IoT devices at scale. With the IoT Central V3 connector, you can trigger workflows when a rule has fired, and take actions by executing commands, updating properties, getting telemetry from devices, and more. Use this connector with your Azure IoT Central V3 application.

This connector is available in the following products and regions: