Solzet Blog

The Solzet blog answers the practical questions mid-market companies and Microsoft partners ask before, during and after a Dynamics 365 or Power Platform project. Articles cover Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, Field Service, Power Apps, Power Automate, PCF controls and Dataverse, from choosing a partner and migrating from Salesforce to rescuing an implementation that went wrong. Each post leads with a direct answer and closes with a short summary and common questions. They are written by the consultants who deliver this work, drawing on 8+ years of hands-on projects. Where Microsoft licensing does not fit, the articles point to the alternative: a custom-built CRM you own outright.

What have we published on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform?

Dynamics 365

Lead Scoring in Dynamics That Sales Will Actually Trust

Sales ignoring Dynamics lead scores? Rebuild from closed-won history, use a small rule-based score sales can read, publish the rules, validate before routing.

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Dynamics 365

Reconciling Contradictory Omnichannel Numbers Before an Audit

Omnichannel numbers disagree with store and web data, or first contact resolution looks too good? Freeze the records, define each metric, rebuild one figure.

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Power Platform

Automating Documents and Forms Without a Developer: What Power Platform Can and Cannot Do for You

Digitising customer forms, invoices and handwritten notes for an audit? Capture new data at source, extract old documents with AI Builder, verify every field.

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Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 Marketing Emails Landing in Spam and Taking Transactional Mail With Them

Marketing sends from Dynamics 365 got invoices blocked? Pause sends, split transactional mail, check SPF, DKIM and DMARC alignment, warm up to engaged only.

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Power Platform

Customer Self-Service Bookings Without Double Bookings: Forms, Dataverse or a Portal

Customers double booking a slot? Enforce one slot record with a server-side uniqueness rule, then pick Forms and Dataverse, Power Pages or a custom portal.

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Dynamics 365

Forecasting Subscription Renewals in Dynamics When the CRM Data Is Wrong

Cannot forecast renewals because Dynamics subscription data is wrong? Give finance a reconciled number with an exclusion list, then fix the renewal data model.

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Dynamics 365

Tracking Customer Email in Dynamics 365 When IT Will Not Enable Server-Side Sync

No server-side sync in Dynamics 365? Use a Purview eDiscovery export for the audit, then a shared mailbox flow that matches records and dedupes on message ID.

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Dynamics 365

Building a CSAT Programme That Cannot Be Gamed in Dynamics 365

CSAT scores nobody believes? Dispatch surveys by rule from a system account, pick recipients from case data, lock responses and keep a full audit history.

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Microsoft Partners

Legacy Fixed-Price Dynamics 365 Contracts Losing Margin: What Delivery Data Can Fix

Old fixed-price Dynamics 365 contracts losing margin? Rebuild delivered effort against scope, add a change-control gate and rethink delivery cost first.

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Dynamics 365

Customer Surveys and Voice of Customer Reporting by Quarter-End With No New Tools

Quarter-end survey report due? Check Customer Voice entitlement, or use Microsoft Forms, a flow and Dataverse, then merge five teams into one defensible view.

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Dynamics 365

Bringing an Offshore or Outsourced Dynamics 365 Team Back Under Control

Locked in to an outsourced Dynamics 365 team only they understand? Freeze change, demand runbooks, own credentials, get an independent review, then transition.

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Dynamics 365

Your Only Dynamics 365 Administrator Has Resigned: A 72-Hour Knowledge Capture Plan

Your only Dynamics 365 administrator is leaving? Export solutions, flows, roles and plug-ins, reassign their connections, record walkthroughs and test a change.

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Dynamics 365

Complaint and Case Handling That Survives a Regulated Audit

Complaints in a shared mailbox and spreadsheet? What auditors test, interim controls that make the mailbox defensible, and a traceable case system design.

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Power Platform

Auditing a Failing Client Portal Before Your Renewal Is at Risk

Customer portal barely connected to Dynamics 365 and clients threatening to leave? The assessment that decides fix or replace, and when each route is right.

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Dynamics 365

Cleaning Up Dynamics 365 Data Quality When You Have No Team and No Budget

Dynamics 365 data quality breaking invoicing and compliance? Scope to the fields that matter, profile with Power Query, fix at source, then clean in batches.

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Power Platform

Securing a Power App That Was Never Meant to Hold Sensitive Data

Power App holding sensitive HR data that too many people can see? Contain sharing and anonymous links, keep the logs, then secure the data source itself.

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Dynamics 365

Segmentation and Data Quality: Making a 40,000-Contact List Worth Sending To

Large, messy CRM list and one generic newsletter? Segment by behaviour first, suppress instead of deleting, dedupe on email and enrich only the fields you need.

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Dynamics 365

Reconstructing Records When the Evidence Was Never Captured

Missing records before an audit? Rebuild from surviving evidence, label it reconstructed, keep a register of source and confidence, and disclose the gap.

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Dynamics 365

When Billing Errors Are Costing You Clients: Fixing the System Behind the Invoices

Billing errors from your CRM driving clients away? Stop wrong invoices today, size the error population, find the root cause and add controls that stop repeats.

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Dynamics 365

Untangling a Black-Box Integration to Finance Before Quarter-End Close

Undocumented CRM to finance integration blocking quarter-end close? Reconcile the numbers first, then trace it from the finance side and replace it in stages.

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Power Platform

Handing Over a Business-Critical App Before Its Only Maintainer Leaves

The one person who runs your payment or invoicing app is leaving? Hand over access, source, runbooks and a payment fallback, then prove it before they go.

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Dynamics 365

Consolidating Customer Data Scattered Across Departments and Spreadsheets

Every team keeps its own customer spreadsheet? Publish one authoritative record, match on deterministic keys, reconcile copies and move teams over in phases.

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Power Platform

Rescuing a Failed Frontline Rollout: Rebuilding Trust With 500 Users Across 12 Sites

Frontline rollout failed? Quarantine bad data, observe two contrasting sites, rebuild one as the reference, then relaunch site by site on measurable terms.

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Dynamics 365

Emergency Stabilisation When a Business-Critical System Is Failing Daily

Business-critical system crashing daily? The first 48 hours in order, then triage that decides stabilise, remediate or replace, on evidence rather than panic.

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Dynamics 365

You Hired a Dynamics Developer Who Misrepresented Their Skills: Damage Control

A Dynamics developer overstated their skills and left a failed migration before an audit? Scope access, back up, inventory every change, then plan the repair.

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Dynamics 365

Executive Dashboards That Disagree With Finance: Finding and Fixing the Gap

Dynamics dashboard numbers do not match finance? Walk one metric from source record to report cell, check the five usual causes, then fix it in the data model.

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Power Platform

Standing Up Reporting a Client or Auditor Will Accept in Weeks

Audit data scattered across old Excel files? Freeze the sources, agree each metric in writing, stage with row-level checks and publish one figure with lineage.

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Power Platform

Power BI for Manufacturing: 5 Reports Every Plant Manager Needs

The five Power BI reports a plant manager actually uses - OEE, scrap Pareto, downtime, OTIF, and maintenance backlog - and how to model them on Dataverse.

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Microsoft Partners

How to Choose the Right D365 Partner for Your Mid-Market Manufacturing Project

How a mid-market manufacturer should evaluate a Dynamics 365 partner: the ALM, Field Service, ERP integration and licensing questions that predict delivery.

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Dynamics 365

Choosing a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Partner in Armenia: What Yerevan Delivery Actually Involves

A 10 question buyer checklist for choosing a Dynamics 365 partner in Armenia, plus the Dataverse decisions you cannot undo and who really owns the build.

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Dynamics 365

Rescuing a Failed Dynamics 365 Implementation: Name the Root Cause Before You Fix Anything

How a Dynamics 365 rescue really works: naming the root cause before fixing anything, plus a full walkthrough of Customer Service unified routing setup.

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Dynamics 365

Taking Over a Dynamics 365 Project That Went Wrong: How a Rescue Actually Works

What a Dynamics 365 rescue and takeover involves: reading a half-built environment, stabilizing it, fixing Field Service scheduling and moving it forward.

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Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Experts in Yerevan: A Buyer’s Guide

What Yerevan-based Dynamics 365 and Power Platform delivery looks like: nearshore time zones, certified engineers, project rescue and a due-diligence checklist.

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Power Platform

When You Want an Experienced Power Apps Team You Can Plug In

What "an experienced team we can plug in" really means for Power Apps: how a nearshore Center of Excellence joins your project without a long ramp-up.

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Dynamics 365

The Honest Way to Get a Kanban Board Into Dynamics 365

Getting a Kanban board into Dynamics 365: install a third-party AppSource app or build a custom PCF control, and how to tell which one your team really needs.

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Dynamics 365

The Dynamics 365 Customization Mistakes We Get Called In to Fix

The Dynamics 365 customizations that break most often, how to fix them, and why searching for a training provider like Dynamics Edge is often the wrong move.

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Dynamics 365

Migrating From Salesforce to Dynamics 365: The Practices That Actually Hold Up

Migrating from Salesforce to Dynamics 365: map objects to Dataverse, rebuild Apex and Flow logic, migrate in reconciled phases, and dual run before cutover.

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Power Platform

How Power Apps Replaces Paper Forms on the Shop Floor

How Power Apps replaces shop-floor paper forms: quality checks, downtime logs, and inspections that validate at capture, work offline, and land in Dataverse.

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Power Platform

How Power Automate Approval Flows Save Mid-Market Finance Teams Time

How Power Automate approval flows take the email and spreadsheet drag out of mid-market finance: invoice, PO and expense sign-offs that route and escalate.

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Field Service

Why Mid-Market Companies Fail at D365 Field Service Implementation

D365 Field Service implementations fail on data, scheduling, and adoption - not the software. Why mid-market projects stall, and how to get the rollout right.

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Power Platform

Power Platform: The Most Underused Tool in Mid-Market Companies

Mid-market companies already pay for Power Platform through Microsoft 365. Here is how to start using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Pages today.

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Microsoft Partners

Why Microsoft Partners Subcontract D365 Work (and How to Do It Right)

Why Microsoft Partners subcontract Dynamics 365 delivery - bench gaps, specialized skills, cost - and how to structure agreements, quality, and IP correctly.

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Field Service

Still Dispatching Field Technicians via WhatsApp? Here's What That Costs You

Dispatching field technicians over WhatsApp feels free but quietly costs you in scheduling chaos, lost documentation, and no analytics. Here is the real price.

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Dynamics 365

What Is Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement? A Practical Overview

A practical overview of Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement: the apps it includes, what Microsoft Dataverse is and why it matters, and when CE fits your business.

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What do readers ask?

What topics does the Solzet blog cover?

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (including Sales, Customer Service and Field Service), the Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Dataverse), PCF controls, and how Microsoft partners work with delivery teams. Articles range from choosing a partner and migrating from Salesforce to rescuing an implementation that went wrong, and they point to custom CRM development where Microsoft licensing does not fit.

Who writes the articles on the Solzet blog?

The Solzet consulting team: the same senior consultants who deliver Dynamics 365, Power Platform, PCF control and custom CRM projects. The articles come from 8+ years of hands-on delivery rather than from marketing briefs, which is why they name trade-offs and failure modes instead of only the happy path.

Does the blog cover Dynamics 365 Finance or Business Central?

Only where Customer Engagement has to integrate with them. Solzet does not implement Dynamics 365 Finance, Business Central, Dynamics NAV, Finance and Operations or other ERP systems, so the blog does not offer implementation advice for them. The focus is Customer Engagement, the Power Platform and custom CRM.

Is the blog only about Microsoft products?

No. We recommend the right solution - whether that's Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, or a custom-built CRM. Some businesses need the Microsoft ecosystem. Others need full control without licensing. We deliver both. Articles about the Microsoft platform link to custom CRM development for organizations that need CRM capabilities without Microsoft licensing.

Does Solzet write for Microsoft partners as well as end clients?

Yes. Solzet provides white-label subcontracting for Microsoft partners, and the Microsoft Partners articles explain how partners bring in an experienced Dynamics 365 or Power Platform team and how to structure that work so it goes well for the end client.

Can I get help with a problem described in one of the articles?

Yes. Use the enquiry form at the foot of this page and describe what you are trying to solve and what you run today. A senior consultant replies within one business day with a recommendation, whether that is Dynamics 365, Power Platform or a custom-built CRM.

Which services do these articles relate to?

We recommend the right solution - whether that's Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, or a custom-built CRM. Some businesses need the Microsoft ecosystem. Others need full control without licensing. We deliver both.

Have a question the articles do not answer?

Tell us what you are working on. A senior consultant replies within one business day with a recommendation, whether that is Dynamics 365, Power Platform, or a custom-built CRM.