Month: December 2019

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Microsoft retire Dynamics 365 apps for LinkedIn


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Microsoft have announced that they’re retiring two Dynamics 365 apps, Talent Attract and Talent Onboard, with the LinkedIn Talent Hub being the preferred replacement.

The retirement date is February 1, 2022 and “eligible” customers can continue using the services until that date or the end of their most recent contract or renewal – whichever comes first. If you’re not currently using these apps but have a plan to do so – and still want to continue now Microsoft have announced they’re being phased out and no new capabilities will be added – there is an opt-in process to enable eligibility. You can raise a support ticket to become eligible to access the services until 2022 – that process must be completed by January 31, 2020.

Microsoft are rebranding their “core HR capabilities” from “Dynamics 365 Talent” to “Dynamics 365 Human Resources”, with current customers being transitioned to the new service automatically. This is all further change and flux within the Dynamics 365 family – it will be interesting to see if it calms down through 2020 at all.

Further Reading:

Microsoft Announcement – https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2019/12/06/building-a-more-successful-workforce-with-dynamics-365-human-resources/

Microsoft Details – https://community.dynamics.com/365/talent/b/dynamics365fortalent/posts/retiring-dynamics-365-talent-attract-and-onboard-apps

LinkedIn Talent Hub – https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/talent-hub#

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Snow Software acquire Embotics


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Snow Software announced, on December 3rd, their acquisition of the hybrid cloud management company, Embotics. This follows on the heels of Flexera buying RightScale, VMware buying CloudHealth and, a little further back, Microsoft buying Cloudyn.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a big focus for me (and a lot of people) and Embotics were one of the big cloud tool providers, along with this mentioned above.. Snow have been very successful on-premises and clear they want to extend that success to the cloud, so making an acquisition is a logical move – you get capabilities, knowledge, and people much faster than building it up yourself. The big next step is ensuring they can integrate those capabilities, knowledge, and people into the existing platform and company – Snow say:

“The process of integrating Embotics into the Snow platform will begin immediately, and the companies will have a single go-to-market strategy starting in 2020.”

If they can do that, I’ll be very interested to see the progression over the next 12, 24, and 36 months. Most organisations are going to be working in the “hybrid cloud” – part on-premises and part public cloud – a tool that can manage assets wherever they are and help make cost and value based decisions around asset type/location etc. will be very useful.

Further Reading

Snow announcement – https://www.snowsoftware.com/int/company/news/snow-software-acquires-embotics#.XgdMS252vic

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Microsoft Product Terms – December 2019


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December 2019 sees the following additions:

Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP) for “cross-platform devices”. Available only via the EA/EAS volume licensing programmes, this allows MDATP to be run on up to 5 non-Windows devices concurrently.

Power Virtual Agents are added, with no extra info. These aim to enable anyone to create AI-powered chat bots and look to be a new member of the Power Platform:

From https://powervirtualagents.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-power-virtual-agents-is-now-generally-available/

There are a couple of lines added covering the recently announced Intune access for SCCM users. This confirms SA is required on the existing licenses but, perhaps a little confusingly, doesn’t mention the “Microsoft Endpoint Manager” name at all.

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