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Connect Voice Channel to using an existing Azure Communication Services (ACS) Resource – Dynamics 365 Customer Service

We had earlier configured Voice Channel in our Dev environment using ACS Direct Routing.

Please refer to this blog post on how to set up a voice channel using a new ACS. https://nishantrana.me/2022/10/17/how-to-set-up-omnichannel-voice-using-azure-communication-service-acs/

Recently while configuring the UAT environment, we thought of reusing the same ACS resource configured earlier.

Highlighting the key steps required for it –

The first step is to install the Voice Channel in the new environment

https://nishantrana.me/2023/02/08/install-voice-channel-in-omnichannel-dynamics-365-customer-service/

Followed by registering a new App in Azure Active Directory.

This will be required while connecting to the Azure Communication Services.

Enter the details of existing ACS, like name, ID, and Connection String.

And the App ID and App Tenant Id while connecting to ACS in the new environment.

Now if we want to use the feature of Call recording, we can reuse the existing Event Grid System Topics created for the Dev environment, by simply creating a new Event Subscription for it.

Copy and specify the webhook endpoint from the UAT / New environment

Select Manage for Channels >> Phone numbers

Select Advanced

Copy the Webhook endpoint for the new event subscription from the UAT / New env.

For the exact steps refer – https://nishantrana.me/2022/12/20/configure-azure-event-grid-system-topic-and-subscription-to-enable-call-recording-and-sms-in-dynamics-365-omnichannel-voice/

The next step would be to configure a new phone number, voice channel, workstream, etc.

So basically we can have multiple environments using the same ACS Resource using different numbers and with call recording for this we need to

Create / Register a new Azure AD app for each environment.
New Event Subscription for the existing Event Grid System Topics.

Get all the details here – Connect to ACS

Hope it helps..

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How to – Enable inbox for agents in Dynamics 365 Customer Service Workspace / Omnichannel

Inbox view in the agent workspace allows agents to quickly perform a preliminary assessment of the service requests coming from different channels for a timely response. Agents can view cases, conversations, and activities assigned in the inbox tab.

To enable inbox for the agents, inside the Customer Service admin center

Navigate to Agent Experience >> Workspaces >> Agent Experience profiles >> Manage

We can create new profiles or can add users to any of the existing profile that has inbox enabled

E.g. Customer Service Trial profile has the inbox enabled.

Below is the agent experience profile record, that doesn’t have inbox enabled.

Let us add one of the users to the below profile.

The Customer Service workspace before the user’s inbox is enabled. We can only see the Home tab.

After adding the user to the profile.

The agent can see the Inbox tab.

The agents can see the views configured in the profile inside the inbox tab.

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Manage Custom Presence – Dynamics 365 Customer Service (Omnichannel)

To manage presences, navigate to Customer Service Admin Center >> Agent Experience >> Productivity >> Custom Presence

Out of the box we have the following presences.

Only the below presences will be available for the agents to select.

The inactive and offline statuses will be automatically set by the system.

Although we can deactivate the presence, that doesn’t remove it for the agents.

The agents can still see all the presence statuses.

We cannot delete the default presence; we will get the below error if we try to delete them.

We can edit the Presence text for the default presence.

For the agent –

We can create custom presences that are based on the existing base status.

For the agents –

Unlike default presence, we can delete the custom presence status.

Hope it helps..

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Solved – Presence not loading in Omnichannel for Customer Service / Customer Service workspace

Recently in one of the environments, the presence was not loading for the agents.

To fix it, we had to update the Channel URL to point to the correct organization name.

Before –

https://oc-cdn-ocprod.azureedge.net/convcontrol/ChatControl.htm?uci=true&clientName=zfp&cloudType=Public&env=prod&ocBaseUrl=https://unq614e23c1ccc540f3a9bf2f80c99d9-crm.omnichannelengagementhub.com&ucilib=https://orged4e3d70.crm.dynamics.com/webresources/Widget/msdyn_ciLibrary.js

After –

https://oc-cdn-ocprod.azureedge.net/convcontrol/ChatControl.htm?uci=true&clientName=zfp&cloudType=Public&env=prod&ocBaseUrl=https://unq614e23c1ccc540f3a9bf2f80c99d9-crm.omnichannelengagementhub.com&ucilib=https://gcst.crm.dynamics.com/webresources/Widget/msdyn_ciLibrary.js

Verify the Unique Name used in ocBaseUrl and Orgname from Settings >> Customizations >> Developer Resources

On correcting the URL in the Omnichannel record (Channel Integration framework 2.0 Providers)– we can see the presence loading.

The cause for the issue was we had recently updated the environment’s URL from the Power Platform Admin Center.

Check for more details –

https://tinyurl.com/3488m6p2

The presence not loading.

Hope it helps..

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Install Voice Channel in Omnichannel – Dynamics 365 Customer Service

Make sure all the prerequisites are in place –

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-service/omnichannel-provision-license#prerequisites

https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments

Select Resources >> Dynamics 365 apps

Select Manage for Omnichannel for Customer Service – Telephony

It will open Dynamics 365 Administration Center | Omnichannel page

Click on Add environment

Select the required environment and click on Next.

If we do not have the required subscription for a particular channel we will get the below error

Next for Voice, select Add Voice along with Voice and Messaging preview terms.

Keep clicking on Next till confirmation (add other channels if required)

The confirmation page will show all the selections and details.

Clicking on Finish starts the installation process.

After around 1.5 -2 hours or so we could see the installation being successful.

If we want to add another channel e.g. SMS, select the SMS tab and save to start the process.

This starts the update

After an hour or so we see the status as installed for both Voice and SMS.

On opening the Customer Service Admin Center app, we can see the option of getting started with a voice demo.

Assign the account you are using the Omnichannel Agent and Omnichannel Admin role (even if you are a system administrator you need this role to start with the voice demo, admin to configure and agent to test)

It will create the workstreams, acquire a phone number, create a voice channel, power virtual agent, etc. for the demo

After around 2 minutes or so, we will have our voice demo setup done.

We can open the agent app which is either Omnichannel for Customer Service or Customer Service Workspace App and can call the phone number configured to test the application.

We can see the following workstreams created for Voice and Voicemail channels.