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Monday, June 25, 2018

The Ever Green "Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations"

Now we have heard so much about Ever green product life cycle for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. After the latest product release, Microsoft has taken a step further towards Ever-green approach with D365Ops. 

  • Latest Platform release: Platform Update 15 -- 7.0.4841 -- released on March 2018
  • Latest Application release: 8.0 -- 8.0.30 & 8.0.35 -- released on April 2018

Many of you might already know that Dynamics 365 (previously CRM) let's the users skip One update only. That is, if a Customer is live with D365 and is also working on a Module development on the particular live-production-version, and if Microsoft releases newer versions during this development cycle, the Customer will have to get the work done as quickly as possible to 1. Release the development done; 2. Update the product to the newer MS released version at least in the next update cycle; 3. And thereby stay in the Product support criteria. 

Something similar is coming up for D365Ops as well. The D365Ops online service is covered by the Modern Lifecycle Policy, i.e, products and services that are serviced and supported continuously
Licensed customers must stay current with updates to the D365Ops online service in accordance with the following servicing and system requirements:

  • Customers purchasing subscriptions of D365Ops after April 1, 2018 will experience continuous updates of the Platform and Financial Reporting. Microsoft will continually update these components with the option to postpone an update for up to 30 days.
  • Customers who purchased subscriptions to D365Ops prior to April 1, 2018 will be encouraged to move to the latest available platform and financial reporting updates. By July 1, 2018 all customers will receive continual platform and financial reporter updates managed by Microsoft, with the option to postpone for up to 30 days
  • Platform versions maintain backward compatibility with the application versions that are supported at the time of the platform release within the application support lifecycle.

Microsoft is definitely pushing more towards: 

  • Real Automatic updates of the product based on Feedback collected all across the world
  • Taking up & away most of the Tedious & repetitive maintenance work from Customers and their partners 
  • Encouraging Customers and partners to build more extensions based development and completely discourage any over layering
Have to wait and see how this really turns out into. Good luck..!

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