Dynamics 365: Learn in doing

News coming up.. However was expected. Like we discussed in The Ever Green "Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations", Microsoft has been focused on getting the ever green approach to F&O as well. And the introduction of One Version service updates is a necessary step towards that. So what is One version service updates? Almost 5 months back, Microsoft annouced that there will be a Change to the way MS will deliver Dynamics 365 updates , to ensure that all their customers will be on the most current version, or at least the latest version possible. So below table illustrates the relavant information. Also microsoft announced, two online sessions in December to share more information. Please go to Microsoft Managed Continuous Updates Recurring Sessions with the Product team | December 11, 13, 2018 and get registered to know more 😉 Some highlights from what Microsoft has shared on www so far:  Next major release from what I understand is ver...

Today, we have so many different applications under the umbrella of Microsoft Dynamics 365 . And for ease of understanding, they are categorized into the below groups (as of today, not sure what changes tomorrow, especially with the naming 😉).  Customer Engagement D365 for Sales D365 for Customer Service D365 for Field Service D365 for Marketing D365 for Project Service Automation Unified Operations D365 for Finance and Operations D365 for Retail D365 Business Central D365 for Talent Power Platform PowerApps Microsoft Flow Power BI And the approach strategy opted by Microsoft for the Customers of the future - Dynamics365, forces us to get an understanding of each of the above products. And this is my attempt to learn and share the D365 Umbrella application insights.  Today I did some reading about Dynamics 365 for Talent . Logically, D365 for Talent is divided into #3 categories, Attract, Onboard and Human Resource (CoreHR). As you can imagine ...

It has been a while that I wrote a post in here.. been busy days 😅 This is the era of tons of information over WWW and new topics / services are born everyday. And for me, the only logical way to learn some new cool things in this fast paced industry is to  Learn by doing .. and thus, back to sharing what I am doing 😃 Today's learning's:  Azure DevOps (VSTS transformed into DevOps now) Azure Windows Web App (as a service) Azure SQL database Git Push from Visual studio 2017 If you have a Azure account (can also easily create a free account for one time use), one of the first things which will pop up when you login to https://portal.azure.com/ is to Create DevOps project   So I created a new DevOps project and went through the UI experience/suggestions and created a new Windows Web app.  Once I finished the process, Azure will automatically create several resources for me. 1. An Azure DevOps project was create -  https://...

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 ...

Since the start of this year, there is one question which has been bothering me a bit - What happened to the Dynamics 365 (for Finance and Operations) Technical conference for the year 2018, especially after seeing that www.d365tech.com stopped working. There are some blog posts which talk about the same question when you search for D365 technical conference for this year. Finally we have an update on this from Microsoft - go look for details in  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/BusinessApplicationsSummit We already understood the intentions from Microsoft in moving towards the direction of having all the Business applications under the same hood " Dynamics 365 " - so now it is the time to even have the Technical conferences for various applications under the same hood " Microsoft Business Applications summit ". From the site:  Join to learn how Microsoft spans the breadth of business process applications powered by a business analytics and application pla...

This might not be news to many of you out there, but was certainly new information for me today. I have deployed a new Azure Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations ( 7.3 ) VM today. (Installed platform version : Update12 (7.0.4709.41129)) Once the deployment was complete I noticed that I could see two user accounts, traditionally we only had Admin**** account using which we are used to RDP into the newly created server.  Upon on reading up some more, I understand that Microsoft is aiming to not provide  the Admin access for the "Development" and "Build" environments which will be hosted on Microsoft Subscription.  Currently this is true and mandatory for UAT and PROD environments hosted by Microsoft on their subscription as part of the D365 unified License plan.  Kindly note that this is not the case, if you deploy the DEV environment on your own Azure subscription , then you obviously have all the details include Admin account details. Also the other ...

Today I encountered a weird error while working with newly created Enums and Tables in Visual Studio 2015 with a Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations project. Error message while trying to build my project was: The underlying type 'BKA_Status ' or its base type for table 'BKA_GoalMaster' field 'GoalStatus' does not exist. The underlying type 'BKA_GoalTypes ' or its base type for table 'BKA_GoalMaster' field 'GoalType' does not exist.</Message> However, I had the 'BKA_Status' as well as 'BKA_GoalTypes' Enums already available in my project and even the project is Synchronized with the database. Root cause: To be honest, I was unable to find the root cause for sure. However, I imagine the error has something to do with the refresh of metadata because of the kind of solution which helped to resolve the error.  I have had 'Extends' property filled in with another Enum which was not existing in t...