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...

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 ...

Just thinking out load - With "Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations" moving towards this "new approach" by Microsoft, it is more and more important to understand the latest announcements. When I say "new standard", I meant the stage where most of the Microsoft products are moving towards. Windows 10 - Seems like no more newer versions, but rather continous updates to keep the same version up to date. Office 365 - is also one such standard. Now Dynamics 365 maybe falls under the same category. Microsoft annouces GA of AppService and Functions on Azure stack: Early this month, Microsoft shared that Azure App service and Functions are generally available on Azure stack, i.e, Customers who intend to use it can go ahead, buy and use the service in their PROD environments. Now customers can deploy their application (be it D365fFO or any other) in the environment of their choice with App Service - the public cloud, Virtual network or on-premises wi...