Dynamics 365: Learn in doing

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...

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...

With Dynamics 365 for Finance and operations, the out-of-the-box POS solution is truly Omni-channel, with enhanced modern look and universal app logic. With D365Ops, there are two options for POS solution: mPOS - modern POS, which can be directly downloaded from D365Ops. ePOS - cloud POS, which can be opened in any browser - so universal, just like the Dynamics 365 for operations itself. Retail Modern POS configuration and installation: If you have a valid .onmicrosoft.com account and access to Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition solutions via LCS (lifeCycleServices) using that account, then you will be able to find the step-by-step guideline for learning development when you choose the appropriate Methodology. One such link is to activate and configure a mPOS client pointing out to your D365fFO instance on the cloud and/or on a local VM - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/retail/retail-modern-pos-devi...

With Dynamics 365 for Operations (D365Ops), there is so much change from its immediate previous version. And one such major change is done in How the Source code is saved ? If you have every worked in AX2009, you know that the source code is saved in files in a specific file location in the AOS server. Now with D365Ops, Microsoft has fallen back to the concept of storing the files in file system instead of database (model database in AX2012 used to hold all the code base). And the developers working with D365Ops, the primary question is where & how the source code is kept & handled. Where to find the Source code: The application code for Dynamics 365 for operations is stored in File system, usually in a directory named PackageDirectory. You can find the details on the configuration related to AOS in a web.config file. Steps to follow: Open IIS and go to the Sites\AOSService (in case you missed, AOS is a web service with D365Ops) . Right click > Explore You s...