Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations/AX User Group

If you are in the Dynamics space, you probably know the investments Microsoft has been making in Common Data Service (Aka CDS) platform. All business applications under the Dynamics 365 umbrella are connected to a CDS environment by default and they make data available directly CDS in real time, except...

So you added a new table / field via D365 Finops and synchronised the database. To get the intellisense to pick those new objects you might be restarting SSMS ? Instead you could just be refreshing the intellisense OR in other words Refresh intellisense’s local cache Create a new query...

When moving data from a sandbox environment to your dev-box you need sqlpackage to unpack the bacpac file to a database. This could give you an error message stating that the file contains corrupted data: To get yourself passed this you can download the .net core edition of the SQLPackage from here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/sqlpackage-download?view=sql-server-ver15 Unzip the downloaded file to…

This is something that I generally forget whenever I create a new dev-box. Visual Studio needs to be running as Administrator otherwise you’ll get messages such as “Access to the path ‘K:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\Bin\InstalledVersion.json’ is denied”: and “Visual Studio is not running as administrator. Finance and Operations (Dynamics 365) requires Visual Studio to be running as administrator. Please restart…

When assigning licenses to a Dynamics 365 user, it would be beneficial if the system disabled and removed a license from a user if the user has not used the system for X days. X minus 5 days the system should send out a message to the user like this: “This is a login REMINDER for Dynamics 365. Kurt Hatlevik...

Today we could experience yet an outtage on LCS, where LCS loses contact to the deployed environments. It took something like a days and a half before things were restored to normal operations. This means that you can't see any environment details, download RDP files or perform any other environment actions...

When saving a record, I had to check which fields had changed and react in a special way if only certain fields (and not any other) changed their value. I could iterate all fields and compare their values in two table buffers (the original and the updated one), but I thought that D365FO might already...

Today I will write a bit about the supply chain structure we see in the retail grocery industry, and challengers Dynamics 365 may face, and how to address them. The grocery industry has for many years seen that industry collaboration brings benefits and synergies throughout the value chain. We see industry...

As end users of any product, software application or any other app, we all love to spend less time in the system and get more done with less effort. Also we all love if the system gives us the flexibility to personalize the way we want it. Using an ERP systems should not be is no different. Dynamics...

Back in platform update 16 in March 2018, we introduced a new metadata validation based on observed issues. We had found some customers (and also Microsoft code) had field groups that referred to fiel...( read more )