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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 )

This short post is for you hardcore X++ developers that create magic everyday. D365 have the following method, that allows you to validate if any fields on a record have been changed. If it returns true , then something has changed, and if false , then nothing has been changed. There are scenario’s...

What is the Solution Architect Bootcamp? Apparently, I missed the memo on these Solution Architect Bootcamps put on by the Fast Track Solution Architects at Microsoft.  Since rolling out the most recent version of their program to help customers “implement high quality solution faster”, “go live with confidence” and “stay connected to the product”, Microsoft has been training Partners on how to best interact with the…

What is the Solution Architect Bootcamp? Apparently, I missed the memo on these Solution Architect Bootcamps put on by the Fast Track Solution Architects at Microsoft.  Since rolling out the most recent version of their program to help customers “implement high quality solution faster”, “go live with confidence” and “stay connected to the product”, Microsoft has been training Partners on how to best interact with the…

What is the Solution Architect Bootcamp? Apparently, I missed the memo on these Solution Architect Bootcamps put on by the Fast Track Solution Architects at Microsoft.  Since rolling out the most recent version of their program to help customers “implement high quality solution faster”, “go live with confidence” and “stay connected to the product”, Microsoft has been training Partners on how to best interact with the…

When I read Evaldas Landauskas’s blog post Development guidelines: Prefix Vs. Suffix , I thought I would write a comment below the post and share a few ideas, but then I decided that it’d be better to write my own blog post. Here I have a much better control over formatting and the content will...

The product that used to be called Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (I truly don’t know how I should call it these days) allows defining security elements both by developers (delivered together with code) and by power users though GUI (stored in database). You may have a need to work...

Dynamics 365 can be automated quite a lot with the use of batch jobs. With batch jobs, your Dynamics 365 solution becomes “alive”, and we can set up the system to automate many manually processes. Lets say to have the following “vanilla process”, and wants to automate as many...

D365 & Visual studio gives you the ability to create your own Visual studio Add In for D365 development. The idea for me to create the add-in was to reduce the number of keystrokes and especially moving forward and backwards between the AOT and the code editor. There are quite a few “enhancements” i...

Retailers experienced more change in the last decade than nearly any other industry, a trend that is not likely to slow as we enter 2020. The only certainty in the new decade is the need for technologies that help retailers stay nimble, relevant, and anticipate customer needs and shopping preferences. As my colleague Shelley Bransten, Corporate Vice President, Retail and Consumer Goods Industries, shared in a blog post…

Microsoft is now adding translated label files to the deployed developer boxes, which is supposed to make is possible to search for labels in other languages than en-us. I'm not sure if this is done for all models though. If the search doesn't work, the likely cause is that Microsoft didn't add the...