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The search experience at docs.microsoft.com is not great. It is more like broken. Here is how you can improve search with your favorite search engine. I'm using Edge/Bing for the example, but this can easily be changed to Chrome/Google. Open Microsoft Edge Open Settings Open Privacy, search, and ser...

I did an interview on the #LessCodeMorePower channel. Check it out! The learning journey of the PowerPlatform with Zoe Leichty-Wireman and Joel Leichty | #LessCodeMorePower | Channel 9 (msdn.com)

This blog post isn’t about Dynamics AX / Dynamics 365, although it may occasionally be useful for some AX/D365 developers as well. Let’s say I have a 30 minutes long movie that I want to share on a website and I want to give people an idea about the content of the video. Therefore I want to create...

If you use DevOps pipelines to deploy packages, you probably know that the pipeline stages sometimes fail for reasons unknown, even when LCS actually does the deployment. If you track deployments on your work items, it is quite annoying that the deployment is reported as failed in DevOps in this case...

There is a small, but interesting element that retailers should be aware of. If you buy Dynamics 365 Commerce Scale Unit’s you get device licenses included. It is available in the licensing guide . What does this mean? As you scale up your installation, and deploy to multiple azure geo zone...

RefresherIn a recent post, I talked about testing, using the ATL framework to write easy-to-read test automation. This is a developer activity recommended for ISVs and partners, to ensure their customizations against regressions. At a customer site, if a developer team is unavailable, or for testing E2E scenarios in the system, Microsoft recommends using the RSAT tool. You can see a quick summary

For many businesses, success increasingly depends on having the agility to innovate and adapt to rapid change, responding to customer needs, competitive pressure, and industry trends. But this is a difficult...( read more )

We have made the decision not to invest in transitioning the Russian payroll capabilities in Dynamics AX 2012 R3 over to Dynamics 365. However, we’ll continue to support existing Russian payroll capabilities...( read more )

IntroductionThe two basic things support needs any time you log a support case is your application version, as well as your session id or similar, plus the timestamp of when the issue occurred. This helps troubleshoot the specific issue reported.Well, with the Warehouse management app, it's pretty much the same. We'd like to know the app version you're running, as well as the Device ID of the

I recently had an interesting discussion around testing and specifically Microsoft testing efforts and frameworks, namely, ATL. If you are not familiar with this framework - you've been living under a rock. Get out from under there and go read some articles about it, like the one belowhttps://kashperuk.blogspot.com/2019/05/development-tutorial-sample-test-tips.htmlThe discussion revolved around

There is a new feature under the Feature management area that you can enable to setup an email ID for your users dedicated for workflow related notifications in D365 Finance and Supply Chain. When you enable this new feature, you will see a new field named “ Alternate email ” on the ...

Here is a quick tip on a new feature in the Expense Management module of Dynamics 365 Finance introduced in version 10.0.17. If you give cash advances to your employees for expenses they might incur(Office or travel related expenses), they now have better control over applying specific cash advances...

There was a question in the Community forum about creating tables in an external databases that would match the schema of F&O data entities. One of the possible approaches is generating SQL code for CREATE TABLE statement. The information about field names, types and such things would be taken...

You may need to retrieve the URL of the D365 FO instance for logging or integration purposes, or for generating deep links. D365 FO foundation package provides you the URLUtility::getUrl() method for this. However this FO standard method does not work if you execute it from a batch or inside a custom...

Scenario: You are willing to work on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Operations product and want to get your hand dirty with some development. You are hearing so much about this product but never got a chance to work on this MS ERP. Andre wrote a detailed post on how you can setup a trial environment for...

Scenario: Database synchronization failed with following error message. It happened after I refreshed the tier 1 (DEV) environment of MS D365 FinOps from a sandbox environment database. The original database was named to AxDB_Orig as part of this refresh process. Severity Code Description Project...

Setting up support in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Are you looking for an easy way for your users to create support tickets with the IT staff?  Is your IT staff using Azure DevOps, but it’s too confusing to get your end-users into?  Do you not have ticketing software, but you have many remote users who need to raise help desk tickets?  This approach might help. Overall flow The general workflow starts…

Are you looking for an easy way for your users to create support tickets with the IT staff?  Is your IT staff using Azure DevOps, but it’s too confusing to get your end-users into?  Do you not have ticketing software, but you have many remote users who need to raise help desk tickets?  This approach might help. Overall flow in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations The general workflow starts when a Dynamics 365 for…

Through search and connections, I have compiled a list of public sites that have implemented the Dynamics 365 eCommerce parts. This is by no means a complete list, and only represents a small subset. I have not been sponsored by any, and I only want to share with the D365 community sites that are live...

IntroductionWhenever we talk about the work list, and recently also the work pick line overview feature, customers think this could be a great optimization for their warehouse, but frequently, they want to display some business-specific information on the cards, that would help drive the decisions, but that information is not available out of the box on the work list.In this post I'd like to