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This week on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (D365FO)/ Dynamics AX blog roundup: D365FO: What information and data to provide when logging a performance case with support Moving to extensions is changing your mindset Pricing digits in Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations How to connect to SQL on BI servers in a Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations environment Dynamics…

In this week's Microsoft Dynamics partner news roundup: Arbela Technologies announces Gold competencies across five areas of business for Microsoft technologies Blue Horseshoe enters licensing agreement with Microsoft for advanced supply chain solutions Visionet Systems announces launch of Advanced Shipping solution on Microsoft AppSource Star Tribune names PowerObjects, an HCL Technologies…

Here the other day, I got the task of posting a few thousand Retail Kit orders / BOM-Journals because they failed at the first time. I started, and managed to manually post 50 journals before my fingers got cramps and I started to feel dizzy. I could not multiselect the journals and post them, so I...

I recently had to move a form to another package, because we decided to extract some functionality to its own independent package. I moved files, built both packages and everything looked fine, so I started making changes for a new requirement. But later I noticed something strange in the form. When...

I have to admit that at my age I spend more time looking backwards, not forwards. Not as much time left on the trail. Quite a while back I began thinking about apprenticeship systems. Part of this was driven by my friends' sons in Germany who were currently in such a program. The other was thinking about how skilled craftsmen were developed before the Industrial Revolution. Why couldn't some of those principles be…

There's a lot of change that has come with AX7 (Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations), ranging from plentiful technical changes but also the way implementations are being run. Any large change is usually disruptive to existing users of the product, and it takes time to learn the changes and get used...

There are several ways to approach troubleshooting performance, and the aim of this blog post is to give Customers and Partners some guidance on what information and data to provide when you need help trying to establish why something is “slow”. QUESTIONS The sorts of questions we would typically ask include the following: 1) What kind of environment is the performance issue occurring on? This is relevant because…

Microsoft has just announced plans to open two new data centers in Norway, one in the greater Stavanger region and the other in Oslo. Microsoft will deliver Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 from new data center locations. Azure availability is planned for late 2019 with Office 365 and Dynamics 365 to follow, according to company officials. The new data centers in Norway expands Microsoft's existing…

When you deploy and environment of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, you are asked to pick a version of the application along with the platform version. At the point of writing, the latest application version is 8.0 and platform version is 18. We know application version 8.0 and onwards to not allow for any overlayering of standard code. We also know that version 7.3 (the version prior to 8.0) allows overlayering…

I absolutely loved this title and blog post from my colleague, Brenda Kubistek: “Creating a Longer Line at the Female Restroom!”  Click the link to read a great article about Women in Dynamics.

Even though I work on the product side these days and am crazy busy, I keep a close eye on the community out there. I have RSS feeds going for many blogs, I scan LinkedIn, I watch our insider Yammer groups, and I even follow an RSS feed of the official Community forum showing me all posts for AX/365...

Since Microsoft announced the first annual Business Applications Summit , which kicks off on July 22, the Dynamics community has been awash in theories about the event's purpose, goals, and attendee experience. The event, which represents Microsoft's most direct conference effort in the Dynamics 365 space in several years, is meant to reflect the direction of the company's business solutions portfolio, says…

Ok, I'll preface this by saying I'm very much aware that the standard X++ code in platform and application has this issue too. Thanks for letting me know :-) But as the saying goes: do as I say - not as I do... With that out of the way... Going back in time, the 7.0 X++ language supported extension...

The last few months, I did spend a lot of time on speaker sessions for the Summit EMEA, MVP Monday webcast and a coming Dutch Dynamics Community event. In the meantime, it was also extremely busy completing work. One of the topics I talked about recently, is eXtensible Data Security (XDS) in Microsoft...

Editor's Note: This "diary entry" kicks off a series of short educational videos for current and future users of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, provided by training firm Item by Item . Entry date : June 2018 Entry by : ERP Project Manager Entry title : What should I do one month before our D365 project starts? ">read more Read the full text.

Let's start with a bold statement: Cloud-based enterprise software and its subscription-based economic model will force IT services firms to change their business models. The rapid growth of the Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud delivery model has exposed a painful reality: consulting firms, VARs and system integrators have been dodging any form of real accountability for business outcomes, empowered by…

I spent some time recently at an ISACA event in Scotland, just days after GDPR went live. The EuroCACS Conference is the premier conference for Audit/Assurance, COBIT, Compliance, Risk, Security, and Strategy/Governance professionals. With sessions covering everything from segregation of duties to GDPR to the dark web, a couple of points really stood out. First, multiple presenters confirmed that despite increases…

In this week's Microsoft Dynamics Partner News Roundup: PowerObjects appoints North American Dynamics 365 sales leader focusing on Microsoft's business applications offerings Sunrise 365 solution receives Certified for Microsoft Dynamics 365 accreditation Insight Works welcomes Donovan and Associates Consulting into the burgeoning partner program fold PowerObjects appoints North American…

Here is a small example of how to load all the labels of a particular label file, in a particular language. It takes about 6-8 seconds on my developer box to load the 122190 label from SYS. public static void main(Args _args) { info ("Starting"); ClrObject labels = new ClrObject...

Out of the box you have limited data entities for migrating attachments. If you search what is already in the AOT, you will see a few various examples. I suggest you look at the LedgerJournalAttachmentsEntity as it is the simplest and cleans to copy from. I wont go into detail but I will give a quick run down of what it looks like. Use the DocuRefEntity as your main datasource. It does most of the work for you. Set your…