LCS to PPAC: Smoothly Transition Your Updates

With the transition from LCS to PPAC, several processes now look different or entirely new to many of us.

This post provides an overview of how to apply Platform and Quality updates for Finance & Operations environments that were originally provisioned through LCS and are now managed in PPAC. It highlights the key changes, new steps introduced in PPAC, and important considerations to ensure updates are applied smoothly and consistently.

Using LCS

Microsoft has given a detailed release schedule here

Microsoft issues four service updates each year—in February, April, July, and October.

Customers may take up to four updates annually but must adopt at least two. They also have the option to pause one update at a time. A pause can be applied to the designated UAT sandbox environment, the production environment, or both.

When the pause period ends, if the customer has not manually updated to a supported version, Microsoft will automatically apply the latest service update according to the configuration in Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services.

Where to check the PU release?

Go to LCS -> Select one of the higher tier environments and click ‘Full Details’

Scroll down till you reach ‘Available updates’ tab. This would give the details of your current version and the updates available. In my case, my environment is in 10.0.46 which has a quality update and also a new release to 10.0.47.

Quality update refers to the same PU but contains hotfixes released with different build numbers.

Service Update is an upgrade to new version where it contains both hotfixes and the new features. Microsoft document on ‘What`s new or changed in the latest version’ gives a clear picture on the new features, default features, modified ones or deprecated features.

Refer to this page to get the details of releases

Coming back to upgrading process, upon clicking ‘View update’ , the page lists the details of the updates available in the release.

click on ‘Save package’ . It gives the option to select all the hot fixes or you can pick select the ones you need.

It is advisable to ‘Select all’ so no dependant features are missed .

Click ‘Save package’ and the package will be saved in Asset Library -> Solution deployable package files

It takes few minutes to save and validate the package in Asset library.

Applying the Service update

Now the new update is ready in Asset Library, it can be used to apply in the necessary environments.

Navigate to any one of the higher environments,and click Maintain

A window opens with the list of VALIDATED packages. Scroll down to select the Service update.

The Platform version will also be mentioned in the update window.

In case of Platform updates, the package type will be ‘Platform and application binary package’

For a regular deployable package, the type will be Application deployable package. You can see the difference below.

After you fill the ‘NAME FOR THIS UPDATE’ , the apply button will be enabled.

LCS will send an alert on the progress of the update . If there are any failures, the logs can be downloaded from the respective environment.

Using PPAC

Now let us see how to apply using PPAC provisioned FO environments.

Go to Power Platform Admin Center and selct Manage -> Environments

Click on the Resources and select ‘Dynamics 365 apps’

Navigate to ‘Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Provisioning App’ and select Manage

Select ok for the dialog

Select the Application version and click Install.

In my case, I am selecting ‘10.0.46.5’ to apply the latest Quality updates to my environment.

After clicking Install, the FO provisioning app will be set to ‘Installing’ and the progress can be see by clicking the Details

The installation progress can be seen in Package Manager app.

In PPAC, click Resources -> Power Apps

Search for ‘Finance and Operations Package Manager’

Click on Operation History to check the Status

The Quality update took 45 mins to complete which has reduced the environment downtime significantly.

See you in the next post…

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