Activate financial dimensions without downtime
Mar02

Activate financial dimensions without downtime

Today I want to share a small trick I learned this week from a colleague of mine. I wasn’t aware of this possibility and couldn’t find any documentation on this. So it is more of a reminder post for myself, and maybe I am not the last person to learn about this. When we want to activate financial dimensions in D365 F&O we need to put the system in the maintenance mode. In a Tier2+… Continue Reading...

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Say hello to the Regulatory Configuration Service – RCS
Feb14

Say hello to the Regulatory Configuration Service – RCS

This time I’ve got a less technical and more functional post about the Regulatory Configuration Service (RCS) for you. I couldn’t find too much information about it out there, besides the MS Docs pages. Lately I had to set it up in some projects, and wanted to share my findings. With the release of the 10.0.17 version the deprecation of the LCS as a storage option for the ER configurations was… Continue Reading...

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AX2012 jobs are back in D365 (kind of)
Feb01

AX2012 jobs are back in D365 (kind of)

Disclaimer: I do not encourage anyone on using this feature. And if you use it, please be careful with manipulating data using this feature.With the release of the PEAP version for 10.0.25 Microsoft reintroduced the ability to execute jobs without having a downtime for the needed deployment: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/deployment/run-custom-scriptsWhile… Continue Reading Marijan’s...

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Automated Release Notes for your (D365) Azure DevOps – project
Dec01

Automated Release Notes for your (D365) Azure DevOps – project

Ever since I used Azure DevOps (or visualstudio.com or VS online) as a version control system and to build and release Dynamics AX code to different environments, I wanted a neat and simple way to auto generate release notes. So this time I want to show you, how we can use Azure DevOps to auto create Release Notes and even get them published into your DevOps wiki.After some digging around on… Continue Reading Marijan’s...

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Power Automate Flow to fetch LCS environment metadata
Sep13

Power Automate Flow to fetch LCS environment metadata

In my first post we utilized the LCS API to start and stop cloud hosted environments via power automate. Since the API has evolved and we can now get environment metadata, environment history or the environment RSAT certificate, I decided to make another one. This time it’ll cover fetching the environment metadata through a power automate flow and write the results into an Excel… Continue Reading Marijan’s Article on...

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d365fo.integration – Enable users after database refresh
Apr06

d365fo.integration – Enable users after database refresh

After my last post on auto refreshing data entities after a deployment, I want to show you how to enable users in your system after a database refresh. A big ‘thank you’ goes out, as always, to @splaxi for delivering the d365fo – toolset and for the idea on this post.We will use the d365fo.integrations once more so that we don’t need a line of X++ code. Enable or disable users… Continue Reading...

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d365fo.integrations – Auto refresh your data entity list
Mar31

d365fo.integrations – Auto refresh your data entity list

Meet the little brother of the d365fo.tools – d365fo.integrations. To be honest I wasn’t fully aware about this one until @splaxi mentioned them. But after a quick look into this module I’m more than excited to share this. Ever wondered why you need to manually refresh the data entity list in your Tier-2 environment after a deployment while almost everything else is automated? Worry no more… Continue Reading...

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d365fo.tools – Publish the NuGet packages for the Azure hosted build pipeline Pt. 2
Mar17

d365fo.tools – Publish the NuGet packages for the Azure hosted build pipeline Pt. 2

In my previous post I covered the use of the d365fo.tools to setup a NuGet source and to upload NuGet packages to an Azure DevOps artifact feed. In this post I want to show one way, how we can use the d365fo.tools to update the NuGet packages with the newest version available in the LCS asset library.To achieve this, we will use the following commands from the d365fo.tools:

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d365fo.tools – Publish the NuGet packages for the Azure hosted build pipeline Pt. 1
Mar13

d365fo.tools – Publish the NuGet packages for the Azure hosted build pipeline Pt. 1

Right in time for my previous post on using the hosted build pipeline as a gated check in, @splaxi released the newest version of the d365fo.tools. The main feature of this release being the possibility to upload the NuGet packages into the Azure DevOps artifact feed.Thanks to the tools, it’s a lot easier to publish the packages, especially the authentication part is simplified.Keep in mind to… Continue Reading...

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“The shelveset ‘xyz’ could not be found for check-in” – Error using Azure hosted builds for gated check-ins with D365
Mar08

“The shelveset ‘xyz’ could not be found for check-in” – Error using Azure hosted builds for gated check-ins with D365

In my latest project, we wanted to set up the Azure hosted build pipeline also as a gated check in for our D365 – TFVC repository. Setting up the pipeline itself is quite easy, especially when you follow the DevOps ALM guide / bible from Adriá Ariste: MSDyn365 & Azure DevOps ALM – ariste.infoTo set the gated check in up, we then only need to activate the option in the trigger section from the… Continue Reading...

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