5 – DevOps Variable Groups
Part 5: Configure Variable Groups In Azure DevOps, a variable group is a reusable collection of configuration values and secrets (like API keys, URLs, or environment settings) that can be shared across…
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4 – Extension and NuGet feeds
Before creating any pipelines, you need two marketplace extensions and a NuGet feed containing the X++ compiler packages. This article gets those in place. Step 1: Install Required Extensions Your Azure DevOps organization…
3 – Pre-requisites and App Registrations
Part 3: Prerequisites and Entra ID App Registration This article walks you through setting up the service principal that powers automated CI/CD for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations using PPAC APIs and Azure…
2 – What is a service principal
What is a Service Principal? Before we register anything or create credentials, let's review what a service principal actually is and why automation needs one. The Analogy: A Robot User Think of…
1 – How is PPAC different from LCS
The twilight of LCS How This Is Different from LCS If you've been building and deploying D365 Finance and Operations using Lifecycle Services, you already know the rhythm: write X++ in Visual…
All quiet on the LCS front
The title “All Quiet on the LCS Front” draws inspiration from All Quiet on the Western Front, where silence is less a sign of peace and more an indication that an era…
PPAC’s New Capacity Model & Multiple Production Environments for F&O
Submitted by Nathan Clouse on 03/05/26.Last modified: 03/07/26 LCS is going away. If you haven't heard that yet, now you have - not that Microsoft has been trying to hide it. Microsoft is…
Form performance killers (display methods and per-row logic)
Form performance killers - Display Methods and per row or per control logic Forms get slow when you compute data per row using X++ methods that hit the DB and that can…
First Attempt at an Agent –
Submitted by Nathan Clouse on 02/07/26.Last modified: 03/28/26 First, go to https://copilotstudio.microsoft.com/ and select an environment for where you will create this new agent. Next, change the agent model to GPT-5 Chat. Next,…
Configure X++ Dev in VS 2026
Submitted by Nathan Clouse on 02/02/26.Last modified: 02/02/26 Tags: Visual Studio Configure X++ dev for VS 2026 Configuring X++ dev in Visual Studio 2026 is fairly easy. We'll be using this guide but…