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Using the On-Premise Gateway to connect to your AX2012 data to Power BI Portal
PowerBI has been around for a long time by now, so there are tons of information out there on how to connect your data sources to the powerful PowerBI Portal (www.powerbi.com). Now, getting all the...
View ArticleManaging your Azure Subscriptions created through CSP portal
Let me start off with a disclaimer, as Microsoft may change the behavior, which would render this post obsolete. In which case I'll try to come back and make the necessary amendments. If you have...
View ArticleError when installing Reporting Extensions for AX2012 R3 on SQL 2014 SSRS
HiI could not really find any posts on this out there, so I decided to just share this here.You may experience installation errors when you try to install Reporting Extensions for AX2012 R3 on SQL...
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Error when installing Reporting Extensions for AX2012 R3 on SQL Server 2016
On my previous post I wrote on installing Reporting Extensions for AX2012 R3 on SQL Server 2014. In this post I want to emphasize that the same hotfix for SQL 2014 is needed for SQL 2016.The error...
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Excel Applet not loading when working with D365 Office Add-in
This post is somewhat related to the post by Ievgen (AX MVP) on the Office Word integration not working with Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (Enterprise Edition).If you try to connect Excel to...
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Consider changing your password Pop Up
Currently the machines deployed through LCS runs with the Account Policy that passwords has a 42 days age. Interestingly you should not change the password for servers deployed according to this...
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Initial steps to troubleshoot failed environment servicing
On the topic of patching and updating an existing D365 Operations environment I will refer to the online documentation.Upgrade Finance and Operations to the latest platform updateProcess for moving to...
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Importing users in D365 Operations using Excel
Let me start off by admitting I was initially thinking about naming this post "Importing users in AX7 using Excel", so there, now this post suddenly became a little bit more "searcher friendly".In this...
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Use Azure Automation to start and stop your VMs on a schedule
This post is long overdue, and I have been meaning to post it over a year ago. I did present an early version of this script at the AXUG event in Stuttgart, but since then the API has changed around...
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List hotfixes using PowerShell in D365FO (AX7)
You probably already know that you can open Visual Studio and from the "Dynamics 365" menu, under "Addins" and "Apply Hotfix", you will find a grid that lists all the hotfixes installed on your...
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PowerShell script for synchronizing the database
In this post I want to share a neat way to use a PowerShell script for running the database synchronization when working. You probably already know you can run the database synchronization from within...
View ArticlePowerShell script to toggle Maintenance mode
In order to change licence configurations on Operations, you need to toggle maintenance mode on or off. This can be done using a Setup tool, but on the development machines where we do not have local...
View ArticleInstalling a Software Deployable Package (SDP) using PowerShell
Now the PowerShell involved here is miniscule, so don't expect much. But I'm going to post this either way.You will most likely install Software Deployable Packages using LCS, as outlined on the...
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How do you apply the latest updates on Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations
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...
View ArticleServicing fails on step 6 while updating AOS
There are some hotfixes that patch modules and packages which are only available on the "onebox" sandbox (Tier 1) environments. If you happen to add these hotfixes to your VSTS Main Branch, you will...
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Upgrade from 7.x to 8.+ series | Post 1 | Start in LCS
IntroductionIn these series of posts. I will try to run you through the process of how you can complete the upgrade from 7.x to 8.+ of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.Quick navigation:Upgrade...
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Upgrade from 7.x to 8.+ series | Post 2 | Deploy Dev and Grab source DB
IntroductionIn these series of posts. I will try to run you through the process of how you can complete the upgrade from 7.x to 8.+ of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.Quick navigation:Upgrade...
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Upgrade from 7.x to 8.+ series | Post 3 | Validate Code and Data in Dev
IntroductionIn these series of posts. I will try to run you through the process of how you can complete the upgrade from 7.x to 8.+ of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.Quick navigation:Upgrade...
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Upgrade from 7.x to 8.+ series | Post 4 | Setup a new Build
IntroductionIn these series of posts. I will try to run you through the process of how you can complete the upgrade from 7.x to 8.+ of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.Quick navigation:Upgrade...
View ArticleUpgrade from 7.x to 8.+ series | Post 5 | Upgrade Sandbox and finally Production
IntroductionIn these series of posts. I will try to run you through the process of how you can complete the upgrade from 7.x to 8.+ of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.Quick navigation:Upgrade...
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Setup a cloud storage for database copy operations
This post will show you how quickly and easily you can setup a cloud storage, and then copy the database around between your environments. Having said that, we are waiting on this feature in LCS, and...
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Considerations when "upgrading" Dyn365FO from 8.0 to 8.1
Version 8.0 of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations was released summer 2018. Just a few months later, in October, version 8.1 was released. If you have environments running version 8.0,...
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Controlling the Visual Studio workspaces to your Dyn365FO developers
IntroductionAt the time of writing, doing development for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (FnO) require a dedicated development machine. This machine is pre-configured with Visual...
View ArticleImportant changes to how we will update the production going forward
Not long ago, it was published on docs some updates on how we will be doing self-servicing of our non-production environments. There is one particular statement I want to address with this post:You...
View ArticleConnecting Azure DevOps with Lifecycle Services for Release piplelines
A week ago, Microsoft annouced the release of a new Azure DevOps Task. Followed by more details the setup from the announcements author, Joris de Gruyter. And with the help of this post by Business...
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