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Dynamics 365 Dubai Summit 2020

With only 1 week left until the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Dubai Summit 2020, I would like to remind you that there are still a couple of sets available for this amazing, free event.

Dubai Summit 2020 website link

This is one of the largest conference in the region dedicated to Dynamics 365 with 5 tracks available in: Finance and Operations, Customer Engagement, Retail, Unified Operations and Power Platform.

It falls in line with the Dynamics 365 Saturdays event series, which has a goal of sharing the latest and greatest about our ERP platform and connected technologies freely. You can find more details at https://www.365portal.org/.

The Dubai Summit conference is a 365 Saturday on steroids and will be span across 3 days, 700 participants, with 29th of February being dedicated for various in-depth sessions held by fellow professionals and enthusiasts from Microsoft, Customers and Partners. Sunday will be a Power Platform bootcamp, and Monday will be a CDS core exam cram.

I will be presenting 2 sessions about the journey of moving the AX 2012 R3 implementation of JJ Food Services into the cloud. It will cover business and technical aspects and challenges of getting a large-scale enterprise system up and running within Azure.

Hope to see you all soon at the Dynamics 365 Dubai Summit on 29th of February!

By DAXRunBase|2020-02-21T10:48:51+01:00February 21st, 2020|Categories: Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, MSDyn365FO|Tags: #MSDyn365FO, conference, Dubai Summit, Dynamics 365, speaker|0 Comments

Synchronize Models between workspaces in MSDyn365FO

For our upgrade project we have decided to create 4 packages/models to start with, which is enough to separate larger areas. Once the models have been created on my VM, I had to make it available for everyone. The goal was to synchronize models between workspaces of other developers.

Package / Model	Description
JAD Core	Core application framework changes, essentially what is in Platform and Foundation
JAD Operation	Business application customizations, later on we might create additional models for larger functionality
JAD Integration	For exchanging
JAD Reporting	For reporting, data warehousing, CDS and entities

The devil lies in the details and for some reason the model was not showing up after synch. It turns out that the model description sits in an XML file within the Descriptor folder. You need to manually include it in source control, as explained in the documentation as well. Once it is checked in, all you need to do to synchronize models between workspaces is to get latest changes, then click on Dynamics 365 > Model Management > Refresh models.

By DAXRunBase|2018-10-18T09:48:24+02:00October 18th, 2018|Categories: Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, MSDyn365FO|Tags: #MSDyn365FO, AX 7, AX 8, Azure DevOps, D365FO, Descriptor, Dynamics 365, synchronize, VSTS|0 Comments

Developer VM performance for MSDyn365FO

When you are used to snappy desktops or locally hosted virtual machines and suddenly you need to move to the cloud, you would expect to see similar capabilities for a reasonable price. Unfortunately that was not my experience when it comes to deploying AX 8.1 in Azure cloud. This post is about setting expectations straight for MSDyn365FO developer VM performance hosted in the cloud vs. locally.

First of all, when you deploy your developer VM on the cloud, you have two options. Standard and Premium, which is a reference to what kind of storage will be allocated to your machine. The default size is D13 (8 cores, 56 GB RAM) for regular rotating hard disks, and you need to use the DS-prefixed computers for the flash storage with memory-optimized compute. You can read up about them on these pages in more detail on the Microsoft Docs site:

Premium disk tiers
Virtual machine sizing

When it comes to premium performance, the Virtual Machine template that Microsoft has built for the LifeCycle Services deployment is using the following structure:

Purpose	Tier	IOPS	Throughput
Operating System	P10	500	25 MB/sec (50K reads)
Services and Data	P20	2300	150 MB/sec (64K reads)
Temporary Build	P10	500	25 MB/sec (50K reads)

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By DAXRunBase|2018-10-15T13:00:43+02:00October 15th, 2018|Categories: Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, MSDyn365FO|Tags: #MSDyn365FO, Azure, benchmark, D365FO, Dynamics 365, HDD, performance, SSD, storage, VHD, VM|0 Comments

Find standard code overlayering in Dynamics 365 FO

We are preparing for the code upgrade from AX 2012 R3 to D365FO 8.1, the latest version recently released. As you know it is extensions-only, meaning we are not allowed to modify any of the standard objects directly. I would strongly suggest to familiarize yourself with Extensions if you are planning to go down this journey as well. An important part of this is that you need to send in Extensibility requests via LifeCycle Services, for code that cannot be moved to a pre- / post-event handler. Our large number of customized methods came out well above 1000+ overlayered objects when we ran the LCS code upgrade tool on our modelstore. We had to find standard code overlayering of all methods to narrow down the search on what should be inspected for extensibility.

I have been exploring the options to use the MetaData API for extracting package information of methods. We wanted to find any methods, which belongs to both a standard, and a custom package, like ApplicationPlatfrom and ApplicationPlatform.JAD (our module). That did not lead to anything useful other than realizing that you can only access such details up to the root node level (table, class) currently. Here is the code piece for partial results:

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By DAXRunBase|2020-03-23T13:44:50+01:00October 5th, 2018|Categories: Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations|Tags: #MSDyn365FO, AX 8.1, D365FO, Dynamics 365, extension, metadata, overlayering, reflection, upgrade, XML, XPath, XQuery|0 Comments

Microsoft Ignite 2018 day 1 recap

Today Microsoft Ignite 2018 has kicked off with a lot of exciting news.
You may view sessions and on-demand videos on the main site:

One of the most important content is the fall release documentation referred as 2018 October Release Notes, available on the Docs site

We can use new, more advanced and modern capabilities of the Power platform. Microsoft is also introducing AI to many Dynamics 365 products.

We can access a new library of training courses on a portal called Microsoft Learn. Here we get free learning opportunity for tools like PowerApps, Flow and Common Data Service.

The highlight which I am very excited about now is the soon-to-be-released tool called Regression Test Suite already mentioned in the release documentation. It was one of our requests during a workshop with Microsoft to improve capabilities on automating our manual user interactions. Every Friday after our regular maintenance we go through the same set of tasks for validating stability. This is to ensure that there are no disruptions to our business operation due to deploying code. This tool could be the answer to that by creating chains of small operational tasks, then running the entire test suite containing those test cases and validating the results in an automated fashion.

Microsoft is also improving the technical areas with further updates:

I would highly recommend to take your time and go through the wealthy content and videos shared as part of Microsoft Ignite 2018.

By DAXRunBase|2018-09-24T19:07:48+02:00September 24th, 2018|Categories: Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations|Tags: #MSDyn365FO, CDS, Common Data Service, Docs, Dynamics 365, Flow, Ignite, PowerApps, Regression Test Suite|0 Comments