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Download hot-fixes from Life cycle Services Use this tutorial to download the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations hotfixes from Lifecycle Services (LCS). This tutorial will guide you through downloading the newest version of Microsoft Dynamics hotfix from Lifecycle services (LCS). This tutorial is a part of the  Servicing environments  content. Log in to LCS with your credentials. Select an environment from the LCS project. On the  Environment  page,  Monitoring  is shown in two sections,  X++ updates  and  Binary updates . The update tiles show the hotfixes that are relevant or required for your environment. For example, if a specific X++ hotfix is already installed on your environment, we will not include that X++ hotfix in the X++ updates.There are two kinds of updates - X++ updates and binary updates. There are two kinds of binary updates - application and platform. Select one of the update tiles to view the li...

AX7 development tools without  VM in Local Machine If you want to run and/or modify AX 7 (Dynamics 365 for Operations), you get a whole virtual environment configured by Microsoft and you either deploy it to Azure or run as a local virtual machine on Hyper-V. I have a huge laptop with 32 GB RAM and two SSD disks built specifically for running AX 2012 and AX 7 VMs and I also have a few environments in Azure (my MSDN subscription gives me some credit for Azure every month), therefore I have all I need for development. But sometimes I don’t have access to these environments, such as when I travel just with a small laptop, and I would still like to review some X++, verify something when answering questions in forums and so on, and having AX development tools with me would be a great help. I tried it and found that setting it up wasn’t very difficult, as I’m going to show below. Just let me make it clear – I’m talking about having access to Application Explorer, projects, desi...

Reset the financial reporting data mart after restoring a database This topic describes how to reset the financial reporting data mart after restoring a Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations database. If you ever restore your Finance and Operations database from a backup or copy the database from another environment, you must follow the steps in this topic to ensure that the financial reporting data mart is correctly using the restored Finance and Operations database. Note The steps in this process are supported for Dynamics 365 for Operation May 2016 release (App build 7.0.1265.23014 and financial reporting build 7.0.10000.4) and newer releases. If you have an earlier release of Finance and Operations, contact our Support team for assistance. Export report definitions First, export the report designs located in the Report Designer, using the following steps: In the Report Designer, go to  Company  >  Building Block Groups . Select th...

Copy a Finance and Operations database from Azure SQL Database to a SQL Server environment 2017-8-8   13 min to read   Contributors           This topic provides information about how to export a Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations database from an Azure-based environment, and then import it to a SQL Server-based environment. Overview Moving a database involves using the sqlpackage.exe command line tool to export a database from Azure SQL Database and then import the database to Microsoft SQL Server 2016. Because the file extension for the exported data is .bacpac, the process for moving a database is commonly referred to as the  bacpac process . The high-level process for a database move is: Create a duplicate of the source database. Run a SQL Server script to prepare the database. Export the database from the Azure SQL database. Import the database to SQL Server 2016. Run a SQL script to update the database...