Back in November 2023 Peter Villadsen announced that “The Visual Studio 2022 add-in is now available for Dynamics 365 for Financials and Operations.”. If you haven´t seen this yet please have a look: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/the-visual-studio-2022-add-in-is-now-available-for-dynamics-365-for-financials-and-operations/ This blog wants to add more visibility to the details of enabling Visual Studio 2022 for your Dynamics 365 for Financials and Operations development. As Peter wrote first you need to install Visual Studio 2022 with the following minimum feature selected: Now ..read more

This post is inspired by a post I recently saw on LinkedIn and where I used the hashtag #FriendsDontLetFriendsCreateADeployablePackageFromVisualStudio for the first time (in this case in a comment). The post on LinkedIn where providing the link to the documentation on how to create a deployable package via Visual Studio. The documentation is not wrong and also sharing the link is not wrong, but the feature of creating a deployable package from Visual Studio should not be used in a usual application lifecycle. When proper ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) is in place, you will never need t ..read more

Before we got the feature “Priority Based Scheduling” in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, we were able to assign specific batch servers to a batch group. This was not only to increase capacity for batch groups but also to limit/throttle the capacity for batch groups. We recently had the problem that 72 tasks in the scheduling priority “normal” were able to execute and because more than 72 tasks were available, 72 got in executing state at the same point in time. This obviously lead to 100% DTU utilization over a longer period of time. With the “old mechanism” of batch group t ..read more

In version 10.0.38 PU62 of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations I found a new feature called “Real Async Operations”. The official documentation is leaking some information so I decided to add more details with this blog: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/dev-tools/real-async As also documented in the official documentation you first have to enable the feature via feature management workspace and client performance options: In the Feature management workspace, select Check for updates. Enable “Real Async Operations” (SysReal ..read more

This post is a flow up of my post from 2020, where I also described how to free up some space on a Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations development VM. I recently had the problem that I ran into capacity constraints on the C drive of my development VM. What I found was the folder C:\Windows\Temp, which was filled with several vsix and log files from previous service/quality updates. As also mentioned in my post from 2020 my environment exists since 2019, so there where quite some service/quality updates for my environment. To free up the space I´ve simply deleted those vsix and lo ..read more

I recently had the problem in one of our Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations implementation projects that the installation of an add-in via LCS failed with the following error message: Validation failed. You must be an environment administrator in Microsoft Dataverse to perform this action After quite some research and also contacting Microsoft-Support, we found out that the account we´re using had no proper Dynamics license assign. The reason for that was, that we´re using a generic admin account which e. g. also has no mailbox. After assigning a proper license the installation ..read more

In the lifetime of an Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations implementation project you will have the requirement to create a trace on an environment with more than one AOS. This is not a problem when you want to create the trace for your user session, but it is a challenge when you want to create a trace of the session of another user. The problem in this case is that the trace only records sessions from the AOS where your session is located. Without the knowledge of this post it’s like roulette to land on the same AOS as the user you want to record a trace for. To pin your user se ..read more

This week a had the „honor“ to develop a quite simple SSRS report including a report data provider for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. After round about 30 min. I was able to run the first test and try to open the report from the menu. Unfortunately I was confronted with the error: No report data table with name XYZ exists in report schema for data provider XYZDP After almost 4 hours of troubleshooting incl. searching the web for solutions, I had the brilliant idea, trying to find the solution by searching on Yammer and what I found was the following thread: https://www.ya ..read more