Public preview of the new F&O dev experience

Something that was talked about for a long time is getting closer to reality. F&O development will no longer require those huge VMs with SQL Server and everything. Instead, you’ll just install some VS extensions, connect to Dataverse, download F&O code and metadata and start developing. The runtime (web server, database) will be in cloud, …

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It’s official – AX 7 will support deployment on-premises

Make sure you familiarize yourself with new (upcoming) deployment options for Dynamics 365 for Operations. In short, you’ll be able to run it outside cloud (e.g. on your own hardware) and then either synchronize data to cloud or keep them locally. Of course, not having data in cloud means missing some cloud features such as …

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Installing deployable packages with Powershell

Installing deployable packages to an AX 7 environment can often be done just by a few clicks on LCS (as described in Apply a deployable package on a Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations system). Unfortunately the situation isn’t always that simple and you may have to install the package manually, using the process explained in …

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Deploying AX 2012 R3 on Azure

The R3 version of Dynamics AX 2012 is finally here and one of its keenly expected features is the deployment on Windows Azure. I haven’t got chance to try it yet, nevertheless I already want to share an idea about how to do it. You’ll obviously need a Windows Azure subscription. You’ll also need Microsoft …

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