Free up some space on your MsDyn365FO development VM (Part 2)

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 …

Validation failed when installing an add-in via LCS

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, …

Top 2022 favorite X++ features by Michael Pontoppidan

This blog is a bit different than my other blogs because it "only" publishes a post published by Michael Pontoppidan on LinkedIn. The reason behind is that on LinkedIn it´s kind of hidden and I recently got the question if I know the post where someone posted the evolution of X++ in the last year. …

Pin your MsDyn365FO user session to one specific AOS

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 …

How to solve the error “No report data table with name XYZ exists in report schema for data provider XYZDP” when developing a SSRS report for MsDyn365FO

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: …

Rebuild your index on MsDyn365FO Tier1 and Tier2+ environments

I know that rebuilding database index is a polarizing topic. Anyway I want to share with you what I´ve recently found. Over the last service updates the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations database got some handy new stored procedures to e. g. rebuild indexes. You can use those stored procedures on Tier1 environments …

Step GlobalUpdate script for service model: RetailServer on machine: DEV-VM is failing during MsDyn365FO package deployment

In the past I often had the problem that during package deployment of an service update via Lifecycle Services (LCS) the step "GlobalUpdate script for service model: RetailServer" unexpectedly failed. The reason why this was not expected is that I´m not using the RetailServer at all, so the component should be in the same state …

Updating MsDyn365FO model parameters from projects context menu in Visual Studio

I recently found a new entry in the context menu of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations projects which represents a shortcut for updating the model parameters for the model/package linked to the project. Before you had to navigate via Extensions > Dynamics 365 > Model Management > Update Model Parameters… to the list …

Stabilize your MsDyn365FO debugging experience

With the latest versions of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (10.0.27+) we got a new setup in Visual Studio to select specific packages, for which we want to load symbols for debugging. In previous versions we were only able to select between symbols from elements of the current project or all symbols. The …

Error “Finance and Operations apps xxxdevaos.cloudax.dynamics.com is not discoverable. Please refer to the documentation for details” during setup of dual-write

I recently had the problem, that I got the error message "Finance and Operations apps xxxdevaos.cloudax.dynamics.com is not discoverable. Please refer to the documentation for details” during setup of dual-write from Lifecycle Services (LCS). When I tried setting up dual-write from within Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, I got the following error message: …