With Dynamics 365 for Operations comes change. And change is good, it helps keep us on our toes and gives us an opportunity to freshen up our skill sets. There is plenty of change with Dynamics 365 for Operations and one such opportunity to freshen up my security skillsets recently presented itself. A client asked […]

Power BI can connect to data entities exposed via OData from a Dynamics 365 for Operations environment. The OData rest endpoint by default exposes all data entities that are marked as IsPublic in the AOT Properties field. The default OData behavior is that for any entity the data return is based on the users set […]

A Production environment for Dynamics 365 for Operations (D365) is hosted by Microsoft and the underlying physical virtual machines are not exposed to the client. This is in stark contrast to a UAT, Test or Dev environment hosted by Microsoft for D365. The latter environments expose the RDP connection information as well as credentials which […]

This blog is a continuation from Configuring the Dynamics AX 2-12 R3 Entity Store.  This is part 2 of a 3-part series: Part 1 – Setting up and Configuring the Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Entity Store Part 2 – Publishing a Dynamics AX 2012 R3 default entity Part 3 – Creating and publishing a custom […]

This is part 1 of a 3-part series: Part 1 – Setting up and Configuring the Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Entity Store Part 2 – Publishing a Dynamics AX 2012 R3 default entity Part 3 – Creating and publishing a custom Dynamics AX 2012 R3 entity Intro Microsoft’s update for Dynamics AX 2012 R3 includes […]

In this blog, I will review how to install an X++ application update from within Visual Studio on a development machine running Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations (or D365 for short). Overview The D365 X++ application update process from a high level follows the process steps below. I will be discussing steps 1-5 as depicted […]

I recently enabled Power BI integration for a Dynamics 365 for Operations customer. And while the following article on Configuring Power BI for Workspaces https://ax.help.dynamics.com/en/wiki/configuring-powerbi-integration/#register-your-dynamics-ax-deployment-as-a-web-app-in-the-azure-portal was instrumental in enabling the integration between Power BI and Dynamics 365 for Operations (D365 from here on out). But, I wanted to include additional information and screenshots to round out the […]

One of the new cool integrations between Power BI and Microsoft Flow is the ability to trigger actions based on Power BI alerts. For example, I’m going to imagine I’m the CEO of a company and I want an email alert whenever Profit falls below a certain threshold. I have an existing Power BI desktop […]

When you are viewing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations (AX7) from Internet Explorer (IE) you may experience an issue that the menu bar (or hamburger bar) doesn’t render correctly. It may look like this: This can occur if the Dynamics 365 for Operations site is not added to your IE trusted sites. To fix this […]

I was recently working with a client where we had deployed Dynamics 365 for Operations (AX7). One of the initiatives was to enable integration between Dynamics 365 for Operations and Scribe Online. Scribe Online has a variety of platforms where it can help enable integration. My client needed to setup integration between CRM Online and […]