Dynamics 365 for finance and operations tech topics

A great easy tool in market place to mirror a git repo change from Azure DevOps to github repo.  https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=swellaby.mirror-git-repository Just create a pipeline with trigger on the main branch for example and run the task to clone the changes. 

With the launch of the Unified developer experience, it's the perfect time to consider switching to git for source control as it will developers to work on their local computer, branching, switching between tasks and pushing the code when ready to share or they have connection again.   Microsoft has now shared documentation on how to work with git and X++ in their  Microsoft Solutions Playbook, Git walkthrough The yml pipeline files to build FinOps can be found here In our team we have ben using git for the last few years successfully without issues together with X++ development. 

Working in the local development experience for FinOps you'll probably come across the scenario where you add a dependency on a ISV model or other for which you only have the binaries.  When I tested this first I added a dependency for my model to a model for which I only had the binaries in my Metadata folder, building my model and selecting deploy to online environment expecting that it would deploy the model I made changes to and the new reference model. This didn't work.  What I found was that I first had to go to the deploy menu, select the binary models that I depended on and deploy them to the online environment. 

If you haven't heard about this yet, we are about to enter a new era in terms of functionality and development for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations as the application is now more seemlessly becoming a part of the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform eco system.  The news that every FinOps developer should be excited about is covered in the Power Platform 2023 release wave 2 and is set to GA in October 23.  Together with the exciting tweet from Lane Swenka hope the release of this is close!  We are getting local developement against cloud environments created in Power Platform.  Read more here   Update 2023-09-14 Official documentation released here

Reminder that 10.0.36 requires a new VC++ runtime. Link to download here

Original MS doc on how to reset the financial reporting data mart can be found  here To do this on a OneBox VM open a PowerShell and do the following; cd C:\FinancialReporting\Server\MRDeploy Import-Module .\MRDeploy.psd1 Reset-DatamartIntegration -Reason OTHER -ReasonDetail " "

When experiencing certificate errors on a OneBox VM for D365 for Finance and Operations and the certificates needs to be recreated make sure to delete any existing certificates first.  To delete the existing certificates first run,  C:\DynamicsTools\CleanVHD\Clean-Vhd.ps1 Once completed and all existing certificates have been deleted, run the build script again to recreate and apply new certificates.  C:\DynamicsTools\CleanVHD\Build-Vhd.ps1 

After applying the package XX the D365 Finance and Operations environment might not work. The error you receive will be a internal error 500.  In the event logs there might be a Web event with a warning saying that it can't load System.IO.Compression.  The solution to this issue is to open the <drive depending on vm>:\AOSService\webroot\web.config look in the assemblies. It will most likely have a duplicate line for System.IO.Compression. Remove the <add assembly="System.IO.Compression" /> line. Perform a iisreset and it should solve the issue. 

 MS have recently released a new onebox VHD for Dynamics 365 for finance and operations based on  10.0.29.  The new version can be downloaded from the shared asset lib in LCS, FinandOps10.0.29.part001..4 .  This new VHD is no longer using the .\administrator as a the default user.  The new default user:  .\localadmin The default password is the same: pass@word1