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Unified experience ALM

  • Welcome to the new ALM guide
    • Introduction
    • Prerequisites
  • Create and prepare Azure DevOps organization and project
    • Create an Azure DevOps organization
    • Create an Azure DevOps project
    • Enable TFVC projects in Azure DevOps
    • Add CI/CD agents with an Azure subscription
  • Unified development environment
    • What are unified developer environments?
    • Transition to a capacity-based model
    • Deploying a unified developer environment using PowerShell
    • Deploy an UDE environment from PPAC
    • Upgrade version in a Unified Development Environment
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  • Using Visual Studio
    • Connect Visual Studio to your UDE
    • Deploy code to a Unified Development Environment
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    • What’s new in the pipelines?

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  • Welcome
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  • Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations & Azure DevOps
    • Intro
    • Package and model planning
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    • The build server
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    • Some advice
    • Branching strategies
  • Azure Pipelines
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    • Gated check-ins
    • Set up the new Azure DevOps tasks for Packaging and Model Versioning
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    • Intro
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    • Create a DevTest Labs account
    • Creating the VM
    • Preparing the VM
    • Create a new image
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    • Run the build
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    • Show me the money
    • Some final remarks
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    • Intro
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    • Intro
    • Setting up Release Pipeline in Azure DevOps for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
    • AAD app creation
    • Create the release pipeline in DevOps
    • Creating the LCS connection
    • New Azure DevOps release tasks: MSAL authentication and ADAL deprecation
  • Automation
    • Update VMs using pipelines and d365fo.tools
    • Builds
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    • But I like to add some human touch to it
    • Extra bonus
    • Update a variable in a release
  • LCS DB API
    • Call the LCS Database Movement API from your Azure DevOps Pipelines
    • Automating Prod to Dev DB copies
    • Restore a data package with Azure DevOps Pipelines
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    • Azure Key Vault
    • Securing your Azure DevOps Pipelines
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Continuous integration

Continuous Integration (CI) is the process of automating the build and testing of code every time a team member commits changes to version control. (source)

Should your project/team use CI? Yes, yes, yes. This is one of the key feature of using an automated build process.

This is how a build definition for CI that will only compile our codebase looks like:

Definicion build continua

Only the prepare and build steps. Then we need to go to the “Triggers” tab and enable the CI option:

DevOps continuous integration

Right after each developer check-in, a build will be queued, and the code compiled. In case there’s a compilation error we’ll be notified about it. Of course, we all build the solutions before checking them in and don’t need this CI build. Right?

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And because we all know that “Slow and steady wins the race”, but at some point during a project that’s not possible, so this kind of build definition can help us out. Especially when merging code between branches. This will allow us to be 100% sure when creating a DP to release to production that it’ll work. I can tell you that having to do a release to prod in a hurry and seeing the Main build failing is not nice.

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