A short one for today! I stumbled upon this while configuring the new Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse feature for an environment.
Most of the time, when I’m configuring resources on Azure, I do it as a subscription or resource group owner. This means I’m working in god-mode all the time, and I won’t be finding out some issues that users with less access rights do.
It’s been some time since I wrote “Is Dataverse the future of Finance and Operations apps?”, and when I did, Dataverse was still called CDS and still went through several name changes. Has anything changed since I wrote that post? Do I still see Dataverse as the future of Finance and Operations apps? Well, now we know some things for sure, and new functionalities have been rolled out. Let me look at my crystal ball…
In a past post, we learned how to create custom data entities to be used in Dual-write.
And now you might be asking yourself, how do I move the Dual-write table mappings to a test or production environment from the development environment? Do I need to repeat everything I’ve done on the dev machine in a Sandbox environment?
Fortunately, we don’t need to do it all manually again, we can use a Dataverse solution to copy the Dual-write table mappings between environments.
If you want to learn more about Dual-write you can:
Dual-write has been around for almost two years now. It’s one of the ways of integrating Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations and Dataverse along with Virtual Entities.
The standard solution comes with many out-of-the-box entities available to synchronize. This has been one of the great improvements since Dual-write was made available in preview, when Juanan and I demoed it in the 2019 Dynamics Saturday in Madrid.
But what if we need to develop a new custom Data Entity in MSDyn365FO and use it in Dual-write? It’s easy but there’s some things we need to remember when doing it.
After watching Ryan Jones’ session “What’s new in the Common Data Service”, I ask myself whether that’s the question or it should be when will it be natively available in the Common Data Service? Continue Reading Is Dataverse the future of Finance and Operations apps?
