In today’s post, I want to talk about using Azure API Management (APIM) along Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations.
Azure API Management is a hybrid, multi-cloud management platform for APIs across all environments. This means that, after deploying an APIM account, you can create an API that can serve services from one system or multiple.
The year 2021 has almost come to an end, and it’s time to review the changes we’ve had this past year.
So in case you’ve missed something, I hope you can find it here, although I won’t include all new or changed Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations features, only some of them, the ones I’ve found more interesting.
It’s been a while since I first wrote about the Application Checker in 2019, and here I am again. In this blog post, I’ll talk about SocrateX and XQuery too, and I’ll also show how to generate the files and databases used to analyze the code.
If you want to know more about App Checker or SocrateX, you can read these resources in addition to the post I’ve linked above:
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.
The end of Tier-1 Microsoft-managed build VMs is near, and this will leave us without the capacity to synchronize the DB or run tests in a pipeline, unless we deploy a new build VM in our, or our customer’s, Azure subscription. Of course, there might be a cost concern with it, and there’s where Azure DevTest Labs can help us!
This post has been written thanks to Joris de Gruyter‘s session in the past DynamicsCon: Azure Devops Automation for Finance and Operations Like You’ve Never Seen! And there’s also been some investigation and (a lot of) trial-and-error from my side until everything has been working.
If you want to know more about builds, releases, and the Dev ALM of Dynamics 365 you can read my full guide on MSDyn365 & Azure DevOps ALM.
I started this blog in February 2019 and it’s just reached the 50.000 visits milestone, over 40.000 during the last 12 months! Thanks to everybody that has visited it, commented, shared, or written to me. I really like receiving feedback from people reading what I write. And as you must’ve noticed I’ve also changed the theme of the blog. A big thanks to Eva González for her help, the new logo, all the new images,…
Some time ago I published the first version of ISV License Generator to help us generate a license for a Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations ISV solution, using a CSP cryptographic USB token instead of a software certificate.
With the new ISV License Generator version 0.2 I’ve implemented support for SHA-2/SHA-256 while keeping support for SHA-1 until it’s deprecated.
You can download ISV License Generator v0.2 (read below for version 0.3!) and contribute or check the code in Github.
We’re finally getting a throttling functionality for OData integrations!
It’s one of the most common requirements from a customer: the need to integrate Dynamics 365 with other systems. With the (back in the day) new AX7 we got a new way of integrating using the OData REST endpoint and the exposed Data Entities.
But integrations using the OData endpoints have low performance and for high-volume integrations, it’s better to use the Data management package REST API. A (not so) high volume usage of the OData REST API will translate into performance issues.
The throttling functionality is in preview starting version 10.0.13 which is currently in PEAP. It will be enforced starting April 2021. You can join the Data Management, Data Entities, OData, and Integrations Yammer group for more info. Remember you need to join the Insider Program for Dynamics 365 first to be able to access the Yammer group.
If you want to learn more about OData and throttling you can check these resources:
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?
Today I’m going to talk a bit about me instead of X++, Azure DevOps or LCS. Because…
On a day like this St. Patrick’s day, 10 years ago, I started working with Axapta!
