Lifecycle Services and Azure Resource Manager – First bump on the road…

We have been using Lifecycle Services (LCS) for hosting environments for both AX 2012 and AX7 (sorry, New Dynamics AX) so it was somewhat a trivial task deploying new servers. Until we met Azure Resource Manager, that is. Adding servers to an old project ended up giving us this error message:

Lifecycle Services can’t connect to the Azure subscription using Azure Resource Manager. Click the Microsoft Azure Settings button and edit the selected Connector to provide the required permissions to ERP applications in your Azure subscription.

The fix is fairly simple. Go to the Azure connector in your project. You’ll find it in the Project settings. Select it and click Edit. What you need to do is to flip this one to Yes:

It will then lead you through a couple of steps regarding your management certificate and how you need to download it and upload it to the Azure Portal. No need to worry about that because you already did that when you created the connector so just click Next.

You could then end up with another obstacle in the form of missing rights on the Azure tier:

Go to Azure Portal and go to your subscription. Click this button to do add access:

The following is pretty straight forward. Select a role and select the user:

Going back into LCS and click Next might present you with the same error like above with the Dynamics Deployment Service needs access but hang in there. It seems like there’s a bit of delay, so just give it another go after a minute or two.

As soon as your connector has been updated you’re good to go and can deploy the server.