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I realized by looking at the following article Microsoft (or at least someone at Microsoft) now claim batch transfer rules need to be set as best practice to "Scheduled Batch" (and not to synchronous that the vast majority of users have been using in previous versions.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/fin-and-ops/get-started/demo-data

Do you know more about this seemingly new recommendation?

I am looking to hear from users who went live from D365 and hear what setup they chose and what is their experience with it?

Using the asynchronous options means there is a gap between posting a transaction and having the results of that transactions showing up in the GL.

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    Sukrut Parab Profile Picture
    71,741 Moderator on at

    Hi Zvika,

    We are live with D365 but we did not choose to select  asynchronous  as  transactions get posted  when batch runs and not immediately which users did not like. So far we haven't seen any performance issue.  If your users are ok with it , you can try this option

  • ZvikaR Profile Picture
    190 on at

    oh, no doubt our users prefer synchronous. I am a bit concerned about the fact Microsoft proclaims that to be "not best practice".

    It is good to hear you are not seeing problems so far.

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    Daren Profile Picture
    95 on at

    Everyone is going to have to move to Asynchronous or Scheduled Batch.  Microsoft is deprecating the Synchronous function in future releases and will force everyone to upgrade to new platform.

    docs.microsoft.com/.../deprecated-features

  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    306,230 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi Zvika,

    Using the Asynchronous option is also almost real time. The benefits of Async and the batch is that the client itself is not waiting for the processing of the ledger transactions. You stated that people like to use the Sync option. This is just a feeling. If someone will post a purchase invoice, are they always directly going to verify the voucher transactions? In my opinion they aren't checking it. It is possible to schedule the batch once per minute, or less frequent. You don't have to do it once a day or week...

    I always did recommend to use async or the batch. Most of the times, the async option was chosen.

  • ZvikaR Profile Picture
    190 on at

    In a typical accounting team I work with it is the accountants who invoice purchase orders and post invoice journal, cash adjustments and other transactions impacting sub-ledgers - and in the vast majority of cases they would check immediately if the GL impact of the posting looks correct, especially when they are doing something which is a bit out of the ordinary.

    In fact, in many teams the "best practice" recommendation we give is to quickly check the voucher immediately after posting - if there is an issue, we prefer to discover it quickly and address it, and not wait to  month end where there might be lots of transactions that needs correction.

    I can imagine this is much less important in operational modules when people do receiving, registration, inventory adjustments etc.

    I always consider the synch option to be one of D365 competitive advantages. Before D365 / AX I worked with another ERP which posted through batches - and the delays were making the work experience much more cumbersome as there was never immediately feedback to posting.

    IF there were errors preventing posting you would only learn about them much later by browsing logs, and then fixing became difficult.

  • Ludwig Reinhard Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Fully agree with Zvika. In my home country accountants do the same, post transactions and immediately check the voucher especially at month end. Guess we have to become more patient or ask MS not to deprecate the synchronous posting option. Best regards,  Ludwig

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    I completely agree with Zvika and Ludwig. One of the biggest advantages from Microsoft Dynamcis 365 / AX is real time posting. As Microsoft introduced the async posting option I have seen a lot of confusion because we was used to see the transaction results direcly in general ledger. I think it´s a good option to switch between sync and async but not all customers produce so much transactions that they will run in issues with sync postings. So I hope that Microsoft will rething this decision!

  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    306,230 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    For sure there are companies which are not facing performance issues. It is quite old-fashioned to check all vouchers after posting directly. I work with customers which do have thousands of transactions each minute. The future brings us RPA (Robot Process Automation) which enables No-Hand accounting. Partly this is already in use where invoices and timesheets will be posted automatically after approval.

    For sure, I do understand the need for checking vouchers and the trial balance, but e.g. the AP clerk should not do this. There are different roles. What is the issue if someone will check it after 5 minutes which is also quite fast?

    Note that the async option is also near time, but handled directly on the server instead of keeping the client on hold for a moment.

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    Out of the blue, today we received MS person's email. I am not sure if they do periodic review of the D365FO environment. Currently our setup is 'Synchronous' for all documents in the Company.

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    Microsoft was reviewing your environment and noticed a significant number of deadlocks associated with the AccountingEvent table. We would recommend you investigate the configuration suggestion outlined below as it should result in a decrease in the number of deadlocks that occur.

     

    Configuration to review for batch transfer rules

    Investigate the following configuration to determine if it is an appropriate fix for this issue. To do this navigate to General ledger > Ledger setup > General ledger parameters >Batch transfer rules. On this form there is a field called Transfer mode. If not already selected try Schedule batch or Asynchronous. Scheduled batch allows the user to define a recurring batch that will execute and transfer source document data from the subledger to the general ledger. The customer can configure the batch recurrence based on how quickly they need to see their subledger data in general ledger. If the transfer needs to occur almost immediately use the Asynchronous setting. This setting will start the transfer automatically after the subledger posting completes. The transfer is setup to run as a batch job so there can be up to a 1 minute delay for the transfer to occur. This setting needs to be changed for every company.

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  • ZvikaR Profile Picture
    190 on at

    It's worse - they are planning to take the synchronous option away

    So this is Microsoft regressing the product into the 90's ERP technology.

    I wonder if this is because they are unable to make the Azure technology perform properly with synchronous posting.

    Seriously, last time I worked with an ERP that was "posting" in "batches", it was "PeopleSoft" RIP, and the year was 2003.

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