We all can feel the pain with the new naming of AX 7, being Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition. When you need to find documentation or blog posts it is really a pain to type that out. To help resolve the issue, w...
There was a question recently on the Dynamics Community forums about finding out which enumeration to use behind an int type. It turned out that the table, field and enum in question was part of the kernel. Those entries reside under the System do...
If we refresh the data entities due to changes to our metadata, it has been taking a while before. Microsoft tried to address this by moving the process out to run in a batch job, but there are things that we may still do to improve our DB perform...
Throughout the years we have noticed that out SRSReport Document Type for Document attachments grew over the size of 90GB. This was getting filled by having the Print to document archive checkbox ticked in their saved Print settings. The generate...
When we have decided to use a Data migration instead of a Data upgrade to D365FO we had to come up with a way to identify tables to migrate. The AX developer client already has a form under Tools > Number of records, which can tell you how ...
During the cleanup exercise of our code upgrade to Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations we have noticed that many of our custom tables did not have the cacheLookup configured. It can have a negative performance impact on your system, so it is best...
It is a good practice to keep multiple copies of our most precious data. By using on-premises SQL Server databases for AX 2012 or Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, archiving SQL database backups to offsite-locations are a must. I have built au...
When you are used to snappy desktops or locally hosted virtual machines and suddenly you need to move to the cloud, you would expect to see similar capabilities for a reasonable price. Unfortunately that was not my experience when it comes to depl...
In the new Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations release a lot of things have changed in terms of reflection. One of them that we have used frequently for security access validation is gone, DictSecurityKey is deprecated. You can find ...