Self-service upgrade becomes generally available After you complete the code upgrade and are able to perform an end-to-end data upgrade in your development environment without manipulating data in Microsoft SQL Server, you can begin the upgrade process in your sandbox environment. Self-service upgrade allows the provisioning of a free sandbox on your target version.
As the end of year approaches, the Microsoft Dynamics Service Engineering team is reducing available manual-upgrade slots for customer Sandbox and Production environments. This is to help stabilize environments and the overall service during the holiday season.
When setting up your Azure DevOps (VSTS) project in Lifecycle Services (LCS), if you use an inherited process template with custom fields, you may receive the following warning message: “The selected VSTS project is based on a custom process template.
We are excited to announce the availability of a highly requested feature: Refresh Database Self-Service. This is available using the Maintain > Move database menu option in your sandbox environments.
We are excited to announce that the Application & Platform binary update package is generally available in LCS! The package has been validated by a series of customers and partners who participate in our early access program. After evaluating the feedback, we have now made the experience generally available. To update your 8.
As of October 13, 2018, we adjusted the configuration of Finance and Operations Develop and Test environments for better performance. All new deployments have moved to Managed premium disks, optimized for DS12v2 VMs. Because of updates to code and metadata, development and testing requires extensive disk access operations.
With the LCS release on Monday October 8th 2018, we are pleased to announce the general availability of a new Service request type that targets the Go Live experience.
[Update as of 12th October 2018, 6PM PST – The hotfix containing the fixes for the issues causing database refresh request failures in the last 3 days has been rolled out to Production.
[update as of 15th October 2018 – The below mentioned issue was fixed on Friday October 12th 2018 at 6pm PST with a LCS hotfix. Customers and partners should now be able to apply binary updates to a Finance and Operations 8.
[Post updated on 18th October 2018 – In the post below, we had called out that updating an existing 8.0 environment to version 8.1 will be available on October 15th. However, the changes to support this flow have not yet been released.
[Content updated as of 10/08/2018] Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations on-premises deployments integrate with Microsoft Skype to enable real-time presence and communications for your users. On October 17, 2018, Skype will no longer support Finance and Operations on-premises deployment users.
The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the release notes for LCS (September 2018). Delete on-premises environment In this release of LCS we have added the option to Delete an on-premises environment directly through the environment details page as shown below.
