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LCS (December 2018 – release 1) release notes 

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. You
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Manual Environment Upgrade At Maximum Capacity 

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. If upgrading before end of year is an urgent matter for your business, please signup for the Self-service
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Issues when syncing to BPM using a custom Azure DevOps (VSTS) process template 

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. Custom process templates are not supported and may cause errors when synchronizing Business Process Modeler
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Refresh Database Self-Service Action Available 

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. This has been made available as a self-service action that allows you to copy a database from Production (or another sandbox) in to a target
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Announcing the 8.0 to 8.1 binary update package is generally available 

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 8.0 environments to
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Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Develop and Test environments have moved to Managed premium disks. Please redeploy today! 

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. Moving to Managed premium disks will provide a
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Known Issue with applying binary updates to an 8.0 environment 

[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 8.0 environment without getting any errors] For customers who are trying to apply binary
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[URGENT ACTION REQUIRED] Potential issues with logging into Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations on-premises environment 

[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.   After October 17, 2018, you can no longer sign in to your Finance
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LCS (September 2018) release notes 

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. The Delete button displays only