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Improved Project sales tax capabilities now available 

Dynamics 365 Project Operations has made significant improvements to consistently apply tax calculations and expanded support for scenarios including sales tax across the application. 

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Known Issue: Unexpected Client Error occurs on the Environment details page in LCS for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations on-premises 

A recent change is causing an Unexpected Client Error on the Environment details page in LCS. This error only occurs for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations on-premises environments. Although the error occurs, there is no impact on the on-premises environment or the features in LCS that allow you to interact with the on-premises environment. We are actively

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Developer Preview – March Update 

We’re pleased to announce the March update of the Developer Preview. We have been working hard on improving the capabilities of the toolset as well as fixing incoming issues reported by you. Below you can see the changes that we’re announcing for this update. The preview is already available if you sign up for the Ready to Go

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What’s new in the Dynamics 365 admin center 

With the introduction of Common Data Services for Apps, which leverages the same platform as Dynamics 365 for Customer engagement, PowerApps users will be able to create Common Data Service instances that you, as the Tenant or Dynamics 365 administrator, may want to control and manage. Giving you the power to control and manage PowerApps

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Portal capabilities for Dynamics 365: Deprecated Features 

This impacts only customers who are using the features mentioned in this article. Deprecation means that we intend to remove the feature functionalities from a future release of portals. The features will continue to work and are supported until they are officially removed. However, we will not invest in new functionalities for the features. After

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Upcoming change April 15, 2018- Only Azure Active Directory users will be allowed to create Prospective presales projects in LCS 

Today, a user can sign in to Lifecycle Services (LCS) using a Microsoft Account (MSA) (such as Live or Hotmail), and without purchasing a Support plan or subscription, create a Prospective presales project to try LCS features or set up demo environments. The Prospective presales project option is available for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, Dynamics

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What’s new or changed in on-premises deployments of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition 7.2 with platform update 12 (March 2018) 

The following features are either new or changed in on-premises deployments of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition 7.2 with platform update 12. This deployment option became available in March 2018. For more resources about on-premises deployments, see the On-premises deployment landing page. Setup and deployment Improvements have been made to the setup

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Notice of upcoming change: Removing RDP access to Tiers 2, 3, 4, and 5 Standard Acceptance Test (or Sandbox) environments deployed in Microsoft subscription 

In the next few months, customers who have purchased Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition (D365FFO) and Dynamics 365 for Retail will no longer have RDP access to the Tiers 2, 3, 4, and 5 Standard Acceptance Test environments deployed in a Microsoft subscription. Today, customers and partners do not have RDP access to

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Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement API limits 

Beginning March 19, 2018, we will limit the number of API requests made by each user, within an organization. Each user will be allowed up to 60,000 API requests within five minutes. This limit will help ensure that users running applications that make extraordinarily large demands on servers will not affect other users. The limit

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Important Notes for Field Service and Project Service Automation after upgrade of Dynamics 365 Organizations to version 9.0 

After you upgrade Dynamics 365 organizations to Dynamics 365 (online), version 9.0, please also make sure to upgrade the existing Field Service and Project Service Automation solution to the latest and greatest version; this ensures functionalities work as expected and allows you to try out new capabilities introduced in the new release. To update to

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Release Notes for Field Service and Project Service Automation Update Release 4 

Applies to: Field Service for Dynamics 365, Project Service Automation for Dynamics 365, and Universal Resource Scheduling (URS) solution on Dynamics 365 9.0.x   We’re pleased to announce the latest update to the Field Service and Project Service Automation applications for Dynamics 365. This release includes improvements to quality, performance, and usability, and is based

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Known issue: Package deployment failing for some Tier 2, Tier 3, Tier 4 and Tier 5 sandbox environments deployed in Microsoft subscriptions 

Update as of Feb  22, 2018 – The below issue has now been fixed. Applying packages will no longer fail during the preperation phase when trying to download the package on the BI machine.    A recent change is causing package deployments to fail during the preparation phase when trying to download a package on the