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Incorrect environment status on Environment monitoring page 

It has come to our attention that the Availability and Health monitors sections on the Overview tab on the Environment monitoring page, are at times, showing the Availability and health status for Production environments as Unknown or red. When customers contacted Support to understand the issue, it was discovered that the environments are healthy and

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Pick your Dynamics 365 connector of choice using Flow, Logic Apps, or PowerApps 

Applies to: Dynamics 365 (online) Use Microsoft Flow or Azure Logic Apps to set up automated Dynamics 365 workflows between a Dynamics 365 (online) instance and your choice from many other apps and services available to synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and more.     Use Microsoft PowerApps to quickly generate, customize, share, and

Cumulative Update 29 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 has been released 

Cumulative Update 29 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015. The cumulative update is intended mainly for solutions that are experiencing the problems described in the Knowledge Base article linked to below. However, you are advised to always keep your solution updated with the latest cumulative

Cumulative Update 41 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 has been released 

Cumulative Update 41 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2. The cumulative update is intended mainly for solutions that are experiencing the problems described in the Knowledge Base article linked to below. However, you are advised to always keep your solution updated with the latest cumulative

Cumulative Update 48 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 has been released 

Cumulative Update 48 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013. The cumulative update is intended mainly for solutions that are experiencing the problems described in the Knowledge Base article linked to below. However, you are advised to always keep your solution updated with the latest cumulative

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February release notes 

The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the February release of Lifecycle Services.  Update experience  In the February release of LCS, we have reduced the lead time to submit a request to apply an update to a Production environment from 8 hours down to 4 hours.   In

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Best practices for installing and configuring Microsoft SQL Server for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 

The documentation on Installation Considerations for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Dynamics NAV has been updated with information on recommended settings for SQL Server 2012, 2014, and 2016. The documentation contains recommendations on topics such as Storage and recommended disk block size Virus scanning Memory TempDB database configuration Auto-growth of database and/or transaction log files

Resolved: Issue with Update tile in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations platform update 4 release on LCS 

Important: This issue was resolved with the March 2017 release of Lifecycle Services. We recently announced the availability of Platform update 4 through Lifecycle Services. Since the release, we have discovered issues with the Servicing workflow for the Platform update 4 environment. The Updates tile, in the Environment details view, should only show updates that

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AX for Retail: Instant Email Receipts in Enterprise POS (EPOS) 

Dynamics AX For Retail Enterprise POS (EPOS) has functionality to email receipts but the implementation of the feature has a few tradeoffs: Email does not get sent immediately at the conclusion of the transaction.  Instead, the process goes like this:  1) a transaction is uploaded to HQ (via P-job); 2) it gets calculated on a

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 (online) – Asynchronous Service Quotas 

Applies to: Microsoft Dynamics 365 (online)   The Microsoft Dynamics 365 Asynchronous Processing Service (called the async service) executes long-running operations independent of the main Microsoft Dynamics 365 (online & on-premises) core operation.  This results in improved overall system performance and improved scalability.   How does it work? The asynchronous service features a managed queue