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Lifecycle Services – April 2019 release notes 

The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the release notes for LCS April 2019 release.   An update to our user interface With this release of LCS, we are excited to unveil...the new look and feel of the user interface (UI) in LCS. This change is in alignment with our goal to create similar experiences for the different Dynamics 365 products. There is no change in the functionality with this change. The following changes are in this UI update...: Accessibilityis now built into LCS. Alignment in the user experience and controls used across Lifecycle Services and Dynami...
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LCS (February 2018 – release 1) release notes 

The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the release notes for Lifecycle Services (LCS) (February 2018, release 1). Downloadable VHDs available directly through LCS  You can now get downloadable virtual hard disks (VHDs) directly through the LCS...estimator  With this release of LCS, users no longer need to provide purchased license counts in the Excel template. Instead, t...not started, in both of these scenarios you will need to redo the estimate using the new sample Usage Profile template. For production environments already deployed, you do not have to make any changes. Upgrade your database directly from LCS on development environments  With this release of LCS, you can...
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LCS February 2019 (release 2 ) release notes 

The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the release notes for LCS (February 2019, release 2). Implementation user role in project users screen Now you can also specify the implementation role in the LCS while creating or editing the project users. There a new.../edit the existing user. Restart services for environments deployed using self-service deployment With this release of Lifecycle Services (LCS) we have added the ability for customers and partners to restart services directly through LCS on environments deployed using the self-service deployment option. This feature is availabl...-service deployment option, customers and partners have no way to connect to the Azure SQL database associated with this environment for troubleshooting or validation. Starting with this release you will now be able to request just-in-time access to the AX, MR (Management Reporter), and EDW (entity data warehouse) databases through LCS...
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New process to report a production outage through Lifecycle Services 

Today, we enabled a new feature in Lifecycle Services (LCS) called 'Report production outage'. This feature is available to all customers that have purchased Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition and have implementation projects with a production environment deployed in LCS. This feature provides a quick...performing daily operations. Reporting flow In a live production environment, a customer experiences an outage or other situation with prevents business from continuing. The customer reports a production outage issue by using the LCS Support portal. The customer selects a production outage...Environments managed by Microsoft A production environment in the LCS Project All support plans Report a production outage Log in to your LCS Project...
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Known Issue: View update button is not available for the upcoming service updates in LCS 

...[Updated as of July 15, 2019 6pm PST - this issue has been resolved.  The View update button of version 10.0.4 in the Upcoming service update is now available. Customers should be able to view and download this update option from the Availabe updates section in LCS environment detail page]   In the recent...Lifecycle Services (LCS) release for the new...LCS update experience for One Version, the View update button for the update option of version 10.0.4 in the “Upcoming service update” is not available...
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July release notes 

The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the July release of Lifecycle Services (LCS). In June, we had several milestone product releases such as Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition (on-premises...), Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition, and Dynamics 365 for Retail. Each of these products can be deployed and operated through LCS. The July release of LCS is a quality release where we have worked on addressing issues based on feedback...
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Known issue: Applying binary updates 

...[Update to the Known Issue below. This issue was fixed in a LCS hotfix released on 27th July 2017. ] The Maintain button on the Environment page in Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) lets environment managers apply binary updates directly to their Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations...environment from LCS. However, because of a known issue, binary updates can no longer be applied to build enviro...
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Microsoft Dynamics AX in Azure Runbook code samples for resource managment 

Microsoft Dynamics AX on Microsoft Azure is enabling great new opportunity for customers and partners to achieve incredible business agility. One of the key areas of future investment for Microsoft Dynamics AX is to deliver solutions through Microsoft Dynamics LifeCycle Services(LCS) that harness the power of Microsoft Azure elasticity...Specifically providing customers and partners tools and services to manage their environments efficiently in Microsoft Azure through simple capabilities through LCS. Because customer and partner feedback is important to us we are initially providing a...StopExVM.ps1 - Connects to Azure and shuts down all VMs excluding the defined in the List. Also include in the .zip file are instructions on the usage of these scripts with LCS deployed Dynamics AX environments. If you have Dynamics AX deployments through LCS please give these samples a try and provide feedback to us...
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July 2016 release notes 

NEW FEATURES SharePoint integration improvements in LCS (Preview) With the July release, we have made significant...improvements to simplify the LCS SharePoint integration for AX7 projects. The new framework uses user OAuth for performing operations in SharePoint. Set up SharePoint in an LCS project...To set up a SharePoint site in an LCS project, go to your LCS AX7 Project...
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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 365 Finance and Operations, Dynamics CRM, and Dynamics NAV products.   Starting May  8th, 2018, any new users or users that have been invited to a project using an MSA account to sign in to LCS  will be unable to access LCS if they are not members of an organization or  have...not been invited to be part of an organization and are not associated with a CustomerSource or PartnerSource support plan or not holding any subscriptions. Any existing users with previously created Prospective presales projects who also fall into this category, will not be able to sign in to these projects or LCS. To avoid interruptions, we...
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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...  Diagnose and mitigate performance issues on Sandbox and Production directly through LCS In this release...of LCS we’ve added a new feature that enables customers and partners to collect performance metr...