Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Management Solution Enthusiast
12. May 2023 Leave a comment
There are many ways how to access, import and export data in Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management. Find here a one page PDF summary of 12 common ways. Every solution has it pros and cons.
12. April 2022 27 Comments
Microsoft has recently released the new VHD for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations 10.0.24 to download from LCS. When you instantly try to execute the Admin Provisioning Tool and provide your domain user you will get an error.
There are some steps required before you can assign it to your Domain:
6. Execute the Admin Provisioning Tool and provide your Domain account address
7. Open https://usnconeboxax1aos.cloud.onebox.dynamics.com/ in Edge and login
14. February 2022 Leave a comment
Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain allows you to store attachments in the database, on Azure BLOB and on SharePoint. See here how you can configure SharePoint as storage location and create a document type “Fact Sheet”:
12. January 2022 Leave a comment
Dataverse is the name of the Dynamics 365 Apps database (e.g. Sales, Service, Field Services, etc.). PowerBI desktop comes with a builtin Dataverse connector. However, if you have multiple environments not all of them may show up in the connector.
In order to make the environment visible in PowerBI Desktop Dataverse Connector you have to enable PowerBI Embedded in your environment.
Now when you open PowerBI Desktop and use the Dataverse Connector you should see the missing environment.
28. October 2021 1 Comment
Azure Analysis Services are SSAS as a Service hosted and managed in Azure. We recently had to migrate an analysis model from one tenant to another. Here is a video that illustrates how this can be done:
Find more videos in my Youtube Channel.
22. September 2021 Leave a comment
Modern cloud-based ERP systems are complex distributed software applications. These systems became more powerful over the last decades and provide more features to satisfy user needs than previous generations of ERP systems. Furthermore, they are integrated with other cloud-based systems. [Question/problem] The resulting increase in complexity leads to a higher probability of failures within this integrated system. This makes it difficult for users to fully understand these systems and even qualified key users don’t have an overview of possible system issues anymore. As a result, the number of support calls and diffuse support ticket requests have increased in the last years. Moreover, ERP partner organizations such as insideAx experience that users lose trust in their systems. [Principal idea/results] The goal of our work is to foster the trust of ERP users in cloud-based ERP systems and to reduce the number of unnecessary support requests, by enhancing existing user feedback and monitoring mechanisms and provide a visualization of system health indicators to users. Overall, these visualizations and explanations of the system health status need to be easy to understand by users. [Contribution] In this workshop paper, we provide insights from industry on how to foster user trust in complex software systems and depict a conceptual solution which makes use of system monitoring data to communicate the system status to users in a simple and understandable way. Our conceptual solution, for which we also provide a first implementation architecture proposal, foresees that simple modifications to the software and ambient light devices allow to build such visualizations.
The 5th International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE’21) https://crowdre.github.io/ws-2021/
11. August 2021 Leave a comment
Microsoft released a new offer: Windows Cloud-PC. You can choose between two licensing types, Windows 365 Business for small companies and Enterprise for larger ones. Technical speaking, Windows 365 is nothing more than a Windows 10 VM running in Azure providing access via RDP and RDP Web Client. This means you can operation your Windows from almost any device with a Browser e.g. a Tablet or shared PC. Windows 365 is integrated within Office 365. You can assign a cloud pc to a user from within the Office 365 admin panel. Users can access the cloud pc from Office 365.
In contrast to a typical Azure VM, Windows 365 comes with a fixed price you pay per month depending on the sizing. Unfortunately, you can only choose from different configurations based on CPU and RAM but not storage technology. For example, if you select a cheaper one with 2 cores and 4 GB RAM you will get a HDD instead of an SSD.
In theory you can use a Cloud-PC from a tablet, like in my case from a Samsung Galaxy Tab. But in practice it turns out that it is very buggy to use. The on-screen keyboard pops up very often. The full-screen view resizes many times. Calling the Windows start menu triggers strange actions. One opportunity for Windows 365 could be to provide Home-Office users a workplace.
9. March 2021 Leave a comment
Power Automate (aka. Flow) is a great solution for process automation. It is very useful to realize cross-application processes. Power Automate features a wide variety of tasks and connectors. It also comes with a connector for Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management. It can be used to trigger a flow, interact with data and execute business logic in D365 FO from within a flow. You can find all videos on my YouTube Channel.
Business Events in Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management are use to interact with other systems. For example you can send message to Azure Event Hub but also to Power Automate. There are some specific events but you can also use change-based alerts in Dynamics. This video shows how to trigger a flow using such a business event.
The Connector for Dynamics 365 FO uses entities to interact with data in the ERP system. You can create new records, read, update and delete records. Here is an example where Power Automate receives data from Forms Pro and create a new customer in Dynamics 365 FO.
The Dynamics 365 FO Connector in Power Automate supports to execute business logic by calling actions on entities. Here is a video how to approve a Bill of Materials in Teams and execute the Approval logic via Flow.
4. January 2021 Leave a comment
We’re back in a hard lock-down. In contrast to the second lock-down in November and December 2020 this one is a proactive lock-down to keep the infections after Christmas under control. Started on 26th December we are under an all-day curfew and non-essential business are closed. Up to now, the impact of the new GB mutation which is more infectious is unclear. Hopefully this will prevent uns from a third wave.
The last year was very challenging for all of us. COVID-19 killed approximately 1.8 million people, and many suffer from severe consequences of a COVID-19 infections. Actions taken to get the pandemic under control brought us into a economic and social crisis. However, from an IT perspective the good news are that COVID-19 boosted Digitization.
“A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year Let’s hope it’s a good one”
– John Lennon, Merry Christmas
15. December 2020 Leave a comment
Since the early days the integration of Dynamics AX ERP and Dynamics CRM was a painful challenge. Microsoft came up with may not so great working solutions. Dual Write is a Power Platform solution for Dynamics 365 Finance / SCM and Dynamics 365 CE. It supports the synchronization beween these two products almost in real time.
I’ve made a short video to demonstrate the synchronization between Finance and CE. A customer is created in CE and becomes immediately a customer in FO. The quotation from CE is synchronized to FO where it is converted into a sales order. The sales order is visible in CE. The order is invoiced in FO and can be reviewed from within CE.
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