Segregation of Duties: Dynamics AX meets the financial auditor (part 1)
Organizations at risk Every organization has to deal with the risk that staff might be able to undertake fraudulent actions whilst at work. This can be actions like direct theft, paying out fake invoices, paying out actual invoices to “wrong” bank accounts. But as mankind is creative there are lots of other cases known where […]
Dynamics 365 LCS tricks – platform update 4 experience
As we all know Dynamics 365 has technically speaking 3 patch groups. We know the x++ updates and the binary updates. We have seen those in older version of Dynamics 365. The third group is called platform updates.
Dynamics 365 LCS Tricks – mass install packages
Deploying packages is a time-consuming thing. MS has improved the speed, but we partner can also help. This helping is by merging the packages. Good merged combinations are Binary updates and x++ updates, but your own code can also be combined with your customizations on your Retail (SDK) part. Till now I was not able […]
Dynamics 365 LCS tricks – restoring database
Microsoft supports the possibility to restore a database from Production to any azure database in your hosted environment. In case this database needs to be pushed to Production (go live) a special request must be sent. In this article I will explain what to do for the local VM
Dynamics 365 LCS tricks – force LCS to update
LCS is your friend in Dynamics 365 as long it is up-to-date. And I have seen it is not always the case. So I will share some tricks to force it. There are some things you should know LCS is only updating 1 time a day and that is 10 o clock in the evening. […]
Dynamics 365 LCS tricks – Fix your Retail Database
I have seen a lot off issue after applying new software or after restoring a database the retail database is not update anymore. To solve these issue I suggest you follow these steps, to get it all working. I always start looking if the connection string to the retail database is correct. Unfortunately, MS has […]
Dynamics 365 LCS tricks – A day in the life of LCS
We all must use LCS when working with Dynamics 365 these days, sometimes it feels good and sometimes it is frustrating. The next real live image of LCS shows how I feel about the experience. We are speeding up but at the same time we have to wait. The pitfalls one might encounter […]
How to solve Microsoft Office Add-in authentication error in Dynamics 365 for Operations
However I’m currently extremely busy on several projects and also preparing some speaker sessions for a local Dynamics community and also the Summit EMEA 2017, I would like to share a solution to solve an authentication error when using the Microsoft Office Add-in. You will probably not face this issue when you are using machines in […]
How to educate your ERP system
What kind of child do you have? Your ERP system is a living, breathing thing and much like employees and your children: you only get the best out of them based on the effort you put in them, the attention you give them, the treatment you give them and what education you give them. The […]
Please, Connect me if I’m Wrong!
After implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX and now Dynamics 365 already for years, there are features in the product that are missing or there are things wrong or not supported. There are some ways to provide feedback to Microsoft. This post is intended to get you familiar with Microsoft Connect. Also some of my thoughts on […]