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Performance tuning development VM

It is a general complain of any developer. Why is it so SLOOOWWWWW? And yes, it is slow. But there are performance tuning tricks.  Slow is influence on 3 things

• Startup VM
  • Is also startup of
    • Batches
    • Management reporter
    • Windows security
    • Windows update
    • Windows maintenance
  • SQL
    • There is no SQL maintenance
  • Disk
    • Storage type

You could disable the batches & management reporter. That will help. But the real issue is how the disks of that VM are configured.  In general, it looks like below 16 lazy disks.

Now you can change these to faster disks , but please be aware of the prices. Also, these are managed disk, the cost fixed amount every month, so stopping the VM will not reduce below cost.

How does the disk migration work?  The first step is migration to managed disks

Managed Disks simplify disk management for VMs by managing the Storage accounts behind the scenes. Managed Disks also provide granular access control with RBAC and better reliability for VMs in an Availability Set. Learn more about the benefits of using Managed Disks

Source unmanaged disks are not deleted after the migration. Managed Disks are created by making a copy of the source disks. You can revert back to unmanaged disks by creating a new VM with the source disks. Configuration of the VMs is not changed after the migration. Learn more about migrating to Managed Disks

In order to complete migration, we will need to start the virtual machine. Once migration is complete, you may stop the virtual machine.

Next you can change all the discs

But hold on 16 disks multiplied with 18.29 makes 292 euro on top of running the VM. This is very expensive in the relation to how you use it. So next step:

• Archive your code & database.
• Delete the VM
• Deploy a new one

And of course, do not forget to setup the auto shutdown and the azure software reductions

Custom fields: handle with care!

The Microsoft team did release platform update 13 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition. One of the new features is Custom fields. This feature lets a power user or system administrator configure new fields on existing tables without using the development environment and deploy it on the other environments. It is a neat feature which can be of interest, but you also have to be aware of all pitfalls and downsides. In this post, I will tell you more about the custom fields. (meer…)

Speed up data import with (data) entity execution parameters

This post will inform you about the Entity execution parameters which can be found on the Data import/export framework parameters form. It will give you an option for gaining performance when importing large number of records using the data management features.

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Dynamics 365 LCS Tricks – install Knowledge Base (KB) article

LCS is the place for getting all the information from Microsoft related to your Dynamics 365 for Operations projects. This Web portal also allows you to get your MS fixes to your environment and knows which Knowledge Base (KB) articles have been applied.
In the next image, for instance, we can see that there are 167 fixes applicable. So, let’s start cherry picking.

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How to: Read uncommitted records using Dynamics 365 for Operations

Recently we had a challenge to read uncommitted data from the Dynamics 365 for Operations database. Usually this is not required as you may retrieve dirty data. When using a business application, you should rely on correct and committed data as otherwise reporting might provide you incorrect data. However, if you find a very good reason to change the isolation level temporary, this post will guide you how to achieve this. (meer…)

Dynamics 365 LCS tricks – platform update 4 experience

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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 are the following:

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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 your own domain.

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Missing product attribute translations

In this post, I will explain a little bit more about the translations a customer can make use of on the products and attributes in the system. From a user point of view, it is very simple. There is a translation button available that one can click and then add the required translations. From a technical point of view though, it is less simple due to the translations being located in different tables.  Getting the required translation, one has to understand how all this functionality is implemented. So where are my missing product attribute translations?

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Products with missing attributes

Last year I was creating an interface for products and their attributes. The funny thing was that the attributes did not appear in the interface, but on opening the form, all the attributes were there. So one begins to think what is going on! Where are my missing attributes?

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