Microsoft Dynamics 365 FinOps Elevated

In this blog, we will delve into the powerful combination of Application Insights and explore how they can significantly enhance the performance optimization of your Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (D365 FinOps). What is Application Insights? Application Insights is a cloud-based application performance monitoring (APM) service that helps you detect, diagnose, and resolve issues with your applications. APM tools are useful to monitor applications from development, through test, and into production in the following ways: Proactively understand how an application is performing. Reactively review application execution data to determine the cause of an incident. It is able to provide real-time telemetry data on your application's performance, such as page load times, exception rates, and server response times. Application Insights also provides powerful analytics capabilities that allow you to visualize and analyze the telemetry data to gain insights into the health of your applica...

Electronic reporting (ER) is a configurable tool in Microsoft Dynamics 365 that helps create and maintain regulatory electronic reporting and payments. Configuration of reports can be done by business users with the use of Visual Editors without the need for developers. Refer to Electronic reporting (ER) overview - Finance & Operations | Dynamics 365 | Microsoft Docs for more information and detailed overview on ER. Destinations can be configured for each ER format configuration and its output component. Destinations can only be set up for ER configurations that have been imported into the current Finance instance, and for the formats that are available on the Electronic reporting configurations page. The functionality for ER destination management is available at Organization administration > Electronic reporting > Electronic reporting destination.  Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations version 1611 (November 2016) or later allows the use of  the following destinat...

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce is an evolution of Dynamics 365 Retail, which launched with new and improved capabilities for e-commerce, content management. To begin development and extension on Dynamics 365 eCommerce we'll need to install the following tools on the development machine: VSCODE - https://code.visualstudio.com Node.js - https://nodejs.org   (Currently version 10.x is the main supported version and the MSI installer can be found here : https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v10.x/   ) Yarn - https://legacy.yarnpkg.com Git - https://git-scm.com/downloads (Note that development on eCommerce is only supported on Windows (as at 18/06/20).) Create a folder in your local drive to hold the e-Commerce site code - 'C:\repos' Open CMD in administrator mode and go to the folder directory you just created and clone the  Microsoft eCommerce repository with the following command:  git clone https://github.com/microsoft/Msdyn365.Commerce.Online.git This may take a while....

Recently our team has been working on the new eCommerce extensions. One of the things we figured out was how to add the module configuration fields in the page authoring tools of the site builder. These configuration fields can be added to modules to allow page authors to take control of certain features of the module and determine how these features should render or behave on the site. Some examples include the alignment, position, layouts and adding customized text on contents of the modules.   Assuming you have your development environment setup, and have already created an extension module, open 'yourmodulename.definition.json' file and add a 'config' section if it does not exist. The config section of the module's definition file will contain all the fields that you want to expose and make usable in the page authoring tools of the site builder. Add your configuration fields in the config section. {      "$type" :  "contentModule" ,   ...