Dynamics Lifecycle Services Communication posts

December 11, 2018

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LCS (December 2018 – release 1) release notes

Self-service upgrade becomes generally available After you complete the code upgrade and are able to perform an end-to-end data upgrade in your development environment without manipulating data in Microsoft SQL Server, you can begin the upgrade process in your sandbox environment.
December 5, 2018

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Manual Environment Upgrade At Maximum Capacity

As the end of year approaches, the Microsoft Dynamics Service Engineering team is reducing available manual-upgrade slots for customer Sandbox and Production environments.
November 28, 2018

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Issues when syncing to BPM using a custom Azure DevOps (VSTS) process template

When setting up your Azure DevOps (VSTS) project in Lifecycle Services (LCS), if you use an inherited process template with custom fields, you may receive the following warning message: “The selected VSTS project is based on a custom process template.
November 13, 2018

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Refresh Database Self-Service Action Available

We are excited to announce the availability of a highly requested feature: Refresh Database Self-Service.
November 2, 2018

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Announcing the 8.0 to 8.1 binary update package is generally available

We are excited to announce that the Application & Platform binary update package is generally available in LCS! The package has been validated by a series of customers and partners who participate in our early access program.
October 22, 2018

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Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Develop and Test environments have moved to Managed premium disks. Please redeploy today!

As of October 13, 2018, we adjusted the configuration of Finance and Operations Develop and Test environments for better performance.
October 12, 2018

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New feature – Sandbox to Production Service Requests

With the LCS release on Monday October 8th 2018, we are pleased to announce the general availability of a new Service request type that targets the Go Live experience.
October 12, 2018

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Known Issue with database refresh requests submitted through Lifecycle Services

[Update as of 12th October 2018, 6PM PST – The hotfix containing the fixes for the issues causing database refresh request failures in the last 3 days has been rolled out to Production.
October 12, 2018

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Known Issue with applying binary updates to an 8.0 environment

[update as of 15th October 2018 – The below mentioned issue was fixed on Friday October 12th 2018 at 6pm PST with a LCS hotfix.
October 9, 2018

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Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations version 8.1 is now available

[Post updated on 18th October 2018 – In the post below, we had called out that updating an existing 8.
October 2, 2018

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[URGENT ACTION REQUIRED] Potential issues with logging into Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations on-premises environment

[Content updated as of 10/08/2018] Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations on-premises deployments integrate with Microsoft Skype to enable real-time presence and communications for your users.
September 20, 2018

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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).

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