It has been almost two years since Hylke Britstra and I wrote together about feature notifications in Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O. In case new features are introduced, users can receive a notification with information about new features introduced in a specific version. In this post, I will talk about when and in what environment these notifications are helpful and how to disable them in production environments if you have the requirement to do so.
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Recently, Microsoft announced a blog about Simplifying License Management for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, which I shared on LinkedIn, as this post contains a super important update that might impact your Dynamics 365 environment. Microsoft will actively check for users’ valid license assignments when starting the application. Starting May 15, 2025 September 1, 2025, in case the license is not assigned, users will start seeing a warning. As of August 30 November 1, there will be a hard license enforcement. If a user then tries to log in without having a Dynamics 365 license assigned, they will be stopped from accessing the application.
In this post, you will find important information and some tips for becoming license compliant. There were some recent updates in Dynamics 365 F&O and Lifecycle Services (LCS), which will be highlighted.
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A recent post from Kurt Hatlevik triggered me to share my experiences with database consumption on alert-related tables. During health checks, performance reviews, or license compliance checks, I usually see data stored in tables that are either too old or should have been processed already. In this post, you will read my takeaway on alert-related findings.
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As a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations professional, I often need to collaborate with the solutions provided by the Power Platform. In the past years, Microsoft made huge convergence efforts in bringing the different platforms together, allowing both pro-developers and citizen developers to extend Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations applications. One of the efforts was making F&O data entities available as virtual tables in Dataverse. The Dataverse connector on the Power Platform supports virtual tables, which brought a second option to interact with Dynamics 365 F&O data in the Power Platform. Which one is better to use? Continue reading the post to find the answer.
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