LCS: Sync up actual LCS status of cloud-hosted environments with Azure
When the VM in a cloud-hosted environment is stopped or started in Azure (e.g. via Azure automation run books), the status of the environment is not reflected in LCS. This is causing confusion on the part of users who navigate to these environments via LCS.
Our customer is usi...
Automated upload of Build package to LCS
When the full build completes through VSTS the package should get uploaded to the shared asset library of LCS for the subscription . So that deployment can happen to multiple environment at the same time on a click.
https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/newdynamicsax/archive/2019/04/30/azure-devops-task-to-deploy-code
This has been released.
Generic API for LCS
Many tasks in Azure/365 can be automated. On.y in LCS is no chance to control with e.g. PowerShell. An API like REST would be very fine for automating LCS tasks.
Update Notifications
LCS Notification Management currently provides no means to be notified of any new Application or Binary update that is available for download on LCS. There is also no means to be notified of a new Platform Update, other than to manually check the LCS Shared Asset Library.
Thank you for your feedback.
We released this feature as part of the functionality in April 2019 release of LCS. We have some more improvements planned in the July 2019 release. Here is a link to the documentation .
Please refer to the following link for more information:
Sincerely,
Manali Dongre
Microsoft.
Notify owners of LCS projects using a solution package when a new version of it is released
As an ISV, I need LCS to notify the right people in existing customer and partner projects whenever I release a new version of my ISV solution to that they know that a new version or update can be installed.
It would help a lot if LCS could simply notify owners of any LCS project...
Thank you for your feedback.
We released this feature as part of the functionality in 2018. We do notify users of the solution when a new version is made available if it has been packaged through LCS.
Please refer to the following link for more information:
Sincerely,
Manali
Microsoft.
Ability to schedule self service features in Lifecycle Services
Currently the only way to execute self service features in LCS is on demand, e.g. Maintain>Move database. Given that most maintenance operations need to happen out of hours, I think it would be very useful to be able to schedule them instead of having to wait for them to run interactively. ...
This has been released - please see below documentation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/database/dbmovement-operations
Provide Notification List for Cloud-Hosted environments in LCS.
At this time, when a Cloud-hosted environment is serviced, only the project owners are notified of the service and status. Please provide a way to add email addresses to the Cloud-hosted environment description for additional people to notified when the Cloud-hosted environment is serviced. Th...
Thank you for your feedback.
We released this feature as part of the functionality in LCS and you can add environment manager email accounts.
Sincerely,
PM,
Microsoft.
How to overcome the limitation of downloading a sqlplan?
Downloading the queryplan / sqlplan: Within lifecycle services for production performance troubleshooting it is essential to get insights to the actual queryplan / sqlplan from production. More often, than less, I’m getting a queryplan download that says: Query Plan Not Found, data file ...
Thank you for your feedback.
We released this feature as part of functionality in October 2018 release.
Please refer to the following link for more information: Performance troubleshooting using tools in Lifecycle Services (LCS)
Sincerely,
Angel
Binary hotfix import to asset library
It would be good to be able to import a binary hotfix into your asset library directly from the binary hotfix page. At the moment, you download it (which is an option that will always be required), then upload the zip file into the asset library. It seems a bit of a waste of time t...
Thank you for your feedback.
We released this feature as part of the functionality in October 2018.
Please refer to the following link for more information: Documentation
Sincerely,
Manali
Microsoft.
Scheduling of Repeating Restores
Under AX 2012 on premises, we had the ability to set up a daily automated scheduled restore of a Testing environment, from each mornings Production environment backup, which was taken 6am. This restore also reconfigured the Test environment eg setting up user permissions and test applications....
This has been released, please see the documentation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/database/dbmovement-operations
Administrator
We have released the LCS API to start and stop customer managed environments. Using these APIs will ensure the LCS environment status is synced with the actual environment.
Database movement API - Reference - v1 - Start and stop environments - Finance & Operations | Dynamics 365 | Microsoft Docs