Log of Data Administration and Management Service (DAMS) in LCS
Going forward, DAMS will take care of the index management activities like creating new indexes, rebuild existing indexes and drop unused indexes. These activities will be done as nonintrusive background processes round the clock, which is why the batch job to handle SQL index defragmentation was...
Implement a feature that does not require monitoring when the package is applied
Since March 2025, there have been many cases of package application failing in D365fO.
Although individual issues have been resolved, Microsoft engineer have said that they cannot guarantee that package application will be 100% successful, and that partner or customer must monitor packag...
Create an LCS tool that will build a Tier1 development environment from a sandbox.
The process of refreshing a sandbox > executing post refresh activities to activate users etc > exporting a bacpac > downloading the bacpac to a suitable tier 1 environment > converting the bacpac to a bak for MSFT SQL > and enabling the database for use in the tier1 environment for debugging is ...
Export Production db to Tier1 environment
To debug a Live issue from production it takes around 24 hours to replicate and copy database to development environment. user need to perform below steps - Refresh from production - Purge/Truncate tables script in sandbox using JIT - Export database to Asset Library from Sandbox - Convert datab...
Restore data feature from sandbox to tier1
Create a function that will restore a database from a sandbox environment to a tier1 environment. This would be similar to the restore database functionality from sandbox to sandbox. This feature would do the bacpac to bak conversion and post conversion setup (i.e. recreating missing roles f...
Allow updates scheduling on sandbox environments
In LCS, we are allowed to schedule updates for production environments (e.g., start update at 10 PM tonight), but sandbox environments don't have that ability, so users have to sign in to LCS when they want to update the enviornment and start the update manually, which is inconvenient because we ...