Category Archives: Dynamics

Dynamics 365 Licensing Changes (Fall 2019)

With the 2019 Fall releases and expiration of licensing discount programs, effectively October 2019 Microsoft introduces a series of major changes to the Dynamics 365 licensing program. Moving forward, Dynamics 365 licensing will evolve from multiple application plans for Customer Engagement (CE), Unified Operations (UO) and the arching Dynamics 365 Plan into licensing of individual… Read More »

Important change in PartnerSource and CustomerSource Technical Support

As of 15. March 2019, Microsoft is moving the management of technical support cases for on-premises products from PartnerSource and CustomerSource, to a new unified portal:  Microsoft Support for Business After March 15th, partners will be redirected from PartnerSource to create and view technical support requests. By this date, Microsoft Support for Business portal must… Read More »

Changes in support cycle for Dynamics 365 application releases

Microsoft have just released the official policy for updating major releases in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. Some of the scope and procedures was disclosed during the Spring ‘18 Release, but many details has not been public available before now. As announced earlier, each year Microsoft plan to release… Read More »

How to Download a Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations OneBox VM

The process for getting a downloadable VHD for running a Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations OneBox VM locally has recently been changed, as announced in the LCS February release notes – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/lcs/2018/02/13/lcs-february-2018-release-1-release-notes/. While the process previously involved starting a “Cloud-hosted Environment” deployment, it has now been simplified, and relocated to the Shared asset library.… Read More »

Resolve fatal error during installation of Dynamics NAV 2015 on Windows Server 2016

During an installation of Dynamics NAV 2015 on Windows Server 2016, I encountered the following error: The installation log: Configuring package. Id = ‘IISURLRewite’ MSI log file set to: C:\Users\SRV_SV~1\AppData\Local\Temp\setup.wix.msi.c.log Windows Installer: Error: IIS Version 7.0 or greater is required to install IIS URL Rewrite Module 2. Done configuring package. Id = ‘IISURLRewite’ ReturnCode =… Read More »

Resolving “A certificate registered for use by Microsoft Dynamics CRM has expired” error in CRM 2013

A while after renewing and replacing the Service Communication certificate on the ADFS server, and updating the CRM Internet Facing Deployment to use the new public certificate, the Dynamics CRM Server 2013 started to throw a series of errors in the Application log every 15 minutes: First 3x event 25089: Log Name: Application Source: MSCRMMonitoringTest… Read More »