Installation & Configuration of RSAT tool in Tier 1 Environment

Hello DaxPeople,

Today we are going to have a walkthrough on how to install and configure RSAT (Regression suite automation tool ) in Tier 1 environment.

Installation:

1.  Navigate to the below URL to download RSAT .msi file https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=57357                                                           
2.   Post download, run the file and click on install.                                                                                               
3.  Part of installation it may ask to download and install Selenium and chrome driver. Click on Yes to install them.                                                                                                        

Configuration: 

1. Navigate to desktop and find RSAT tool shortcut with name : Regression Suite Automation Tool.                                                                                                                
2.  Double click and navigate to settings tab(refer below image)                                            

As shown in below image: We have different sections and for each section we need to provide inputs and perform test connection.   

                                              

     Section 1: Azure Devops:

             

            1. Azure devops url : https://<YourDevopsOrg>.visualstudio.com

            2. Access Token : It is generated by system admin who has full access to Azure devops. To generate a new access token, need to navigate to portal.azure.com --> Settings --> Access token.

            3. Project name : It is a lookup and by default the project name is visible when you connect to azure devops.

            4. Test plan : It is also a lookup and comes from the project name.

      Once above details have been provided, test connection button will ensure the input data correctness.

      When you click on that button, it will show below message.

             

       Section 2: Finance and Operations Test Environment:

1.       Hostname: <D365 F&O Url without https>.cloudax.dynamics.com                                    
2.       SOAP Hostname: <D365 F&O Url>soap.cloudax.dynamics.com                                      
3.     Admin username: Any user added in System administration --> Users (With System administrator role assigned)                                                                                                 
4.      Thumbprint: To generate a thumbprint, as we are dealing with Tier1 environment,        click on new button and it will automatically generate a thumbprint and the same will be added to trusted root certificates nodes in registry.

     Note: Copy the thumbprint number, it is required to change the config file(wif) of AOS service available under IIS manager portal. 

      To add thumbprint number to AOS service follow below steps.

•     Navigate to Internet information services (IIS) manager and right click on AOSService (refer below image).

•      Update wif.config file by adding another authority name (as shown below): 

                                    

                    

          <authority name="CN=127.0.0.1">

            <keys>

              <add thumbprint="<Copy the same Thumbprint generated when clicked on New>" />

            </keys>

            <validIssuers>

              <add name="CN=127.0.0.1" />

            </validIssuers>

          </authority>

            5. Company name: Legal entity name available in D365 F&O instance.

      Once above details have been provided, Test connection button will ensure input data correctness. When you click on that button, it will show below message.                                                                  

         

Section 3: Run settings

1.      Working directory: Just create a local folder where all the RSAT files will be placed. By default, these are placed under C:\Users\RSAT.                                                                                         
2.      Default browser: Provide either Microsoft edge/ Google chrome as browser

That's it folks. RSAT tool is now installed and configured. 

     Happy Daxing.. !!

    

Job to get current Application version and Product Version in Dynamics 365 F&O via front end and X++ code

 Hi Team,

Welcome to the blog. Today I would like to share the code snippet through which we can get the current Application version and Product Version in Dynamics 365 Finance and operations.

Note: Also these details can be accessed from the AX web client ( frontend) by clicking on "About".

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class TogetCurrentApplicationAndProductVersion

{

    /// <summary>

    /// Runs the class with the specified arguments.

    /// </summary>

    /// <param name = "_args">The specified arguments.</param>

    public static void main(Args _args)

    {

        str productversion, Applicationversion, productApplicationversion;

        Microsoft.Dynamics.BusinessPlatform.ProductInformation.Provider.ProductInfoProvider provider = Microsoft.Dynamics.BusinessPlatform.ProductInformation.Provider.ProductInfoProvider::get_Provider();

        productVersion = provider.get_ApplicationVersion();

        Applicationversion = provider.ApplicationBuildVersion;

        

        productApplicationversion =(strFmt("%1(%2)", productVersion, Applicationversion));

        Info(   productApplicationversion);

    }

}

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Happy Daxing.. !!

Integrate external applications with D365 Finance & Operations

 

Hi DaxPeople,

Recently we were investigating, what are the ways to integrate (Communicate data to and fro) from OnPremise/external applications with Cloud-hosted environments.

And voila, we found the QuartzAX tool provided which does the job using Data entities.

The below image is copied from Microsoft Github for data visualization.

You can go through more in below specified URL’s on the installation and configuration setup.

QuartzAX tool à https://github.com/Microsoft/Recurring-Integrations-Scheduler/wiki

Recurring data job also to be configured to pick up the messages from RIS(Recurring Integration Scheduler) in D365 F&O and to know more about creating data jobs, go through a specified URL.

Recurring Integrations & Data jobs in D365 F&O à https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/data-entities/recurring-integrations

 

Happy Daxing..!!