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LCS has some really great tools for checking performance. Its really a matter of trying to get used to them and knowing whats available. Under the Environment monitoring > SQL insights > Performance metrics. You can find some slow queries and how they are affecting the environment over time. I found that SalesLine table was missing an index for Revenue recognition. Warning: Do this at your own risk. You could break the system if you haven't tested this properly. I raised a support ticket but was asked to create a non-unique index on the table via LCS. Go to Environment monitoring > SQL Insights > Actions Select "Create non-unique index on a table". Turn of the "Allow page locks". Talking about that risk. I got an error after I did the above with batch jobs. I had to restart the batch service in LCS to fix the problem. This is the error I got with batch job to post the sales invoices.  Refer to Microsoft Docs page on this. Typically you want to do th...

When setting up new environments on LCS, always try to set up one at a time. This is so that you have a bit more control over your environments. Here below I have set up a Developer and a Build VM in one shot. You will notice the controls to start and stop the images are for both VMs.

The nature of software is that you will have to upgrade or implement at some point. Dynamics AX is no different from any other software system out there. With Microsoft working hard on Lifecycle Services (LCS) site, doing an upgrade analysis has gotten a lot easier. Below is a diagram illustrating the process to produce your analysis report (Excel file). Below are steps on how to use LCS to produce the upgrade analysis file. 1. Go to LCS site ( https://lcs.dynamics.com ) 2. Create a new project and click on the Upgrade analysis 3. Enter the project name and select the AX version. Currently in the list there are 2009 SP1 and AX4SP2. Before you click on the Create button. Make sure to click on the Download link to download the Rapid Data Collector tool. 4. Now that you have created your project, go and install the Rapid Data Collector (do not run against your production – take a copy). 5. Install the Rapid Data Collector and it should be a simple executable that you can run. ...