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Backup and restore your CRM Online instance 

Protecting your CRM data and providing continuous availability of service is important for you and for us. You have multiple options for backing up and restoring your CRM Online instances. For CRM Online 2016 Update 1, we’re introducing on demand backups that you can perform on CRM Online 2016 Update 1 Production and Sandbox instances.

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How to enable “Add other text to default descriptions” feature in all Countries 

In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, for certain transaction types in some countries/regions, you can include text in your default descriptions that come from fields in the Microsoft Dynamics AX database that are related to those transaction types. The following list shows the transaction types and countries/regions for which

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LCS – Dynamics AX Platform version 7.2 (August 2016) release notes 

The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Dynamics AX Platform version 7.2 (August 2016). NEW FEATURES Dynamics AX Platform version 7.2 (August 2016) is now available Starting today you can deploy Dynamics AX Platform version 7.2 from LCS. Platform version 7.2 will be deployed using Azure Resource Manager

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Budget Planning using allocations 

In this blog I am going to describe the setup required for automatic allocation examples that can be used within Budget Planning: Distributing budget plan lines from a parent to a child budget plan Copy budget plan lines from one scenario to another using Period Allocation Allocating budget plan lines monthly also using Period Allocation

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Removal of List Component 

In May 2015, we announced the List Component deprecation as a result of SharePoint’s deprecation of the sandbox solution, a dependency of the List Component.  Recently, SharePoint has announced the removal of code-based sandbox solutions in SharePoint Online. Customers using the List Component with SharePoint Online are advised to migrate to the server-based integration immediately

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When you create a route card journal the resource is not defaulting as the resource group that was listed as the resource requirement. 

  This could be working correctly if the following factors are true: The resource requirement was a resource group. The ‘Update capacity plan’ option is enabled on the journals tab of the Production control parameters form. Previous Route card journals have been posted to meet/exceed the capacity reservations.   When the above is true it

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Changing the automatic scheduling direction when starting a production order that has not been scheduled. 

Historically, there has been no user option or global setup for selecting or defaulting a scheduling direction used for automatic scheduling when the scheduling step is skipped on a production order. However, KB 3070997 and CU 10 for AX 2012 have introduced new functionality that can be used to influence the scheduling direction with the