Dynamics 365 F&O - Setup Azure Dev Machine for Development

 In this blog I have shared the steps that are required to setup Dynamics 365 F&O Azure VM for development.

1. Connect to your Azure DEV virtual machine using Admin credentials. You can find the VM details in LCS > Cloud hosted environment. 

Note: You must be Environment Manager in order to see the credentials. Otherwise, please contact your LCS Administrator. 

2. Remote to Azure Dev VM and Open Visual Studio. 

Dev machine comes with Visual Studio and SSMS installed on the machine. 

3. Open Visual Studio as an Admin. Enter your Active Directory credentials to access VS. 

4. Connect Azure DevOps using Team explorer.

Enter the Azure DevOps URL. 

5. Map Azure DevOps' Metadata with K:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory and

map Project folder with Visual Studio project folder C:\Users\Adminf33bea59b8\Documents\Visual Studio 2022\Code Snippets\Projects.

   This will bring all the latest changes from Azure DevOps.

6. Refresh models.

VS -> Dynamics 365 -> Model Managment -> Refresh Model.

This will bring all the models that are used in the project from Azure DevOps.

7. Build Models

VS -> Dynamics 365 -> Build Models

8. Synchronize Database 

VS -> Dynamics 365 -> Synchronize Database

Regards,

Arun S Keerthi