Category: Microsoft Dynamics AX/365

  Email configuration in Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations is one of those topics that sounds simple until it is not. You set up outbound email. You send invoices, workflow notifications, statements, alerts, batch messages, and operational communications. Everyone moves on. Then one day emails stop sending, authentication fails, a secret expires, SMTP gets grumpy, or someone asks why a business-critical ERP process still depends on a password hidden in...

Most Dynamics 365 conversations start in feature language. Can we automate approvals? Can we improve inventory visibility? Can we shorten month-end close? Can we reduce manual work? Can we finally retire that spreadsheet with 19 tabs and the emotional stability of a folding chair? All fair questions. But they are not the questions that get budget approved. The better question is: What is the current pain costing us? That is...

Warehouse operations have become one of the most critical competitive differentiators in modern supply chains. As customer expectations continue to rise and labor markets remain tight, organizations are under increasing pressure to move inventory faster, improve accuracy, and maximize productivity without significantly increasing costs. To support these evolving demands, Microsoft continues to enhance the warehouse management capabilities within Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. The 2026 Release Wave 1 introduces a...

Demand planning has always had one unforgiving truth: the forecast is only useful if people trust it. For years, supply chain teams have been asked to predict demand in markets that refuse to behave politely. Customer behavior shifts. Promotions overperform or flop. Weather happens. Inflation moves. Suppliers miss dates. Sales teams change assumptions. Then the demand planner gets asked why the forecast changed, usually five minutes before a meeting that...

Microsoft's Dynamics 365 Finance 2026 release wave 1 introduces financial support for rental-based business models. For organizations that earn revenue by renting out equipment, property, or other assets, this brings rental activity directly into the core financial system rather than relying on workarounds or separate tools. Here is a look at what the capability covers and which businesses are most likely to benefit. What's new in 2026 release wave 1...

Every CFO knows the ritual. Sometime in Q3, the spreadsheets come out. Department heads submit their numbers. Finance reconciles the conflicts, negotiates the gaps, adjusts the assumptions, and eventually produces a budget that everyone agrees to—right before the business starts changing again. By February, the budget is usually still useful. It is just no longer entirely true. That is not a criticism of finance teams. It is a criticism of...

[embed]https://youtu.be/f8S_rP0a_ig?si=FvTrvIIrKlFKw2cO[/embed] The 2025 release wave 2 for Dynamics 365 Finance covers the new functionality Microsoft delivered to market between October 2025 and March 2026. Each release wave represents roughly six months of planned investment, and this one continues a clear trajectory for the product. As finance organizations scale to meet growing complexity, spanning global entities, evolving regulations, and rising performance demands, the role of finance has expanded well beyond closing...

Every so often, a Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations development VM reminds us that certificates are like milk: they expire quietly, and then suddenly everyone is having a bad morning. The symptom usually looks innocent enough. You go into Lifecycle Services (LCS), run the normal SSL certificate rotation, and the process comes back as Incomplete. No fireworks. No dramatic system collapse. Just enough ambiguity to ruin your next hour. In...

Procurement has always had a communication problem. Not because buyers don’t communicate. Quite the opposite. Buyers communicate constantly: purchase order confirmations, delivery delays, price changes, partial shipments, “checking in,” “following up,” “circling back,” and the occasional supplier email that somehow contains three date changes, two quantities, and zero punctuation. That’s the problem. A lot of procurement work still happens in email, while the real commitments live in Microsoft Dynamics 365...

When companies evaluate Microsoft Dynamics 365, the conversation often starts in the feature aisle. Can it automate approvals? Does it support advanced warehousing? How strong is forecasting? Can reporting handle multiple entities? Can AI help planners, buyers, and finance teams move faster? All fair questions. Features matter. Nobody buys enterprise software because the buttons are charming. But in most ERP projects, the harder question is not “Can Dynamics 365 do...