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Microsoft announces September release of Lifecycles Services for Dynamics AX

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

The September release of Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) is now available, adding more cloud environment tools, improved issue search, and upgrade tools.

LCS is a cloud-based, collaborative workspace that customers can use together with their partners to manage Microsoft Dynamics AX projects from pre-sales to implementation and operations. It is available to customers as part of their support plans.

Based on the phase of your project and your industry, the site provides tools and resources that help you manage your AX solution. It also provides a dashboard so that team members have a single place to get up-to-date project information.

The new features to help you manage your AX 2012 projects include:

  • The cloud-hosted environments tool now has customizable settings for domains, virtual networks, and user accounts.
  • The issue search tool now shows planned and open regulatory features, and includes searchable resources for:
    • Regulatory feature updates
    • Regulatory white papers, registrations, and reports
  • The infrastructure estimator tool:
    • Has become an independent tool that can be accessed outside of the usage profiler too.
    • Can provide sizing estimates for non-production environments, such as development, test, or training environments
  • The upgrade analysis tool provides new summary information in the ...

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.