From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management blogs: Updated user licensing; Streamline order placement; Time and expense agent; Testing automation tools

In this review of the Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management blogs: 

• Updated D365 F&SCM user licensing in 10.44
• Setting up punchout e-procurement external catalog to streamline order placement for the electronics industry
• New time and expense agent in D365 Project Operations
• How to choose the right testing automation tool 

Updated D365 F&SCM user licensing in 10.44

Writing on his blog, Alex Meyer wrote that Microsoft has spent the past few months updating how user licensing works to prepare for enforcing license rules later this year.

In his blog post, Meyer provided details on some of the updates that appear in the 10.44 release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management. For example, the SysAdmin role no longer needs a license, and the “None” license type is being phased out. 

Microsoft is also getting rid of outdated ways to view user license information and creating new tables to store license data. He explained that this data will be reviewed and analyzed through the Power Platform admin center.

Setting up punchout e-procurement external catalog in D365 Supply Chain Management for the electronics industry

On the Logan Consulting blog, Maya Ikenberry wrote that handling purchases manually takes too much time and often leads to mistakes. The external catalog in the procurement and sourcing module of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management can help with that.