New LCS Features for Microsoft Dynamics AX Available with July 2016 Release

The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) team has announced the immediate availability of the July release of Lifecycle Services.

With the July release, the team stated that it has made "significant improvements" to simplify the LCS SharePoint integration for AX7 (also know as the new Microsoft Dynamics AX) projects. The new framework uses user OAuth for performing operations in SharePoint.

Additionally, ISVs working on Dynamics AX solutions can now add the Power BI report model to the solution from solution management, according to the team (see graphic).

Other recent improvements to LCS include the ability to deploy a development environment or a build-and-test environment in an implementation project for the new Dynamics AX, the LCS team stated.

And in implementation projects, users can now append their existing methodologies with the methodology that is shipped by Microsoft, the team added. Users can also customize the locked methodology by adding phase and tasks to the implementation methodology that is shipped by Microsoft for the new Dynamics AX.

Users must now also complete the Microsoft Excel Usage profile and upload the profile to LCS to complete the subscription estimate for their implementation projects, according to the LCS team

The Monitoring and Diagnostics features in LCS are also now publically available to all environments that are deployed through LCS.