BYOD in D365 F&O for BI: Setup, Incremental Export, and Why Rows Go Missing

In my first article in this series I walked through the four roads out of D365 Finance and Operations for BI: OData, the entity store, BYOD, and the Synapse and Fabric links. I pro…

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The D365 F&O Data Landscape for BI: AxDB, Data Entities, Entity Store, BYOD, and the Lake

I have spent most of my career on the other side of the ERP: not configuring Dynamics 365, but getting numbers out of it that finance, operations and leadership can trust. This art…

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The radio buttons on my form were invisible to the agent

I've been quietly enjoying the fact that the ERP MCP server has form tools, not just data tools. Data tools are the obvious half: read, create, update, delete. Fine. But form tools…

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I decorated an X++ class with an attribute — and Copilot started answering questions with my code

What actually happened The 2026 pattern for this is the "AI tool" (Microsoft's word for it — you'll also hear "AI plugin"). You write a normal X++ class, deploy it, and decorate it…

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The MCP server you wired up last year is about to vanish — here's the good news

So I went to add a tool to one of my agents last week and Microsoft Learn quietly informed me that the static Dynamics 365 ERP MCP server is being retired this calendar year. My fi…

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Electronic Reporting: the tricks I wish someone had told me

I'll be honest: the first time I opened Electronic Reporting in F&O, I closed it again pretty quickly. All those configurations, data models, and formats stacked on top of each oth…

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