Finance and Operations AOS (kernel) improvements

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End users, automatically This feature is released. Dec 20, 2019 This feature is released. Jan 1, 2020

Feature details

As we focus on continuous improvements to provide a more reliable and stable experience for our customers, this is a required milestone on this journey.

Starting with Platform update 32, AOS (kernel) will uptake Visual C++ 17 runtime libraries to take advantage of compiler performance optimizations. Platform engineers will benefit from the new upgrade while using their development environments to provide a more robust and reliable experience for our customers.

This will require that existing environments be updated to use the VC++ 17 redistributables.

  • For Microsoft-managed Standard Acceptance Test Sandbox and higher (Tier 2 and higher) and Production environments, VC++ 17 redistributables are already installed and no action is needed.
  • For Microsoft-managed DEV environment (Tier 1), customers, partners, and ISVs will need to restart their virtual machines before applying Platform update 32.
  • For non-managed Dev, Build, Test, Demo (Tier 1) and on-premises environments, customers, partners, and ISVs will need to download and install VC++ 17 redistributable from the shared asset library in Lifecycle Services and restart their machines.

If you have the latest redistributables already installed, then no action is needed.

If you apply Platform update 32 and redistributables are missing, you might get an error when starting your services. If needed, refer to the following instructions to resolve this issue.

To install the redistributables:

  1. Go to Lifecycle Services.
  2. Select Shared asset library.
  3. Select Model from the asset type list.
  4. Select VC++ 17 Redistributables.
  5. The download will automatically start.
  6. Apply on your machine and restart.