Get started with Lifecycle Services for finance and operations apps
Note
You may experience partial outages in labs that use the finance and operations apps virtual machine. We are working on fixing it and ask for your patience.
To install and maintain finance and operations apps in the Microsoft Azure cloud or on-premises, you must use Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services to manage the process. Let's get started by looking at the overall functionality and tools.
Learning objectives
In this module, you will:
- Understand the functionality and tools of Lifecycle Services for finance and operations apps
- Determine licensing requirements
- Reuse existing assets, copy and share data
- Understand Task recorder functionality
- Create a business process model
- Identify and analyze gaps using the Business Process Modeler
- Run the Issue Search tool and analyze results
Prerequisites
- General knowledge of Microsoft Windows
- The ability to use finance and operations apps for basic processing
- Experience using Windows Server, Active Directory and Networking
- Understanding of SQL Server, Domain Controllers and Web Services