Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

Introduction

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations is a cloud solution, and even when it is available on-premise, the obvious high availability/disaster recovery solution would be to switch to Microsoft Azure. So, even when our solution is designed to be on-premise, we shouldn't write our integrations to access local area network resources.

All integrations should have a service endpoint that will be accessed by Dynamics 365 for Operations.

To facilitate writing integrations that are agnostic of the local network resources, Microsoft has evolved the Data Import/Export Framework (DIXF) in this release, to help resolve many of the integrations issues we will often face. It also opens up a much more integrated way in which we can communicate ...