Upgrade Environment using LCS D365

Upgrade Environment using LCS D365.

You can upgrade your 2-Tier environment to the latest build using LCS.




Step-1 Navigate to your required Environment and click on maintain.
Step-2 Now click on upgrade a popup window will appear.

Step-3 Popup window contains 3 fields to be filled.

1. Target Environment 
2. Preferred downtime start date
3. Preferred downtime start time
4. 
   

Select the Build release on which you want to upgrade your environment and provide downtime as per your feasibility then click next. 

Following is the filled screenshot for your reference.

Step-4 Select the application version from the new window and click next.

Step-5 Now select the database type from the next window.

Three types are available 

1. None 
2. Demo 
3. Public sector data

Step-6 select a custom package if you want to deploy with this upgrade.

Step-7 Enter the email address of the persons who will be notified of every action on the environment.

Step-8  select environment administrator. Only users will appear in the drop-down those who have administrator rights on Project and LCS.

Step-9 verify the summary

Step-10 Now enter your Account name in the text box and click save.

Service will submit to Microsoft and they will start working on the given time window.


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Deploy package using LCS

Using the following steps you can create the deployable package and deploy it through LCS.

Step-1  Open Visual studio and click on Dynamics365 Menu and select create deployment package from the deploy menu item.

Step-2 Select your model and set the output path of the model and click OK.

Step-3 Login to LCS then navigates to your project.
Ste-4 click on the hamburger icon and select Asset library.

Step-5 Now select software deploy-able package and click on the + icon to add your custom package.

Step-6 Enter the package name and description. would be great if you are follow any naming sequence for packages.

Step-7 Click on Add file button to upload your deployable package.

Step-8 Now click on browse and select package then click on uplaod.

Step-9 You can find the package in the tab of software deploy-able tab Once the package is uploaded successfully.

Step-10 Once LCS mark package as valid. then go to your environment.

Step-11 Now click on Maintain and select apply the update.

Step-12 Select your package and click on apply.

Package deployment will start in few seconds. LCS will show you the progress of every step.

Once the package is completed sign Off the package, So it will visible to you on production deployment as well.

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