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Deploying D365 Finance and Operations Build Machine | F&O | Dynamics

 Hello Everyone,

We have a requirement for the deployment of D365 Build machine. Build machine are normally created as an additional machine with an additional cost to make/create deployable packages which will be further deployed on different environment.

Prerequisites:

1) Create Team foundation version control(TFVC) version control setup on DevOps as this is required while creating build machines otherwise It will result in below error.

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To create it, navigate to Repos(You should have correct user roles than you will be able to see it) in devOps.

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Open the dropdown and you will see "+ New repository " option.

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2) On LCS level Permission to manage and create VMs should be assigned

Steps to create Build machine

  • Open LCS and navigate to cloud hosted environments after entering into the project.

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Then press + to add VM

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  • Select DevTest

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  • Again select the build and test

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  • Based on requirement, select Size of the VM in my case its B8ms(standard)

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  • Name your build agent.

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  • Set dataset to None.

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  • Disable premium storage in case you dont want additional storage

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  • Assign a title to virtual network in my case it was XYZ-vNet

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  • Once all the steps are performed, Our build machine will move to queuing state and then deploying. It will further take upto 10 hours

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Hope you find this blog helpful.

Shayan Arshi

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