Comparing BOMs in AX

Bills of material in AX 2012 can be effective dated, and this provides the ability to keep prior versions.  Now it has been several years and the question arises- what changed between versions?  There is a built-in way to compare BOMs from the same product, or even two different -perhaps related- products.  However, this functionality is hard-coded to be for China only.

(CHN) Compare BOM versions and print the BOM comparison report [AX 2012]

In order to limit the performance impact I enable only the necessary configuration keys.  So whenever a specific report or functionality from another country could be useful, I prefer to remove the country code on those objects to allow them to be used by all countries.  This is a minor modification that does not take long, however still requires functional testing.

In this case, these four objects need to have the CountryCode property cleared.

Outlook Setup Wizard - Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

In Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, you may want to connect your Office365 email to receive contacts, tasks, and appointments from the ERP.  To do so, navigate to Organization Administration > Setup > Office integration > Microsoft Outlook Setup Wizard.  When it asks for the Exchange Web Services URL use the following to connect to your Office365 email account:
https://smtp.office365.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx

Once that is set up, activities assigned to you in Common > Activities can synchronize with your Outlook client!