lcs: January release notes

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Источник: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lcs/archive/...ase-notes.aspx
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The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the January release of Lifecycle Services.

PREVIEW RELEASE
This release includes a reworked experience with several preview features. These include:

• Methodology tasks can now be ordered
• Beta feature management allows users to see and play with available betas and previews.

NEW FEATURES

• Infrastructure estimator now estimates D-series Azure resources and provides warnings and statistics when implementations are too large to size.
• Issue Search now lists Management Reporter 2012 and Connector for Microsoft Dynamics issues.
• Cloud powered support now automatically installs AX 2012 R3 application hotfixes for environments that require them.
• System Diagnostics has added 24 new rules around SQL and database settings. Details below.
  • Priority Boost SQL Server configuration setting has been changed from the default value
  • Max Degree of Parallelism not set to 1
  • Max server memory not set to an optimal value
  • Lightweight pooling is enabled
  • Max worker threads has been modified
  • Auto Create Statistics option disabled for the Dynamics AX database
  • Full recovery model not implemented for Dynamics AX databases
  • Auto Update Statistics option disabled for Dynamics AX database
  • Auto Close option enabled for the Dynamics AX database
  • Auto Shrink option enabled for the Dynamics AX database
  • Read Committed Snapshot Isolation (RCSI) database option not enabled for the Dynamics AX database
  • Allow Snapshot Isolation is enabled for the Dynamics AX database
  • TempDB and Dynamics AX database collations do not match
  • Dynamics AX data file located on system drive
  • TempDB files not equal in size
  • TempDB log file auto growth increment not a fixed size between 100 MB and 500 MB
  • TempDB log file too small
  • Dynamics AX log file located on system drive
  • TempDB data file located on system drive
  • Dynamics AX database data file auto growth increment not a fixed size between 100 MB and 500 MB
  • Dynamics AX database log file auto growth increment not a fixed size between 100 MB and 500 MB
  • Number of TempDB files not optimal
  • Dynamics AX database log low on free space
  • Page life expectancy less than 1200 seconds

Источник: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lcs/archive/...ase-notes.aspx

[Alex Ivanov]

Hi. I’m interesting in using new rules for SQL server. I understood that I can see them in System Diagnostics “Messages” tab. Is it correct? Did anybody use these rules?