Microsoft Dynamics AX, D365 Finance & Operations Blog: Apply platform updates to an On-Premises D365 F&O Dev environment

Steps to apply platform updates to on-premises environment:

1. On the virtual machine (VM), download the zip file for the deployable package. Make sure that the zip file is stored in a non-user folder.

2. After you download the zip file, right-click it, and then select Properties. Then, in the Properties dialog box, on the General tab, select Unblock to unlock the files.

3. Extract the files.

4. In the folder where you extracted the deployable package, find and open the file that is named DefaultTopologyData.xml. You must specify the VM name and the installed components in this file. Replace the machine name with the computer name.

5.To specify the installed components, follow these steps:

Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator.
Go to the extracted folder and run the following command to see a list of all the components that are installed on the computer.

AXUpdateInstaller.exe list

Update the DefaultTopologyData.xml file with the list of components as below.

6. Generate a runbook from the topology by running the following command

AXUpdateInstaller.exe generate -runbookid=[runbookID] -topologyfile=[topologyFile] -servicemodelfile=[serviceModelFile] -runbookfile=[runbookFile]

Ex:AXUpdateInstaller.exe generate -runbookid="ServerName -runbook" -topologyfile="DefaultTopologyData.xml" -servicemodelfile="DefaultServiceModelData.xml" -runbookfile="ServerName-runbook.xml".