How to practice for Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate on a MAC

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How to practice for Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate on a MAC since we cant access Visual Studio and cant get hands on experience

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Answer 1

Hi Salar Sadruddin,

Thank you for reaching out to us on Microsoft Q&A forum.  

MAC users can access some aspects of D365 F&O via web browsers, but they have limited capability in terms of full-scale development, deployment, and certain features that are tightly coupled with Windows-based infrastructure.

Dynamics 365 apps, especially those focusing on Finance and Operations, are highly optimized for Windows environments due to their dependency on tools like Visual Studio, X++, and Lifecycle Services. Microsoft has always designed Dynamics 365 F&O with its enterprise environment in mind where all the business operations run on Windows-based PCs.

Although macOS is not fully supported for D365 F&O apps, there are also workarounds and other alternatives. We can even use Microsoft Azure or, alternatively, a Windows virtual machine on your Mac while running tools such as Visual Studio or even accessing some features of Lifecycle Services. Solutions like Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, or even Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) permit you to run a whole Windows OS environment on the Mac.

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