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Configure D365 fo and event grid

Overview on how to publish data entity changes from Dynamics Finance and Operations to Azure Event Grid.

Step 1

In D365FO, Navigate to the Business Events Catalogue page

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Step 2

Navigate to the endpoints tab and select ‘Azure Event Grid’

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Step 3

In Azure, create an application service registration

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Take note of the Application Id and the Secret Id

Step 4

In Azure,  create an Azure Event Grid Topic

https://customers.westus2-1.eventgrid.azure.net/api/events

Copy the Access Key

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Step 5

In Azure,  create an Azure Key Vault with a key called

key-eventgrid-topic-d365fo-customers

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The secret value is the Access Key for the Event Grid Topic

Step 6

On the key vault – grant access to the secret for the Application Registration

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Step 7

In D365FO ‘configure an endpoint’ and enter the Azure Event Grid Topic endpoint

It now requires the Application Id & Application secret + the key vault name + name of secret in key vault (to get the Access Key)

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Step 8

An endpoint should now display

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Step 9

Activate the following 2 business events

  • BusinessEventsAlertEvent
  • BusinessEventsDueDateAlertEvent

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select your newly created endpoint

Step 10

From the customers list, create a custom alert

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Configure the alert to happen when the record is created, deleted or a field changes

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Ensure ‘Send Externally’ is true

Step 11

Edit the customer and change the field with the alert on it & save the record

Step 12

view an alert & business event arrives in the following table

https://XXXXX.dynamics.com/Default.htm?mi=SysTableBrowser&cmp=YYYY&tablename=eventcud

XXXXX == your organisations URL
YYYY == your company

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if no record appears here – you might need to fix your batch jobs

Step 13

Verify that your Azure Event Grid Topic has received the customer change events

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Step 14

The below payload structure is sent to Event Grid

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Subscribing to published Events in Flow

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Sample extract (which was pushed to teams)

  • ID = BULK-002
  • Event = LocationChanged
  • Payload = {“BusinessEventId”:”BusinessEventsAlertEvent”,”ControlNumber”:5637145330,”Email”:”Chris.McKelt@xxx.com.au”,”EventId”:”D60A8657-E87C-43A8-8D7D-826EBF0490D7”,”EventTime”:”/Date(1570769681000)/”,”FieldId”:3,”Link”:””,”MajorVersion”:0,”Message”:”LocationChanged”,”MessageDetails”:”View Location: BULK-002, 24”,”MinorVersion”:0,”ParentTableId”:8565,”RuleId”:”000428”,”Subject”:”LocationChanged”,”TableId”:8565,”TypeTrigger”:”FieldChanged”,”UserId”:”Chris.McKelt”}

Key Points for setting up change alerts in D365 FO

  1. Alerts should be setup under 1 user with admin permissions (on test this is the dual write user)
  2. Setup  a Batch Group called INT (integration) and allocate servers to it
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  4.    Ensure the Batch Job is setup as below (note the user)

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Exported Logic App / Flow Example to listen to events and send to Teams channel

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