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DEVELOPER GUIDERemove Demo Legal Entities
Clear USMF, USRT and the other Contoso companies from a OneBox by restoring Empty Data over AxDB, leaving only DAT.
Don't delete USMF with SQL: a cleaner way to empty your OneBox
Contoso demo companies clutter every lookup on a dev VM. Deleting them row by row breaks the database. Restoring Empty Data over AxDB leaves you with a clean, DAT-only environment instead.
What Dual-Write changes in order-to-cash
Dual-Write is often treated as a technical sync between F&O and Dataverse. For the business it changes who owns customer data, where orders start and what the sales team can see. Those decisions matter more than the mappings.
7 things that trip people up when building a D365 OneBox VM
Turning the LCS VHD into a working development VM looks simple until sign-in fails. These are the settings and steps that cause most of the trouble, and how to get them right the first time.