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MPOS, Retail Server – JSON API Integration

Recently I had to work on developing an integration between MPOS and a CRM application via Retail Server/CRT. The REST APIs provided where JSON based and I needed C# classes to deserialize the response.

My gut feel said that there should be a tool to do this and I need not create the required classes and properties manually.

Sure enough after some web search, I found https://jsonutils.com/

This is an awesome site where you can provide a sample JSON API response and get the C# classes that can be used to deserialize the JSON.

Hope this helps  you save some time, just as it helped me.

-Hitesh Manglani

Dynamics 365 for Operations and TLS 1.2

In my first Dynamics 365 for Operations project we had to implement an integration between the Azure hosted Dynamics 365 for Operations Retail Server and an on premise web api server (for more information on the overall Retail Topology do refer this link MPOS Technical Architecture).

The integration worked fine in our Development environment but when promoted to UAT sandbox the integration broke with the following error

Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.

and initially we could not understand why, after some investigation we could find out the cause being that Dynamics 365 for Operations configuration enforced a TLS 1.2 protocol while the destination server supported only TLS 1.0 and 1.1.

The following resources were very helpful to arrive at the conclusion

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/retail/retail-peripherals-overview

https://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2016/04/tsl-1-2-and-net-support/

Last but not the least, an excellent resource was the following link by John Louros.

https://www.johnlouros.com/blog/disabling-cryptographic-protocols-for-pci-compliance

In this blog, John has provided a nifty console application which was extremely helpful in understanding what was going wrong in the integration, by trying all combinations of TLS protocols between the source and destination it lets you know which protocol is supported and which one is not.

 

-Hitesh Manglani

 

 

The service is not provisioned for the same tenant

If you have downloaded an Dynamics 365 for Operations / AX7 VM for Development especially for Retail do have a look at this article

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/dev-tools/access-instances

Unless you do the steps mentioned in the Retail Configuration section in this link you will get errors like :

In MPOS trying to activate would give an error – The service is not provisioned for the same tenant. User is hitting a retail server that does not belong to the same tenant as the Activation account.

Also if you try to Associate User Identity with a worker in AX it will result in an error like the service is not reachable.

Note – You need to install KB3170424 if you are facing this issue in a LCS hosted VM.

 

-Hitesh Manglani

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