Upgrading to 10.0.39 in Dynamics 365? – Don’t Miss out on a Quality Update For Manufacturing and Distribution

Are you one of the many Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain users in the manufacturing world that use Job Management and time registrations within the system? If you are planning to or in the process of updating to 10.0.39 in Dynamics 365, you may want to take a note of a recent challenge that has been encountered by many customers who upgraded cold turkey to the newest version.

Multiple reports flew in of D365 users encountering an error after the upgrade to 10.0.39 upon trying to approve and post time registrations for job in the Production module citing a variant of the following error message.

“A container for table (JmgStampJournalTrans/BOMCalcTable) was packed with more fields than are currently defined on the table and cannot be safely unpacked.”

The error has been reported and currently resolved by Microsoft and released as a quality update as outlined below and you would be wise to include it as a part of your upcoming upgrade plans to prevent any outages or downtime because of this error.

Ellipse Solutions prescribes the formality of the Dynamics 365 version update process through Dynamics 365 Continuous Update Automation and always recommends to include the automated testing component to discover such errors in advance.