Management Reporter (MR) – Provides financial reporting functionality. Application Object Servers (AOS) – Provides the ability to run the Finance and Operations application functionality in client, batch, and import/export scenarios. The following roles or node types are deployed into both types of clusters: On-premises deployment defines two types of Service Fabric standalone clusters: clusters for production environments and clusters for sandbox environments. Service Fabric standalone clusters can be deployed on any computer that is running Windows Server. Service Fabric is the next-generation Microsoft middleware platform for building and managing enterprise-class high-scale applications. The on-premises deployment option uses Finance and Operations cloud components running on-premises using Microsoft Azure Server Service Fabric standalone clusters. On-premises deployments of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations are not supported on any public cloud infrastructure, including Azure. LCS features, such as business process modeling, software deployment and patching, and monitoring and diagnostics, are used to help support on-premises deployments.
LCS is an application management portal that provides tools and services for managing the application lifecycle of your Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations implementations in the cloud and on-premises.
Customers and partners will utilize Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) to manage their on-premises deployments. With this deployment option, application servers and the Microsoft SQL Server database will run in the customer’s data center. Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, now supports running business processes in customer data centers with the on-premises deployment option.