The Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations application layer is primarily represented by application runtime, known as Application Object Server (AOS). AOS runs as an ASP.NET web application hosted on Internet Information Services (IIS). AOS has all the core kernel components (security, metadata, and data access), forms engine, UI interaction service, web services endpoints, and so on. Asynchronous batch processing capability and data management is provided by a Windows service running on each application server. The following diagram shows the key components of the server and how they are stacked together:
The Dynamics 365 for ...
