The asset library is a single repository that maintains all the artifacts related to your implementation of Microsoft D365FO and the project in LCS.

There are several asset types that can be used to store, use, reuse, and deploy the following artifacts:

• Cortana intelligence application: These are Microsoft-provided machine learning and recommendations-related components that are installed in your environment via the LCS asset library repository, which brings insights derived from the Cortana intelligence suite components using machine learning right within Dynamics 365.
• Data package: Data packages are used for loading data using the LCS asset library repository in your Dynamics 365 environment.
• Microsoft D365FO database backup: This procedure can only be used in non-production environments. In this tool, a Microsoft D365FO database backup is uploaded as a file in the LCS asset library repository and then reimported in the same or another instance in order to quickly use the system.
• GER configuration: This involves uploading and leveraging the Electronic Reporting (ER) configuration in an asset library repository in Microsoft LCS and subsequently using it in your Dynamics 365 environment.
• Localized financial report: Any country/region-specific localized solutions that have been prepared by developers and ISVs can be created as a solution and added in the LCS repository, which could subsequently be used in other implementations by the partner/advisor who owns it.
• Marketing asset: Here, organizations can upload their logo of different sizes in the LCS asset library repository for subsequent use in other environments.
• Model: This is a code repository and consists of a group of elements that typically constitute a distributable software solution. Model is a design-time concept; for example, a warehouse management model.
• Power BI report model: This is explained in detail in Chapter 10, Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Reporting.
• Software deployable package: This is explained in detail in Chapter 6, Configuration and Data Management.
• BPM artifact: Use this repository within the LCS asset library to manage and reuse your business process libraries.
• Process data package: This is explained in detail in Chapter 6, Configuration and Data Management.
• Solution package: Here, you can obtain solution packages published from Microsoft and use them during your environment spin-up time.
• NuGet package: Here, you can obtain NuGet packages published in the shared asset library or import new ones so that you can use them in your D365FO environment. Microsoft D365FO Visual Studio projects allow X++ code to interact seamlessly with code written in other .NET languages.

You can make a copy of an asset directly from the asset library. Also, you can ship a new version of any file in the asset library and provide release notes when you publish an asset. This is useful when you have assets that have been published by your organization's users.

Organization users can now get additional versions of the same file and check what has changed with each version from the release notes before they download a specific version.