Customization Analysis Report in Dynamics 365 for finance and operations

Customization Analysis Report (CAR)

What is the Customization Analysis Report?

The Customization Analysis Report is a tool that analyzes your customization and extension models, and runs a predefined set of best practice rules. The report is one of the requirements of the solution certification process. The report is in the form of a Microsoft Excel workbook.

Sample:

xppbp.exe -metadata=<local packages folder> -all -model=<ModelName> -xmlLog=C:\BPCheckLogcd.xml -module=<PackageName> -car=<reportlocation>

Example:

xppbp.exe -metadata=C:\Packages -all -model="MyAppSuiteCustomizations" -xmlLog=C:\temp\BPCheckLogcd.xml -module="ApplicationSuite" -car=c:\temp\CAReport.xlsx

Issue List with proposed fix (MS) details:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/dev-tools/customization-analysis-report