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Welcome to my blog of Dynamics AX.In this blog I want to share my own ideas and experience with various topics in the Dynamics AX world, all from coding business logic in Dynamics AX, to developing web...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Kerberos on Enterprise Portal – Wrong NTAuthenticationProviders
I’ve been helping with setting up Kerberos authentication for a couple of installations so far. This is normally just a matter of reading the installation guide and also the Kerberos setup guide. If...
View ArticleDimension Permission Error after successfully processing the Dynamics AX OLAP
IntroductionI have recently been involved in hunting down a strange "bug" in all the Reporting Services reports which reported data from the General Ledger Cube. The error message itself was "The...
View ArticleError when adding Business Connector user to SharePoint 2010 as Managed Account
While installing Enterprise Portal on SharePoint 2010 you might get this strange error when you are trying to add the Business Connector user as Managed account in SharePoint:"The given key was not...
View ArticleProperty value is not valid when setting datamethod in Dynamics AX SSRS Report
UPDATE January 2012: This is resolved in version 6 of JetBrains Resharper. I was working with building Reporting Services reports for Dynamics AX 2009 in Visual Studio and when I tried to set the Query...
View ArticleDeploying Reporting Services Reports dependent on X++ helper classes
Today I was having trouble with deploying a custom Reporting Services Report. One of the changes I made to the report was adding a helper class in the AOT and calls a method on this class from one of...
View ArticleAssigning user groups to the Analysis Database Roles using PowerShell
One of the steps involved when installing a full-fledged Dynamics AX 2009 installation is the setting up the security schema for OLAP database. If you do not grant the domain users access to the...
View ArticleUsing Powershell to backup your AX 2012 code
One of the repetitive tasks when working with Dynamics AX 2012 is getting out the models out of an environment. Lucky for us this is pretty easy to do using PowerShell. Inspired by the great blog post...
View ArticleUse Powershell to increment build on AX 2012 Model
I have been working on a new version of my PowerShell script I use to export models to disk. I wanted to increment the build number each time a model was exported, so I started with my export script...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2
The awaited R2 release of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 is here! Microsoft Dynamics Partners can download the image from hereAlso, check out this landing page for AX2012 R2.Enjoy!
View ArticleUpgrading to AX2012 R2 from AX 2012
I would like to share my story on the upgrade process from AX2012 (RTM) without Feature Pack, but with CU4. The upgrade is supported for AX2012 with or without Feature Pack, and you need at least CU3...
View ArticleUpgrading AX2012 to AX2012 R2 Part 2
Two months ago I wrote a few words around the in-place upgrade from AX2012 RTM (v6.0/v6.1) to AX2012 R2 (v6.2). While working with this upgrade, I found that the guide did not tell the whole story. In...
View ArticleDeploy Modelstore with less downtime
IntroductionEveryone working with deployment of code in AX2012 should by now be familiar with the concept of a modelstore, and the importance of making sure you move the complete modelstore from your...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services - My Review
There are a couple of great books on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and this is one of them, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services. I read this book as a preparation for an internal course I did not long...
View ArticleCompare models in two modelstores using Powershell
Imagine you have two modelstores, and inside these two modelstores there are several models installed.Then imagine you want to compare those two modelstores and list out what models are installed in...
View ArticleFree Editor Extensions for AX2012
The code editor in AX2012 is based on the same editor as Visual Studio. Not many developers know the editor actually allows developers to extend the functionality of the editor. My preferred extension...
View ArticleGet the element name of an AX2012 Report from the preview
This is going to be a short post, but hopefully it will help someone still.One of the essential tasks when delivering an Dynamics AX solution to a customer will always be report customization. There...
View ArticleSimple way to recover lost columns
Easter vacation is almost over and I felt like posting a new blog entry.This will be something even a novice DBA would know about, but hopefully it might be helpful for a Dynamics AX developer who...
View ArticleRemove old modelstore from an upgraded AX2012 R2 database
One of the benefits of AX2012 R2 compared to AX2012 RTM is the fact that they decided to split the database in two parts, one part for the business data and one part for the application data. This...
View ArticleCreate a new Baseline Database for AX2012
The Baseline database in AX2012/AX2012R2 is optional when installing the database(s). During installation of the databases, this is the only point it gets installed. So what if you need to setup a...
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