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Supporting multiple Enterprise Portals for AX2012
With AX2012 you can setup the SharePoint sites named "Enterprise Portal". These sites run perfectly well on the free SharePoint Foundation version, and it also runs on SharePoint Foundation 2013 if you...
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ExchangeRateEffectiveView not returning cross rates to the Cubes in AX2012
I was asked to assist figuring out why exchange rates wouldn't always be retrieved to the Sales Order Cube in Dynamics AX2012. The solution became a journey through various interesting topics (for me...
View ArticleReduce SSRS deployment time for static reports in AX2012
Are you wasting minutes deploying and redeploying static SSRS reports in all the languages provided with AX2012? If you only need a handful of them, you might just as well consider disabling the...
View ArticleFixing firstDayOfWeek and firstWeekOfYear in AX2012
I was asked to have a look at why the date picker in AX still chose Sunday while the user expected Monday. I remember fixing this back in AX2009, so I was curious to see how this was solved in AX2012....
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Error during install of Microsoft Report Viewer 2012
When installing the client for AX2012 R3 CU8 or later, one of the requirements is installing Report Viewer 2012. The prerequisite Validation step will inform you the component is missing, and it will...
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Compiler warnings when using AXBUILD
When you run AXBUILD with AX2012 R3 you might notice there are some classes that throws warnings, even though you know they are not customized. Why is that?Here is an example running CU10 and the...
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Login failed error while processing OLAP cubes
I was requested to help with solving a processing error from SQL Server Analysis Services today.While processing the engine fails to retrieve data from the Dynamics AX transaction database and throws...
View ArticleReporting Server Subscription does not run on Schedule
I've setup a SSRS report that pulls data from two SQL Server databases across two different SQL Server instances. It runs under a SQL Server user and works like charm when run manually. However, when I...
View ArticleStored Procedure for listing who is running AX queries on the SQL Server
I want to share a small nugget I've created for listing who is currently running queries against AX at any point in time. It builds on two prerequisites, one of which is from one of my suggested...
View ArticleKicking off a dedicated podcast with my friend, colleague and fellow MVP...
It is with great excitement I am happy to announce the Dynamics AX Podcast!It is a common effort with MVP Fredrik Sætre to generate another channel where all you Dynamics AX geeks, both techies and...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to list the 10 most recent KBs installed in AX2012 R3
I was asked to get an overview of the most recent KBs installed on an AX2012 R3 environment.One way to do this is using PowerShell.We know each KB is deployed as a single model, and we know each model...
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Using the On-Premise Gateway to connect to your AX2012 data to Power BI Portal
PowerBI has been around for a long time by now, so there are tons of information out there on how to connect your data sources to the powerful PowerBI Portal (www.powerbi.com). Now, getting all the...
View ArticleManaging your Azure Subscriptions created through CSP portal
Let me start off with a disclaimer, as Microsoft may change the behavior, which would render this post obsolete. In which case I'll try to come back and make the necessary amendments. If you have...
View ArticleError when installing Reporting Extensions for AX2012 R3 on SQL 2014 SSRS
HiI could not really find any posts on this out there, so I decided to just share this here.You may experience installation errors when you try to install Reporting Extensions for AX2012 R3 on SQL...
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Error when installing Reporting Extensions for AX2012 R3 on SQL Server 2016
On my previous post I wrote on installing Reporting Extensions for AX2012 R3 on SQL Server 2014. In this post I want to emphasize that the same hotfix for SQL 2014 is needed for SQL 2016.The error...
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Excel Applet not loading when working with D365 Office Add-in
This post is somewhat related to the post by Ievgen (AX MVP) on the Office Word integration not working with Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (Enterprise Edition).If you try to connect Excel to...
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Consider changing your password Pop Up
Currently the machines deployed through LCS runs with the Account Policy that passwords has a 42 days age. Interestingly you should not change the password for servers deployed according to this...
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Initial steps to troubleshoot failed environment servicing
On the topic of patching and updating an existing D365 Operations environment I will refer to the online documentation.Upgrade Finance and Operations to the latest platform updateProcess for moving to...
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Importing users in D365 Operations using Excel
Let me start off by admitting I was initially thinking about naming this post "Importing users in AX7 using Excel", so there, now this post suddenly became a little bit more "searcher friendly".In this...
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Use Azure Automation to start and stop your VMs on a schedule
This post is long overdue, and I have been meaning to post it over a year ago. I did present an early version of this script at the AXUG event in Stuttgart, but since then the API has changed around...
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