It was a little confusing at first what the Feature pack contained. This was release recently on in 1st February 2012. This release is targeted at the five key industries: Manufacturing, Distribution, Services Industries, Public Sector, and Retail. This release also incorporates Microsoft Dynamics ERP RapidStart Services.

One major thing you will notice when you install the Feature pack it is the same build as Cumulative update 2.

 

Below are two screenshots. The first is Cumulative update 2 and the second is the Feature pack. Notice a few things here:

  1. Build is the same. 6.0.947.280
  2. Feature pack I installed the Extensions model (Build 6.0.1108.0). This installs into the FPK layer and is meant to put you in a good position to install the industry specific models (which I have not installed on this scenario).

DAX2012CU2_2012-03-28_0744

 

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In this blog entry I haven’t gone into the installation disk. In brief the install disk for the Feature Pack is the latest and it comes bundled with all these in there. Including the Retail component installation which is now part of the install wizard.

 

Links:

List of build numbers

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/emeadaxsupport/archive/2009/07/01/overview-ax-kernel-build-numbers.aspx