Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX

June 2009 - Posts

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  Entering dates (2006) or no access to development in Refresh1 VM I’ve had a few questions about entering dates in the VM Refresh1 Demo VM that it is defaulting to 2006. This is because it is now in Eval mode and you will have to update the AX license. See note here. http://blogs.msdn.com/lcash/archive/2009/05/22/updating... Read More... Published: Monday, June 29, 2009, 01:23 PM Tags: AX VPC Tips and Tricks

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  EP Development on VM – HTTP 401 Unauthorized error If you doing doing web related work on the VMs and getting an Unauthorized response have a look at this note http://blogs.msdn.com/lcash/pages/network-authentication-issues-on-vpc-refresh-1.aspx Which is related to this Microsoft KB article http://support... Read More... Published: Monday, June 29, 2009, 11:58 AM Tags: AX VPC Tips and Tricks

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  Quick update on the Refresh2 VMs I’ve had a number of partners ask about the Refresh2 demo image. So just wanted to give a quick update. So we have finished the updates to the image. We are waiting for the final normal legal details to be finished and then we’ll be posting the image... Read More... Published: Monday, June 29, 2009, 09:43 AM Tags: AX VPC Tips and Tricks

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  Project Server Demo Image The Christophe from the Microsoft Project team have released their demo image for Project Server which includes some great setup including Dynamics AX. Have a look at Christophe’s post http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2009/06/23/microsoft-dynamics... Read More... Published: Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 08:52 PM Tags: AX VPC Tips and Tricks

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  Demo License Files Extra Bits I had a few questions about the demo license expiry. You will find the demo licenses for Demand Planner and Frx updated now on the PartnerSource page. Scroll down the bottom of the page.   Cheers Lachlan Read More... Published: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 10:13 AM Tags: AX VPC Tips and Tricks

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  SSRS Report on a Role Center LogonAs Message on Demo VM I’ve had this question for a while from a few partners and I’ve seen it myself and with the help from Larry from the support team I think he gave me the answer. There are a few items that you maybe interested in reading if you are working with the reports... Read More... Published: Monday, June 08, 2009, 05:35 PM Tags: AX VPC Tips and Tricks

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  Expiry of Demo VM So the 6th of June has now passed and the original AX2009 VM is now over a year old and has expired. I’m getting a few questions from partners that haven’t had a change to pick up the Refresh1 image from PartnerSource, see previous note . If you are now... Read More... Published: Monday, June 08, 2009, 01:41 PM Tags: AX VPC Tips and Tricks

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  Microsoft Dynamics AX positioned as Leader in Midmarket ERP Magic Quadrant The post just went up on PressPass today. “Magic Quadrant for Midmarket and Tier 2-Oriented ERP for Product-Centric Companies (Gartner, June 4, 2009) Microsoft Dynamics AX Positioned as a Leader in Midmarket and Tier 2-Oriented ERP Magic Quadrant. Despite... Read More... Published: Monday, June 08, 2009, 11:40 AM Tags: Microsoft Dynamics AX

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  Windows 7 Calculator Ok this one is a something small that I’ve found very useful I don’t know how I’ve done with out it. In Windows 7 the venerable calculator has actually been changed. It now has a range of advanced functionality one of these is a date calculator. Remember... Read More... Published: Sunday, June 07, 2009, 01:26 PM Tags: Microsoft Dynamics AX

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  Dynamics AX documentation on TechNet Our documentation team in Dynamics has been doing a great job at making the the Dynamics AX documentation available and keeping it updated. I was browsing through TechNet and it’s great to see Dynamics AX documentation in it’s right full place along side... Read More... Published: Sunday, June 07, 2009, 12:48 PM Tags: Microsoft Dynamics AX

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  A couple of notes on using the AX2009 Demo VM Refresh 1 So by now most people have picked up the Refresh 1 VM as the original ones expire tomorrow. I’ve posted a few notes over the last couple of months on using that VM so I thought I’d do a quick summary. On setting up the VM this note will walk you through... Read More... Published: Friday, June 05, 2009, 01:04 PM Tags: AX VPC Tips and Tricks

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  Demo VM plan and why we have expiry dates I get a lot of questions about the the demo VMs and the expiry of images.  The simple answer if that we have to put some level of control on the usage of the image. So that is currently the time bomb system that we leverage in Windows 2003. The plan... Read More... Published: Thursday, June 04, 2009, 08:58 AM Tags: AX VPC Tips and Tricks

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  Blog syndication So my blog just started to be syndicated on to the Dynamics Communities site. You can see it here. https://community.dynamics.com/blogs/axlachlancash/default.aspx Just wanted to call out that the Silverlight videos don’t make it over there. So where i... Read More... Published: Tuesday, June 02, 2009, 03:20 PM Tags: AX VPC Tips and Tricks

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  Creating an Office doc in Document Handling I had a question from a partner on setting up and creating a Office document from AX. This small video walks through that process.   If you are looking at Office Integration it’s worth also having a look at the Business Data Lookup SNAP that is installed... Read More... Published: Tuesday, June 02, 2009, 09:20 AM Tags: AX VPC Tips and Tricks

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  Accessing Demand Planner on the Demo VM I get questions from folks on what password do I need to access Demand Planner on the Demo VM. The simple answer is you don’t need one as it is setup for Windows Authentication. If you start DP2.0 Click Start\All Programs\Microsoft Dynamics Tools\Demand... Read More... Published: Tuesday, June 02, 2009, 08:04 AM Tags: AX VPC Tips and Tricks