Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX

No mouse with Win2008 RTM under Hyper-V

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:31:27 GMT

I had a question about this form Peter in the UK and I’ve run into this a few times so thought I’d write it down. If you have a VM that is Windows 2008 RTM and you convert or build a new one under Hyper-V you can loose the mouse because it doesn’t detect...(read more)

Updating dates in the demo data

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:30:45 GMT

I’ve had a few questions lately about updating the dates in the demo data so that the Role Centers show current data. In the Refresh 2 VM we included sample code in the form of a tool to allow you to update the dates in the demo data. On Friday we posted...(read more)

Quick update on videos being migrated to Microsoft Azure storage

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:06:15 GMT

Just a quick update as I posted last week on the display of videos on the blog. I’ve had a lot of emails on getting access to the videos. I guess when something is not available you notice the need. So the videos are being migrated to Microsoft Azure...(read more)

Notes on the updated VM posted to Partnersource

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:16:01 GMT

I just wanted to provide some notes about an update of the Demo VM we have recently posted to Partnersource. In January we had to apply a patch for Microsoft Word 2007 to any new downloads of the VM. Unfortunately we are restricted from distributing a...(read more)

Videos on the blog

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:49:28 GMT

I had a couple of pings from folks that they can’t access the videos on the blog. There is change in storage/technology that I have to move to and I’ll get them back. In the mean time you can access them as downloads from the Partnersource page. https...(read more)

Short hold

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:06:45 GMT

I’ve had a few folks trying to access the demo VM from the partnersource page. There is a short hold on new downloads of the image. We have some maintenance to do and it will be available again in a few days. Cheers Lachlan...(read more)

Hyper-V VM starts going to “Paused-Critical” status

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:28:58 GMT

As folks are starting to move to use Hyper-V there will be some new messages and things that you will pick up. I got an email from Toni in Spain that suddenly the VM is showing as “Paused-Critical” status in the Hyper-V manager. Ordinarily the VM should...(read more)

Hebrew language

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:04:16 GMT

I had a question about the Hebrew language on the demo VM. In Hotfix Rollup 3 the Hebrew language was enabled. You can apply HF RU3 on your demo VM but will have an issue because the VPC license needs to be updated. We plan on including the HF RU3 on...(read more)

Questions about BitLocker

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:58:37 GMT

I have a few questions from a few field folks because in Microsoft we are rolling out the usage of BitLocker internally. BitLocker is a great technology feature that encrypts your hard drive and enables you to protect your machine’s data getting in the...(read more)

Project Time Sheets Period Code

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:40:19 GMT

I’ve had a few questions on this and posted a few notes on using Project Time Sheet on the demo VM. Scott and Kathy from the dev team helped and pointed out the issue with the period codes that we have setup in the demo data. The issue is inconsistency...(read more)

Project Time sheet entry

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:35:11 GMT

Just an FYI as I’ve had a few notes from a few different people about the timesheet entry on the Refresh 2 VM and the PSA Application Disk. First you need to make sure you have the right period setups to get it to work then there is a random problem where...(read more)

Arabic Region

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:03:11 GMT

I had a note from a Khurram that brought this to my attention. In the Hotfix Rollup 2 package it included localization updates for the Arabic Region. We included this on the Refresh 2 demo VM. You can see this in the config keys in the demo VM Now because...(read more)

Enabling Terminal Services on the demo VMs

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:28:49 GMT

I’ve had a few questions on terminal serving into the demo VMs. I posted a note explaining how to do this by using an external network connection. http://blogs.msdn.com/lcash/archive/2009/07/21/setting-up-external-networking-on-the-demo-vms.aspx Now the...(read more)

External networking and home networks

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:07:38 GMT

I had a question from Kerry in Canada about having trouble getting the demo VM setup to use external networking. We did a bit of investigation and this might be a common question for folks wanting to use external networking on the demo VM while connected...(read more)

Additional Application Disks for Process and Service Industries

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:09:25 GMT

It’s been a busy couple of months with EMEA Convergence and other projects. We recently posted a new update for the VM with the PSA Application Disk. You can find that on the partnersource page here : https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/deployment...(read more)

Additional disks with Refresh 2 and creating your own VMC or VM configuration

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:02:57 GMT

When we post the demo VM we include a VMC files because we ship the VM built under VPC2007. In this VMC file it has the setup for the machine i.e disks, network, memory etc. If you create you’re own VMC file or you are using Hyper-V or Windows7 (VPC7...(read more)

Password on AX-SRV-03

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:40:55 GMT

I had a question from a partner on the password for the AX-SRV-03 VM. So thought I’d re-post a note about passwords on the demo VMs. All the Dynamics AX demo passwords for the VMs are pass@word1 and the domain is CONTOSO. You will have trouble with passwords...(read more)

Processing OLAP Cubes and AX Companies

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:57:18 GMT

I’ve had this question a few times from partners so thought I’d post a note. To get updated transactional data into the OLAP cubes you will have to process the cubes in SQL Analysis Services. The question I’ve had relates to adding new companies in Dynamics...(read more)

Demo VM and Office activation

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:51:35 GMT

I’ve had a few questions on the Office activation on the demo VM and I’ve posted a few notes on the topic. The last note I posted might have confused a few folks thinking they can only get past the activation by putting in a product key. The answer is...(read more)

Passwords on the demo VMs

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:14:40 GMT

I’ve have been working on a few projects so a little slow at posting notes the last couple of months. I’ve had a few questions about passwords for the demos VMs. We keep them the same regular demo password which you will find in the release notes. This...(read more)

For the techies Peter and Gustavo’s discussion on Channel9 covering X++ to MSIL

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:44:36 GMT

For the developer types among you Peter Villadsen and Gustavo Plancarte from the dev team posted a great video on Channel9 discussing the X++ language and the work that they are doing around MSIL. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Peter-Villadsen...(read more)

unzipping the VM files, external disks not formatted for NTFS

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:44:16 GMT

There are a few things that can go wrong when unzipping the files for the demo VM. This is one I’ve run into a few times with new external disks. If you can an error when uncompressing to an external disk that says something like “Probably the disk is...(read more)

Lean Manufacturing demo scripts

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:04:50 GMT

I had a question from a partner looking for demo scripts for Lean Manufacturing. You can find ones that the dev team prepared for use with the data set that on Refresh 2 of the demo VM. You can find the scripts here https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource...(read more)

Using workflow on the R2 demo VM

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:55:02 GMT

So I had a question that prompted me to remind people about the setup for Workflow. The workflow in AX runs under the Windows Workflow foundation which is hosted, in AX2009, under IIS. This engine and the AOS communicate together to execute the workflow...(read more)

Activation of Office on the demo VMs

Reflections on Microsoft Dynamics AX — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:58:34 GMT

So this is probably a good sign that the VMs that we ship are used a lot. It seems if you try to register Office on the demo VMs it might start telling you that it has been activated too many times. So as a partner you will have access to a NFR copy of...(read more)