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D365 F&O: Schedule backups using DevOps pipelines and database movement API

Hi all, We had a requirement to automatically create a backup of the database of a Tier 2 environment. Luckily there is the Database Movement API that allows you to do just that. In his excellent blog post Automated backups of D365FO databases, Di...

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Invalid value *** specified in the query predicate

Recently a customer logged a bug after moving there environment to new servers. The batchjob “Notification clean up” went in error with the message Invalid value (“07-07-2017”..”03-03-2020″) specified in the query predicate...

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Workflow: invalid tracking submission expected context %1 and expected type %2 act...

You can get this error in the Workflow message processing batch job. You will find that the workflow batch throws this error every 10 minutes or so. The reason you get it every 10 minutes is because of the code in the SysWorkflowMessageQueueManage...

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timezones

Just wanted to share this overview of the time zones used in Dynamics AX 2012 and the TZId value that is used to store UTCDateTime values in SQL. Timezone description TimeZone TZId field (GMT-12:00) International Date Line West 24 24001 (GM...

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SSRS: Empty fields on report – Part 2

Hi all! Some time ago I talked about a problem with SSRS reports that were showing empty fields where data was expected. More recently I talked about how display scaling for high DPI displays can cause fonts in the Dynamics AX client to be all me...

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Management Reporter and Dynamics AX 2012: Users not synchronizing

Today Management Reporter did not want to synchronize the users from Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 to Management Reporter. TLDR: make sure that you do not have unknown users with access to Management Reporter in your database. For example users from ...

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Large and strange font sizes in menus for Dynamics AX 2012 on remote sessions

Hi all! When you open a Dynamics AX 2012 client (RTM/FP/R2/R3) on a remote session it sometimes look pretty weird. Font sizes are all over the place and overall it doesn’t look that great. See for example in the following screenshot: You ca...

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CombineXPO: Length cannot be less than zero

We are moving from AX 2012 FP to AX 2012 R3 and our daily build was failing with the following error: Length cannot be less than zero We have traced the problem to the xpo files in version control that contain the (shared) projects. When these ar...