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AX 2012 R3 integration with external application. Thoughts ?

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Hi Experts,

I got a requirement where one of my customers wants to call AX  processes from an external application (most probably would be a .Net application). It is a very common scenario to access AX from external applications but I have following questions to answer them;

  1. AX will be hosted on Azure, so do we need to ask Azure team to provide an IP address to access AX externally?
  2. Do we need to ask them to open certain ports for AX? 
  3. Where exactly the IP address will be used in .Net application [I have little idea that it will be somewhere in web.config file but can you share any link on this with more description, how to achieve it?]
  4. From .Net application side, do we need to maintain a separate database to hold data on temporary basis? To explain this point let me share what we want to achieve here; Customer will have an application where college instructors will sign up and will put their skills. On AX side we will be creating these instructors as workers and putting worker's skills in AX. Let's say if instructor puts information to get sign up and the connection between AX and external application got down by any means then is there a need to store this instructor information in external application database and synchronize it in AX on periodically. 

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    Hi AX QA,

    Nowadays it's preferable to use services for integration, please refer to this article fro details msdn.microsoft.com/.../hh509053.aspx

    In this case you will be able to consume service from your C sharp application using WSDL.

    Of course, if you will disable all inbound connection via firewall no one will be able to connect to AX. So, yes, you will have to enable some.

    From .Net side you are completely free to store data as you wish. It is not connected to AX part at all and could be DB (on-premise or azure), files, literally anything you would like to use.

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    115 on at

    Thanks Ievgen,

    "Of course, if you will disable all inbound connection via firewall no one will be able to connect to AX. So, yes, you will have to enable some."

    Can you please elaborate this one?

    To be very specific; I activated an enhaced web service in one machine with domain name "A" and trying to access this service from a .Net application on another machine with different domain "B".

    When I try to consume web service of domain A machine in .Net it is not finding it.

    More detailed information may help me...

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