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Home page/Role centre/EP error are user name change

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Good day all,

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on where we can check to pinpoint our issue please? AX2012 CU8, users on remote desktops/thin clients.

We have a user that got married and changed their surname.

Procedures we carried out so far are:-

Old AX user deleted.

Active directory updated with new user name

New user imported to AX from active directory with EPDefaultProfile.

Worker update with new surname.

User and work linked with relation set from newly update worker profile.

now everything is working correctly except their home page just shows an error.. telling us to check the event logs. We think this is stating...

Unable to connect to an Application Object Server. A company name or server name may not be specified correctly in the client configuration, or the server specified may not be available.

We have checked everything we know to try and fix this:-

Cleared usage data

cleared and re-assigned roles

checked for default company name

checked the EP security is ok, and even added new user as a named profile.

Assigned user a different user profile.

Nothing has worked. We even tried opening up the webpage directly out of AX in the user desktop and this also fails...

Every other user on the remote desktop is fine and non one else is getting any errors, so it must be down to the name change we have carried out in some way. We have created numerous new workers/user previous to this with no issues so are stuck at the moment. 

Is there anywhere else that we have overlooked that needs changing/checking please?

Rgds Cliff

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    98 on at
    RE: Home page/Role centre/EP error are user name change

    The error message on the home page is as in the first post. This issue fixed itself over night, for some reason.

    Rgds Cliff

  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    298,669 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    RE: Home page/Role centre/EP error are user name change

    Hi CFX,

    When I understand you correctly, AX is starting up, but not the EP home page. Can you share a screenshot with the error messages?

  • CXF Profile Picture
    98 on at
    RE: Home page/Role centre/EP error are user name change

    They are using the exact same shortcut as all other users on the same remote desktop. they are not having any issues.

    Rgds

  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    298,669 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    RE: Home page/Role centre/EP error are user name change

    So, that means that the configurtion file/settings should be the same. Can you verify if this user is starting AX different compared to other users?

  • CXF Profile Picture
    98 on at
    RE: Home page/Role centre/EP error are user name change

    Hi Andre, As far as I am aware the AD was just updated, so no it is not new.

    Regards Cliff

  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    298,669 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    RE: Home page/Role centre/EP error are user name change

    Hi Cliff,

    Does this user has a complete new AD account? If so it might be related to a wrong client configuration like the error is telling you. It can't find the correct environment.

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