What does it take to learn Dynamics AX? It's not for the faint of heart - the product takes years to master and there's still no one I've met who knows every inch of it backward and forward. First, you have to start by finding the right candidate, so...

Hi, my name is Dave Phillips and I am a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft Corporation working on the Microsoft Dynamics AX solution. Microsoft Sure Step is a structured implementation methodology designed for the Dynamics line of Microsoft business...

My name is Eric Newell and I manage the Premier Field Engineering team for Microsoft Dynamics AX. We've been bringing you many great technical articles over the past year, and I wanted to broaden the scope of the blog site a little by highlighting some...

We are getting close to the release of the Version 1.10 for the Performance Analyzer for Dynamics , and we thought it would be a great time to start getting feedback for the next version of the tool (Version 1.2). We have some plans in place already,...

This summer, there was all of this hype about Microsoft’s Dynamics AX 2012 Benchmark. As an intern I was wondering, “Who cares?” To me it was just a name. However, after some questioning I found out interesting details. I was able to...

Ok, I guess this three part series just got extended to four. I just have a few last things on the AX 4.0 / 2009 Trace Parser tool that you might find useful. Soon we'll all be using the AX 2012 version right? Anyway, here it goes... Most of the time...

In part 1 of the series I discussed the basic prerequisites for capturing an AX trace. In part 2 , I discussed how to collect a trace. In this post I’ll walk you through the process of importing a trace into Trace Parser and show you a few different...

Back in November 2010 I talked about four SQL Server trace flags that I found to be helpful in improving performance for Dynamics AX. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/axinthefield/archive/2010/11/04/sql-server-trace-flags-for-dynamics-ax.aspx . One of the...

Summary: If you are in a situation where you have created your AX security settings on another AX instance and you now need to move them to your production server, below are a few options for how to accomplish this. Assumptions: This is...

Summary To properly test your xml documents for use with the Application Integration Framework (AIF) in AX 2009, it is best to use the File Adapter as it is easy to set up. You can use any Adapter for when you go-live. It is important to understand...

Fill Utility: The Fill utility enables authorized users and/or administrators to mass-update records, similar to the find and replace functionality. This utility assists administrators or users during implementations or when business process changes...

Balance Control Accounts: Balance Control Accounts configurations are used to monitor the current and expected balances on an account as transactions are entered in a journal. This setup is a best practice from process point of view and it's not a...

Siva is a Premier filed Engineer in Microsoft Services focused on the Dynamics AX product. He has been working on the Dynamics AX product for over 6 years. Originally started as a tester for a partner as a functional analyst for Finance. Worked in various...

Recording manual check in Dynamics Ax 2009 Step 1: Setup bank management parameter Path: Dynamics Ax > Bank > Setup > Parameters Set field 'Allow checks for bank or ledger accounts' = True Note: This configuration enables manual...

We conducted our latest podcast today on Dynamics AX Shop Floor Control. This week’s topic covers the basics of Shop Floor and featured Cody Marshall from our Premier Field Engineering team. Cody discussed the background of Shop Floor Control, licenses...

Please find the Year-end closing process below: Step 1: Create a new fiscal year Path: Dynamics Ax > General Ledger > Setup > Periods > Periods Click button 'Create new fiscal year' Click 'OK' 12...

Multiple AX 2009 Deployments versus a Single Deployment Dynamics AX2009 has the capability to run a single deployment supporting multiple companies within the same database. There are some considerations when deciding whether to have a single deployment...

Are you pushing a lot of transactions through the AX batch framework? Are you wondering if you've optimized the system for your workload? We recently did some testing in our lab to illustrate some of the performance and concurrency characteristics of...

Are you having slow disk performance with your Dynamics Product? Do you even know if you are? SQL Server data management views can help you determine if you are having disk latency issues without needing to run Windows Performance Monitor. The DMV...

One of the best features in Dynamics AX is database logging. While this gives you a great audit trail for tracking changes in your system, this can actually lead to a performance problem in your Dynamics AX system. There are essentially two major performance...

One of the biggest challenges of the Dynamics AX database is predicting database growth. Many customers are simply using the size of the backups to judge database growth. Although this process works, there are some flaws in doing this such as Transaction...

Microsoft Dynamics since version 4.0 has utilized SQL Servers feature Read Committed Snapshot Isolation to enable better database concurrency. This feature adds much more tempdb activity then database administrators are used to with other applications...

Performance Analyzer for Microsoft Dynamics collects data from several Data Management Views (DMVs). In this article we’ll discuss what some of those DMVs are and the significance of the information from that DMV. Before starting, here is a link...

In the article, How Preallocated Number Sequences are cached in AX ; we discuss setting up pre-allocation of number sequences in Dynamics AX. One of the difficulties in configuring pre-allocation is determining what to configure the value to. The Performance...

Please find the Part1 here . III) Perform a Consolidation: Options to perform consolidation: From the same database using the online option From and, or to another database using the Import/Export option Before you perform a consolidation...