Cumulative Update 5 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 (CU-5) has been released and published on Partner Source and Customer Source. This release includes: all previously released Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 additional hotfixes and improvements based on feedback from our customers...

When creating new payment services or when adding new users to Dynamics Online, we need to ensure that we are assigning proper roles to these services. A newly created user will not have access to any roles, thus will run into "service unavailable" errors when attempting to log into the service at https...

I came across an issue where we had posted some project transactions and found that the project contract (customer) was incorrectly set. We change the project contract and we want to create an invoice to the customer. In AX 2012 we see that the invoice is created, but for an old customer. The reason...

Attached to this blog, you can find a manual on how to setup and use Italian Ri.Ba. (customer Bill of Exchange). The screenshots are in Italian but they are explained in the text).

Ever run into an issue where you get duplicate number sequence errors in AX 2012 but you know you are using a different number sequence reference for the transaction? Below is a simple walkthrough explaining why you get theses types of errors. Let's use the AP Invoice voucher and AP Payment voucher...

Introduction Commodity codes is one of the many areas in which functionality has changed a bit compared to earlier versions of Dynamics AX. As such, it is only natural that some questions and doubts arise. The purpose of this blog article is to shed some light on some of the changes to this functionality...

Lately we encounter problem when integrating CRM connector with Dynamics AX 2009 EE layer. While running map AX Enumerated Values to Picklist you getting error in CRM Connector. The map does not synchronize correctly and the values are not available. To overcome this issue you need to install hotfix...

In AX 2012 Budget entries can be inserted using the Office Add-ins. This functionality is helpful also to copy an existing budget into a new one, since the "copy-budget" functionality, avaialble in AX2009, is no more available in AX2012 due to the major re-design of the budget module and functionalities...

In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 we introduced a new concept in the resource scheduling engine. This allows companies to schedule resources based on the capability of the resource. The idea is that different resources may have one or many capabilities. You may have some resources that are the primary resources...

I recently came across a case where items were no longer showing up at the POS terminals. Running A-1040 and N-1040 jobs processed successfully with no errors, but items still wouldn't show up in POS. Looking at the tables in the POS database, we could see that data was coming across until we saw that...

(Article updated 09/05/2013 --anup shah. The new updated "Deploy an Enterprise Portal site that uses forms-based authentication [AX 2012]" article 12 April 2013 is available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh575253.aspx ) You may run into the following issue if you were following...

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Sometimes when you try to process big XML messages using File adapter you can get error: The request failed with the following error: The formatter threw an exception while trying to deserialize the message: There was an error while trying to deserialize parameter http://schemas.microsoft.com/dynamics...

Sometimes we are getting the questions that one of WebParts suddenly disappear from the page for all users or that page suddenly become to perform very badly. The issue usually is the same, there is the WebPart which is still on the site but is closed. To examine all WebParts which are on the page...

The constraint based product configurator was released in Dynamics AX 2012. The bulk of the constraint logic can be built using Microsoft Solver Foundation logic, as described in the following technet article. http://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/hh278332.aspx There are some limitations to...

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Version Kernel build Application build Comment Link Latest kernel build 6.2.1000.1132 - 09 May 2013 KB2848005 Cumulative Update 1 6.2.1000.156 6.2.1000.156 25 Feb 2013 KB2807685 Hotfixes 6.2.1000.xxx 6.2.1000...

Threading in AX 2009 is different from threading in C#. In C# you can spawn up threads and have them do whatever they do. The same thing is available in AX using the Thread class but it isn't the optimal or recommended way to spawn threads in AX. This is because AX has AOS instances and batches. When...