Problem: Recently we ran into a strange issue where we were unable to deploy the AX 2012 default SRS reports. Attempting to do so from the AX development client or through the AX management Shell returned the error below. The network path was not found. If User Account Control (UAC) is enabled on...

With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 we do not support the setup where we have several instances of SQL Reporting Services on the same box connecting to different AOS. The reporting extensions always made connection to AOS mentioned in current configuration taken from Dynamics AX 2009 Configuration Utility...

Some time ago we run into following problem. When trying to install Enterprise Portal axsetup.exe crash wile retrieving the list of the sites with following error in installation log: Message: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. FullText: System.InvalidOperationException: Operation...

Recently I have seen this issue when trying to create an Enterprise Portal site with SharePoint 2010. The setup failed when creating an EP site via the AX setup and when creating a new site collection via SharePoint central admin onto a newly created web application. The important part of the setup log...

There are a few Enterprise Portal dlls that can be unusual with regards to applying hotfixes - when deploying kernel hotfixes they'll be automatically updated, but there are some application fixes which include a new webParts.cab, and then some of the dlls may need to be manually deployed/installed....

We came across an issue recently where the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Client was installed via a windows batch file to automate the installation. You can perform a "silent" install to mass deploy the client. However after deployment when the client is run from the desktop systems we got a pop window...

A while ago I went through the motions of Installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 and then deploying Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Role Centers and Enterprise Portal feature on it. The pdf document attached to this blog post describes the steps I took in detail with screenshots. --author...

We came across an issue recently where weren't able to detect SharePoint 2010 installed on the system in order to deploy Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 - Role Centers and Enterprise Portal (EP): - SharePoint Server 2010 was successfully installed on a system running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard edition...

We came across an issue recently where we are using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, and we have the Enterprise Portal Server (EP), Reporting Server and Analysis server had been configured to use Kerberos Authentication as per the whitepaper "Configuring Kerberos Authentication with Role Centers", dated February...

After following through suggestions on deploying Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Role Centers and Enterprise portal (RC+EP) as given here , we ran across another issue when deploying the RC+EP extensions. We get the following error in the DynamicsSetupLog.txt file: Entering function ConfigureVirtualServerWithNewApplicationPool...

Today I wanted to store newly created Web Controls for Dynamics AX 2009 Enterprise Portal in the VAR Layer instead of the default USR Layer. As Web Controls are created in Visual Studio and stored in the AOT by using the .NET Business Connector, I’ve used the Dynamics AX 2009 Client Configuration Tool...

You may have seen the announcement of release of hotfix KB2278963 adding support for SharePoint 2010 ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/dynamicsaxse/archive/2010/08/12/new-compatibility-testing-result-august-2010.aspx ) and have requested the fix from Microsoft support. You have successfully deployed SharePoint...

Some time ago I needed to set up reporting role for Dynamics AX 4.0 with Turkish GLS and database which collation was Turkish_CI_AS. The task was not easy. Starting from situation that I was not even able to start AOS after installation when KB article: https://mbs.microsoft.com/knowledgebase/KBDisplay...

We recently came across an issue where we can deploy the AX 2009 Role Centers and Enterprise Portal successfully, however when we browe to the portal site we get an error message displayed in the SharePoint web page: “An unexpected error has occurred.” We are running Windows Share Point Services...

We came across an issue where two WSS 3.0 servers were setup in a sharepoint farm (Contoso01 & Contoso02) and a load balanced web site/clustered web site was created ( http://contoso/ ) successfully (uses a host header). They were using a hardware load balancer and not using Windows Network Load...

When deploying the AX 2009 smmOpportunityReports using the Reports Deployment tool or directly from the AOT, you may get the following warning: One or more libraries built with warnings. Please see MSBuild log at C:\Users\ <your username> \AppData\Local\Temp\1\tmp98ED.tmp Deploying 1 data...

Sometimes you may come across an issue with deploying ODC files from "AX2009 ->Administration -> Setup -> Business Analysis -> OLAP -> OLAP Administration" for various reasons and you have already tried the suggestions given in this link , then you can follow through the following manual...

Some time ago we run into problem which did not let us deploy reporting extensions to SQL Reporting Services. Just after building libraries we got the error: [ThreadAbortException]: Thread was being aborted. at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously...

This issue only affects users of Windows Server 2008 R2. One of the pre-reqs for installing Role Centers and Enterprise Portal and/or Reporting Extensions or Workflows is that you must have IIS installed locally on the server. If this is not installed and/or is partially installed with some required...

When deploying all the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 SSRS Reports using the "Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Report Deployment" application you may hit the following error after a while: Client found response type of 'text/html;charset=utf8;' but expected 'text/html' One of the reasons we find...

We recently came across and issue where w hen we click on the "Deploy ODC" button in the OLAP Administration form in AX 2009 client (AX 2009 -> Administration -> Setup -> Business Analysis -> OLAP -> OLAP Administration) we get the following error in InfoLog: "Development site...

We came across an issue where by after installing the Dynamics AX 2009 Analysis Extensions sucessfully, no database is created! Even if you manually try to create the Dynamics AX Analysis database from the analysis script file DynamicsAX.xmla (found under the installation media in "\support\Analysis...

One of the nice features added with Dynamics AX 2009 is the support for 64bit (x64) for the Dynamics AX 2009 Application Object Server and the Dynamics AX 2009 .NET Business Connector. The fact that the Dynamics AX 2009 Client is however still only available as 32bit (x86) application introduces an...

Recently I had a problem when I wanted to install a fresh copy of AX2009 on my development server. I have the following config on my development server (1,5 gb ram). Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 SQL Server 2008 SP1 MOSS 2007 SP1 Every time I got the following error when installing the...

With Dynamics AX 2009 it is getting more appropriate to have the AOS and .NET Business Connector installed on a 64bit version of Microsoft Windows Server as both components are shipped also as 64bit (x64) versions. The Dynamics AX 2009 Client is however still a 32bit (x86) application. In the context...