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Please follow this link to see the updated version build list on our new global Blog: Overview of AX build numbers This post does now only list AX 4.0 and previous versions. Dynamics AX 4.0 Version Kernel build Application...

UPDATE: This tool has been updated to support list pages (e.g. Sales Table List Page, Customers List Page) that use queries as their datasource (22/June/2010) UPDATE: This tool has been updated to use the language from Infolog, and the sort order on the...

Yes you can. It is perfectly acceptable (and supported) to install just the kernel part of a rollup, so you can for example have your application version on 5.0.1000.52 (original SP1) or perhaps 5.0.1500.2985 (rollup 5) and have the kernel version on...

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...

Windows Server 2008 introduces a nice feature for the Terminal Services that is called RemoteApp . RemoteApp programs are accessed remotely through Terminal Services and appear as if they are running on the local computer. The RemoteApp is integrated...

In AX 2009 the batch engine has been changed to run as a service. The batch services do only process server batches they don't process client batches aynmore. There might still be some situations where you would like to run client batches. The following...

When you go to "CRM | Periodic | Import | Leads" you receive the following message in the InfoLog: "An administrator must first configure or define a format for the Lead import" This is because the CRM Import in Dynamics AX 2009 is based on XML...

One of the great features of Dynamics AX is the rich integration with other applications or services. The Dynamics AX client is for example exchanging data with Microsoft Office applications like Microsoft Office Excel or Microsoft Office Outlook. ...

******** Latest update 11-July-2011 ******** Scripts now allow class and table name resolution ******** This post explains how to find the AX user and the X++ call stack that caused an AOS crash - by using special scripts for WinDbg - before reaching...

Lately we got some request regarding this subject. Unfortunately in current version the is no way to get it done automatically. The process as the cleaning cubes process is quite complex and manual. Although with help of team we managed to create attached...

Recently I had the problem that random clients crashed in different parts of the application. The following error message was shown: Communication error:The server needs to free resources. Your session has been terminated. In the application...

We recently came across an issue, that if you are using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services some charts in the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Role Center have incorrect axis scale values on the Y-Axis. Instead of values from e. g. 0 to 1000 you only...

Lately for one of the user I run into following problem with Purchase approval workflow. During Workflow process assignment customer get error and Workflow is stopped. We get following error: "User abc has no access to menu item PurchReqTable.” where...

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...

We recently saw more and more users running into the situation that the installation of the Dynamics AX 2009 Application Object Server is failing. The log file that is created during the installation showed the following information: MSI (s) (FC:9C) ...

Recently I got confronted a lot with the following error message in Dynamics AX 2009: User 'UserName' is not authorized to insert a record in table 'TableName'. Request denied. Cannot create a record in TableLabel (TableName). Access Denied: You do...

How can you disable copying from form using CTRL + C or menu (Edit -> Copy)? It's quite easy! On the form you can override copy() method in following way: public boolean copy() { ; WinApi::emptyclipboard(); return true; }

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...

The Dynamics AX AOS is regularly validating Client sessions in order to free sessions from inactive Clients, e. g. if the Dynamics AX Client process (ax32.exe) was terminated in Task Manager rather than closing the Client gracefully. This Server side...

Recently I was asked the question how it is possible to import a Dynamics AX XPO file to Dynamics AX from X++ code. This is actually possible using the SysImportElements class. However this approach does not work if the XPO file should be imported...

I was recently installing a new Dynamics AX 2009 environment where I was having Enterprise Portal installed on a separate machine. When running the Dynamics AX Setup for the Enterprise Portal and Role Center role the installation completed with warnings...

Recently I was confronted with the requirement to place a watermark on a report. Finally I found 3 different ways to do this: use a SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) to make reports add background image over whole Report (X++ Report), mark...

I'm using Dynamics AX 2009 and want to instantiate the .NET class "System.Collections.Generic.List" in X++. Intellisense expands the class to "System.Collections.Generic.List`1" however the code cannot be compiled as the class as well as all other...

I was recently running into the situation that with Dynamics AX 2009 Service Pack 1 I was not possible to deply ODC files to Enterprise Portal when Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services was used as backend database. The error message that showed...

While Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports allowed in in Dynamics AX 4.0 a user to create Ad'hoc reports that were only based on the data stored in the Dynamics AX database, in Dynamics AX 2009 Production reports allow also the execution...