I had a few questions about the links for the new demo VMs on Customersource. Refresh 4 https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/documentation/setupguides/MSDYAX2009_DemoToolkit_Refresh4 Refresh 3.5 https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/documentation...

  I had a question about saving documents to SharePoint on the demo VM. If you get an error and trying to save like an Excel spreadsheet or Word document to a document library something to the effect “This file cannot be saved to this location because...

  I’ve had a few people ask about using RunAs on the new demo V Ms Refresh 3.5 and Refresh 4. You will note under Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 the menu options are a little different. Under Windows 2008 which is on the Refresh 3.5 Demo VM. When...

  On the Refresh 4 VM you will find that the Hyper-V services are set to manual. This will result in the Time Sync service not starting. The end result of this is if you are running the second VM with Exchange then the Exchange Information Store...

  So it’s been great to see how many people have managed to get the new VMs down and are up and running. I’m going to start to post some notes on how to use the VMs better and what you can use and show on the VMs. One tip would be access the VMs...

  If you have using the Refresh 3 then you might have a problem with numbersequences. Here is a quick walk through on how to correct this. You can download the video from here . Cheers Lachlan (Original post at http://blogs.msdn.com/lcash )

  I’ve had a few questions on this one. So if you can’t get the workflow running in the Refresh 4 VM you should turn off the SSL support for the workflow website. This video walks through the quick change needed. You can download the video from here...

  I’ve had a few emails about trying to get the file part 22 for the Refresh 3 Demo VM. The partnersource people are looking into it. If you need the Refresh 3 image please email the regular DemoAX email and we’ll send you a temporary link. Cheers...

  I’ve had a few questions about this one. In the Refresh 4 image we have SharePoint 2010, SQL 2008 R2 running on Windows 208 R2 and so when a Role Center loads that contains the KPI or Business Overview Webpart you will get this script error. If...

  I’ve had quite a few questions about access to the video posted on the Partnersource page and the ability to get them. Seems the download will disconnect and the Partnersource team are looking into it. So I just wanted to point out that the setup...

  In the intro videos posted with the new demo VMs we pointed out that Refresh 4 is the VM we would recommend people moving to if you want the full demo experience configured. In the Refresh 3.5 demo VM we have only configured the desktop profile...

  Now the partnersource links are running seems quite a lot of folks have got the VM down and up and running. I’ve had a question from a couple of people about the AX Client Config on the Refresh 3.5 image. Seems it didn’t get set back to the standard...

  Today we are announcing an update to the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Demonstration Toolkit virtual machines. The following Q&A is provided to give you details about this release.   Why are there new VMs? The existing demonstration VMs have...

  I just posted two updates to the DAX blog with some news on the Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference 2011 . First we announced that we have extended the date for the early bird price to continue to make the event more accessible to the channel...

  I’ve been a little quiet on the blog for a while as I’ve working on a couple of projects for the channel. One of which is the Tech Conference 2011 for the next release of AX and updated VMs now that we have the patch for SharePoint 2010 which you...

  I’ve had a number of request from bloggers about doing a blog post on the up-coming Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference 2011. So to help in preparing posts I’ve put some images and video object tag that you can use in your post or website...

  I posted a couple of weeks ago about the Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference 2011 that we are hosting in Redmond to kick start the technical readiness for the up-coming release of Microsoft Dynamics AX. There has been phenomenal response...

  This past year has been a incredible year for additional solutions for Microsoft Dynamics AX. This week makes the worldwide general availability of Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail. You can read more about the release here. https://community.dynamics...

  I don’t normally blog about customers but at WPC2010 the week before last Junction Solutions did an overview of the work they did at Peet’s Coffee & Tea with Microsoft Dynamics AX the case study is posted on ms.com . The bonus was they handed...

  We have posted an updated VM for Service Industries. This is a full VM update that includes all the updates for the PSA module for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. This is built on the Refresh 2 Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Demonstration VM. This update...

  For those folks not at WPC2010 last week there was an announcement by the Microsoft partner team that they have updated the Demo Showcase Suite. I caught up with Mark and Dan before WPC and the gave me a preview of what they had been doing and...

  Last week at WPC2010 we announced that we would host a technical conference in January 2011. We have a place holder page up that you can submit registration request while the full site is being prepared. http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/DynamicsAXtechnicalconference2011...

  I had a question about getting a copy of the AX2009 demo data for use in testing. You can find this on partnersource here The DB on the demo VM has a few modifications over this posted copy of the data. Also if you are using this copy of the data...

  I’ve had a few people asking about getting a new AX4.0 VM because they still use it to support AX4.0 customers. We’ll be uploading a new version with the time bomb updated. You will however have to update the VM with your own license file. We’ll...

  I had a note from Andy in the US field who asked about this but also sent a solution. If you click on the Open Sales Orders, Shipped but not invoiced Sales Orders and a few other links. See screen shot below You might get this error Andy suggested...