If you have downloaded a copy of the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Demo VMs then you might find these videos helpful for configuring the VMs to work with VPC2007 SP1. Setting up AX-SRV-01 After you have this running you might want to look at extended...

If you are working the AX2009 VM then there is a range of applications and services that are installed to show different scenarios. You may not need all the services what you you demo so you can speed up the performance of the VM with some notes posted...

A received a few questions about expiry of the AX2009 Demo VMs. Here is a quick summary that you can use to manage which version you use. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Demonstration Toolkit – Released June 2008 These images will expire in June 2009, they...

If you are using the AX2009 demo VM, you can enable the Fill Utility as it is not turn on in the configuration. The following tip will help with enabling it. Cheers LC

If you are using the AX2009 Demo VMs and you run lots of scenarios with different users and you show BI, reporting, EP and use PPS then you might want to consider setting the Max memory that SQL will use other wise it will consume a lot of the memory...

If you want to use Excel Services on the demo VM (AX-SRV-01) and you are getting the message “The File Cannot be saved to this location because there is no connection to the server”. Then these steps will help Click Start Click Run Type CMD, Press Enter...

Just before Convergence we posted a Refresh of the Pre-Sales Demonstration VPC for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 onto PartnerSource. You can find it here https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/deployment/documentation/howtoarticles/presalesdemokitmdax2009...

I had a question last week about how to tell what version of the AX2009 Demo VMs you are using. The simple way is to start the VM and press RIGHT ALT+DEL. Just before you get the login screen you may or may not get a message. If you are using the RTM...

  We are preparing an update to the AX VM for release in June 09. If you have comments, suggestions, improvements you want to make on the VM log a comment here or email the AX demo alias as listed on the partnersource page. I won’t out it here here...

I’ve had a few questions on why we don’t update the AX2009 Demo VMs to Windows 2008 and SQL 2008. The reason is somewhat simple, today we use the time bomb process in Windows 2003 to control the usage of the VM. In Windows 2008 it uses the activation...

If you are using the AX2009 Demo VM Refresh 1 and want to use the Demand Planner Collaborative client in Excel then the following tip will give you some notes on how to use it.   Cheers LC

So I had a question about what machines i use to run the VM to do demos. So I run two environments I run a Toshiba M400 Tablet PC that I use with a small Western Digital 320GB external that I run the VM. From this machine has 4GB of memory and I’m...

I had a question about how do I see the BDL SNAP in Excel, Word, Outlook when I’m logged in as a user other than Admin. So if you are using the the Refresh 1 VM I posted a note about being able to use the Business Data Lookup SNAP in that VM. That is...

I had a few questions about how to use the Excel Offline Expense on the AX 2009 Demo VMs. In the Refresh 1 that was released in February. We included the Excel Offline Expense. This video gives you a few tips to how you can access it on the VM.  ...

If you are using recently published Refresh 1 of the AX 2009 demo VM then you might have trouble if you try to install the Project Time TR. If you are getting any sort of “Not Authorized” message when working with web or web services stuff on the VM then...

I had a question about including Dynamics Mobile on the the AX 2009 Demo VMs. The simple answer is that the installation of the bits are there on the VM. However the mobile app isn’t published to the device emulator and a few other setup pieces.. If you...

I had a question about the last VM refresh about SNAPs. We included the Business Data Lookup SNAP and the Offline Expense for Excel. For the Business Data Look up you can find this in Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel I’ll post another...

If you are using Refresh 1. of the AX2009 Demo VM and want to use the document handling in the EP then you might want to update this Hotfix for AX to get this working. KB Article

If you want to show a customer or vendor logging into the Enterprise Portal the components are there to get it setup. There are only a few basic things that you will need to do : Create the User in AD Associate the use to AX and assign related customer...