I had a prompt from Jose and Tim in the UK about reminding people about setting up the Period Code on an employee if you want to use Project Time sheets. In the demo data only the user Prakash is setup. If you want to setup another user then the basic...

It’s been a busy couple of weeks and so I haven’t had a chance to talk about this tool. If you create demos then the Microsoft Worldwide Partner team have release and integrated platform for creating and publishing demo simulations or better know as click...

I’ve had a lot of questions about what to do with the previous VM when we release a new VM. This has to do with the time field and partners spend on installing ISV solutions into AX, configuring data etc. So I’ve put together these notes to help you move...

I’ve had a few requests for information about the videos on my blog. The two main questions are, “can I download the videos” and “what tools to I use to create the videos”. To answer the first question. I’ve got all the videos posted for download on...

I’ve had a few questions from partners on what this message means when you try to sync to Outlook from Dynamics AX. Method 'add' in COM object of class '_Items' returned error code 0x80004004 (<unknown>) which means: <unknown>. Generally this...

So I’ve had a few questions for partners and field folks about the move to Hyper-V. There are a lot of people that have started the move and have been working with Hyper-V for a while now. While hardware processes are they way they are at the moment it...

The Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Book has been available for a a couple of months. This is a technical book to give you the inside on the architecture and development tools environment in Dynamics AX 2009. You can find in on Amazon http://www.amazon...

If you are using the AX 2009 Refresh 2 demo VM you may want to correct a line of code in the ProjPost class if you are using Projects and Project Time Sheets. 1. Press CRTL+D to open the AOT . Expand Classes. 2. Navigate down to ProjPost . 3. Expand to...

If you want to use FRx report manager on the Refresh 2 image you may get and error message informing you “The evaluation period of this software has expired. Registration is required in order to continue to us this application” You can enter updated key...

If you are keen Microsoft blog follower then you will have noted an amazing milestone for customers and partners. The news is Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 has reach RTM code status milestone. You can read more in these blog posts : http://blogs.technet...

I’ve had a few questions that relate to how to use external networking on the demo VMs. In the in the notes about the setup of the VMs it is recommended that you have the second network card disabled to help start up time. However if you need to get...

If you are having trouble starting the AOS on the demo VMs and get an error something like this : This is usually a result of the network connections on the VM. These notes will help : Refresh 1. http://blogs.msdn.com/lcash/archive/2009/04/02/setting...

Is you are using the AX2009 Refresh 2 demo VM and are using document handling this note will interest you. When you try to add a image, for file attachment you will get an error about “no valid runable code”. It is a small change : 1. Press CRTL+D to...

On the AX2009 Refresh 2 VMs we included the Default Cubes Advisor tool. You can use this to investigate license change effects on the OLAP cubes. You can find this tool on Partnersource at https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/downloads/servicepacks...

On the last VM Refresh 2 we include the Event Trace Parser for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. This is a must have tool for the developers, consultants and support folks amongst us that need information about what is happening the system. You can find it...

In the demo VMs you have Outlook installed and connected to a basic email server. This is used in many places like alerts, workflow, etc. You can also use the sync features that exist in the AX CRM. For example syncing Contacts, Appointments, Tasks etc...

After a lot of input from the field and partners we have released Refresh 2 of the Demonstration Toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. First time you run this it will pause and cache. View the second time it will be cached. Double click to view...