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 a time bomb that will end on the 15th of November so we are providing new VMs ahead of this.

What are you releasing ?

We are releasing 3 options to show Dynamics AX 2009 with different Microsoft applications and technology.

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    • For use with Windows Hyper-V contains Dynamics AX 2009 setup running on Windows 2008 R2 with SQL 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010
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    • For use with VPC2007SP1 contains Dynamics AX 2009 setup running on Windows 2008 with SQL 2008 R2, SharePoint 2007 and Office 2010
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    • For use with VPC2007SP1 contains Dynamics AX 2009 setup running on Windows 2003 with SQL 2005 SP3, SharePoint 2007 and Office 2010

 

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Are the industry solutions included?

Yes. We have include updated application VHD files for

  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Process Manufacturing
  • Services Industries
  • Retail
  • Intelligence Data Management Framework

 

Where can I find out more?

We have provided a 30min presentation that will give you an overview of the release. You can find that here

http://www.demoshowcasesuite.com/demos/07617655-36d2-4a68-b0d3-33f79dc0339c

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How do I move my demos onto the new VMs?

We have provided this presentation to help you take your existing modified Database and Application to one of the new VMs.

http://www.demoshowcasesuite.com/demos/5ca936a3-db51-4c93-8f45-08357090c474

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I give other partners a copy of my solution for demo, what should I do?

We encourage you to follow the model we have with the application VHD disks. You can see how to create a VHD disk in this presentation.

http://www.demoshowcasesuite.com/demos/5ca936a3-db51-4c93-8f45-08357090c474

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Where are the partnersource links?

The links to the different pages are here.

Partnersource Links

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https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/deployment/documentation/howtoarticles/MSDYAX2009_DemoToolkit_Refresh4

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https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/deployment/documentation/howtoarticles/MSDYAX2009_DemoToolKit_Refresh3_5

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https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/deployment/documentation/howtoarticles/MSDYAX2009_DemoToolKit_Refresh3

Customersource Links

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https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/documentation/setupguides/MSDYAX2009_DemoToolkit_Refresh4

Refresh 3.5

https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/documentation/setupguides/MSDYAX2009_DemoToolkit_Refresh3_5

Refresh 3

https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/documentation/setupguides/MSDYAX2009_DemoToolKit_Refresh3 

  

Enjoy working with Dynamics AX :-)

 

Cheers

Lachlan

(original post at http://blogs.msdn.com/lcash)