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A new code sample demonstrating the flexibility to customize the boundfields in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 EP is released in http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/axcodesamples . Here is the link directly to the sample download file. To try out these samples...

Here is the link to the Kerberos authentication configuration white paper for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=be720eb3-649a-49ff-b019-a1e4e7af6b47&displaylang=en&tm

If you already have SharePoint sites ( not based on EP site templates) and if you would like to use some of the AX web parts in those sites, it's easily doable in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. Here are the steps to do. (1) Integrating EP web parts...

During AxUG Webinar, I got a question around how to keep the filter section always expanded in a gridview in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 EP. Unfortunately we don't have a simple property to do that in the AxGridView control. Since it's all ASP.NET and...

ASP.NET Chart Control (1) Install the components Chart Controls for .NET Framework Chart Controls Add-on for Visual Studio 2008 (2) MODIFY WEB.CONFIG Add the below as the child node to <HttpHandlers> section < add path...

Here is a quick summary of what Jackie Olson from Ax support team presented in Convergence for the Enterprise Portal / Role Center deployment Tips and tricks interactive session. Thanks Jackie for putting together this document. This is very helpful....

From Nitin Shah who is the dev on BO Web part... KPIs in Role Center Business Overview Web Part keeps loading all the time and never ends. This might due to using IE enhanced security. IE enhanced security is only for the server series - Win2k3 and...

If you have more than one AxDataSource control in one user control , make sure you mark the Role property of all but one AxDataSource controls to anything other than “Provider” or “ProviderConsumer”. Otherwise you will get an error. In one usercontrol...

Here is the sequence of events raised by various controls in a typical list or task page for some common scenarios. Legend Green Common Events for any command Yellow Events that are specific to how dataset is...

Thanks to our CSS team, below is the resolution for EP site creation crashing w3wp issue. Action: Installing AX 2009 Enterprise Portal on Windows Server 2008 Result: The w3wp.exe process crashes during installation. You get the following...

The AxUpdatePortal utility, installed with Service Pack 1 of Microsoft Dynamics AX, is often needed when deploying changes, such as modifications, or additions from AOT to Enterprise Portal Server and to the Sites. It will help you deploy Web-related...

Setting Up New Enterprise Portal Servers in new Ax installation 1. Install Dynamics AX 2009 AOS and Client a. Do not install EP during this step. 2. Complete the Initialization Checklist. 3. Run the SP1 patch on the AOS and Client. 4. Complete...

Wishing you all a Very Happy New Year!!! When you are trying to create EP Site on a machine low in memory or processing power, some times you may get “Thread was being aborted.” Error. To avoid this error, you should increase the executiontimeout....

DataSourceControl makes it simple to get Ax data and display it in DataBound UI controls and manipulate the data. You can also use them to read data programtically. Below is one way of doing it. The other way to get Ax data programatically is to get the...

I will be presenting Enterprise Portal and Role Centers in EMEA Convergence. Code Title Date/Time Room AX11 Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Enterprise Portal and Role Centers 11/20/2008 2:00PM-3:00PM Hall A1 Attend this...

For tips 1-7 , refer to http://blogs.msdn.com/solutions/archive/2008/06/23/microsofty-dynamics-ax-2009-enterprise-portal-role-centers-deployment-tips-n-tricks-1.aspx For tips 8-16 , refer to http://blogs.msdn.com/solutions/archive/2008/09/29/microsofty...

How to Setup Secure (https) EP Site 1. Install IIS,ASP.net,WSS 3.0 SP1 ( or MOSS 2007 SP1 ), Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and the all the pre-requisites 2. Install Enterprise Portal on some IIS Web site ( This will not be used later for SSL. This is...

When you run Microsoft Dynamics Ax 2009 EP setup and go through the setup wizard, you might wonder what is going on behind the sceens. Here is a high level flow Set BCProxyAccount Info in DynamicsAX ( from the user Account info entered for BC proxy...

Thanks to the EP test team , here are the steps to setup Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 on a NLB cluster. 1. Setting up the Virtual IP and host header name a. Connect to the domain controller of the domain (DMZDC) that the NLB will...

You can make a bound field as read only or hide the Lookupbutton of the bound field through code in the page load event. For example ... AxBoundField boundField = AxGridView1.Columns[i] as AxBoundField ; boundField.ReadOnly = true ; .....

Microsoft Dynamics AX report web parts are used in Role Centers and in Enterprise Portal pages. If you need to pass parameters to the report throug query string , you can do so in the URL with this syntax < selector >.Parameters.< parameterName...

Often times, you might want to display some aggregated values in a simple grid interface in a web page. Enterprise Portal provides a simple and efficient way of doing this. Here is a sample that I created ( with help from Ahmad, Sella and others) for...

For tips 1-7 , refer to http://blogs.msdn.com/solutions/archive/2008/06/23/microsofty-dynamics-ax-2009-enterprise-portal-role-centers-deployment-tips-n-tricks-1.aspx (8) Report Deployment is giving below error "The following components have not been...

The EP dev tools setup installs EP project and control templates and Visual studio Add-In for VS 2008. EP dev tools requires that EP is installed on the same box. The Web Site project template AxWebProject.zip is installed in My Documents folder under...

Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 is built on ASP.net/AJAX and provides full power and flexibility to developers to build real , modern , interactive and responsive web applications for intranet, extranet and internet scenarios. For...