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Just an FYI as I’ve had a few notes from a few different people about the timesheet entry on the Refresh 2 VM and the PSA Application Disk. First you need to make sure you have the right period setups to get it to work then there is a random problem where
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I had a note from a Khurram that brought this to my attention. In the Hotfix Rollup 2 package it included localization updates for the Arabic Region. We included this on the Refresh 2 demo VM. You can see this in the config keys in the demo VM Now because
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I’ve had a few questions on terminal serving into the demo VMs. I posted a note explaining how to do this by using an external network connection. http://blogs.msdn.com/lcash/archive/2009/07/21/setting-up-external-networking-on-the-demo-vms.aspx Now the
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I had a question from Kerry in Canada about having trouble getting the demo VM setup to use external networking. We did a bit of investigation and this might be a common question for folks wanting to use external networking on the demo VM while connected
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It’s been a busy couple of months with EMEA Convergence and other projects. We recently posted a new update for the VM with the PSA Application Disk. You can find that on the partnersource page here : https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/deployment/documentation/howtoarticles/presalesdemokitmdax2009.htm
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When we post the demo VM we include a VMC files because we ship the VM built under VPC2007. In this VMC file it has the setup for the machine i.e disks, network, memory etc. If you create you’re own VMC file or you are using Hyper-V or Windows7 (VPC7)
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I had a question from a partner on the password for the AX-SRV-03 VM. So thought I’d re-post a note about passwords on the demo VMs. All the Dynamics AX demo passwords for the VMs are pass@word1 and the domain is CONTOSO. You will have trouble with passwords
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I’ve had this question a few times from partners so thought I’d post a note. To get updated transactional data into the OLAP cubes you will have to process the cubes in SQL Analysis Services. The question I’ve had relates to adding new companies in Dynamics
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I’ve had a few questions on the Office activation on the demo VM and I’ve posted a few notes on the topic. The last note I posted might have confused a few folks thinking they can only get past the activation by putting in a product key. The answer is
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I’ve have been working on a few projects so a little slow at posting notes the last couple of months. I’ve had a few questions about passwords for the demos VMs. We keep them the same regular demo password which you will find in the release notes. This
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There are a few things that can go wrong when unzipping the files for the demo VM. This is one I’ve run into a few times with new external disks. If you can an error when uncompressing to an external disk that says something like “Probably the disk is
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I had a question from a partner looking for demo scripts for Lean Manufacturing. You can find ones that the dev team prepared for use with the data set that on Refresh 2 of the demo VM. You can find the scripts here https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/partneressentials/partnerreadiness/resourcing/mdaxleanmanufacturing.htm?printpage=false&stext=Lean
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So I had a question that prompted me to remind people about the setup for Workflow. The workflow in AX runs under the Windows Workflow foundation which is hosted, in AX2009, under IIS. This engine and the AOS communicate together to execute the workflow.
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So this is probably a good sign that the VMs that we ship are used a lot. It seems if you try to register Office on the demo VMs it might start telling you that it has been activated too many times. So as a partner you will have access to a NFR copy of
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I had a note from Chuck to remind people about the use of Electronic Signature on the demo VM. You will note that the configuration key is turned off. So to set it up you will need to turn it on. So navigate to Administration\Setup\System\Configuration.
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