Dynamics 365: Learn in doing

Though installation of Dynamics Ax 2012 Help server was quite easy, the Help server configuration ate up more time for us. Problem: When trying to initiate a help request from client by pressing F1 we could only see an error web page “503: Service unavailable” Errors we faced while troubleshooting: Opens up browser and shows " Error 503: Service unavailable " Unable to contact server http://<ServerName:Port>/DynamicsAXHelpServer/HelpService.svc Opens up browser and shows “ No Results ” (requested topics cannot be found Troubleshooting to understand the problem and fix it:  Open the below link  http://ServerName:Port/DynamicsAX6HelpServer/Content/Microsoft/EN-US/UserHelp/6a9bdc61-b19e-4cea-8890-805a4ccba8b2.htm?DocumentSet=UserDocumentation&ContentLanguage=en-us&ResourceLanguage=en-us  in Internet Explorer and see if you can retrieve help files. This is basically to check if Help server is working for one particular form. If t...

Microsoft Dynamics AX Help is a client and server based system that distributes and displays documentation. The Help client is the Help viewer application that requests and displays documentation and gets installed with the Microsoft Dynamics AX client application. The Help server responds to the Help viewer request for documentation. In addition, the Help server stores the files that contain the Help documentation. Important: This Server-client Help system does not supply Help documentation for Enterprise Portal. You will have to install Enterprise Search to support help documentation for EP. Other information about Ax 2012 Help server which is good to know: Typically, you can initiate a help request from either the client or developer workspace by pressing F1 /button / via command.  The client identifies the Help topic to retrieve. To identify the documentation for the form from where Help is initiated, the documentation has an ID property that has the s...

While I was looking for information about Dynamics Ax 2012 over web, I came across few interesting Videos and I found them really good to get the basic user-level understanding of many Ax 2012 Features which takes Ax 2012 to the next level when compared to Ax 2009. Thought of sharing this information with you all. Do have a look at these videos when you want to sit back, relax and still learn more ! Below are few of the links for your quick reference. Ax 2012 Security - Link Ax 2012 Enterprise portal - Link Ax 2012 Integration and Web services - Link Ax 2012 Business Intelligence - Link Ax 2012 Office Addins - Link Ax 2012 Processes and workflows - Link Ax 2012 Programability - Link Ax 2012 Development tools - Link Ax 2012 Performance - Link Other "How do I" videos - Link Hope this helps. Good luck !!

Imp Info regarding Ax 2012 Project management and accounting module: ·         Use this module to plan, create, manage, control, and complete projects for your organization. ·         Customer - focused projects can be set up on a time and materials or fixed-price basis. You can also use the module to manage costs for internal and investment projects. ·         For external projects, you can create project quotations that can be converted to projects. You create project contracts with one or more funding sources that will be invoiced for project costs and fees. ·         Each project that you create can have one or more subprojects and activities that are made up of the project work structure. ·         You can create financial forecasts and budgets for cost control and to measure project performa...

What is Active directory (AD)? Active Directory provides a central location for network administration and security. Server computers that run Active Directory are called domain controllers. An AD domain controller authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a Windows domain type network In order to create Bulk users in AD using dsmod command, let’s start with basics: 1.       Creation of OU (Organizational Unit) using dsadd 2.      Creation of Group using dsadd 3.      Creation of Single user using dsadd 4.      Script to create Bulk users listed in a text file #1: Creation of OU using dsadd Open command prompt > Run as Administrator Enter the below command: dsadd ou ou=MarketMall,dc=officedump,dc=com where, MarketMall is the name to be given to the new OU created dc=officedump,dc=com à represents the domain “officedump.com” Press Enter t...

What is Verticals Strategy? On a simple note, Verticals strategy for Dynamics Ax can be understood as strategic drive by Microsoft to provide (specific) global customers with a comprehensive and cost effective, end-to-end (their specific) solution for the market today. In year 2009, Microsoft has announced for acquisitions of intellectual property designed to provide industry solutions across the below verticals: Manufacturing Food (a.k.a Distribution) Retail Professional services (a.k.a Services) Pharmaceuticals (a.k.a Public sector) What is the purpose of this? Partners will be able to focus on other more specialized functionality to serve companies that need additional customization (on top of Industry vertials provided by Microsoft), and will reduce their time to market and lower their investments. By doing so, we will see in Dynamics AX as no longer just the platform provider, but also the major vertical solution provider as well. This will ...

What is UNIX? UNIX is an operating system which was first developed in the 1960s, and has been under constant development ever since. By operating system, we mean the suite of programs which make the computer work. It is a stable, multi-user, multi-tasking system for servers, desktops and laptops. UNIX systems also have a graphical user interface (GUI) similar to Microsoft Windows which provides an easy to use environment. However, knowledge of UNIX is required for operations which aren't covered by a graphical program, or for when there is no windows interface available, for example, in a telnet session. The UNIX operating system is made up of three parts: 1.       The kernel: The kernel of UNIX is the hub of the operating system: it allocates time and memory to programs and handles the filestore and communications in response to system calls 2.       The shell: The shell acts as an interface between the use...