Dynamics 365: Learn in doing

Microsoft Demo VMs are really useful if you are aiming to quickly understand a particular AX component or even to quickly go ahead with a specific development. However, it comes with default settings and thus might cause some issues regarding few components around AX. Today, I have seen such issue with Reporting Services  in my AX 2012 R3 Microsoft demo VM.  Error received when I click "Create report folder" in "Report Servers" AX form.  The report server installation is not initialized Also when I checked in the EventLog, the below errors were logged.  Report Server (MSSQLSERVER) cannot connect to the report server database. & Web service request FindItems to Report Server http://bakedev02-1-1/reportserver/ReportService2010.asmx failed with SoapException. Error: The report server installation is not initialized. When I check the "Reporting Services Configuration Manager", everything looks normal. However, I could NOT successfully load the ...

It is quite often that you will run into issues trying to open Enterprise portal (EP) in Microsoft released DEMO VM environments. This is basically because of the change in IP addresses and also depends on which host the VM is installed (Hyper-V or Oracle Box or VMWare). The same happened to me and I have found posts by several helpful AX Tech people. Below are two such related links.  Here's how you can fix it. (intranet.contoso.com) (VMWare player):  Link EP is not working In AX 2012 R3 VM: Link How to use Set IP Utility: Link  (Needs PartnerSource access) However, My personal suggestion to you is to reinstall EP after you have setup your VM in order to have better results. Of course, this requires that you have the Setup file for the respective AX Version. Steps to follow: Download/collect setup file of the necessary AX Version (like AX 2012 R2 or AX 2012 R3..) Copy the setup files to the VM (or) use a Shared folder from your host Run as Administrato...