Dynamics 365: Learn in doing

AX7 / AX2015 / Rainier, we have heard many names for the upcoming and much awaited Microsoft Dynamics AX Product. Seems like Microsoft has settled with the name AX7 now. While looking out for information about AX7, I have bumped into this Microsoft Convergence Video: http://convergence.evo-td.com/library/CS15A000   . Although the site demands you to login, I think it is pretty easy to register. Check it out! Microsoft aims to release this product by End of 2015 and has clearly stated the Guiding principles for AX 7.0. To Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more To create more personal computing To Reinvent productivity and business processes To Build the intelligent cloud Below is some key information on AX Functionality enhancements from the above roadmap session. Productivity: Modern, web-based user experience based on HTML5 technology. The client is device-independent and has a panorama view / dashboard and next ge...

Microsoft has recently released Cumulative update 9 (CU9) for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 very recently and here some information around it. The Knowledge base (KB) article number is 3063879 and the Build number after installation would be 6.3.2000.326. There is lot of information on TechNet – here is the link . CU9 is the second Cumulative Update for Dynamics AX 2012 R3 after CU8 . It only applies to R3 at this moment. However Microsoft has made the Cumulative Update 8 for Dynamics AX 2012 R2.   There by enabling users of AX R2 customers to directly upgrade to AX7 in the near future. In addition to containing several hotfixes that have been recently released, CU9 also includes new features across several different module sets. The details on the new features can be found in the above TechNet article link - do look to the bottom of the page of the “What’s New” link to see the content that’s specific to CU9. Starting with Dynamics AX 2012 R3, you can now slips...

Occasionally, I ran into this issue in my Virtual machine - that the Harddisk becomes full and I couldn't find any specific huge file like, a over-grown database (.mdf, .ldf) files and neither do I have huge amount of backup files (.bak).   After a little searching, I found about the Windows.edb file has grown exponentially and was taking up all the hard disk space. This file is a result of Windows Search service. Below is the problem statement from one of the Microsoft sites:   Problem statement: In Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012, the Windows Search Service may bloat the Windows.edb file. When this issue occurs, the Windows.edb file grows to a very large size and consumes lots of disk space. In some instances, the file size can be larger than 50 gigabytes (GB).   Resolution: To resolve this issue, install update rollup 2836988 for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. For more information about how to obtain this update rollup package, click the following arti...