Dynamics 365: Learn in doing

In this post, the focus will be on some basic setup which needs to be understood and implemented for having a functional AX Retail. Assuming that you have already installed the necessary AX Retail components beforehand. If not, Please go through the below links, which you can find already on Internet (no need for any Partner permissions) A nice Youtube video explaining Retail Topology - See here Also you can find the Microsoft's Retail Deployment Guide - PDF here So now let's focus on what all steps you have to take, settings which you have to configure at the AX Retail HeadQuater level in order to have a functional AX Retail. Kindly note that I am us   Configure and Validate Retail Headquarter settings: Initialize Base configuration for AX Retail Verify Stores Publish channels Retail store management and security Hardware profiles Configure Commerce Data Exchange (CDX) Verify Retail server configuration Check Infolog's generated for more information R...

When working on AX implementations, one main purpose of Analysis phase is to identify and estimate the License costs for the Customer. And a major part of the Implementation cost can go into "Purchasing licenses" During such a scenario, I found some helpful information on how to identify the Microsoft SQL Editions. If you want to check the SQL Version and/or SQL Edition of the installed product, you can follow the below simple steps: Connect to the server in which SQL Server is installed. Open SQL Server Management Studio from Programs/Start. Alternatively you can type 'ssms' in Run. Connect to the Database Open a new Query window and paste the below code select @@servername go select @@version go select serverproperty('edition') go Execute the query This will result in Three different output/resultset. The first provides you the "Name of the server", second provides you the "Version of Installed SQL" and the third provides you...