Dynamics 365: Learn in doing

The word " Cloud " is getting more heard and used with days passing by. So what actually is a Cloud (or) a Cloud platform (or) Cloud computing (or) Cloud services. Basically these are platform, computing ability, services respectively which are hosted in some part of the world and are accessible over Internet . To understand the best, we can take an example like electricity. In general, You just use electricity as an utility and pay according to the usage. You would seldom have to build, maintain and generate your own electricity - because of the comfort you receive using electricity as an utility. Cloud services can be mapped to the same concept. Cloud computing services can be of three kinds, private , public and hybrid . And they act as the name suggests. Many articles can be found in the internet on the definitions, pros and cons. Three such major cloud service providers are: Microsoft Azure - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/   Amazon web services - https:/...

Hello all, I have started to work on "The NEW Dynamics AX", also code named as AX7. And would like to share the information I have, also the info I obtain during the troubleshooting. I plan to write short posts, prefixed with AX7 Tip # . Hope this helps you. AX7 Tip#1: Basic Info needed to login to MS AX7 VM: Going forward, a Developer working with an AX7 implementation will have use a local VM, with source code synced to a Team foundation server. So let's start with the links to download Microsoft VMs. The below Microsoft help link should help you to find your way through to download necessary VHD files. https://ax.help.dynamics.com/en/wiki/access-microsoft-dynamics-ax-7-instances-2/#vm-running-on-premises After downloading ( link ) the VHD files. You can use Hyper-V (or) Oracle Virtual box in order to setup your own VM. The credentials needed in order to login to the Microsoft AX7 Virtual machine once up and running are the Microsoft Standard userna...