Dynamics 365: Learn in doing

Occastionally really minor can bring in lot of frustration in our daily work. One such incident with me was the annoying behaviour of Mouse pointer in the Virtual machines when connected to Remote desktop. Whenever, I hover over a notepad, SQL database query window, Visual studio, I don't see my mouse pointer anymore. The only things I have changed are: Started using High resolution laptop/surface. Started using Microsoft Remote desktop connection manager Upon little investigation, the reason seems to be that the small "|" Text select mouse pointer is almost vanishing when used in High resolution. So in other terms, the mouse pointer shape changes and it exists on the screen - but we don't see it anymore :) Workaround in Windows 8 and above: Right click on the Remote desktop Select Personalize > Click Mouse pointers And in the various cursor options, find "Text Select" and change the mouse pointer shape to a normal mouse pointer. Click ...

On November 1st 2016, Microsoft has officially released Dynamics 365 , which in my view is a very good futuristic and innovative move. D365 unites ERP, CRM and Office365 using a concept called Common Data Model (CDM). It is a true cloud service on Microsoft Azure platform - https://home.dynamics.com/ How D365 relates to AX7, The NEW Dynamics AX: Dynamics 365 brings together a suite of Microsoft products, like CRM online, the NEW Dynamics AX (AX7), PowerBI, Office365, Cortana Intelligence and several hundreds of Apps from AppSource . Now with D365, Dynamics AX is integration together with other applications - which means that you can access the data stored in Dynamics AX from various applications and is called as Dynamics 365 for Operations (D365O). Common data model: One of the core concepts behind D365 is the use of Common Data Model. CDM basically is intended to surface data that is stored within Dynamics 365 across all the different business apps (Sales, Marke...

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...

Dynamics AX Retail has an intense Architecture behind the scenes, so some issues could take much more time to troubleshoot and fix the problem. So I am just writing down about this issue I faced today working with AX Retail Channel Integration.  When trying to perform a Full sync  for the Job-1070  for a Channel data Group, I encountered the below error.  Microsoft.Dynamics.Retail.StoreConnect.Request.SQLHandler.ProcessTargetRequestHeaderException: ProcessTargetRequestHeader failed to execute all delete requests ---> Microsoft.Dynamics.Retail.StoreConnect.Request.SQLHandler.ProcessDeleteRequestException: Delete request on table:[ax].[ACCOUNTANT_BR] failed to execute. ---> Microsoft.Dynamics.Retail.StoreConnect.Request.SQLHandler.RunException: Query: DELETE FROM [ax].[ACCOUNTANT_BR] ;; filterNameList: ;filterValueList: ; ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'xp_cmdshell', database 'mssqlsystemresource',...