This is just a helper I used over the years to reset my compiler level from 4 back to 3; I believe it's still going to help some of you with those long waiting minutes when compiling a project that...(read more)![]()
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Keep your Compiler level set to 3
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Dynamics 365 LCS tricks – platform update 4 experience
As we all know Dynamics 365 has technically speaking 3 patch groups. We know the x++ updates and the binary updates. We have seen those in older version of Dynamics 365. The third group is called platform updates.
These platform updates in general contains binaries that are related to:
- Application Object Server (AOS)
- The data management framework
- The reporting and business intelligence (BI) framework
- Development tools
- Analytics services
The available and supported version are shown here:
https://ax.help.dynamics.com/en/wiki/manage-microsoft-dynamics-ax-online-updates/
From technical point of view also have a look here:
https://ax.help.dynamics.com/en/wiki/upgrade-latest-platform-update/
For the long run have a look here:
https://roadmap.dynamics.com/
The real live:
However, I want to share my experience from technical point of view. I shall be clear, it was horrible. Not only how it is working, but the devil is in the details. So, I will share the showstoppers so you don’t make the same mistakes:
- There are already known KB numbers when you implement update 4
o KB 4016079
Issues upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Platform Update 4 after applying Platform maintenance package for 1611 release V2 for update 3. - What it is:
o Ping pong on the Kernel numbers. The error occurs when the DB is synchronized, but there is not a real error, unless you consider the windows event viewer. ![]()
- Solution
update SQLSYSTEMVARIABLES set value = 141 where Parm = ‘SYSTABVERSION’
So, that one was solved, now let’s work on the local DEV VM. We can do 2 scenarios
- upgrade the existing VM
- download the new update 4 VM from connect.
I carefully consider those 2 scenarios (at least I thought I did…). All code is in FSTO. Some existing DEV VM are like Frankenstein, already patched from RTM. Those were kept alive with windows rearm and had only 30 days left. The windows 2012 Hyper V server is running fine, but also running out of disk space. Those Dynamics 365 VM can run up to 127 Gb disk use, while only 100 GB is needed.
So, I chose the new DEV VM, and before distribute those set with administrative tools the disk size back to 100 GB. So, I will gain 20% disk store space for all those DEV VM
So, we started, throw away the old VM and start deploying the new DEV VM, and we were hit by another disaster
We have then hosted on a window 2012 Hyper V server and that was exactly the real killer. The new update 4 VM are running on window 2016. These VM Can’t be hosted on a Windows 2012 Hyper-V machine!
You must upgrade your Windows 2012 Hyper V host to Windows 2012 R2.
Upgrading you Windows Hyper V host, is not a just click next, next, next task, so what was left.
We downloaded the update 3 VM, put the disk size back to 100, rearmed them and installed the update 4 patch self on this VM. So, we have the prep update 4 VM running on not windows 2016, and we can distribute all DEV VM again.
As you understand, it was very nice weather outside here in The Netherlands. It apparently is the first week of spring, sadly enough I have not seen it, only heard about it. My wife and kids avoided me, because my passion for MS products dropped below their tolerance level, and maybe for me as well…
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Dynamics Document Routing Agent unable to authenticate to the Print Server (Impersonated Print User)
Scenario:
There have been several cases in the past few months that customers and partners have been requesting how to get Dynamics 365 for Operations Document Routing Agent (DRA) to print documents and send documents to a Network user document assigned print queue, so that a user can identify them themselves at a network printer and only their print jobs will be shown on the printer.
Issue has been reported so far in Dynamics for operations version update 2, 3 and 4
Issue:
DRA is assigning the service account or local account of the Server/PC that the DRA is installed on, to the document being printed. Once the document is sent to the Network Printer server queue the document has lost the name of the user printing the document and replaced by local/service server name which the printer server does not recognize and the document is deleted or does not register on the network printer for the user creating the print job.
The DRA is made by design to print documents in bulk and not to a user assigned print queue.
Official workaround:
The official workaround from the Dynamics 365 for Operations product team, is to print any document from Dynamics to a PDF format into a shared network folder. Then get the user to print PDF from that shared network folder to the print queue.
Other workaround is to output the print document to latest version of Chrome then print from Chrome by network user to print queue.
Other suggested workaround that could be offered but maybe not suitable for users and security:
- To Assign to the Print Server, the Service/Local account name that the server/PC uses with DRA installed on (DRA changes the document assignment user name to). The Printer Server should accept this user name, but only problem faced is that the Network printer now shows everyone’s print jobs on the printer under one account and could be very hard to find each users document in the single queue.
Author: Jason Stock
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Support Engineer
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Dynamics Document Routing Agent run as a service
If you want to run the DRA (Document Routing Agent) as a service, you need to:
- Login to the server with the account that should run the service.
- It should also be the account that runs the DRA App.
- Start the DRA App with the user and activate the printer.
- Mark DRA to run as a Service
- Start service with the same user.
(one account for all – Login to server, run service, start DRA App)
Reason for this is that the account that is running the Service needs to have the printer mapped and full access to it.
As well, the service has then the permission to pick up the print jobs from the Azure blob.
Here is the link on how to install the Document Routing Agent to enable network printer devices and how it is used.
Author: Uwe Zimmermann
Microsoft Dynamics Support Escalation Engineer
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Dynamics Document Routing Agent unable to sign-in
There have been several reported cases with signing into Dynamics Printer Routing Agent.
Issue:
Reported Dynamics versions Update 2, 3 and 4.
Dynamics version when signing into the DRA an error appears.
Cause:
Customer has install warehouse app into their Dynamics environment.
See following link and see step 8 with in this webpage
https://ax.help.dynamics.com/en/wiki/install-and-configure-dynamics-365-for-operations-warehousing/
Setting in Active Directory App ID URI needs to be set to a fictitious URI with no link to the Dynamics Environment or any of them.
Additional Steps are:
- Enter the sign-on URL, which is the application URL in your tenant, the root Operations URL. The sign-on URL is currently not being actively used in authenticating the warehouse app, but is a mandatory field. Enter the same URL in the App ID URI field but change it slightly so it does not represent anything of use in the Environment.
- Check if you are using warehouse app that your mobile apps are still working
Please note that article below may change in the future due to this problem being identified.
https://ax.help.dynamics.com/en/wiki/install-and-configure-dynamics-365-for-operations-warehousing/
Author: Jason Stock – Microsoft Dynamics 365 Support Engineer
Co Authors: Czeslawa Langowska Vliegen, Uwe Zimmermann – Microsoft Dynamics 365 Support Escalation Engineers
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How optimized transportation smooths the path from order processing to the warehouse
A warehouse management system
(WMS), order processing system, and
transportation management solution (TMS)
walk into a bar. The TMS sits between the WMS and the order processing system. These
three systems sometimes don't get along well, so they ...read more![]()
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Bills of materials Journal in AX 2012 R3
Hello Friends, Hope you all are well. Its been long time since I haven't share my learning due to my other priority tasks. Today I am going to share a very simple yet important topic of AX i.e. "...(read more)![]()
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Dynamics Cloud Upgrade: Fears and Bennefits
Upgrading an on-premise enterprise resource planning solution like Microsoft Dynamics to its current version is traditionally a costly and time consuming project. Replacing aging hardware and costly lapsed maintenance fees often deter businesses from upgrading. But falling several versions behind can create competitive deficiencies. However, many of the deterrents to upgrading can be avoided in the cloud. Learn more in an upcoming webinar about the Dynamics cloud upgrade process hosted by RoseASP.
Is cloud the right answer for you?
To help you answer this question we’ll look at the reasons some Dynamics customers hesitate to go cloud and we will look at the main benefits of Dynamics cloud upgrades:
Some businesses hesitate to upgrade Dynamics in the cloud because they…
- Believe they can’t integrate their ISV solutions in the cloud
- Believe custom code will not run in the cloud
- Believe they can’t integrate with internal legacy systems
- Believe they have no control over their own upgrades
- Believe performance will decrease
While many of the fears listed above may be true in the case of public cloud services and multi-tenant environments, a full service cloud provider for Dynamics will offer a variety of cloud options. These options may include dedicated cloud environments, shared private cloud, multi-tenant, Azure or a hybrid of all of the above. At RoseASP we make the cloud upgrade process simple and fast with no downtime to your systems. In our experience moving Dynamics customers to the cloud since 2000, it is not a problem to keep any customizations or integrations customers have. Now let’s look at some of the benefits of going cloud…
Benefits of a Dynamics GP Cloud Upgrade…
- No new or additional hardware required
- Stay current forever
- Guaranteed backups
- Anytime, anywhere access
- Added security
- Added support (24/7/365)
These are just a few of the benefits and concerns about Dynamics cloud upgrades. If you are curious to learn more about the cloud upgrade process for Dynamics join us for our free webinar Thursday March 30, 9am-10am.
The post Dynamics Cloud Upgrade: Fears and Bennefits appeared first on RoseASP, Inc..
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Parallel inventory valuation – an alternative approach (Part 3)
The next standard cost variance type that has an influence on the parallel valuation approach concerns cost change variances, which can result from two different sources that will be explained in the following...(read more)![]()
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Service Restored | Worldwide | Payments | Unable to process credit card transactions | March 28, 2017
Title: Unable to process credit card transactions
User Impact: Affected customers may be unable to access their service or experience degraded performance.
Engineers are investigating an issue...(read more)![]()
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Dynamics 365 for Operations Security Analysis
I was recently looking at different ways of analyzing the security in the AOT. I found an Addin that is in Visual Studio.
Click on the “View related objects and licenses for all roles”.
It takes about 5 minutes to put all the data together and export an Excel file.
You get two worksheets.
- License information – Shows the different security objects; Roles, Duties and Privileges. Showing the license type.
- View related objects – This is a detailed exploded view of the Roles, duties, privileges, resource (I.e. menu item)
Based on the second tab I was able to create a pivot table. This allows me to figure out what makes a particular license Enterprise.
The thing you have to keep in mind is that this is looking at the AOT. If you have made security changes in the front end, this Addin won’t recognize it.
If you want to review security from the front end then navigation to the Security configuration form. Then click on the View permissions.
You will get a similar list as the Excel sheet. You get the Role license type. In the grid you get the exploded view with the license type. You can sort on the License column and figure out what makes up the Enterprise license.
I have a few suggestions for Microsoft:
1. Can we have a simple export from the front end. Export the same Excel as the add in – I.e. exploded view for all security objects.
2. Add a new Excel worksheet to export the “User roles” - Users with their roles and showing the License type. Also add the field Enabled (active user or not).
3. Make these exploded view an actual table that gets updated periodically.
4. Create data entities for PowerBI content pack. This would allow the ERP administrators a dashboard to see things like
a) Number of Active users by License type
b) Drill through to Roles and Security objects
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Dynamics 365/AX7: "DISPLAY" method on table extension.
Hi All,
This posts helps you to understand and create a " display " method for the table extension.
Lets say, the requirement is to add a method in the standard table, it can be achieved...(read more)![]()
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Transforming manufacturing operations with IoT
The Azure IoT platform can be quickly deployed through easily adaptable preconfigured solutions for predictive maintenance, remote monitoring and stream analytics, allowing manufactures to rapidly arrive...(read more)![]()
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Microsoft readies new Dynamics 365 on-premises options
Dynamics 365 for Operations (formerly Dynamics AX) was initially released only as a cloud hosted solution. Microsoft have now confirmed the details and availability of the on-premises options. Two deployment...(read more)![]()
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Dynamics 365 Operations (AX): Budget Planning for fixed assets
Budget planning in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations (AX) can leverage a lot of source documents for preparing budget plans.
One such source document is fixed assets. This should be read as fixed...(read more)![]()
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Announcing application extensibility plans
Reducing implementation and upgrade effort is a major initiative for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations development team. The benefits of this initiative are to enable customers to quickly take...(read more)![]()
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Inventory Counting Journal in AX 2012 R3
Inventory counting journal is used to adjust the item's on hand inventory as per the actual physical stock available in the warehouse. It displays current On-hand quantity available in the system for...(read more)![]()
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Development tutorial: Platform improvements for handling X++ exceptions the right way
A while back I wrote about a pattern we discovered in X++ code which could lead to serious data consistency issues. You can read it again and look at an example mfp wrote up here:
http://kashperuk.blogspot.dk/2016/11/tutorial-link-handling-exceptions-right.html
With the release of Platform update 5 for Dynamics 365 for Operations we should now be better guarded against this kind of issue.
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AX 2012: Create AIF document service
Purpose:
The purpose of this document is to illustrate how we can develop AIF document service, what are the important methods available that can be overridden to do the customization and finally how...(read more)![]()
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EDI for Microsoft Dynamics Showcased at Summit EMEA 2017
Microsoft Dynamics users and partners offered educational sessions focused on simplifying EDI integration with the Microsoft Dynamics ERPs.
Data Masons Software, LLC., a leading provider of Integrated EDI and XML solutions for Microsoft Dynamics customers, announces its sponsorship of Dynamic Communities’ Summit EMEA 2017 in Amsterdam, 4-6, April. Offering EDI solutions certified for Microsoft Dynamics AX and NAV, the company continues its commitment to the European-based Microsoft Dynamics community with its sponsorship and participation within the event’s educational program.
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