Welcome to the blog series containing troubleshooting tips and tricks as you work on the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Solution Demo VM. There has been a significant interest and downloads of the solution demo VM that was released in PartnerSource. We have compiled a list of key questions that are frequently asked by users and posting these in this blog series. Please NOTE that this blog is a compilation only. For feedback and questions related to the VM please follow the process been laid out here.
To start with see below a list of 'How to" self-help guides (requires PartnerSource logon) that have been published for your use.
1) How to Rearm : The demo virtual machines have a 180-day activation period. You will need to re-arm them to keep use them. This set of demo virtual machines has three re-arms.
2) How to Use Virtual Machine Profile Manager : The Virtual Machine (VM) Profile Manager is installed and configured to assist in starting services in the correct order and caching specific SharePoint sites and other URL resources. This tool aims to help improve the VM performance by providing you the option to turn off some Retail related services and sites if not needed.
3) How to Enable Integration with Management Reporter for Microsoft Dynamics ERP : Management Reporter Integration is disabled in the virtual machine A when Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Solution Demo Package V1.0 is released to improve performance. If you want to demonstrate the real time integration between Management Reporter for Microsoft Dynamics ERP and Microsoft Dynamics AX, you can enable integration to update reports or permissions.
4) How to Use Set IP Utility : In order make it easy and quick for you to set the IP addresses for the virtual machines, we have released the Set IP Utility, i.e. setnetworkip.bat which is included in the virtual machine A. The virtual machine should be created with at least one internal network adapter configured in Hyper-V
5) How to Set Network Adapter Priority
6) How to Connect Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online with Microsoft Dynamics AX :
7) How to Connect Office 365, including PowerBI, with Microsoft Dynamics AX
8) How to Connect Mobile Apps with Microsoft Dynamics AX in Microsoft Azure-based demo environment
9) How to Connect Mobile Apps with Microsoft Dynamics AX in local host demo environment
10) How to Update PerformancePoint Dashboard
11) How to Improve Performance via Database Maintenance
12) How to Fix Business Intelligence Cubes Measures and Dimensions
13) How to Install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Studio for Visual Studio 2010
14) How to Initiate Crawl for Microsoft SharePoint Search