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Transaction date upgrade utility for Dynamics AX

Freekv — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:57:51 GMT

You probably found that in the demo VM’s for Dynamics AX 2012 (R2) you regularly need to enter transactions yourselves to keep data current . Now you can start using Jose Lorenzo’s tool to update the existing data. You can find it here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jlorenzo/archive/2013/04/19/change-transactions-date-utility-upgrade-for-dynamics-ax-2012-r2-vm.aspx

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Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 now supports SharePoint 2013

Freekv — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:25:06 GMT

Voor het geval dat dit je nog niet opgevallen was:

Summary

· The Microsoft Dynamics AX team has released a hotfix that will allow customers and partners to install Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 on SharePoint 2013.

· Many of our customers and partners have been upgrading to Office 2013 and waiting for this hotfix to move Enterprise Portal to the new Office 2013 stack.

Steps to install Enterprise Portal on SharePoint 2013

1. You must install one of the following updates if you plan to run Enterprise Portal on either Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013 or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. Choose an update that matches the SharePoint version on which you plan to deploy Enterprise Portal.

· Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB2767999)

· Update for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013 (KB2768000)

2. After you install the SharePoint update, you must run the SharePoint 2013 Products Configuration wizard.

3. Download and install the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 setup hotfix (KB2830441).

4. Download and install the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 claims-mode authentication hotfix (KB2823664).

· For more information you can read this article on TechNet “Deploy an Enterprise Portal site that uses forms-based authentication”

5. Reboot the server and then install Enterprise Portal. For more information about how to install Enterprise Portal or Enterprise Search, see Install Enterprise Portal and Install Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise Search.

We have also added an article on TechNet with these steps: Enterprise Portal on Microsoft SharePoint 2013

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V2 van Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 solutions demos beschikbaar

Freekv — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:56:00 GMT

Inmiddels is het nieuwe demo image beschikbaar gekomen.

In March 2013, we released Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Solution Demo Package V2.

Highlights of this release:

Brand new demo data set: rebuild setup, master and transaction from scratch
All the industries in one Microsoft Dynamics AX instance, including Manufacturing (discrete & process), Retail, Service industries and Public Sector
Enriched transaction data, including the total 3-year data of historical and future transactions

VM A – Microsoft Dynamics AX Main VM
 MICROSOFT DYNAMICS AX 2012 R2
 Microsoft Forecaster 7
 MANAGEMENT REPORTER 2012 FOR MICROSOFT DYNAMICS ERP
 MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2012
 MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2012 and SP1
 Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013
 Microsoft Lync 2013
 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
VM B – Microsoft Exchange Server and Project Server VM
 MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER 2013
 Microsoft Project Server 2010
 MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2008 R2 ENTERPRISE EVALUATION EDITION
 WINDOWS 2008 R2 SP1
VM C – Microsoft Lync Server VM
 MICROSOFT LYNC SERVER 2013
 MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2012

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A country-specific update for SEPA direct debit for generic, Netherlands and Belgium

Freekv — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:49:00 GMT

Voor Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 SP1 en AX 2012 is de incasso functionaliteit conform SEPA uitgebracht.

The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is an area that is set up by the European Commission. In the SEPA, all electronic payments are considered domestic, regardless of the country/region in which the individual, business or organization, and bank are located. Within this area, national and cross-border payments have no difference. The SEPA includes the 27 European Union (EU) member states, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Monaco. SEPA helps form a single market for payment transactions within the European Economic Area (EEA). Ultimately, the SEPA is expected to reduce the number of payment formats that banks, businesses, and people must work with.
A SEPA Direct Debit enables a creditor to collect funds from a customer’s bank account, if a signed mandate is granted by the customer to the creditor. The customer signs a mandate authorizing the creditor to collect a payment and instructing the customer’s bank to pay the collection. SEPA Direct Debits create, for the first time, a payment instrument that can be used for both national and cross-border euro direct debits throughout the 32 SEPA countries/regions.
As of February 1, 2014, SEPA Direct Debits will be mandatory for this kind of transaction within the euro area. There are two schemes available: the SEPA Core Direct Debit Scheme and the SEPA Business to Business Direct Debit Scheme.

Download information:

Update is available through following links:

· http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2786631

· https://mbs2.microsoft.com/Knowledgebase/KBDisplay.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;2786631

Vandaag wordt de mbs2 link in de loop van de dag actief.

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Create Mobile Client Applications for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Freekv — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:41:50 GMT

A new white paper is just released describing walkthroughs of a solution that addresses the simple user scenario of an employee capturing information about expenses that the employee incurred while traveling. The
document is only meant to teach you the fundamentals of getting devices anywhere in the world
talking to Microsoft Dynamics AX.

The solution architecture described in this document lets users receive information and send
transactions to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, even if they are not in the same domain or network as
the on-premises instance of Microsoft Dynamics AX. For example, the solution lets clients access a
Microsoft Dynamics AX service that is running behind a firewall. The solution has the following
requirements:
 An Application Integration Framework (AIF) service communicates data to and from Microsoft
Dynamics AX 2012.
 Users provide their corporate credentials in the mobile client to interact with Microsoft Dynamics
AX 2012 services created for their scenarios.
 Only authenticated and authorized users can communicate with Microsoft Dynamics AX services by
using client applications.

The paper can be found here: Developing Secure Mobile Apps for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 new Demo Data and Hands-on-Labs

Freekv — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:09:08 GMT

Extended Demo Data available for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013

Available to our partners to help,

•76 new Customers and 32 Ship-to Addresses have been added.

•11,000+ Sales Orders and 800+ Purchase Orders have been processed.

•88,000 G/L Entries have been added.

•32,000 Item Ledger Entries have been added.

•2.4 million records have been added, the original demo company had 61210 records.
https ://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/support/selfsupport/productreleases/MSDYN_NAV2013RTMDownload.htm

ANd the following HOL’s are available to partners and customers

Lab 1: INVENTORY CONTROL AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Analyze Item Availability
Create Assembly Order and Inventory Movement
Save and Post Recurring Production as a Standard Journal
Count Physical Inventory at the Yellow Warehouse
Change Department Code from Sales to Blank
Reserve Items on a Purchase Order

Lab 2: MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

Create and Set Up a New Location
Create and Set Up a New Responsibility Center
Create Purchase Orders in a Company with Multiple Locations
Create Sales Orders in a Company with Multiple Locations
Create and Set Up Stock-Keeping Units

Lab 3: LOCATION TRANSFERS

Set Up a Transfer Route
Transfer Items Between Locations

Lab 4: BASIC WAREHOUSE TASKS

Set Up a Warehouse Location
Receive and Put Away from the Purchase Document
Receive with a Warehouse Receipt
Pick and Ship with Inventory Pick Documents
Ship with Warehouse Pick and Ship Documents
Move Items to an Empty Bin

Lab 5: SERIAL/LOT NUMBERS

Buy and Sell Items with Serial/Lot Numbers
Auto-Pick Monitors by FEFO
Trace Item from Serial Number

Lab 6: KITTING AND ASSEMBLY MANAGEMENT

Set Up Assembly Management
Create Assembly Item and Assembly List
Create and Post an Assembly Order
Kitting

Available here

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Moving Average Inventory Valuation paper

Freekv — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:30:12 GMT

A new inventory model has been introduced in Microsoft Dynamics AX that is based on the moving average method. Moving average is an inventory valuation method that is used to compute the average cost of ending inventory.

This white paper covers the areas where work processes for inventory valuation have changed due to the introduction of the Moving average method.

Go to the Microsoft Download Center

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Management Pack for System Center

Max Beuker — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:02:42 GMT

In the past few months we talked to many hosting companies across several countries which deal with Microsoft Dynamics NAV hosting. They all are confirming that the new platform capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 are making the product much easier to deploy and
maintain.

The tools that are essential for the companies dealing with volume deployment of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 include:

Flexible authentication capabilities
Streamlined 2- and 3-tier deployment
Windows PowerShell cmdlets to allow advanced scripting of repeated tasks
Management Console user interface built on top of PowerShell cmdlets
The ability to deploy the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client using ClickOnce technology

We also gained insight into the typical hosted Microsoft Dynamics NAV incidents. One of the biggest cost factors for companies dealing with a variety of products, not only from Microsoft, but also from multiple third-party software providers, was support and troubleshooting – finding the root cause faster and being able to see which product is causing problems to relay the support incident to the right support professional.

Many of these companies chose to use the Microsoft System Center platform to manage their virtual, physical, and cloud IT environments. This is a single end-to-end service management solution to handle infrastructure, service delivery, automation, and applications that is easy to customize and extend.

The way to extend this management platform to recognize and maintain all kinds of software and hardware is to use Management Packs (MPs) developed for them. Management Packs are the building blocks which extend Operations Manager capabilities to operating systems, applications, and other technology components. An MP contains best practice knowledge to discover, monitor, troubleshoot, report on, and resolve problems for a specific technology component.

Microsoft provides MPs for more than 60 Microsoft products and Windows components. There are more than 500 Microsoft Partner Management Packs covering most technologies used by organizations today.

We are pleased to announce that a Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Management Pack for System Center is now available for download for all IT professionals working with System Center 2007 R2 Operations Manager or System Center 2012 Operations Manager components of the Microsoft System Center.

This extension package provides Microsoft System Center Operations Manager users with the ability to detect and monitor computer systems running Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, including the following components:

Computers on which Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server is installed and Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instances are installed.
Computers on which Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web Server components are installed. These include the websites for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web client.

Companies providing hosting services to Microsoft Dynamics NAV Partners now have a toolset for extending their offering with Microsoft Dynamics NAV-specific monitoring and basic troubleshooting.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Management Pack for System Center enables Operations and IT Management teams to easily identify and resolve issues affecting the health of numerous distributed Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 installations. It lowers client support costs by surfacing critical statistics and alerts in context of running Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 components. It also reduces IT management complexity by automating routine administration and providing basic actions for working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 components.

If you would like to hear more about the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Management Pack for System Center then please visit our Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Product Readiness Library here.

On a final note, we would like to thank all the companies who shared their experience and provided their feedback to our R&D team. This feedback is extremely valuable and greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Max Beuker

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Solution Demo Package V1.5 is released!

Max Beuker — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:00:06 GMT

Dear All,

On February 8, we released the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Solution Demo Package V1.5 to incorporate major BI content update per our field and partners’ request, and now available for
download.

You can download the VM package from the PartnerSource page.

In this release, we have made enhancement in the demo content for the following major areas. Please refer to the attached release documents for more information.

Enhancement BI demo capabilities, including PowerView and improved role centers:

CFO role center
Sales manager role center and sales dashboard

Public Sector

Budget manager
Finance director

Retail

Merchandizing manager
Store manager

VM Improvements based on the initial feedback about V1, e.g. AX Help Server, Enterprise Search, and Project Server integration and etc.

Dynamics AX Expense claim App for Windows Phone

Freekv — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:38:48 GMT

Welaan consultants en andere reizigers kunnen nu hun onkosten via hun Windows Phone rechtstreeks in Microsoft Dynamics AX declareren.

De App is beschikbaar via de Windows Phone Marketplace.

Onze partners kunnen implementatie documentatie vinden op Partnersource

Page Title: Mobile Apps for Microsoft Dynamics AX
https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/news/MSDYN_MobileAppsAX.htm

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