Thanks to Aamir Allaqaband & team.

General Availability of the Dynamics Retail Management Pack for use with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3. The management pack is available for download from Microsoft Download Center as well as directly from within the SCOM catalog.

This management pack allows IT administrators to gain a deep real-time insight into their distributed retail deployments, both during initial deployment as well as during ongoing operations.

Using the Dynamics Retail Management Pack with System Center Operations Manager retail IT administrators are now able to:

• Auto-discover Retail components

• Monitor service and application pool state

• Monitor inter-component connectivity

• Remotely change tracing levels with zero down-time

• Bulk collect event logs

• Monitor SSL certificate expiry

• Alert for key failure states

• Comprehensive in-context diagnostic documentation and MP guide

• And more..

With this first release, we’re providing monitoring for the following retail components

• Retail Point of Sale w/offline

• Retail Online Channel

• Retail Server

• Async Server

• Async Client

• Real-time Service

• CDX Replication Jobs

The Retail management pack has also been tested for side-by-side compatibility with the Dynamics foundations management pack, and the two teams have worked closely in a collaborative fashion to build off of each other’s work and provide tips and guidance through the development and release process. The Retail team also closely collaborated with the System Center Operations Manager team for feedback during the release process and incorporated several changes based on the feedback, such as the discovery interval of Retail Server.

At this point the management pack is available in en-us and as localizations are undertaken over the coming months, the localized versions of the management pack will be made available in respective regions.

Enjoy

Just recently we released an update to the V4 solution demo. ​​

March 2014: Refresh to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Solution Demo Package V4.0
Resolved Issues include:

• Compiling error

• Project Client

• Help Server

• Enterprise Search

• Enterprise Portal Updated

• All document libraries present

• Deployed OLAP cubes

• Budget Template

MBS Partners can find the new image here: (https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/northamerica/deployment/downloads/service-packs/AX2012DemoToolsMaterials) . Or search on partner/customer-source for AX Solution Demo

Enjoy

Nu Microsoft Dynamics ook Windows Phone apps heeft is het handig die ook Kunnen presenteren voor een groter publiek dan je buurman. Voor de Nokia Lumia's heeft Nokia daar de Beamer app gemaakt.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/nokia-beamer/b5511af6-cbd0-4945-9bf6-30cf0582043f

Je installeert de app op je Lumia en gaat in je browser (Adobe Flash enabled) naar http://beam.nokia.com. of je mailt een link conform omschrijving van de app.

Vervolgens maak je de verbinding af via het Internet. en voila

Fantastisch. Geen special projector meer nodig. Je kunt beter in een Lumia investeren :-)

Just to make sure your Lync integration shows in the A image here are the steps you need to do.

Realize that the "Instant messenger sign-in" Option in the advanced contact settings signs the user in whenever the record is called. So if you have the Lync Server C not running you get 2 infolog messages each time you open such a Lync enabled record. My best practice is to have server C always running. However if you are short on system resource you'd better Check that option only when you want to demo Lync integration.

Enjoy

The recent Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 V4 image comes with CU7 installed. One of the new functions is the integration with Microsoft Project (a complete list here).

When you start discovering these new features you will notice Infolog messages as “Method 'version' is not supported by the Automation interface of the COM object of class 'MSProject.Application” or “COM Object of class ‘MSProject.Application’ could not be created. Ensure that the object has been properly registered on computer ‘AX2012R2A’”. This is an indication that something is amiss with the client configuration. The demo image misses a directory in the released version. The USSI company Project management and accounting parameters mention \\ax2012r2a\attachments\ussi\projects but the \\ax2012r2a\attachments share is missing with the sub directories. Create them, make the share and things will run smoothly. Or create another directory and change the parameter settings accordingly.

BTW you can also use a SharePoint on premise or online location to save to as well. But then you need to make some changes in the Collaboration Workspace Settings in USSI System Administration too.

Enjoy,

                Freek