Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Data Upgrade Best Practices

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AXUG DayONE at Convergence 2012

Time: Sunday, March 18, 2012 from 1:30 PM to 6:00 PM (CT)

Venue: Houston, TX

Check out this free event being held in Houston, TX for all the Dynamics AX Professionals.

What is DayONE?

The ultimate jump-start to Microsoft Convergence 2012 Houston! DayONE is an exciting opportunity to get engaged in networking and learning with other Dynamics AX Users and Microsoft Dynamics AX leaders before diving head first into Convergence 2012 activities.

DayONE - hosted by the Dynamics AX User Group (AXUG) is a content-packed afternoon of insightful sessions and networking opportunities with fellow Dynamics AX Users. In addition to a variety of User-led breakout sessions and interactive discussions, DayONE participants get the inside scoop from AX top dogs at Microsoft through Conduit sessions and have exclusive opportunities to provide feedback on the product directly to the Microsoft User Experience Research Team!

Stay in the loop! We're ironing out the session details for DayONE 2012 and we'll be updating you as soon as more details become available. AXUG members get first dibs on session and registration information. Not yet a member? No worries, sign up for membership today - AXUG Basic membership is free and available to all Dynamics AX Users.

DayONE is free of charge, but we'll need to know you're coming so we can save you a seat.

Preliminary DayONE Agenda (subject to change):

Sunday, March 18

1:30 – 3:00p
Microsoft Dynamics AX General Session

3:00 – 3:15p
Networking Break

3:15 – 4:30p
Breakout Session

4:30 – 4:45p
Networking Break

4:45 – 6:00p
Breakout Session 2

6:00 – 10:00p
Convergence 2012 Welcome Reception

Register for event at Event Brite.

Creating calculated column in AX Reports

Let’s take a quick example of having a Unit Price and Price Unit in the PurchaseLine table. Here is how you can create a calculated column on the report to show as UnitPrice/PriceUnit.

Display method:

you can write your customized code to display/return some data on the fly of report and form execution.
Create display method in report datasource level and it will get executed for each table record.
Sample display method:-
display int Grade()
{
    emp emp;
    salgrade salgrade;
    ;
    while select grade from salgrade join  emp  where(emp.SAL>=SALGRADE.LOSAL && emp.SAL<=SALGRADE.HISAL)
    {
        return salgrade.GRADE;
    }

}

Ref: http://www.microsoftdynamicsforums.com

The Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 For Retail Launch Event

Register for the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail Virtual Launch Event

on February 1st, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (US)

Microsoft leaders, customers, and retail industry experts will talk about what it means to be a Dynamic Retailer in today’s retail environment while providing a first-look at the powerful retail capabilities being introduced as part of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. Register now and receive access to the following on February 1st:

• Hear Microsoft executives and retail customers talk retail trends and technology from NRF in New York
• Watch demos showcasing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 retail capabilities
• Chat live online with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 retail and technical experts
• Learn about local retail events in your geography
• Explore all of the additional functional and industry innovation in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

Register now and experience the most dynamic release ever of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail.

AX 2012 General Ledger differences with AX 2009

This shows how the General Ledger module of AX 2009 and AX 2012 differ from a Chart of accounts and account balance perspective.
This uses Atlas to get a list of your accounts into Excel and how to get account balances.

Configuring and running the AX 2012 Hyper-V image with VirtualBox

A quick tutorial on configuring and running the AX 2012 Hyper-V image with VirtualBox.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Demo Tools and Materials:
https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/marketing/marketingcollateral/demos/A...
Note: You will need to edit the hosts file (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) and add '127.0.0.1 dynamicsax.contoso.com' to allow the EP to resolve.

AX 2012 Chart Of Accounts Improvements

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 demonstrates improvements to the Chart of Accounts

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Role Centre Interface Provides Everyone with BI

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 White Paper: Testing Best Practices

Overview

These best practices apply to the development of product extensions built by independent software vendors (ISVs), as well as Microsoft Dynamics AX implementation partners and customers who are customizing Microsoft Dynamics AX for specific ERP deployments.
Microsoft’s Sure Step Methodology provides basic testing guidance that scales for five different project types. The terminology and process steps in Sure Step are the foundation of this document. The best practices presented here will supplement the Sure Step guidance for testing efforts in the Microsoft Dynamics AX ecosystem.

It is now available on Microsoft Download Center.

Dynamics AX 2012 Supply Chain Management

If you are a Supply Chain Manager, you simply have to watch this.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Installation Guide

These videos provide complete instruction for step by step installation process of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
Course 80221 Official Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Installation and Configuration is now available on GuideToLearn.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Virtual Launch Teaser

Are you ready for the most dynamic Dynamics Launch?

Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 - Integration and Web Services

http://www.microsoft.com/erp: Video 2 in our 12 week series entitled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012" explores the theme of Integration and Web Services. This video features C. Venkatesh, Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Dynamics AX R&D. To learn more about Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 visit http://bit.ly/pisiH9

Microsoft Cloud Partner Profitability Guide: An interview with Marie Huwe and Kees Hertogh

Dear Readers, There was an interesting interview with Marie Huwe, General Manager of Marketing for Microsoft Dynamics at Software Advice. Here is the guest post by Hunter Richards, Accounting Market Analyst at Software Advice.

This year, Software Advice got to attend Microsoft’s Convergence conference. They spoke with Marie Huwe, General Manager of Marketing for Microsoft Dynamics, about the inevitable change to the partner channel’s business model when cloud computing really takes off. Partners will need to change to survive.

In the video below, Marie speaks about the new Microsoft Cloud Partner Profitability Guide, a collection of strategies and best practices for staying afloat as a partner in the cloud era.

Software Advice also got a private meeting with Microsoft Dynamics AX product manager Kees Hertogh. Kees gave the scoop on Dynamics AX 2012, which just entered beta, and is expected to be generally available this upcoming August. Kees explained the new embedded business intelligence tools and role-tailored user interfaces, among other new additions to this version. Check out the video below for the full interview.

Both of these videos were originally posted on the blog at the Software Advice website.

It’s all about: SQL – The SQL Pass Summit 2010

2010 Pass Summit is perhaps the biggest event in the course of SQL history. Make no mistake, this is going to be another exciting event in the line of Microsoft’s continuing strategy. With Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference being held at Redmond on January next year, this is also being noted as another mega event from Microsoft. While MS acquires Dundas Virtualization, and Microsoft + WordPress decisions are making it clear that Microsoft are not going to take anything for granted, it is clear that SQL Pass Summit will bring in something extraordinary too.

Don't miss the world's largest conference for SQL Server and BI technical education and business networking. Meet the top industry experts and authors in the world. Learn about best practices, effective troubleshooting, how to prevent issues, save money, and build a better SQL Server environment for your company or clients. Roll up your sleeves and get hands-on. Get face-to-face answers and advice from Microsoft CSS and SQLCAT experts. All only at PASS Summit 2010.

Check out the 2010 Content line-up or Register now.

Microsoft .NET MSChart support for AX6 client

AX2009 allowed developers to create charts and graphs on their AX forms using a third party charting control. This third party control was based on COM technology which is no longer updated by the vendor themselves. Thus, limiting the ability to introduce support for additional languages, get key bug fixes and essential security changes. Therefore, Microsoft are replacing the COM control with Microsoft .NET MSChart for Dynamics AX.

Among others, some of the key benefits of using the MSChart control:

- Moving from older COM Control to new .NET based Chart control.

- Increased security.

- Instead of support for 6 languages, we’ll be adding support for ALL AX languages.

- Users may now save their charts to disk in 7 different file formats.

- Standardize on Microsoft .NET Charting

Dynamics AX Development 1

Here is a quick video by Mohamed Gaafar on Dynamics AX Development 1

Microsoft Dynamics AX Demo

In this demonstration, you'll see how Microsoft Dynamics AX is an adaptable business management solution that enables organizations to streamline processes and manage compliance.

Part 1:

Part 2: