Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Data Upgrade Best Practices

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AX 2012 Chart Of Accounts Improvements

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 demonstrates improvements to the Chart of Accounts

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.

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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.

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.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Documentation Updates

Microsoft has released a list of changes to the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Help documentation since the product RTM. Available for download here.

Here is the list of Dynamics AX List of Best Practice Error and Warning messages.

X++ code for automated messaging to Microsoft Office Communicator

One of the plus that Microsoft have with Dynamics AX or any other product is its existing product stack. The integration of Microsoft Office Suite aids Microsoft Dynamics AX to be more interactive and integrated in users existing environment.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 also provides integration with Office Communicator. This enables the presence of a person/contact to be shown as part of the contact information, along with links to contact that person. Where the eBook provides several of the coding tips and tricks, Greg on Dynamics AX describes this in a few easy steps. Follow this article for further implementation details.

Also, you can find link to the list of best practices errors and warning messages in Dynamics AX here.

Dynamics AX List of Best Practice Error and Warning Messages

 

Working with Microsoft Dynamics AX development environment, one must follow certain best practices that would allow the code to run and work better. By default, the compiler for X++, checks the code for a list of best practice issues that are very important to follow. These issues are listed as best practice errors, warnings, or even informational messages.

Here is the great resource for those working on Dynamics AX for the consolidated list of best practice error and warning messages on msdn site.

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530207.aspx

Microsoft Dynamics AX Demo

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