Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Data Upgrade Best Practices

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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.

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.