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Dynamics Ax 2012 History cleanup
On of my most popular posts is Cleaning up the AIF document log, but this is not the only table that could benefit from a regular cleanup. For some of these standard tables there are little or no cleanup jobs, as an example the cleanup for the AIF document log only runs online in the client…
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Dynamics Ax 2012 my ideal Azure VM setup
Introduction This is just a quick note on how I setup an Ax 2012 on an Azure machine to get the most bang for my buck. The example I’m using is a DEV machine where I keep the sample code for this blog. But you could apply the principles for every environment. Sizing & disks…
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Dynamics Ax 2012 fill factor
Database synchronize We all know that Dynamics Ax constructs its tables and indexes during a DB synchronize, and if we would make changes directly in SQL these could be overridden by Ax when installing model updates and syncing those to the database. But there’s more to creating an index then the defaults Ax does and…
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Dynamics Ax 2012 Trace parser with ETW
Hi All, The following subject already exists for a while but I found it so useful that I want to get it out there once more! Lets consider the following scenario: There’s a performance issue in production and no other environment around where the customer or the partner is able to reproduce it or the…
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Enterprise portal: work items for Purchase orders
Hi all, Those of you who work with workflow in the Procurement flow might have encountered the following problem. The client wants to approve Purchase Orders through the Enterprise Portal, but for some reason the work items are not visible, while they are visible in AX Client. Fair enough, you’d say, there actually is an…
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Dynamics Ax Management Shell powershell tips
Hi all, When Dynamics Ax 2012 came out it was shipped with 2 tools AxUtil.exe and the Management shell. In my experience most of the Dynamics Ax developers are already familiar with AxUtil.exe but don’t have much experience in powershell yet. Therefor I decided to write some examples to get you guys going. If you…
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Dynamics Ax custom WCF service with paging support
Hi all, Lately I’ve been busy developing WCF services to communicate with .NET web applications. All of these web services are custom-made and are using .NET data contracts so that every application uses the same contracts. Due to the high amount of data and performance we had to implement some kind of paging. I had…