Dynamics AX Users Blogs

Microsoft veteran and Dynamics channel program director Tony de Freitas has announced he will be leaving for a new role. In an email to partners, he revealed that he will be ending his position at the end of September and will be taking on a job managing the channel for enterprise research firm Qualtrics . The loss of de Freitas comes just on the heels of the  departure  of Dynamics channel manager and...

It is hardly news that ecommerce platforms are "table stakes" in selling to retailers, distributors and manufacturers. What is new, and continues to evolve, are the demands that those buyers place upon sellers. Jason Dias , a solution architect for the retail industry with Hitachi Solutions America , will describe those demands in the MSDynamicsWorld-hosted webinar, "E-commerce with Microsoft...

Note: This applies to Dynamics AX 2012 RTM, R2, R3, Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Wondering why you are not getting the expected amounts in your Australia Business Activity Statement (BAS)?   One of the most common reasons for that to occur is that GST Codes are not set up with the right GST Reporting codes .   The GST code contains the basic information about the amount collected and paid to...

We are retiring the Microsoft Dynamics AX Developer Center on MSDN at the end of September 2017. (The Developer Center contains links to whitepapers and other downloads that you can also find on the Microsoft Download Center.) W e will redirect all of the current pages on the Developer Center to appropriate pages in the MSDN Library or on the Microsoft Download Center. You can still find the Dynamics AX product documentation...

In Microsoft Dynamics Ax and Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operation, the system allows users to mark the Bank Reconciliation for a statement as reconciled even if there are no amounts  matched. This is now documented in the link below with the following information: The bank reconciliation for a statement can be marked as reconciled at any time, even if there are bank statement lines that have not yet been matched...

Here's what's happening on this week's live webcast schedule. Register to attend live or get access to the recorded event. Tuesday, September 19, 2017 Beyond the Sales Funnel with Microsoft Power BI 12:00 PM EDT Register Use Power BI to get more insights out of your opportunities in your CRM system. There are lots of questions the traditional sales funnel chart doesn't answer...

In this week's Microsoft Dynamics Partner News Roundup: Progressus Software Latest Release Published on the Microsoft AppSource Marketplace Apttus announces $55M funding round, in prep for IPO Inenco Chooses SnapLogic to Help Deliver Exceptional Customer Experience Incadea Appoints New CEO Progressus Software Latest Release Published on the Microsoft AppSource Marketplace Progressus...

With the introduction of Dynamics 365 and cloud enabled tools like Office and VSTS(Visual Studio Team Services) we have accelerators towards iterative ways of performing an implementation. Digitalization also enables the ability to go from a document and template approach to a committed task driv...

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Encore Business Solutions Inc. , a Canadian-owned Microsoft Dynamics partner, has acquired Seattle-based Fine Solutions LLC. All of Fine's products and services will now be marketed and promoted under the Encore brand. The acquisition includes three offices in Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, and employees who sell and provide professional consulting services for Microsoft Dynamics AX, GP and CRM. ...

Here's what's happening on this week's live webcast schedule. Register to attend live or get access to the recorded event. Tuesday, September 12, 2017 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensibility Model: The Clock is Ticking 12:00 PM EDT Register Please note this session will also take place at 11:00 am BST on Wednesday, September 13, 2017. Often, Dynamics AX customers and ISVs...

In this week's Microsoft Dynamics Partner News Roundup: Körber Acquires HighJump - a Leading US-American Supply Chain and Cloud Solutions Specialist TRIMIT and PA Group USA Announce Partnership Briggs Equipment Selects the Customer Engagement Equipment Dealer Solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 as CRM Platform and Edgewater Fullscope as Technology Partner ADEACA Announces Lean Productivity...

In this post I will describe how you can get the login dialog to pop up when you are developing a windows desktop application. Below is an example of the dialog appearing. Below is a sample code how to acquire the token. string authorityUri = "https://login.windows.net/common/oauth2/authorize"; Uri redirectURI = new Uri("https://login.live.com/oauth20_desktop.srf"); AuthenticationContext authenticationContext...

Microsoft has announced the public preview of its Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service. This offering has the potential to be a significant time and labor saver. With the Device Provisioning Service, Microsoft offers: Zero-touch device provisioning Scalability to millions of devices Fully automated provisioning, eliminating the time and labor of configuring and registering...

So here’s the scenario. We’ve got the POS running and the eCommerce site too; but somethings wrong with the product images. They’re not showing up on the eCommerce site. No matter how many times we restart the IIS and change the images on the media server. The thing is that the eCo...

If you use CoC with the July 2017 application release, you need to compile and deploy the standard models you eventually use CoC with. The reason being that the standard models are compiled with Update 8 which didn't have CoC.This is a temporary inconvenience, and will not be necessary after the...

As head of Microsoft Dynamics AX for UK-based JJ Food Service Ltd, new Microsoft MVP Vilmos Kintera, lives by the philosophy that programmers should be more than just coders; rather, they must expand their knowledge of the business as well as their technical knowledge. Based on his experience Kintera, who was named an MVP in August , believes that Dynamics AX developers perform best when they understand the...

How you select your BI system has a lot to do with the benefits you derive from it. My observations in my 17 years of advising mid-sized organizations - plus observations of one other expert in the field - show three critical elements that decide whether new systems will lift you into new, valuable insights or leave you plowing the same old rut. At the organizations that do it well, business users have taken...

Introduction I am sure most of you are familiar with set-based X++ CUD operators: insert_recordset, update_recordset and delete_from. They allow performing database operations with a large number of records in a single roundtrip to the server, instead of a row-by-row type of operation, which depends on the number of rows being processed. As a result, they can provide a very significant boost in

Wednesday, September 6, 2017 A Solution to Correct Address Data in Microsoft Dynamics 365/AX: Save Time, Stay Compliant and Increase Profitability 11:00 AM EDT Register AXMentor understands the struggle, risks and associated costs to your organizatio... read more ...read more

Note: This applies to Dynamics AX 2012 RTM, R2, R3, Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations   SCENARIO   The customer has defined a workflow for Project invoice proposal approvals. At times, after they have already approved the proposals via the workflow, they need to remove the invoice proposal due to some incorrect entries. When they attempt to cancel the approval, they cannot seem to see the option to...

Hitachi is like no other Microsoft Dynamics partner, in that it implements solutions for manufacturers, and the parent company is a manufacturer that uses its own solutions. Hitachi Ltd. is comprised of about 1,000 fairly autonomous companies, of which Hitachi Solutions America is one. "We ask new customers ‘When you hear Hitachi, what was your first experience, and what do you think of?'"...

Strategic Alliance Between 1ClickFactory and QBS Group 1ClickFactory and QBS group have formed a strategic alliance, noting a shared interest in being partner-centric and dedicated to Microsoft Dynamics products, but with very different yet complementary services. Since 2009, 1ClickFactory has provided partners with extended development capabilities around Microsoft Dynamics and packaged services aimed...

Seeing an unexpected number sequence record in the Status list form (from the Number sequence form) that you need to delete? Wondering where to find that ‘Delete’ (File>Delete record) option that used to exist in AX 2012? That option no longer exists in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. For now, you would have to use ALT+F9 to delete selected record/s in the Status List form: 1. Mark the record that needs...

Carlyle Group company ZeroChaos , a provider of workforce management solutions, has acquired Canadian Microsoft partner Loki Management Systems , a developer of workforce management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Headquartered in British Columbia, Loki provides software under the Advanced Payroll for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the StaffRight brand. Loki has more than 200 active clients in...