There is a report under System admiration > Reports > Licensing > Named User License Counts . This report contains information about the users who are assigned to security roles in Microsoft Dynamics AX. The report analyzes the roles and privileges that are assigned to each user and then calculates the number of licenses that are required for each user type. To actually get data to show up on this report you have to set up a batch job to run periodically. Its a little hidden. You can copy and paste the job below. Then run it to create the batch job. This sets up a batch job to run once…

Just a little warning when installing the feature pack. Make sure your build number is correct. If you already have a previous version of AX 2012, the installer doesn’t recognised the client needs to be updated. I also struggled to update the AOS as it required a new installation. ........ Full post http://dynamicsnavax.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/install-feature-pack-warning-ax-2012.html

This is something to be aware of. If you compile the AOT visual studio projects node (AOT > Visual Studio Projects > Dynamics AX Model Projects), it modifies the SSRS report in the current layer you are in. This doesn’t happen if you do a full AOT compile. I picked it up because I wanted to compile my Shared project which contained the visual studio project node in it. When you do an AOT compare nothing comes up but if you export it out to xpo. Then do a text compare, it looks like it has modified the DataSourceID element. I have raised this with Microsoft and they have come back with this…

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 includes many different ways to import data into the system. This document provides guidance about which import method to choose for the specific situations. http://informationsource.dynamics.com//RFPServicesOnline/Rfpservicesonline.aspx?DocName=Data+Migration+for+Microsoft+Dynamics+AX+2012%7cQJ4JEM76642V-8-857 This is a very interesting read. As it makes mention of RapidStart . Full post ... http://dynamicsnavax.blogspot.com/2012/04/data-migrationrapidstart-ax-2012.html