Rob's Ax Blog

If using the new Task Recorder with Ax 2012 R2, you'll need to have Windows Media Player installed also. Took a while to find where it was hidden in Server 2012, but it's there, under User Interface and Infrastructure...see this blog post for details. http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/05/01/how-to-add-desktop-experience-feature-on-windows-server-8-beta.aspx

Of the many new features introduced in Ax 2012 R2 CU7 , one is the ability to use the Data Import Export Framework (DIXF) to copy data between companies. From the DIXF menu, select Copy entity data between companies. Enter a name & description for the processing group. Select the entities to include in the processing group. Select the source company, and destination companies. The process can run interactively, or for larger data sets, in batch. More detail on the new DIXF features here . The DIXF can also be used to export and import data between Ax systems, as can the Test Data Transfer Tool.

In Ax 2012, country based functionality is tied to an entities primary address. Recently when setting up a demo Canadian company, we needed to enter a registration number and a software identification code. The software identification code was easy, as explained by the help - two letters followed by 6 numbers. The registration number took a little more though - Ax validates this number. After quickly drilling through to the validation code, we found in a lovely piece of commenting the developers had left a sample number as part of a worked example - 100000041

If you receive the error 'Number sequence 0 does not exist', check the voucher number sequence associated with the journal type you are trying to post.

Microsoft recently released Life Cycle Services . LCS is built around a collaborative work space that customers and partners can both access to use online tools that can assist in managing a Dynamics Ax 2012 project from license estimation to system diagnostics. Microsoft have published a series of videos giving an overview and detailed look at the LCS features. License estimator -  License sizing estimator helps you estimate the number of licenses required for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. It provides a shared workspace that enables you to model default and customized roles, and then automatically calculate required client access licenses (CALs). Usage Profiler -  In Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services, Usage profiler (beta) is a data-gathering tool that can help you describe your projected or current usage of a Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 implementation. You can use the data from the Usage profiler (beta) for a variety of purposes, such...