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Possibilities to create Memory Dumps from crashing processes 

Sometimes it happens that during regular operation the Dynamics AX Application Object Server (AOS) is suffering from an abnormal program termination, which is better know as a crash. Users connected with the Dynamics AX Client to the affected AOS Instance are noticing such an issue very soon as they get disconnected from the AOS. In
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Passing UtcDateTime values in extended query syntax 

Recently I was looking into the issue of passing UtcDateTime values into a query in X++ using extended query syntax. First I will just clarify what I mean when saying “extended query syntax”: This is extended query syntax: (‘(validUntilDate = %1)’, DateTimeUtil::toStr(utcRefDateTime)); This is the regular syntax for ranges: (‘%1’, queryValue(utcRefDateTime)); As you can see in
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Binding operation failed to allocate buffer space 

So this error has been around for some time, searching online you can find some simple answers to use if you run into this, but no where really explains what’s happening here in detail. Well – I had to look at this myself recently and so here is the detail: Error Message (17:05:20) Stack trace: Binding operation
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Error “Thread was being aborted” when deploying reporting extensions 

Some time ago we run into problem which did not let us deploy reporting extensions to SQL Reporting Services. Just after building libraries we got the error: [ThreadAbortException]: Thread was being aborted. at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) at System.Web.HttpApplication.ApplicationStepManager.ResumeSteps(Exception error) at System.Web.HttpApplication.System.Web.IHttpAsyncHandler.BeginProcessRequest(HttpContext context, AsyncCallback cb, Object extraData) at System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestInternal(HttpWorkerRequest wr) Because the error was very
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Unable to edit the DCOM settings for IIS WAMREG admin service on a Windows Server 2008 R2 when trying to configure Kerberos Authentication for Role Centers 

We came across an issue recently where we were configuring Enterprise Portal and Role Centers to use Kerberos authentication. One of the steps in the whitepaper is to configure DCOM settings to grant the business connector proxy user account Launch and Activation permissions for the IIS WAMREG admin service package. We were able to do
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Identical AX 2009 AUC File Created For Multiple AX Installations 

We came across an issue recently where we had the same GUID for two different AX installations running on the same server and therefore only one AUC file existed for both installations instead of two separate ones for use by the AX Client. This caused various anomalies when the client was used to access both
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Error during Hotfix installation – “Version string portion was too short or too long” 

Recently we had a problem when installing a Hotfix for AX 2009. The installation stopped with an error and we could find the following information in the setup log: === Starting execution phase === Starting the Microsoft Dynamics AX Client executable: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\50\Client\bin\ax32.exe “-regconfig=Ax2009myConfig” “-logdir=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dynamics AX\Dynamics AX Setup
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How does the Export to Excel feature work under the hood? 

One of the nice features of Dynamics AX 2009 is the Export to Excel that is available throughout the product and allows to content of a Grid to be exported to Microsoft Office Excel for further analysis. Sometimes however the feature does not work as expected. So for example Microsoft Office Excel is starting but