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Disable standard security in CDXRealTimeService 

   DESCRIPTION:  In Dynamics AX 2012 R3 the default behavior for CDXRealTimeService (RTS)  calls are through HTTPS. The initialization of the Public or Self-Signed certificate can take >10 seconds and the process can be repeated during operation. The typical scenario is that the Cashier in the Retail POINT of Sale, that request the RTS function
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Unable to insert data into the Channel database – String or Binary data would be truncated 

Dynamics AX2012 R2/R3 Retail   Description:   While inserting a Distribution package job like 1010 into the Channel database following message appears and the operation stops.   Full error message: Microsoft.Dynamics.Retail.StoreConnect.Request.SQLHandler.ProcessSourceRequestHeaderException:ProcessTargetRequestHeader failed due to an InvalidOperationException. connectionString:Data Source=743R1;Initial Catalog=POSDB;Integrated Security=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True;ConnectTimeout=60;Encrypt=True;TrustServerCertificate=True;ApplicationName=”Commerce Data Exchange Async Client” —>System.InvalidOperationException: The given value of type String from the data source
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AXRETAIL: How to control the Action flow 

Applies to AX 2012 R2  Description: The purpose of this article is to provide an example, how to control the data flow concerning (preaction/action). Retailers might have to add new catalogs, Changing prices and barcodes during opening hours. If the number of changes are huge, the processing time increases and the locking behaviour on the store
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DDL script generator for Dynamics AX 2012 R2 

DDL script generator for Dynamics AX 2012 R2Synchronization   Description: The standard synchronization process is a single threaded process. This causes performance problems in larger upgradeslike AX 2012 RTM to R2, because we example add the partition column to all tables and indexes. By using the DDL scripts we can push the sql server and
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Overview over Kernel crash hotfixes 

 This blog should help you to get an overview on which kernel/application hotfixes are available concerning crash issues. As all kernel are cumulative, meaning that they contain all previous made hotfixes. Application hotfixes might have many dependencies and therefore they can be more time consuming to implement. The blog will be updated on regular basis.
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AX Retail: Enabling reliable session support in POS – RealTimeServices in AX 2012 R2 

Description: We havereceived some feedback from customers that inconsistence occurs when thenetwork connect fails during a RealTimeService operation from the POS. Toensure that POS calls to RealTimeService is working reliable, we can enable thereliable session in the config files. After enabling this feature, the communicationwill ensure consistency in the calls.   NB: Enabling this feature
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AX2012: Error when downgrading the AX server kernel 

Description: It can happen that you need to downgrade the AOS kernel in a system. Depending on the build you are going back to, you might get an error message. Error message: Object Server 01:  Fatal SQL condition during login. Error message: “The internal time zone version number stored in the database is higher than
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Moving POS dlls from one machine to another causes the file to be blocked. 

Description: After copying DLL files from another location, the POS is not loading the extensions because of the error:” Thisfile came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect thiscomputer” 🙂 –  The POS does not give any indication about the error as it does not try to load it. The Message is only shown when
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AX Retail: Retail store maintenance and SQL Express 

Description   Here are some tips to do maintenance on your store database running SQL express and how to shrink the size of the database.   Store transaction cleanup It is important to cleanup the store database as many store databases in smaller shop only runs SQL Express editions. SQL Express has a 10 GB limit
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Dynamics AX – Power options 

 Description: The power options on the servers and client machines has a major impact on the performance for CPU bound processes. example Dynamics AX client machines Dynamics AX AOS server machines Dynamics AX Retail POS machines   I collected some examples based on experience from Customer engagements. Example 1: In Dynamics AX POS the scanning
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AX 2012 Retail: Customizing deployment of a new store. 

Title: Customizing deployment of a new store.   AX2012 comes with a lot of predefined A and N jobs that can be used to push data when deploying a new store or updatingexisting stores. These jobs works very well for small or medium data volume stores. For stores with high volume of data it can