Mansour Yahya Mohamad articles

Mansour Yahya Mohamad
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Inspecting a D365FO Meta Data Hotfix Content 

In this article, you will find detailed instructions, on how to inspect content of a D365FO meta data hotfix. The article describes a manual approach as well as running PowerShell scripts to extract the underlying dependencies of hotfixes and affected objects. All descriptions are in attached “Inspecting a D365FO Meta Data Hotfix Content.docx” document. Inspecting-a-D365FO-Meta-Data-Hotfix-Content2
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Code merging window is not popping up as expected in TFS 2013 

Tested on AX 2012 R3 and TFS 2013 The code merging window is not popping up as expected in TFS 2013. This is probably caused by the changes made to the merge tool of TFS 2013 according to this article : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2011/08/31/merge-enhancements-in-tfs-11.aspx Workaround suggestion: Install the Visual Studio 2010 Team Exploreron on developers machines (Download link):
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Releasing a Product to other companies during DIXF product import 

For the AX 2012 R2/R3, there is a field in the staging table called ReleaseProductCompany. This field is used to release the product to multiple companies; it will do the same as manually release the product. On the Source data format you can specify a Multi value separator. Using this character you can specify multiple
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Fields fetch behavior for “EntireTable” cache table 

The CacheLookup property of the table defines how and when records are cached. The below definition is valid for the “EntireTable” cache type: EntireTable   Creates a set-based cache on the server.   The entire table is cached as soon as at least one      record is selected from the table. So, if the table cache is set to
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Cannot edit the WCF configuration out of the Dynamics AX 2012 client configuration Tool. 

If you cannot open the Service Configuration editor out of the Client configuration tool you can use the following workaround: 1. Open the Client configuration tool 2. Click the Configure Services button 3. Receive the error message that it can’t open the Service Configuration editor. 4. Agree with the Message 5. The configuration tool will
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“Maximum number of items that can be serialized or deserialized in an object graph is ‘65535’.” In Dynamics AX 2012 

If you receive an error message like: Maximum number of items that can be serialized or deserialized in an object graph is ‘65535’. And the Article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg862502.aspx Is not fixing the issue for you. Please use the following steps:   PART 1 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg862502.aspx Ax32serv.exe.config need to be updated in your system to match the below
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AX 2012 R3 – A user cannot synchronize to a Document Template Library with federated authentication and no error message displays. 

  Issue description: AX 2012 R3 – A user cannot sync to a Document Template Library with federated authentication and no error message displays,but If you are logged into SharePoint site and try attaching the file then, it works fine. Workaround suggestion: Setup is completed following the article below: Configure and use Microsoft Dynamics AX
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Moving AXModelstore from Source environment to Target environment with different DB collation 

AX 2012 R2/R3 We have in support received some queries for recommendations moving the AXModelStore from a Model database to another Model database with different collation. Conclusion:  The AXModelStore file we create is specific to SQL_Latin collations, saying that, for metadata, AX only supports the SQL_Latin… collation on string fields, and that is why even Model
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Enhanced security with Kerberos only authentication in Microsoft Dynamics AX 

Versions: AX 2009/2012R2/2012R3 – not 2012RTM/FP We introduced the possibility to enhance the Security for Microsoft Dynamics AX Server client communication. By default we are using a Kerberos and NTLM mix. This stays unchanged if you don’t set any Registry Key. For switching of the NTLM authentication in your environment we have now the possibility
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Unable to update or remove Dynamics AX Components as you can’t choose any of them 

Recently more and more cases are popping up related to:  “Unable to update or remove Dynamics AX components as you can’t choose any component” These cases are to 99% related to the fact that someone deleted files from the Windows installer folder. Please have a look at the articles like: http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2012/01/18/can-you-safely-delete-files-in-the-windir-installer-directory.aspx Snipp……………………….. So, the question usually asked