Anup Shah MSFT articles

Anup Shah MSFT
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Provide feedback on your AX 2012 R2 and R3 deployments 

Please take 5 minutes (for each survey) to share information about your existing AX 2012 R2 and R3 deployment and your update and upgrade plans*. *Update : Moving within same AX versions (For example moving from AX 2012 R2 CU 8 to AX 2012 R2 CU9) *Upgrade : Moving to higher AX version (For example
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Warning when installing AX 2012 R3 Application hotfix: The model store you selected requires a newer version of the installer than the one you’re using. 

Scenario: When you try to install a single Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Application hotfix you may sometime experience the following warning; and installation will not proceed further: The model store you selected requires a newer version of the installer than the one you’re using.  The latest version of the update installer can be downloaded from
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Error when browsing a custom service hosted as IIS web service: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B) 

Title: Error when browsing a custom service hosted as IIS web service – An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B) Scenario: You are using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 You have created several Custom Services that you can deploy using NetTcp successfully and consume the WSDL in
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Unable to import model files generated using Export-AxModel cmdlet, or upload it to LCS for Customization analysis 

I wanted to share an issue you may face when exporting models using the AX 2012 powershell cmdlets. As per the system requirements, we recommend using Powershell v2.0. However you may have Powershell v3 and above installed on your system (like Windows Server 2012 R2), and this can cause the following issues:   Issue 1: Unable to import models
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The ‘view details’ feature will not work on an EDT field when the field has a relation defined in the ‘table references’ subnode. 

In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, relations can no longer be created under extended data type (EDT) nodes in the Application Object Tree (AOT). In a table browser –          The “view details” option only works with views in when there is a relation defined in the EDT (in the Relations node). We don’t look at the
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Error when upgrading to AX 2012 Feature Pack: The UPDATE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint “FK_ModelElementData_HasModelId_LayerId” 

When performing a Minor-version upgrade by installing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Feature pack on top of AX 2012 RTM installation with one or more of the following industry solutions installed (like Service Industries, Process Industries, Public Sector and/or beta AX-Retail), you may get errors like: SQL Error description: {Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 10.0][SQL Server]The UPDATE statement conflicted
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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012: Workflow Basic Settings Form Has Missing Text Boxes 

When trying to create a new workflow configuration, you may find that text boxes are missing from the Properties form when you try to modify the basic settings. You are therefore unable to create a valid workflow configuration as you cannot input text for the submission instructions and other mandatory fields. (Screenshot showing Properties form
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In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 the Default account setup Lookup form is listing Main Accounts from all Company Accounts rather than just active Company Accounts 

We came across an issue recently where the “Default account setup” Lookup form is listing Main Accounts from all Company Accounts. We are using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 CU-2. The selection in some queries brought unexpected results. For example: Under Accounts payable > Setup > Vendors > Vendor groups. Then select one Vendor and click “Default