Stefan Rißling articles

Forms opening up with focus in background? 

If you work with an installation where forms in MS Dynamics AX are opened in the background then the following code fix might help out here: “Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Documentation collection: Inplace upgrade MS Dynamics AX 2012 RTM –> AX 2012 R2 CU7 

Main documentation: The following 2 items explain the Inplace Upgrade process. No 1) shows the basic idea and No 2) goes even more into detail: (Important: Please follow all the steps in No 2) exactly in the given order and plan enough time for tests) 1) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj733502.aspx 2) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?

Taking over „Update cross reference“ results from one environment to another in MS Dynamics AX 2009 SP 1 

There is no way around for the need to run “Update cross reference” but the following approach could avoid long running times at least for 1 environment.

Required permissions when installing different components of MS Dynamics AX 2012 sorted by components 

Before you begin the installation of Microsoft Dynamics AX, work with a system administrator to make sure that the account that you log on with at each server has appropriate permissions. The permissions in the following table are recommended based on the principle of least privilege.

SSRS report tuning possibility in MS Dynamics AX 2012 RTM 

SSRS in MS Dynamics AX 2012 RTM uses session pooling. The first request that comes in from a user – a session will be created for them within the AOS services.

How to enable the setup for user specific font Settings in MS Dynamics AX 2012 

Found the following way on how to customize user depended fonts for reports and forms in AX 2012 client: (1) Open a new developer workspace (2) Navigate in the AOT to forms, SysUserSetup, designs, design(sys), [tab:tab](sys)], right click [TabPage.

How to perform a data center change (change of the physical location) where a SQL server 2008 R 2 cluster installation and MS Dynamics AX 4.0 is involved? 

Basically you have 3 possibilities to proceed with the physical change of the data center locations: 1) You shut down the existing servers in the old data center in a controlled manner, transport these servers physically to the new data center and start them up there in a controlled manner again.

MS Dynamics AX 2012 R2 hardware sizing 

  If you are looking for Information here the following hints might be of interest: We have the following Benchmark report available. That was performed based on MS Dynamic 2012 R1 but in terms of the sizing results things remained the same so it is still valid.