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CRM Web API sample code published 

I’m happy to announce that we’ve just published the first set of samples for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web API. The CRM Web API was released nine months ago and all of our samples so far have simply demonstrated raw HTTP requests and responses. These are the first set of samples you can download and

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The “ADFS URL” parameter has not been configured when setting-up workflow approval via email – Dynamics AX 2012 Mobile App Connector 

You are in the process of setting up email approval for Dynamics AX, when you go through the setup of the Microsoft Dynamics AX Connector for Mobile Applications service, and you start it, you receive the following message: The “ADFS URL” parameter has not been configured The “Thumbprint of X.509 certificate used to sign SAML

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Regulatory Feature Update for Poland – Standard Audit File (SAF) 

We have released a feature update for Standard Audit File (SAF) in Poland for Microsoft Dynamics AX. Overview. This updates includes batch processing, bug fixes. Download. AX 2009 SP1. KB3187695 released 23 Aug 2016, includes all previously released updates to the feature, including the originally released KB3165114. AX 2012 R3. After installing the feature (KB3165114) install KB3178394 and

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You receive the error: “One or more items associated with this Item model group are controlled by processes defined for warehouse management and the use of reservation hierarchy. FIFO date-controlled reservations will not be used for these items.” when attempting to set up an item model group and you are unable to set up the item model group. 

If you have the “FIFO date-controlled” option marked on the Item model group and the “Use warehouse management processes” option marked on the Storage dimension group, it would be working as designed that you are receiving this error as you cannot use the two of these options together. To verify if these options are marked,

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Forms authentication provider stops working after applying May CU for SharePoint 2013 

After we installed May CU for SharePoint 2013 (15.0.4823.1003) we were not able to log with Forms authentication users and the error (404) In SharePoint log we could see the error: Exception trying get context compatibility level: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The site https://dax2012r3.contoso.com:8090/_Layouts/FormsAuth/Login.aspx could not be found in the Web application SPWebApplication Name=DynamicsFormsSTS – dax2012r3.contoso.com-8090. at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.LookupSiteInfo(SPFarm

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Retail Discount Concurrency Modes 

When configuring discounts and setting the Discount concurrency mode, you have the option to choose Exclusive, Best price, or Compounded.  The question presented when ringing up POS transactions is which one takes precedence when you have multiple discounts that are applicable to the same sale?  This article will provide you with a brief explanation on the

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[Service Restored] Errors when using AX 

Final Status: Updating the SQL servers was successful. Microsoft engineers confirmed that the issues with importing and exporting data are resolved. User Experience: Affected customers received the error: “Exception: Integration Services evaluation period has expired.” when importing or exporting data. Customer Impact: All Dynamics AX customers worldwide Incident Start Time: Tuesday, July 19, 2016, 4:51

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What’s new in CU11 for WMS and TMS 

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Cumulative Update 11 is now available for download on Lifecycle Services, CustomerSource and PartnerSource. This release includes several improvements for warehouse and transportation management. For detailed information on the release of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 CU11, please refer to the Dynamics AX In-Market Engineering blog. In this post we’ll

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Configuring Client Timeout 

The Dynamics NAV Support team have been asked many times about how to configure NAV client timeout values so we have written this post as a simple overview for this topic. Dynamics NAV Windows client timeout configuration is managed at the NAV Server level by setting the Idle Client Timeout setting to a value that

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How to configure SLAs 

Hey, congrats on updating to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 8.1. Of the many new and exciting features, you now have the capability to use service level agreements (SLAs) for entities apart from Case. The additional entities with the SLA capabilities are: All activity entities (email, appointment, etc.) except recurring appointment Account Contact Order Invoice Quote

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Warehouse Mobile Device Portal (WMDP) timeout 

Hello, If you see the following error message when using the Warehouse Mobile Device Portal: “Sorry, an error occurred while processing your request. Please retry your request or contact your system administrator”, you should first check the application log of the IIS server’s event viewer. If you are running into a timeout issue, you will

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AX 2012 AxUpdatePortal fails with error after about 6 minutes 

When running the command [AxUpdatePortal -updateall -websiteurl “…” -verbose] on the EP server it sometimes happens that the execution fails with error:The operation failed to execute. Error: Microsoft Dynamics AX could not locate the Web server… In the Application event log you find a Warning with Event ID 1309 from source ASP.NET 4.0.30319.0: 3001The request