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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

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Events: AxForm_ItemCommand, AxForm_ItemUpdating and AxForm_ItemUpdated not fire in Safari browser on SharePoint 2013 

The issue occurs when installing the Enterprise Portal on a claims web application, so actually you will also face the same the issue on SharePoint 2010 when using claims. The issue only impacts Safari browser; in IE or Firefox you will not see the issue. There are two solutions to this issue to install Enterprise

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Cannot add Work Items from Lifecycle Services after completing the setup of Visual Studio Team Services integration in an AX 2012 project. 

When working with AX 2012 projects in LCS (Lifecycle Services), the option for adding Work Items from LCS is missing after completing the setup of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) integration. When creating a Dynamics AX (AX7) project and doing the exact same setup, then Work Items can be created from LCS and stored in

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Vendor catalogs in Dynamics AX 

Vendor catalogs import In Microsoft Dynamics AX, purchasing professionals can create and maintain catalogs for company employees to use when they order items and services for internal use. When you create a procurement catalog you can add the items and services that you make available to employees, either by importing the vendor catalog data or

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Supportability for Integration Solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX Projects and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 

The Integration Solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX Projects and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, is a solution that relies on the CRM Connector that allow to synchronize projects data between AX and CRM.For details you can refer to the specific documentation: Integration Solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX Projects and Microsoft Dynamics CRM About synchronizing project information between

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RDLC Report and Performance in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 and 2016 

In a previous Blog dated back year 2014 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nav/2014/03/09/rdlc-report-and-performance-in-microsoft-dynamics-nav/ I have tried to give an overview related to the Out Of Memory exception that you might hit with Microsoft Dynamics NAV RDLC Report with the following versions: 2009 R2, 2013 and 2013 R2. The main focus of my dissertation now is based on the improvement

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Key Clean up Features for InventSum and InventDim Tables 

Please find below a summary of the clean-up features we currently offer in regards to InventSum and InventDim tables which can be found under the menu: Inventory management > Periodic > Clean up. The Inventory Dimensions cleanup shows the following help text: “The ‘Clean up unused inventory dimensions’ batch process deletes all existing inventory dimensions

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Microsoft Dynamics AX update installer throws an exception. 

I recently had the following error show up in my queue. An unexpected exception occurred during setup. See the log file C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Dynamics AX\Dynamics AX Setup Logs\2016-02-03 22-34-07\DynamicsSetupLog.txt for details. The log had the following. Exception: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException Message: The parameter value must be greater than zero. Parameter name: textLength FullText: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: The parameter value must be