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LCS: Cloud Powered Support improvements 

With the last update we have enabled a new feature in CPS (cloud powered support) for AX 2012 R2 and AX 2012 R3. This feature allows customers/partners to now create VMs using latest Cumulative Updates templates (ex. R2 CU9 and R3 CU9), while filing a support ticket for AX 2012 R2 and AX 2012 R3. Following are

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Dynamics AX – 1099 Tax Updates for 2015 

Once again, tax season is right around the corner. As such, I thought I would take a moment to let everyone know that we have released the 2015 1099 updates for Dynamics AX and share some of the changes we have made. Supported versions: Version: AX 5.0 Hotfix: KB311849 Location: http://hotfixv4.microsoft.com/Microsoft%20Dynamics%20AX%202009/sp1/KB3118498/5.0.1600.3540/free/488628_intl_i386_zip.exe Version: AX 6.0/6.1 –

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The Importance of Detailed Repro Scenario Descriptions 

The foundation for quick progress and resolution of an incident is usually a detailed repro scenario. So, this post describes some of the reasons, along with providing some insights into how the Support team works, in order to help you, our partners and customers. Reproduce Incident in the CRONUS Demonstration Database Firstly, in order to escalate an

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Improve performance by running the Warehouse management on-hand entries cleanup job – for New AX and for AX2012 R3 CU10 

  Introduction Calculation of the on-hand are used from many forms but also during many business processes, the latter being less obvious to end-users. Therefore, it is always of interest to us to improve the performance of these operations since the overall impact on many processes can be quite significant. The nature of the queries

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December 2015 release notes 

The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the December release of Lifecycle Services. NEW FEATURES Microsoft Dynamics AX Public Preview is here! The public preview of Microsoft Dynamics AX is now available. You can now sign up and deploy a cloud instance of Microsoft Dynamics AX, based on

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Data Loader – December release notes 

We are happy to announce the December update for Data Loader. New Features There are many new features that are now available with this December release: Data Loader is now supported in all regions globally except government cloud. The job status view has been improved to show clear record counts and grouping of records as per their state. Support

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Design Pattern: Observer 

Microsoft Dynamics NAV has the built in ability to track all record changes against any table, however it does not always fire the triggers for every table. But with the Observer pattern, you can track all record changes against a defined table or set of tables. This pattern is a good example of how classic

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Data Loader Known Issue: Data jobs counts are showing ‘0’ for all entities 

We have new features coming out in our December release. However, for some of the improvements, we had to change few interfaces due to which all the existing data jobs have their counts reflected as ‘0’ and the staging gird will show no data. As soon as our December upgrade is completed (ETA – 12/17/2015), all new data jobs

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MPOS Adding a New Product to a Category Listing 

In MPOS if you want to use categories, catalogs must be setup and validated. See the below TechNet article on setting up Catalogs https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj728723.aspx See the following steps to create a new product and see the product as part of a category in MPOS: USRT for the Houston store has a catalog called Men’s suits – My MPOS

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Using route schedules in TMS with CU10 

Posted on behalf of Simon Juul. Many companies have agreements with customers to deliver their orders on a regular basis, for example weekly deliveries. In order for TMS in AX to be able to support transportation routes executed regularly, a new feature for “scheduled routes” have been introduced with CU10 or separately from LCS with