This blog is a continuation from Configuring the Dynamics AX 2-12 R3 Entity Store.  This is part 2 of a 3-part series: Part 1 – Setting up and Configuring the Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Entity Store Part 2 – Publishing a Dynamics AX 2012 R3 default entity Part 3 – Creating and publishing a custom […]

After installing a newer Kernel, the Dynamics AX Data Import Export Framework (DIEF) stopped working. I have run into this issue in Dynamics AX 2012 R2 and Dynamics AX 2012 R3 environments. This is the error that the user would see: “The DIXF service is unavailable. Please contact the system administrator.-Unable to connect to the […]

The long term use and stability of your Dynamics AX system depends upon optimal setup. Our team offers an AX Health Check service to review several areas through the eyes of an expert. Our experience, outside perspective, and knowledge of best practices, allows us to investigate some of the most common problem areas.  Our technical consultants […]

When the time came for me to develop my first SSRS report from scratch I ran into something that took a bit to figure out. I wasn’t able to get any of my breakpoints to hit in my data provider class. I couldn’t find anything online to help. Luckily a co-worker of mine was able to give me […]

If you’ve ever had the following issues displaying Tablix reports, read on for the solution to your problems. Do you want your report headings on each page of your AX SSRS report? Are you trying to display your headings from a tablix? When you have your headings in a tablix on the report, the tablix property “Repeat […]

SSRS in the Parameters Node If you regularly develop Dynamics AX 2012 reports you have likely seen the report parameters displayed in SSRS under the Parameters node.  It is the very last node displayed in the report. In the Parameters list are parameters coming from the datasets and global parameters that come with every AX […]

Text formatting inside of a SSRS textbox can sometimes be tricky and this case is no exception. At the core we are using the built in REPLACE function. REPLACE takes the following parameters: 1) The string to search in (usually your field value) 2) What to search for 3) What to replace it with There are some other […]

I am currently on Kernel build 6.3.164.3323 (KB 3000518) and when installing a hotfix for AX 2012 R3, ran across the error ‘Kernel Components Not Marked for Update’. I downloaded the latest kernel from the Microsoft Dynamics blog, Overview of AX Build Numbers. At the time I ran into this issue, the latest kernel hotfix […]

Thanks to everyone who attended our sessions at Convergence on Maximizing SQL Server Performance for Dynamics. Rod Hansen and I were thrilled with the attendance (177 people on Wednesday and 146 on Thursday) and we were very pleased to see that our sessions were the  rated the #1 and #2 sessions in the Cross Product […]

Data storage is relatively cheap in the server hardware world, but I think every DBA and IT Operations person would much rather have a 300 GB database than a 700 GB database.  Not only does it save you hard drive space, but it saves on previous backup and restore time. If you have SQL Server […]