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by mighty scot
It is that time again :-)
I have got 6 Gmail Invites. If interested please leave a comment. I will get back to you ASAP !!
by mighty scot
In Axapta newsgroups, I come across one question quite often. It is -
How to run Axapta Enterprise Portal in Windows 2003 Server.
Or slightly different - I am trying to run Enterprise Portal on Windows 2003 but I am facing these problems ....
Quite recently I came across this article from MBS which details about the steps that should be taken to run Axapta Enterprise Portal in Windows 2003 successfully. This is written by Johan Letzen, Axpata Program Manager with the Swedish MBS Subsidiary office.
Hope this helps while faced with some nagging problems ....
by mighty scot
After not so brief holiday, I am back in work now. There are quite a lot of things that I have to catch up with ....
BTW, the other day I came across Google chewing gum . Initally when I heard it for the first time, I thought it is someone's idea of a joke. 
Then when I saw the picture I could not believe it !! Here is a sample picture.
More pictures are here
by mighty scot
While checking my mails today, suddently I found out that I have 50 Gmail Invites !
Not sure whether still it is a sought after commodity. But if anyone wants it, drop me an email here. Will respond to you pronto as always !!
by mighty scot
Microsoft has come out with their first AntiSpyware offering. The same can be downloaded from here.
Currently support has been extended for Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003. Important thing is at present this Beta version is free of charge!!
Ultimately I guess MS would have two different offerings - Paid and Free version. Just like other commercial AntiSpy offerings (ex Lavasoft Ad-Aware).
by mighty scot
I get this question from people on quite regular basis. Apparently they have heard about the existance of an Axapta training website. But unable to find out the address of that particular website.
Well - search no more! Here are the instructions to access Axapta Training website -
1) To visit Axapta Training website, please click here
2) Those who have already received their login credentials, can directly click on the "Login button" to enter into the training website.
3) Those who do not have login, do please send a request to this email address - voice@microsoft.com.
The above website contains training materials not only for Axapta, but also products like Great Plains, Solomon, Microsoft CRM etc.
Hope the above info helps. If you need anything else, please do not hesitate to post your comments!!
Wish you all a happy training :-)
by mighty scot
Some time back I came across this very interesting Q&A session on Axapta Sales orders. Apparently the questions were posted by Axapta users and answered by Brian King, MBS Axapta Support Engineer based in US.
Personally, though it contains just few questions, I found this quite interesting . Hope to find more such sessions on other areas of Axapta !
This particular article can be accessed from here.
by mighty scot
Some time back I received a query from a friend of mine regarding info on Axapta certification. Subsequently I contacted a reseller friend of mine. Here is the response that I received from him -
Currently Microsoft Business Solutions conducts two streams of Certified Axapta Master exams, viz -
1) Certified Master - Axapta Application & (Functional)
2) Certified Master - Axapta Installation & Configuration (Technical)
Both certifications require clearing of 4 exams.
Requirements for Certified Master - Axapta Application -
Mandatory Exam - Axapta Financials
Elective exams (3 required)
a) Axapta Product Builder
b) Axapta Trade & Logistics
c) Axapta Shop Floor Control
d) Axapta CRM
e) Axapta Projects
f) Axapta Production
g) Axapta Questionnaire
h) Axapta HRM
Requirements for Certified Master - Axapta Installation & Configuration -
Mandatory Exams -
a) Axapta Installation & Configuration
b) MS 70-228 Installing, Configuring and Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition
Elective exams (2 required)
a) Axapta Financials
b) Axapta Trade & Logistics
c) Axapta Production
d) MS 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
OR
MS 70-292 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA Certified on Windows 2000 Environment
OR
MS 70-291 Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
Please note that I am not responsible for the accuracy of information. Do please check with your Reseller or local MBS office as well !!
by mighty scot
Gone are the days of advertising through Television, Print Media etc. Now comes novel way of advertising through Blogs !!
GeekFury has come up with this rather novel way of advertising their merchandise. I had a look at their cool merchandise and I should say it makes me feel Profeshunal :-)
All Geeks out there - do head along to GeekFury and have a look at their merchandise :-)
by mighty scot
Post the MBS Convergence Conference, I have come across so many articles predicting things like the entire future of MBS, future of Project Green, etc. I was so busy reading those articles, I almost missed out this article.
The article in question is written by Joshua Greenbaum in Datamation titled - Microsoft's MBS: Enterprise Applications for Sale?
I am specifically writing about this mainly because in this article Joshua thinks that Microsoft is going to sell off MBS!! The reason that he puts forward for such a dire prediction in his own words is -
At a minimum there's a lot of egg on Redmond's face about this multibillion-dollar white elephant called MBS. It's the second-smallest business unit in the family -- only mobile devices is smaller -- and it's raking in the biggest losses. At least the losses slowed down a little last year: MBS only dropped $70 million in the second half of 2004, compared to a $193 million loss in the second half of 2003. Revenues are growing, though the year-to-year growth in the last quarter of 2004 was less that one-half of one percent.
Now, as a person involved with Axapta for last couple of years, I knew that financially MBS is not doing that good. In fact, this is an open secret. But from whatever I heard/read from MBS guys so far, I didn't had single doubt about the future of MBS.
Personally I think Joshua is speaking a bit soon. As he has mentioned there, MBS faced a loss of $70 million in the second half of 2004 where as in the second half of 2003, they faced loss to a tune of $193 million. Considering those figures, I guess in the same term in 2005, MBS might break even or at least cut short their loss to a great extent !!
by mighty scot
I was a great big fan of Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) till the time I switched over to MBS Axapta. In fact I am still a fan of the earlier mentioned products. Though not regularly as before, whenever situation warrants I use both every now and then.
Even after I switched over Axapta, I was closely following up the futures of both these products. So when it became apparent that MS is planning to discontinue its free support and ultimately drop unmanaged VB6/VBA, it pained me a lot. Any way, if you are a follower of VB6 AND/OR VBA like myself or if you wish Microsoft to support VB6/VBA language and syntax or if you yearn for a COM based new version of VB6, then please head along here and post a petition to Microsoft!!
At the time of this writing, there were 4,439 signatories (obviously including yours truly and 237 MS MVPs) have signed this petition.
by mighty scot
The other day I happened to read an article titled Anatomy of an IT disaster: How the FBI blew it.
Till the time I read this article I always used to think that IT systems in such US law enforcement government agency would be top notch cutting line technology! So it was surprising to know that it is actually other way around !!!! Agreed FBI has got a huge IT infrastructure to maintain. According to this article the numbers are like this -
- 30,000 computers
- 4,000 printers
- 1,600 scanners
- 465 servers &
- 1,400 routers
I am not a project manager nor a hardware guy. But when I read about the current status of this IT system (which is a mess) and also facts like FBI went through five different CIOs, 10 project managers and 36 contract changes, and the millions of tax payers money that has gone down the drain, I am not sure where the fault lies....
by mighty scot
Have you ever wondered about longest website name? Or such question was ever posed to you?
Well - such a question was posed at me.
Subequently I did a little search and came across this website - http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com/
Apparently this is not some sort of gibberish name but name of a village on the island of Anglesey !!!!
Very interesting :-)
by mighty scot
I received an email some time ago from a gentleman. He wanted to display employees and their titles belonging to certain department in Axapta form. The department was actually one of the Dimensions in his organization.
Since the concerned gentleman was a newbie, I had to start from the scratch. Following are my actual instructions -
- Create a form with data source as EmplTable
- Create a grid under the form design. And under this grid, populate 2 edit controls and point them to Name and Title fields of EmplTable
Those are my design suggestions. Now comes the exciting code bit -
- Suggested him to write the following code bit under Data sources -> EmplTable -> init() method
- Basically the above lines overrides the default query of the EmplTable. Now when the form is run, it should display only those records that matches the range.
- In case, if any one wants to print the "Select statement" and the resultant records, they can write the following in the same method -
- So when the form is run next time, the above info messages should print the "Select" statement as well as the resultant records !!!!!
***********************************
Query query;
QueryBuildDataSource qbds;
QueryRun qr;
EmplTable emplTable;
;
empltable1_ds.autoQuery(false);
query = new Query();
query.addDataSource(tablenum(emplTable));
qbds = query.dataSourceTable(tablenum(emplTable));
qbds.addSortField(FieldNum(EmplTable,Name));
qbds.orderMode(OrderMode::GroupBy);
qbds.addRange(fieldId2Ext(fieldnum(EmplTable, Dimension),1)).value(QueryValue("SAL"));
empltable1_ds.query(query);
***********************************
***********************************
//Code for printing the actual query and the result
qr = new QueryRun(query);
info (qr.query().dataSourceTable(tablenum(emplTable)).toString());
while( qr.next())
{
emplTable = qr.get(tablenum(EmplTable));
info(strfmt("%1",empltable.Name));
}
***********************************
by mighty scot
In the company where I work, I am responsible for maintaining MS SQL Server as well (along with Application Server, Citrix/Axapta connectivity etc). Any way coming back to SQL Server - when we went live, I developed and implemented backup for Transaction log and actual database as well as maintenance policy. Everything worked well for quite some time.
Once the system got stabilised, I went away on a long holiday. After I came back from holiday I dived straight into my work. The first 2-3 weeks were very demanding. During this time I hardly had time to look into MS SQL Server.
However the other day when I checked the file size of SQL server database and log file I was in for a shock. The Axapta log file had substantially grown in size. The size of our database file is around 3 GB. But size of the log file had grown all the way to 9 GB. The server log files showed that jobs are being executed without any problems and nothing wrong with it.
My initial thinking was it is just me who was facing this problem. Subsequently when I checked out few SQL Server forums, I was in for a shock. It seems almost everybody is facing this problem. Because there were countless posts about the size of the log file.
Any way to cut the story short, at last I came across this KB article from Microsoft through a good work colleague of mine - Malcolm. I followed the steps mentioned in this article and I successfully managed to shrink the size of log file. If any one is interested in the article, here is the URL - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;272318
Thanks for pointing out this to this article Malcolm !!!
by mighty scot
Apparently over one billion people do not have access to safe water. This unfortunate condition is more prevalent in African countries.
To tackle this problem, European plastics industry and WaterAid have come up with a novel solution. Every day you click on the above AquaPlastics website, European plastics industry will donate 10 cents to help WaterAid deliver clean, safe water and sanitation to people in Ethiopia.
Please help people from Ethiopia by visiting the AquaPlastics website. Once there, please click on 'Click to give' image.
by mighty scot
My response to this query -
If I want to filter the employees for a particular dimension say from LedgerJournalTransInvoiceRegister, how can I do that?
This requirement would have been straight forward if you have purchased Record Level Security module. In case if you haven't, then it might need a bit of tweaking on the EmplTableLookup form. Here are the modification details ?
First name of the caller form had to be tracked down. So I wrote the following code in the init() method under EmplTableLookup -> Data sources -> EmplTable -
formRun formRun;
formRun = element.args().caller();
\\ This will print the caller name
info (formRun.name());
\\ now it is just a matter of writing a switch statement for controlling the query.
switch (formRun.name())
{
case formStr(LedgerJournalTransInvoiceRegister) :
{
// insert the query mentioned in my earlier post
?..
}
Default :
{
?..
?..
}
}
by mighty scot
I always used to wonder about an effective way of checking whether SQL Server backups (both log and database file) are happening correctly !
And the other day I came across an excellent article in SQLServerCentral dealing with this particular query.
The suggestion was to write a View in SQL Server database. Once that is done, running a query in Query Analyzer would give away the type of backup, status of backup and timestamp as well !! For those who are interested, here is the actual code for the View -
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Create View Axapta_Last_Backup
as
Select a.name,backup_type, Backup_Date from master.dbo.sysdatabases a
left join
( select database_name, Backup_Type = Case type when 'D' then 'Database'
When 'I' then 'Database Differential'
When 'L' then 'Log'
When 'F' then 'File or Filegroup'
Else
'Error'
End,
max(backup_finish_date) backup_date
from msdb.dbo.backupset where backup_finish_date <= getdate()
group by database_name,Type
)
B
on a.name=b.database_name
go
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Once the view is created running the following query gives the following result -
select * from Axapta_last_backup where backup_date is null
Axapta Log 2005-04-29 10:26:25.000 Axapta Database 2005-04-24 21:04:11.000 master NULL NULL model NULL NULL msdb NULL NULL pubs NULL NULL tempdb NULL NULL
by mighty scot
Looks like Axapta 3.0 SP3 is not compatible with Windows Server 2003 SP1!!
A new KB article listing applications tested for compatibility with Windows Server 2003 SP1 was released yesterday. Surprisingly it mentions that Axapta 3.0 Service Pack 1 is compatible with Windows Server 2003 SP1. No word of Axapta 3.0 SP3 yet.
This KB article can be accessed by clicking here.
by mighty scot
It is Monday morning. First thing that I came across is the news that much awaited SP4 for SQL Server 2000 is released at last :) According to MS documentation, SP4 provides enhanced performance, serviceability and security to SQL Server 2000.
Also another interesting point - this is the first Service pack for 64-bit edition of SQL Server 2000.
BTW on a side note, world's first production deployment of 64-bit edition of SQL Server 2000 has gone live. And it was none other than Ken Henderson who was involved in the implementation of this project !! Whenever I read Ken - be it his blog or the MSDN articles, he leaves me speechless.
by mighty scot
MBS have come up with a new program - Industry Builder though which it is possible for Axapta customers to receive direct support from MBS for the add-on products developed by ISVs (Independent Software Vendors).
This should be a good news for Axapta customers mainly because this program enables them a single point of contact. Not to mention the fact that now customers can be sure of business stability, expertise etc of an ISV. For info on this program can be obtained from here.
by mighty scot
The other day I came across this blog from Yves Kerwyn wherein he has written about development of IBF compliant web service for MBS Axapta.
As he admits in his blog, he has no development experience in Axapta at all. Still it took him just 2 hours to develop a fully functional IBF solution for Axapta. I think this is one of the reason that Axapta rocks - ease and speed with which one can develop an integrated solution !!
By the way, for those who are not aware of IBF, it is the latest office programmability support from Microsoft. More info on IBF can be obtained from here.
Well done for the article and code Yves :)
by mighty scot
I have been using Live Journal for quite some time now. I should say that using Live Journal is pretty great. Also I use Semagic 1.4 which makes posting pretty easier.
However the functionalities offered by Live Journal is pretty rudimentary. Hence I am looking around for moving my blog to somewhere else. At the moment, I am considering Blogger and Blogsome.
My first impression is Blogsome looks quite superior to Blogger. If any one knows a good alternative, do please let me know.
by mighty scot
All of us are aware about the n number of possibilities of hacking software. But have you ever heard that you can be hacked through the CPU?
But it looks like it is a possibility. With Intel's Pentium 4, now hackers would be able to access secure information like password. When I read about Pentium 4 for the first time, I was really excited about it - mainly the new radical NetBurst microarchitecture as majority of the past releases (including Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Xeon, etc) were based on P6 microarchitecture
More information on this could be accessed from here. Though it looks like this is going to affect only servers. But still - crickey !!!
by mighty scot
It has been quite some time since I wrote anything !! It is just that I am going through a very busy patch at my work - soon we are going to go live with Phase II (Prodcution, MRP), Project module and also day to day support of existing sytem. It is all very exciting but at the same time demands tremendous enery and concentration from my part.
London Geek Dinner
But still I managed to enter my name in the London Geek Dinner happening on 7th June. When I registered my name, I was attendee no. 51. But now when I look at the page it has almost tripled !! Hopefully I should be able to participate in this event. Fingers crossed :)
by mighty scot
Today I achieved one of my long long dreams !! Yes - I got the MVP certification for MBS Axapta :-)
Being MVP, on a practical level I don't know what benefits I will have. But on the other level, it is a significant honour to be identified by Microsoft as someone who has some influence in Axapta community.
by mighty scot
Now MS have free offers for those who are interested in learning MS SQL Server 2005!! These free offers includes courses covers aspects like - Installation, Administration, Programming of SQL Server 2005!!
One thing that I most like about MS E-Learning is the ability to download courses to your machine using the E-Learning Offline Player! Cool :)
For those who are interested - better hurry now. You might never know when this special offer will end :)
Though I am really excited to see above courses for free, at the same time I can't help but wonder about online Axapta training website. Wonder what happened to this great website !?!
by mighty scot
Every once in a while I receive queries from Axapta newbies asking me about resources that they can use to master Axapta. Unfortuately till this date there is no "ONE" resource which people can use to learn and master Axapta.
However good news is - this might change soon. Luis Mourao (those who are already working in Axapta might have come across Luis in erstwhile Navision Technet website !!) - an Axapta Kernel Soft Development Engineer from MS and David Weiner - an Axapta Practice Manager from a leading reseller have joined hands in writing a book titled 'Axapta - Microsoft Business Solutions'. (ISBN - 1590594894, Publisher - APress, US)
I understand that this book has not been released yet. Hence I still haven't read this book yet. Once released, I hope this would be a good starting point for technical Axapta newbies.
by mighty scot
Offlate I am receiving one particular query again and again - either through the Axapta newsgroup (that I am fortunate to moderate!!) or by direct emails. The question - about hardware sizing for Axapta!!
Here is why -
As you may be aware, hardware sizing guides has been in existence for Axapta (Siemens, HP etc) in the past. Unfortunately these sizing guides were not updated for Axapta ver 3.0. Hence using these guides for Axapta ver 3.0, doesn?t provide real time hardware sizing guide lines.
Also traditionally erstwhile Technet website provided comprehensive Axapta documentation to both end-clients and partners alike. The decision of MS to shut down Technet website and move the documentation to Partnerguide, completely cut off access of quality, updated Axapta documentation to end customers.
Now the bottom line is ? unfortunately there is no clear response from MS on this particular query from Axapta end customers. Hopefully we all would receive a response either from MS or at least from one of the solution providers soon.
Meanwhile, here is some basic information on hard ware sizing to those who are looking.
Apparently some time back HP and MS conducted a serious of hardware sizing workshops for the following products - Axapta, Navision, Great Plains and MS CRM. A copy of the presentation is available for download from here. Apart from sizing steps, this document deals with topics like Product / Storage architecture, Network, Terminal server environment etc.
In addition to the above, probably you might want to check sizing and configuration document from HP. This article can be accessed from here.
by mighty scot
I wrote about this book some time ago. Subsequently I had received queries from few people about the contents of this book and also when this book would hit the market.
I think this book would have hit the market by now (August 1, 2005).
And for people who are interested in browsing the contents of this book - I have posted them here.
Please note -
1. The Table of Contents (ToC) mentioned in my website may not be the final one. This is just to give an idea about this book to the prospective buyers.
2. The ToC is published with consent from Luis Mourao.
by mighty scot
If you think it is another Axapta post, please be warned that it is not. It is about Excel !!
Yesterday at work I received an interesting request. The request goes something like this -
1. Open file in a particular directory
2. Copy a particular field (B3) and paste this into another existing Excel document
3. And close the original file opened in the first step
The thing was there were around 700 files in that particular directory. And these files had a funny file extension. For some bizarre reason the files had this extension - .xls.xml
Before getting into Axapta, I have worked in MS technologies extensively i.e - VB, VBA, ASP, COM+ etc. But since it was some time ago (almost 4 years now) I was a bit rusty in my skills in those areas. But eventually managed to crack the code !!!
While running the job, it was fun to watch Excel open one file after another, copy the field and paste the value in the Excel document from which I ran the code :-) Well - atleast for some time !!!
Any way just for the record, my code goes something like this -
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim i As Integer
Dim wb As Workbook
Dim outrng As Range
i = 1
Set fs = Application.FileSearch
Set wb = ThisWorkbook
With fs
.LookIn = "X:/"
.Filename = "*.*"
.SearchSubFolders = False
.Execute
For i = 1 To .FoundFiles.Count
Range("A" & i).Value = .FoundFiles(i)
'THIS IS TO COPY THE AMOUNT
Workbooks.Open .FoundFiles(i)
Worksheets(1).Range("B3").Copy
Workbooks(FileNameOnly(.FoundFiles(i))).Close savechanges = False
With wb.Worksheets("Sheet1")
.Range("B" & i).PasteSpecial Operation:=xlPasteSpecialOperationAdd
End With
Next
End With
End Sub
Function FileNameOnly(pname) As String
' Returns the filename from a path/filename string
Dim i As Integer, length As Integer, temp As String
length = Len(pname)
temp = ""
For i = length To 1 Step -1
If Mid(pname, i, 1) = Application.PathSeparator Then
FileNameOnly = temp
Exit Function
End If
temp = Mid(pname, i, 1) & temp
Next i
FileNameOnly = pname
End Function
by mighty scot
In a way I was very happy to see India's old foe, Australia going down in the current Ashes series. But at the same time, it was sad to see such a great, majestic team playing so badly like a minions. Today is final day of 3rd Test at Old Trafford. Hope Aussies recover their form!!!
Apart from watching cricket, I find it a great fun getting to know more about the players. For instance, I am a big fan of Justin Langer and his Test diary.
When I read JL's diary, I come close to believe that Aussies are after all humans and not intelligent, extremely-fit, match-winning robotic machines. For instance, read his comments on Day Three. On a day largely washed out, apparently -
- McGrath played Sudoku
- Brett Lee spent time entertaining fellow aussies with his beloved guitar
- Shane Warne reading/signing fan mail
wow! When I was reading that, I felt like I was peeping into the changing room !!!!
Now coming to Shane Warne, he is full of sheer genius! The more I see him playing, the more I read about him I am full of awe and respect for this bloke!!!! He fully deserved a century yesterday - just unlucky (: Again came back in the afternoon and bowled his heart out. What a professional performance from him and McGrath of course !!!
And another thing that I thoroughly enjoyed watching was Simon Hughes commentary. Sheer brilliance !!!!
In fact since the time I woke up today morning, I pondered to take day off today to watch this great game. Unfortunately duty beckons (:
Just before I go, here are some of the snippets that I came across while reading Simon Hughes -
Apparently Sri Lankan under -19 team is on a visit to England. Here is the name of their main seamer -
"Karunanayake Pathiranalage Shalika Piyamal Karunanayake"
If you think this name is too cryptic, try reading name of this former Tamil seamer -
"Amunugama Rajapakse Rajakaruna Abeykoon Panditha Wasalamudiyanse Ralahamilage Rajitha Krishantha Bandara Amunugama"
And do you know the signifance of the numbers beneath the three lions on England shirts? No - check it out here
With that I sign off !
by mighty scot
There comes a time in every Axapta Programmer's life where he/she has to code a periodic (batch), power intensive process right from the scratch.
Now we all know that we have to use RunbaseBatch class (which inherits1 from RunBase framework 2). Since the current standard Axapta documention doesn't cover these two classes in detail, many of the developers resort to copying the code from the other periodic jobs that are there in Axapta and get embroiled into all sorts of mess.
But this could be a thing of past now. All thanks to Patrick G. Hodo who has come out with an article titled 'Periodic Processing in Axapta' currently available in MSDN website. In this article Patrick has written quite lucidly not only about period batch processing, but also covers objects/areas like -
- QueryRun class
- Query object
- Args variable
- Receiving and retaining parameters from users etc
This article could be accessed by visiting MSDN Library (click the MSDN image above) and under Servers and Enterprise Development -> Microsoft Business Solutions -> Axapta -> Technical Articles.
Good luck Patrick and looking forward for the second part of this article :-)
1 For those who are not familiar with the term inheritance, please refer here.
2 For those not familiar with RunBase Framework, you can read all about this in Developer's Best Practice Handbook.
by mighty scot
Having watched the rollercoaster Ashes series, I am literally speechless !! Right from Marcus Trescothick, Andrew Strauss,bling king Kevin Pietersen, "Freddie" Flintoff to laser-guided Simon Jones - it was a great team performance from one and all!!
As Pietersen mentioned "it takes 24 players to make a great series", Aussies certainly did a great job. With great players like brilliant Shane, relentless McGrath it is a great credit to their fighting spirit that they literally fought till the last moment.
Anyway, as they say "better team won" and full credits to English team !!!
by creative-et
Hello Harish,
I've finally met an Axapta blogger. :-)
I'm from Sydney Australia and just started to put one foot into Dynamic AX.
Would like to correspond with you. Can you PM me your e-mail? I can't seem to PM you.
by mighty scot
Hi there,
A pleasure to meet you :-)
I tried to send you a PM without any success. But please feel free to write to my email address - harishm at mvps dot org
Cheers,
Harish Mohanbabu
MBS Axapta - MVP
http://www.harishm.com/
by mighty scot
As you probably know today at 5PM (GMT), much anticipated SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 (yes it is correct!) will be globally launched in San Fransisco.
Please click the link to attend Steve Ballmer's live show.
Also there is going to be live chat at the same time.
Head on guys !!
by mighty scot
The more I read about MS Dynamics Ax 4.0 (aka MBS Axapta), I can hardly contain my excitement !!
I am writing about the changes in Ax 4.0 with the idea to share/propagate the info with Axapta community. Since the changes are quite exhaustive I can't really cover them in one go. I am planning to write about this as and when I get some time. Here I go -
1. Dropping of Axapta Object Communication Protocol (AOCP)
In Ax 4.0, AOCP is dropped. And in place of that Microsoft have implemented Remote Procedure Call (RPC). For people who have already programmed using COM, COM+ etc would already be aware of RPC. For those who are not, you can read more about RPC from here.
When you think about it, this decision definitely makes sense considering the fact that ultimately Microsoft is planning to bring Ax under .NET umbrella.
2. User Interface improvements
The user interface definitely looks cool in Ax 4.0 !! The look and feel now is very similar to MS Office which hopefully would provide the end-users more familiar interface. Also another cool functionality is introduction of Favorites functionality (very similar to Favorities in Internet Explorer). From the documentation I understand that the main menu and user menu in Axapta 2.5/3.0 would be replaced by new navigation pane and favorites menu.
More than any other change, there are lots of exciting changes have been carried out on the development area!! The more I read about it, the more I am falling out in love with MS Dynamics Ax 4.0. And I am sure these pulsating changes would definitely make Ax 4.0 a threat to tier I systems like SAP.
More on this would follow soon.
by mighty scot
Some time back while working with OLAP in Axapta I came across this error message -
............................................................
Error
Transferring cube(s)\\Connecting to the OLAP Server
Method
'Connect' in COM object of class '{B492C386-0195-11D2-89BA-00C04FB9898D}'
returned error code 0x80040034 () which means: Incompatible
repository.
............................................................
I have seen this particular error message before in quite a few posts in various Axapta forums.
Now I have found solution to this problem thanks to a support gentleman from Microsoft :-)
The solution is quite simple actually. Just unregister and re-register some Dlls in the particular Axapta client machine. Here are the details -
1) These are 5 dlls that has to be unregistered - msmddo80.dll, msmddo.dll, msmdlock.dll, msmdnet.dll & msmdint.dll
2) Please note that the order in which the files are un-registered are very important. The dlls have to be un-registered in the same above order.
3) Subsequently when you register the files, again the order is very important. Registration of the dlls should be done in the reverse order from msmdint.dll
4) For those folks who are not clear about un-registration and registration process, here is an example -
Unregistration - "regsvr32 /u"
Registration - "regsvr32 "
You can run the above commands (without quotes) either from Start -> Run box or from the command prompt window.
5) Finally for those folks who are not clear about the location of those files, by default they could be located under here - "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DSO"
Hope this helps !
by mighty scot
It has been a while since I wrote anything. For the people who are wondering it is not that I lost the interest or something. It is just that there are so many changes (both in my personal as well as work) and I was trying to take these changes head on. Any way it is time to get on with the life and here is my first post after a brief absence.
For those folks who have Axapta 3.0 / SP3 and suffering silently from the following problems, the solution is available!
First, here is a main list of problems -
- Caching - For those who are running AOS cluster, the AOS instances might not synchronize at regular intervals.
- When a large report is saved either an ASCII or as an HTML file, incomplete data is saved. For ex - a report might have 100,000 records. But when this report is saved in the above formats, only 65,536 records might be available.
- While trying to print to print a report in PDF format, if a page range is specified then the report might not print properly. For ex - Axapta might ignore the page range and print the report in its entire format.
- When a code written with XPPCompiler is run, if this code generates a run-time error, Axapta might crash.
I have also written about this hotfix in MBSOnline
And the solution is -
Install Axapta 3.0 / SP3 kernel update rollup. The complete problem list and the actual hotfix are available from Partnerguide and if you are an end-customer please contact your partners.
by mighty scot
Ever since I saw this photo essay in Time, I tried to resist the temptation of writing this in my blog. Unfortunately the temptation got better of me!
Of all the pictures I like the technical helpdesk one. It is wicked :-)
by mighty scot
Quite frequently I come across people asking for resources on Axapta development. I personally have answered many such questions both in various Axapta newsgroups as well as personal emails. Since this is an often repeated query, I just thought I will document a few main Axapta resources here.
Before reading further, please note that by no means this list is comprehensive! Rather these are rather some of the effective resources based on my personal experience.
Axapta Installation CD
First place to stop for the above documentation is the Axapta installation CD (under Documentation folder) in particular directory titled "Technical Information".
Development Guides
Second one might want to read the following documents that gets installed along with the Axapta client (Directory Path : \Bin).
- Introduction to WebApps (WebApps.chm)
- User Assistance Best Practice Handbook (UA_BPHB.chm)
- Implementing Navision Axapta (ImplementationGuide.chm)
- Introduction to the Developer's Best Practice Handbook (Dev_BPHB.chm)
- Database Creation Wizard (Database_Wizard.chm)
- Axapta Developer's Guide (AxDvgUs.chm)
- Language (X++) - Development Guide (AxDvgLangUs.chm)
- Form - Development Guide (AxDvgLangUs.chm)
- Axapta Debugger (AxDvgDebuggerUS.chm)
- COM - Development Guide (AxDvgCOMUs.chm)
- Axapta Object Server (AOS) Settings (AxCtrlUs.chm)
- Axapta Config utility Guide (Axacuus.chm)
NOTE - Please note that depending on your language settings, probably the names of the above documents might be different.
The above two suggestions may sound daunting or utter daft but at the end of it one would be surprised at the amount of knowledge he/she can pick up from the above. To be candid, majority of whatever little knowledge that I have on Axapta I picked up from the above resources.
Axapta Newsgroups
Anyway once the above are completed by now one should be able to start doing modifications, development etc. But before going full steam ahead, one should definitely check the various Axapta newsgroups for additional suggestions, resources, techniques etc. After all, not all of the development requirements are unique in nature. At some point of time, some where some one might have faced the same problems that one is trying to resolve. To name a few newsgroups -
- MS Axapta Community Newsgroup
- Optimal Axapta Development - Yahoo group
- MBS Online (I have the privilege of moderating the Axapta area)
- Mibuso Axapta forum
Please note that by no means the forums list is a comprehensive one. Rather these are the few forums that I frequently visit.
Online Help
The online help system in addition to the functional resources also provide some technical information. I have heard developers often complain about paucity of information in the online help system. MS is already aware of this and at least to my knowledge they are trying to rectify this to their level best. But still checking this would be beneficial for developers - in particular users who are new to Axapta.
There are few more suggestions that I want to write about but I will save this for later.
But please please remember that as with any learning any other development language, learning Axapta development is an iterative process!
With this I wish you a warm welcome to Axapta world and good luck :-)
by mighty scot
This might be an old news for employees employed with Axapta resellers.
But for employees with end-users like myself, this year's convergence is going to be held in Dallas, Texas from March 25-28.
So what is there to be excited about?
Well - to begin with one of the key speakers for this year's convergence is no less than the Chief Architect of Microsoft, Bill Gates himself !
And to add more flavour to this conference, another keynote speaker is Doug Burgum, Sr Vice President of Microsoft Business Solutions Group!
For those who are not swayed by the above speakers, this year's Convergence is going to be a curtain raiser on the much expected Microsoft Dyamics family comprising of Micrsoft Dynamics Ax, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics GP, etc.
When I looked last time, I saw a huge list of Microsoft Dynamics Ax sessions including -
- Introduction to Micorosft Dynamics Ax
- Multi-site Order Management
- Sales Order Planning in a Demand Driven Economy
- The Development Environment of Microsoft Dynamics Ax
- Ad-hoc Reporting and Analysis
- Server Features and Deployment
- Performance and Scalability
- MorphX Developer Updates
etc
More info on the sessions could be obtained from here.
Detailed agenda could be obtained from here.
If any one is planning to attend this conference, do please let me know. May be we can hook up at the conference!!!
by mighty scot
To our first child who joined our family on Thursday, 2nd March 2006 at 15:44 hours, weighing 8 lb 02 oz ....
by mighty scot
MorphX IT by Steen Andreasen. Review by Harish Mohanbabu
It has been one of my pet peeves that there is not a single book in the market that concentrates exclusively on Axapta programming. Now Steen has come out with his book MorphX IT that deals with this subject in an efficient manner.
Steen Andreasen has many feathers in his crown - aside from being member of the first Axapta project (he has been working in Axapta since 1997!!), he also played key role in projects like developing the Turkish version of Axapta, developing Record Level Permission (RLP which is a precursor to the standard Record Level Security (RLS) module) etc.
I love this book, because through out this book Steen's experience, knowledge on Axapta programming and his patience, perseverance to get into minute details shines through.
Steen starts with AOT where he covers all objects and then rather painstakingly moves on to other important areas like
- X++
- Data Dictionary
- Macros
- Classes (there is an excellent section on Runbase Framework and Fundamental classes like ClassFactory, Global and Info - I enjoyed this section a lot!! )
- Forms (again I like the section on Methods on a form and Special Forms!!)
- Reports (using Temporary tables and Print using Microsoft Word sections are great!!)
- Queries
- Jobs
- Menu Items and Menus
- Resources
- Appendix Properties (invaluable piece of information - not easily available!!)
- Development Tools (excellent information on System Monitoring) and Wizards
Please note that the above information is not the complete index. Rather they are a quick overview of various parts from this book. For more info on this box, please refer below to the ADDENDUM.
I would definitely recommend this book to both experienced as well as new Axapta developers alike. I am sure this would be an invaluable resource in aiding your development.
ADDENDUM
If you haven't already done so - to download the complete Index and for a sample chapter please click here.
To purchase MorphX IT, please click here.
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
By default one can send emails from X++ via Dundas mailer control or MS Outlook. There is one more way by which emails could be sent from X++ i.e. by calling SQL Server SMTP Mail XP (XPSMTP.DLL) component from X++.
What is this component about?
XPSMTP.DLL component is fairly widely known in MS SQL Server circle. This is basically an SMTP based component that will enable one to send emails over SMTP. This uses port 25 to communicate to SMTP server. Installing this component in MS SQL Server is quite easy. When you register this component, they get installed as an extended stored procedure in the SQL Server. For information on this component, including where to download, how to install etc please refer to the Notes section at the end.
What is the benefit of using this component?
Apart from the component itself, this does not require any software to be installed on SQL Server. And most important it is free!
How to call this from Axapta?
1) Assuming this component is installed in your SQL Server, the first step is to create a wrapper stored procedure. For example here is a stored proc -
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/*
************************************************
Author : Harish Mohanbabu
Purpose : This Stored Proc serves an email notification when a scheduled job fails.
Date : June 29, 2006
************************************************
*/
CREATE PROCEDURE SP_SEND_EMAIL
AS
DECLARE @rc int
EXEC @RC = master.dbo.xp_smtp_sendmail
@FROM = N'SQL.SERVER@harish.co.uk', --> This could be dummy email address
@FROM_NAME = N'Harish Mohanbabu',
@TO = N'harish.mohanbabu@xxxx.co.uk',
@CC = N'john.doe@xxxx.co.uk',
@BCC = N'alan.doe@xxxx.co.uk',
@subject = N'Email from Axapta!!',
@priority = N'High',
@message = N'Message ...', --> Here you can use HTML tags
@type = N'text/html',
@server = N'NWC-EXC-001'
select RC = @rc
GO
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please note that the above stored procedure is only for the purpose of demonstration. Please do not forget to refer to the documentation on parameters (extremely powerful) of this component.
2. Now all that is left is to call the above stored procedure from X++ -
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
static void sendEmail(Args _args)
{
ODBCConnection conn;
LoginProperty login;
Statement stmt;
ResultSet rs;
........
conn = new ODBCConnection(login);
stmt = conn.createStatement();
rs = stmt.executeQuery("SP_SEND_EMAIL");
........
}
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When the above job is run, Axapta hopefully should send an email!
Notes:
1. For more info on XPSMTP component including download, installation details please click here
2. For how to use extended stored procedure, please click here
by mighty scot
After a roller coaster month, I am back now in action. It has been a busy period both at work and in my personal life as well. To top it all, it ended up with my wife meeting an accident. Luckily she escaped unhurt with some damages to our car.
BTW those folks who use Atlax XL, if you haven't already heard their new version (Enterprise edition) of Atlas XL which I heard rocks !!! Do please take some time to check it out.
If interested, you should be able to download this from here. For obtaining trial license, please contact your partner or write to Support at Atlas XL - support@atlasxl.com.au
For those Axapta users who haven't heard of Atlas XL, please click here to learn more about this product. It is a simple yet very powerful Axapta add-on.
And those folks who mailed me about info on Axapta 4.0 / Dynamics thank you very much for your queries and patience. Please bear with me and watch this space !
by mighty scot
MorphX IT by Steen Andreasen. Review by Harish Mohanbabu
It has been one of my pet peeves that there is not a single book in the market that concentrates exclusively on Axapta programming. Now Steen has come out with his book MorphX IT that deals with this subject in an efficient manner.
Steen Andreasen has many feathers in his crown - aside from being member of the first Axapta project (he has been working in Axapta since 1997!!), he also played key role in projects like developing the Turkish version of Axapta, developing Record Level Permission (RLP which is a precursor to the standard Record Level Security (RLS) module) etc.
I love this book, because through out this book Steen's experience, knowledge on Axapta programming and his patience, perseverance to get into minute details shines through.
Steen starts with AOT where he covers all objects and then rather painstakingly moves on to other important areas like
- X++
- Data Dictionary
- Macros
- Classes (there is an excellent section on Runbase Framework and Fundamental classes like ClassFactory, Global and Info - I enjoyed this section a lot!! )
- Forms (again I like the section on Methods on a form and Special Forms!!)
- Reports (using Temporary tables and Print using Microsoft Word sections are great!!)
- Queries
- Jobs
- Menu Items and Menus
- Resources
- Appendix Properties (invaluable piece of information - not easily available!!)
- Development Tools (excellent information on System Monitoring) and Wizards
Please note that the above information is not the complete index. Rather they are a quick overview of various parts from this book. For more info on this box, please refer below to the ADDENDUM.
I would definitely recommend this book to both experienced as well as new Axapta developers alike. I am sure this would be an invaluable resource in aiding your development.
ADDENDUM
If you haven't already done so - to download the complete Index and for a sample chapter please click here.
To purchase MorphX IT, please click here.
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
I always wanted to tag my posts based on subjects. Only now I found this functionality from livejournal to bundle my tags. So without much ado, here is the link.
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
A while ago I posted the interview I had with Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan in my website. If you haven't read the interview, here is the link.
This interview was first mentioned in Michael's blog. Michael's blog can be accessed by clicking here.
Now this has been mentioned in Palle's blog as well. Palle's blog can be accessed by clicking here.
If you haven't read their blogs I would strongly recommend you to do so.
Also the retail price of this book is $68.99. However I was told that from Amazon this book could be purchased for $44.
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
by mighty scot
Probably by now you would have come across this link announcing the book on Ax 4.0 titled "Inside Microsoft Dynamics? AX 4.0".
When I read this the first time, initially I was kind of skeptical on certain aspects. For example - we all are aware that Ax 4.0 is a very new offering from Microsoft stable and that Ax 4.0 is quite different from the earlier versions of Ax. With this in mind I was not sure whether a team of four members would be able to cover the entire spectrum of technical area in Ax 4.0.
But when I came to know more facts about this book through my Q&A session with Michael, my initial spectrum turned out to become a pure excitement! Now I cannot wait for this book to be released!
To read the response from Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, please click here.
Good luck to the MS team that is behind this book!
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