As of now we all have installed and deployed the Dynamics AX 7 either on Azure or On-premise but till now we were only allowed to use the default login provided my Microsoft. Which has stopped working since last week,
1. FOR ON CLOUD -- AZURE For login to new Microsoft Dynamics AX RTW, you need to have user in Azure Active directory. To create new user, follow the procedure below: Step 1: Login to Azure portal using the admin account. https://manage.windowsazure.com/
Step 2: Create a new user using "ADD USER" button on the bottom. For this example I have created a new user 'ALICIA'. Now login to AX using admin account.
The important part is now :-
User Id :- The User Id for the User
Domain :- Let it be the default.
Alias :- Enter the email address that you have created in the Office Portal.
Company :- Choose the company for which you want to associate the User.
Enabled :- Yes
Name :- Choose any name with the appropriate Role, so that your User can be mapped to the already made Users.
Step 3: Now you can login using the new user with the role assigned to it.
As you have opted for the On-premise so you would definitely having a Online Azure Active Directory, (i.e. email address @OrganizationName.onmicrosoft.com)
Open Windows Portal and access through your Organization Administrator Email account.
Now open the Admin section and proceed to the USERS > Active Users.
Here add new users.
Now login back to your Dynamics AX Machine.
Enter the email address of the organization's email address that you have made on Microsoft Office Portal.
Wait for some time and now login with these credentials
Then Open User form from System Administrator > Users > Users
Follow the same steps that you took in the Cloud version.
The important part is now :-
User Id :- The User Id for the User
Domain :- Let it be the default.
Alias :- Enter the email address that you have created in the Office Portal.
Company :- Choose the company for which you want to associate the User.
Enabled :- Yes
Name :- Choose any name with the appropriate Role, so that your User can be mapped to the already made Users.
This would create the User, don't forgot to give Role to the User.
Many things changed in new Dynamics AX. Following are few of highlights for architecture perspective...
~ Web based client (HTML5/JS) - application accessed from many clients
~ No remote procedure call (RPC)-based communication with the server
~ Application hosted in IIS
~ Cloud based
~ Lifecycle Services - easier to deploy, test and maintain environment
Dynamics AX Server Architecture
~ Visual studio as development environment
~ New design patterns for forms
~ Customization with extensions & overlayering
~ OData service - enables access to AX data from different clients
Microsoft Dynamics AX Application Stack
Application stack split into different models..
~ Application platform - runtime data access, client, ..
~ Application foundation - GAB, Source document, Number sequence,..
~ Application suite - Finance management, Inventory, .....
Power BI Integration
~ Power BI - allow to connect multiple data sources to create reports and dashboards
Microsoft Dynamics AX 7 is been released and I want to take some time to honor and reflect on the roots of this magnificent ERP solution. I’ve tried to color tag some elements of application, technical or global impact. I hope you enjoy reading it.
Brothers Preben and Erik Damgaard founded Damgaard A/S with the purpose of creating a computer based accounting software.
Brothers Erik and Preben Damgaard (Thank you for your contribution!)
In 1986 they released Concord Finance (Later named C4). The resellers and customers were able to do improvements to the code to tailor the solution to their needs.
In 1991 they released the Concord XAL business application based on the XAL Developer environment. Concord XAL had an open source code that made the resellers and customers able to create improvements, verticals and modules. Concord XAL quickly became the standard accounting software for Danish market and got foothold in many other countries.
In 1994 “Big Blue” IBM and Damgaard partner 50/50 to create Damgaard International A/S to focus on the international markets.
Concord crossed the millennium with a world wide customer base of over 75.000 installation in 29 countries. Read more here.
The first version of Axapta was mainly based on the Concord XAL business processes and covered Financial, Trade, Inventory management, Logistics andProduction. It was created on a new and exciting object-oriented technologyand was intended for midsize companies. It ran for the most part on Windows NT servers with Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, but also supported Oracle databases.
In November the same year, version 1.5 is released with support for Norway,Sweden, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and theEuropean Union. Service pack technology is introduces along with Publishing manager and support for MSSQL 7.0. Damgaard buys out IBM and get exclusive rights for the Axapta software and brand.
Axapta Main menu
Version 2.0 of Axapta is released in July 1999 and brings with it the Project Accounting module, Warehouse Managment (WMS) module, ActiveX support,Open pack concept, COM-connector and the early version of the Axapta Object Server which was used for offloading tasks from the client to the server for processing.
Damgaard and Navision
The Millenium passes without any major issues and a lot of happy IT consultant receive their paycheck with a nice overtime bonus. Axapta 2.1 is released in January 2000 with support for the German, Austria, Switzerlandand Spanish market. The first WebApp is created. The Customer Self Service which grew in to the Enterprise Portal. Axapta 2.1 also supported Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with database log.
The Application Object Server (AOS) was fully implemented with Service pack 3 and Axapta became a true 3-tier solution (Client, Server and Database running separately).
Damgaard merges with Navision and become Navision Damgaard A/S (Later Navision A/S).
In December 2000 Axapta 2.5 is released with improvements (ESS) to theProject module and a new Banking module. It had a full web application development environment and supported internal OLAP.
The “Market Pack” for Axapta 2.5 was released October 2001. It introduced theFrench and Italian markets and had the CRM module with the Commerce gateway. It also introduced the Product builder.
Microsoft running the show
It is 2002! The movie franchises of Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Men in Black all release their sequels, Eminem and Shakira sold most singles, The €uro replaces twelve countries currencies and NASA finds water on Mars. Microsoft buys Navision A/S in June this year and it joins among others the ERP solution Great Plains to make up Microsoft Business Solutions.
Microsoft releases Microsoft Axapta 3.0 in October 2002. It supported 17 countries (including Canada) when launched. The security model was renewed, license configuration was introduced along with Enterprise Portal. The Demand planner and inter company functionality was added.
Microsoft Axapta 3.0
In september 2005 Microsoft rebrands Microsoft Business Solutions to Microsoft Dynamics and their business applications is also renamed; Axapta becomes AX, Navision becomes NAV, Great Plains becomes GP and Solomon becomes SL.
L.
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Out with the old…In with the new…
With the new brand name in place, Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 is released in March 2006 with a brand new Service management module. The AOS as a trueWindows service, CLR interoperability and the .net connector was introduced. It also supported full Unicode for the first time and the Application Integration Framework saw the light of day.
The user interface was redesigned for the main menu to fit the default Microsoft application layout. The general form layout stayed the same with grids and menu buttons to the right. The login screen disappeared as AD authentication was added.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0
Microsoft sets the agenda
In the leap year of 2008 the Lehman brothers corporation goes belly up, Beyonce urges you to put a ring on it, Barrack Obama is elected the 44th President of the US, almost 11 thousand athletes travel to Beijing to compete in the Summer Olympics and in June this year Microsoft release Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 (Version 5.0). It introduced the navigation bar, area pages and list pages to get the Office look and feel. This release brought A LOT of new features to the generic application and many of the different modules like the Global adresse book, Multisite functionality and Expense management to name just a few. There was a new Compliance module and the Role center for self service BI was introduced.
It was also a MAJOR technical update with a lot of Microsoft technologies being introduced. Workflow based on WCF, the reporting in SSAS/SSRS, Role centers based on SharePoint and X++ supported MS SQL statements. Batch server, Load balancing, AD import wizard, Code versioning control and many many more technical upgrades were in place.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 (Version 6.0) released in September 2011 for 25 countries in 23 languages. The biggest release of AX thus far and introduced many changes and improvements both on the technical and application aspect of it and I can only list a few here, but you’re welcome to go and read all about the changes here. Most profoundly for the end users was the changes in form design with ribbon menu, action panes, fact boxes as well as the experience of only using SSRSfor printing as the X++ reporting solution was available, but to be deprecated. Role centers were improved and the modules got rearranged a bit introducing modules like “Sales and marketing” and “Procurement and sourcing“.
The licensing module was completely revised. It opened everyone to the entire application and licensing the users security access level instead of the functional modular way of the past. This meant customers could implement a broader set of features and would often look at and implement new functionality once discovered or required.
Building on the model of the global adresse book. There where many more global entities introduced like organization, workers and items that required a whole different way to interact with the application. You could for instance now not simply copy a company (now legal entity) anymore. Major changes where done to the database structure to support a “metadata” based model.General ledger, HR, Inventory managment was fundamentally redesigned. A new product configurator was introduced based on the Solver foundation and so much much more.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
On the technical side of things code was running in .Net (CIL) and the development environment was in a separate window. Many other changes appeared like the Role based security, a new Help system, Analytics in SSASand redesign of the AIF to name a few.
The root for Life cycle services was also released. Rapid Configuration Servicewas introduced for the US market.
The journey of AX 2012
The AX 2012 party didn’t end there… During the next 5 years the application would grow immensely introducing more modules and even architectural changes.
The “Feature pack” for AX 2012 was released early 2012 and included the first version of the Retail module.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 was released in December 2012 which intailed database splitting and partitioning, new BI cubes and Retail e-commerce and many improvements to the existing business logic and processes. Role centers supported Power BI and got a nice face lift. Many modules got big upgrades like the Project module.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Enterprise portal Role center with PowerBI
Microsoft released many cumulative updates for R2 in the following years, both increasing functionality and features.
Companion applications where created to bring AX in to the Windows 8 eco system.
On May 1 2015 the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 was released with a wide range of new modules, Warehouse management and Transportation management being most prominent. Existing modules got a major overhauls as well; The Retail module got impacted the most. There was also many system upgrades as well like Azure deployments, Cloud support and even more BI cubes.
Satya Nadella has turned the Microsoft super tanker on a sorely needed new coarse. A more transparent and engaged company will today introduce a paradigme shift in the ERP world. Living up to Nadellas “Cloud first-Mobile first” mantra, the new version of AX (Version 7) will be just that.
Cloud first: As it is only available to run on Azure (On-prem comes later)
Mobile first: As it has only a web interface that can be consumed on any device anywhere in the world (Desktop client with Cortana comes later)
Well I joined the Super Launch Event and those who couldn't make it to the Launch Party, just keep a little patient I'll be back with what happened at the Launched Event of Dynamics AX.
