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Configuring Warehouse Management For Dynamics AX 2012 Now Available

The Warehouse Management module within Dynamics AX is a great feature to configure if you want to do more with your inventory then just track it and count it. When you enable the Warehouse Management features you can start taking advantage of the in-built handheld interface, you can start tracking your workers a little more closely and assign work to them, and it also allows you to create rules on how all of the work within the warehouse is performed so that you can start optimizing and refin...

Configuring Project Management And Accounting For Dynamics AX 2012 Now Available For Download

The Project Accounting module within Dynamics AX is a great module for anyone that is trying to track time and costs against projects within the organization. It is especially useful because it is fully integrated with all of the other foundation areas of the product like Payables, Receivables, Inventory, the General Ledger and much more so that as you track costs within them they are automatically applied to the project and as you create transactions within Project Accounting, then they are...

Chapter 2 of Configuring Project Management And Accounting For Dynamics AX 2012 Now Available For Advance Download

This weekend I completed the second chapter of the Configuring Project Management And Accounting Within Dynamics AX 2012 Bare Bones Configuration Guide which actually completes over half of the guide and gives you almost everything you need to learn the foundation of the Project Accounting module within Dynamics AX.

Just as with the first chapter of this guide, I have publish all 173 pages of the chapter out to the Dynamics AX Companions project site for you all to have access to – well in adv...

Part 1 of Configuring Project Management And Accounting For Dynamics AX 2012 Now Available To Download

This weekend I started the second half of book #12 in the Bare Bones Configuration Guide series that lays the foundation for Configuring Project Management And Accounting Within Dynamics AX 2012 which was to add narration to the chapters so that you all would have more than just screen shots to guide you through the setup of the module. I was able to get the first chapter completed (all 219 pages of it) before I ran out of daylight on Sunday. Rather than wait for all of the other chapters to...

Weitere 50 Tips & Tricks für Dynamics AX 2012 (the German Edition of Another 50 Tips & Tricks) Is Now Available On Amazon

Thanks again to Kurt Mekelburg (translotor extrodianaire) the second Tips & Tricks volume for Dynamics AX is now available in German and you can pick up your very own copy by following this link to it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1502934264/

For those of you than can read German, then here is a quick overview.

Dynamics AX ist ein hervorragendes Produkt, weil jeder in der Lage ist, die Grundlagen mit nur ein wenig Übung zu meistern. Wenn Sie es häufiger verwenden, werden Sie wahrscheinlich...

Gamifying Your Customers By Creating Fact Boxes To Show Achievement Badges

Originally posted on Dynamics AX Tip Of The Day:

You can see them all of Dynamics AX. Fact boxes are a great way to show information relating to the current record that you are in, without cluttering up the main data in the form. Also you can pick and choose if you want to see the information as well. But you don’t have to settle for the fact boxes that are delivered with Dynamics AX, you can easily create some more of your own if you don’t mind getting your hands a little dirty with a little...

Catch You All At The AXUG Summit Next Week

If you are going to be at the AXUG Conference next week then drop by and see me. I am presenting at the following sessions:

Challenge the Experts: Microsoft MVP Panel

This is the session to get your answers! Join in on the fun in this fast-moving roundtable where the Microsoft Dynamics AX MVPs will field all questions from the audience. There has to be at least one question you wanted answered while at Summit – and this the session to do it. No question, regardless of version, function, or tech...

Configuring Project Accounting & Configuring Warehouse Management And Control Now Available To Download As Draft PDF eBooks

Over the past couple of months I have received a number of requests to provide guides on how to configure the Project Accounting and Warehouse Management modules within Dynamics AX, and although they were way down in the list of guides that were planned, I recently had the opportunity to prepare a couple of demonstrations on both of these topics and though that I would take advantage of it and create the guides for both of these topics.

I have not completed either of the books, but I do have a...

Free Gift For The Dynamics AX Companions eBook Subscribers

I just wanted to pass on a quick note to an upgrade that I just made to the Dynamics AX Companions website over the past couple of days that all of you eBook subscribers may be interested in.

When I first set up the website I split the subscriptions into two separate roles – Premium, which allows you to download all of the individual pieces of content that I have been posting, and then the eBook subscription, which was aimed at giving you all quick access to all of the published books within t...

Provisioning An Empty Demo Instance For CRM, SharePoint & PowerBI For Free

Originally posted on Dynamics AX Tip Of The Day:

Dynamics AX is great, but when you start integrating it with all of the on-line offerings like Office 365, Power BI, SharePoint Online, and CRM, then it becomes even more powerful. If you are like me though and don’t want to sign up for all these additional on-line offerings if you like and pay the monthly hosting fee just for the demo environment, then don’t worry, there is an alternative for you because Microsoft allow you to provision a full...