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My triple passions are Dynamics AX technical, learning, and AI

Microsoft Dynamics Technical Conference 2015, Day 2 report

Hello world! If you are not attending #DynTech2015 may I say you are missing a great thing. But you knew that already. You are here to read about the sessions. So please accept this, my report from the trenches, for … Continue reading

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Microsoft Dynamics Technical Conference 2015, Day 1 report

Hello all! If you are not attending #DynTech2015 may I say you are missing a great thing. You know it will be good when people come from as far away as Sweden and Australia to join. It is typically the … Continue reading

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Microsoft Press discounts for MCPs

If you have passed a Microsoft certification exam, you are probably an MCP. MCPs have been given a discount (I get the impression it’s for a short time) at Microsoft Press. It’s 40% off print books and 50% off eBooks … Continue reading

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Five Good Minutes – The Pacifier

Happy 2015! Hope you all have a wonderful, fun-filled and AX-filled New Year! We will kick off the new year with mention of a new Five Good Minutes by my colleague Chad Carnes – which I always enjoy seeing. The … Continue reading

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2014 blog in review

NB: Thursday is my productive day, clearly! The following is generated by WordPress. Happy DAXing! The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds … Continue reading

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Some Dynamics AX help resources

I just found some help resources and wanted to share my list here. Hope it helps you out! Outside the product: Microsoft Dynamics AX microsoft.com/dynamics/ax TechNet http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg852966.aspx MSDN Developer center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/ax/default.aspx Microsoft Dynamics Community community.dynamics.com CustomerSource mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/northamerica PartnerSource mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/northamerica InformationSource … Continue reading

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Exam loading, please wait…

A week ago, I got very excited to hear on http://theaxapta.blogspot.com/2014/12/exam-mb6-704-microsoft-dynamics-ax-2012.html of a new development exam: MB6-704 Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 CU8 Development Introduction Certification  I’ve been waiting oh so patiently for more information! Still I find nothing in … Continue reading

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New AX statement of direction

A heads-up to partners: there has been a new statement of direction published at https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/global/Sales-Marketing/Product-Strategy-Direction/StatementofDirection   PLEASE note that it contains confidential information; thus I apologize but cannot summarize or disseminate here. But I know that most of my followers … Continue reading

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“Unretrieved” when browsing a table

There are many possible causes for the old “Unretrieved” to pop up. If it’s a view or a query, this has been very well covered at http://community.dynamics.com/ax/b/axvanyakashperuk/archive/2011/10/28/tutorial-ax-2012-invalid-field-access-or-accessing-unretrieved-fields.aspx#.UYvE8rXvsWA Check for table inheritance – I would guess that bad data in inherited/inheriting … Continue reading

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Follow our AX MVPs on Twitter!

Just wanted to tip you all off, that I’ve created a Twitter list. It consists of all the 2014 AX MVPs that I could find on Twitter. The Twitter list: https://twitter.com/janeteblake/lists/ax-mvps-2014 The entire list: http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/search-mvp.aspx?ty=a&ex=Dynamics+AX Happy Tweeting?   Update: Tommy Skaue … Continue reading

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