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Latest Blog Posts

Creating PowerView Dashboards Against Dynamics AX 2012

Tue, 01 May 2012 14:25:10 -0700

This afternoon, I got my first live look at PowerView, which is the new dashboarding tool that is available with MSSQL 2012. And I like it. Within a couple of minutes I was able to create some cool visualizations, and I am sure that soon I will be able to...

Turn You PowerPoints Into An Interactive Dashboard With PowerView

Tue, 01 May 2012 14:22:02 -0700

One feature of PowerView that I noticed yesterday was the ability to export the PowerView dashboards that I created into PowerPoint, and which allows the presenter to then drill into the dashboards directly from PowerPoint. This is the coolest thing ever. If you want to see how to do this,...

Spice Up Your PowerView Dashboards with Images

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:36:43 -0700

I liked PowerView last week when I started tinkering with it. Now I really, really like it. I just worked through an example of extending out your dashboards to use custom images linked to the base report data, and it worked great. Now you can create dashboards where people can...

Simple Tweaks to Dynamics AX 2012

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:26:02 -0700

Today I created a worked example for a prospect of how you can easily make changes to Dynamics AX through the inbuilt development tools. Adding fields to the database and then to the forms in the application is one of the simplest customizations that you can make, but can address...

Ring... Ring...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:29:51 -0700

Yesterday I was shown how to configure the TAPI interface with my demo version of Dynamics AX 2012. I must say that it is very cool. I wish that everyone had this integrated with their ERP's so that when I call up other customer service locations, I don't have to...

Lot Recalls the Easy Way

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:29:58 -0700

I was asked to create a video on how easy it is to perform a lot trace and create lot recall reports from Dynamics AX 2012 using the Junction Solutions tracing workbench. Along the way I created a script and walkthrough. If anyone is interested in seeing what I did,...

Enabling Electronic Signatures In Dynamica AX

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:20:03 -0700

The other day I was tinkering around with the Electronic Signature capabilities in AX 2012, and was able to quickly set it up on my system. If anyone is interested in the steps that I went through so that you can take advantage of it for security and transaction tracking,...

Using LightSwitch To Extend Dynamics AX 2012

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:25:46 -0700

A while back I was tipped off about a tool from Microsoft called LightSwitch, and it looks like it has come out of Beta and is now an official product. So I took a quick look at it and was able to use it to easily create some alternative screens...

You Don't Need To Be A Data Warehouse Expert To Create AX2012 Cubes

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:04:58 -0700

I found this article on TechNet last month on Creating Cubes in AX 2012 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc622026.aspx) and was just able to take a look and work through the example. This is too cool - because you don't need to even touch MSSQL in order to create and deploy your very own...

Enabling Customers Access to Dynamics AX through Self Service Portals

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:32:07 -0700

I spent today trying to get the Customer Self Service portal configured on my demo AX2012 system, and after a few false starts, the corruption of a user account, and a little help from a collegue, I was able to get it all up and running. So that others don't...

Reading List

Stranger in a Strange Land

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:53:53 -0700

author: Robert A. Heinlein
name: Murray
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1961
rating: 0
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date added: 2012/04/10
shelves: currently-reading
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The Man in the High Castle

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:25:07 -0700

author: Philip K. Dick
name: Murray
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1962
rating: 0
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date added: 2012/02/21
shelves: currently-reading
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:41:51 -0700

author: Suzanne Collins
name: Murray
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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date added: 2012/01/23
shelves: currently-reading
review:

Presentation Secrets

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:41:37 -0700

author: Alexei Kapterev
name: Murray
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2012/01/23
shelves: currently-reading
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Grouped: How Small Groups of Friends Are the Key to Influence on the Social Web

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:41:04 -0700

author: Paul Adams
name: Murray
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2012/01/23
shelves: currently-reading
review:

Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:26:53 -0700

author: Lars Dragheim Olsen
name: Murray
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2011/10/31
shelves: currently-reading, erp, dynamics-ax
review:

Dynamics AX: A Guide to Microsoft Axapta

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:26:49 -0700

author: Luis Mourão
name: Murray
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2011/10/31
shelves: currently-reading, erp, dynamics-ax
review:

Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 Performancepoint Services Unleashed

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:26:46 -0700

author: Tim Kashani
name: Murray
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2011/10/31
shelves: currently-reading, microsoft, technology, dynamics-ax
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:26:42 -0700

author: Michael Lisin
name: Murray
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2011/10/31
shelves: currently-reading, technology, reporting, dynamics-ax
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Microsoft Dynamics Ax 2009 Development Cookbook

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:26:40 -0700

author: Mindaugas Pocius
name: Murray
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2011/10/31
shelves: currently-reading, microsoft, dynamics-ax
review: