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Posted June 30, 2009 
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Please note that effective June 22, 2009, in response to customer feedback and as part of Microsoft’s continuous efforts to provide world-class support for its products, the company is updating the Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy for service packs for key Microsoft Dynamics products.
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Here’s a well-written post on debugging Dynamics AX Batch jobs, i have yet to try this but thought would share it over here
Thanks for the step-by-step instructions
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Today, I got a tweet on this, thought i would share it here and also had an email floating around talking about hosted solutions with AX
http://www.goiwx.com/pressandevents20090615.html
Sunrise Technologies and Hosted Solutions for AX.
http://www.sunriseconsult.com/eprise/main/SiteGen/Sunrise_Consult/Content/Industry_Solution_Microsoft_Dynamics_AX/Hosting_and_Managed_Service_Providers.html
http://www.sunriseconsult.com/Sunrise/Microsoft_Dynamics_AX_Software_as_a_Service.html
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Interesting discussion going on here about trends between AX v/s NAV http://dynamicsuser.net/blogs/admin/archive/2009/06/18/microsoft-is-killing-navision.aspx
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Dynamics AX 2009 MOM Pack for SCOM
Introduction
Monitoring Microsoft Dynamics AX with Operations Manager can reduce the cost of managing a distributed Microsoft Dynamics AX system. Administrators can proactively react to changes in the system health, and can adjust the system for optimal performance and reliability.
Pre-Requisites
You must install the following software before you can use the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack:
Understanding Management Pack Operations
The Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack discovers and monitors installed AOS instances without any additional configuration. The Management Pack provides data about system health, user sessions, and batch jobs for all instances of the AOS running on registered computers.
The monitoring scenarios enabled by the Management Pack include the following:
· Troubleshoot problems by viewing event messages for monitored AOS instances
Next steps, Install and Import the MOM Pack for Dynamics AX 2009 into SCOM
A. Import Dynamics AX Management Pack
Launch SCOM Console by navigating via the following path –
D. Monitoring Dynamics AX Events G. Monitoring Dynamics AX User
Once, the service is stopped, it shows this dialog stating that the task is completed successfully
Now, you can see both in the MOM Console (Warning State for the AOS Stopped) and the
Services windows, it shows that the AOS is stopped
Once the service is stopped, at the same time it generates an alert which is listed in the next
section.
C. Monitoring Dynamics AX Alerts
Continuing from the above section, once the service goes offline or stopped, you can see an alert generated for the same in the Alerts Pane shown below
Similar to alerts, we have events which picks up the events generated from Event Viewer
related to Dynamics AX AOS. E.g. taking the above example, you will see an event logged when the AOS Service was stopped
E. Monitoring Dynamics AX Batch Jobs
One can monitor the running batch jobs by going to Batch Jobs pane
You can see in Detail pane above, the batch job name status, start date, company etc
F. Monitoring Dynamics AX Batch Job Tasks
Similarly, you can monitor batch job tasks by navigating to Batch Tasks pane
This view shows the connected users on each AOS instance
H. Monitoring Dynamics AX AOS Computer
This view shows the summarized info of AOS instances running on the computer
One of the cool options which I came across on the Context menu
Right-Click the AOS Computer and Open the Diagram View.
It will list down a tree structure drilling down from the Computer to the AOS Instances, the
number of users connected, batch jobs which are being run, and further drill down to batch
tasks. Also, in the detail pane, it will list out the different attributes for the node you have
selected i.e. if you select AOS instance, it will list down AOS name, Service name, port,
database name, service status etc.
Coming Next,
a. Reports
b. Security
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The 2009 Dynamics Channel Economic Survey was a great success with 467 partners responding – more than double the number of respondents in the 2007 survey! Thanks to each and every partner who recognized the value in this survey and took the time to respond. Read on to see what each participant will receive in Q1 and also to see the winners of the 2009 Dynamics Channel Economics Partner Sweepstakes.
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June is always a race to the finish line—the end of the fiscal year. With summer almost upon us, I know you are busy closing as many opportunities as you can.
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The book is now available at amazon.com. You can also browse parts of the book, including the Table of Contents at Amazon.
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The Microsoft Dynamics Analyst Evidence Kit has just been updated, including new analyst quotes in the media and a number of new reports.
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